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Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration

April 3, 2024 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Alexandra Délano Alonso and Paloma Griffin

T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso chat with Paloma Griffin about challenging conventional stories of immigration in their book NEW NARRATIVES OF THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA....

Belonging as Poetry in <em>New Narratives on the Peopling of America</em>

Indigenous Peoples

Notes on red liberty

The cover art of New Narratives on the Peopling of America

April 3, 2024 • by Marco Saavedra

Everyone is from this earth, everyone is Indigenous, everyone is illegal. ...

Migration

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration

How can the process that created the city also be responsible for destroying it?

April 2, 2024 • by Achilles Kallergis

More than anywhere else, in New York, the migrant crisis—essentially a migration governance crisis—is an existential one: it interrogates not only the capacity of the city to welcome newcomers but also the city’s broader prospects. ...

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration

Habitats

Testing the Waters in Gotham

A look at how residents throughout the city’s history have chosen what to drink

March 20, 2024 • by Liviu Chelcea

The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many different possible ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink....

Literature

The Little Prince Haunts New York

Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River

March 5, 2024 • by Albert Nguyen

When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....

Migration

Held Hostage to One’s Values

On the responsibility to refugees at the Belarusian-Polish border

April 25, 2023 • by Lidia Zessin-Jurek

The Polish-Belarusian border crossing has been, since mid-2021, one of the world’s many border zones where people get sick and die under the watchful eye of the state....

Democracy

Frederick Douglass on Multiracial Democracy

On a universal right to migration and the ideal of “composite nationality”

January 30, 2023 • by Juliet Hooker

Douglass’s conception of multiracial democracy envisioned the political coexistence on egalitarian terms of individuals of “all races and creeds” as fellow citizens. He called for a “composite nationality” anchored in the idea of a universal human right to migration and the political legacy of the Americas as a multiracial continent. ...

Frederick Douglass on Multiracial Democracy

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 7: William Archila on the Flicker of Thought

“Northern Triangle Dissected” and the psychological journeys of Central American minors seeking asylum

December 14, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 7 of Multi-Verse, poet William Archila reads and discusses his poem “Northern Triangle Dissected” with host Evangeline Graham, in a conversation about the migration of unaccompanied minors in the wake of the Central American Crisis, and the use of metaphor to convey psychology....

Migration

The Dilemma of a Fragmented Self

Mass migrations, language, and the future of identity

November 9, 2022 • by Ken Hu

How can language create such a convoluted way of experiencing the everyday world? We can explore this phenomenon with two linked concepts: the speech act and the discourse community. ...

Interviews

Documenting the City of Refugees

An interview with Susan Hartman on her new book about Utica’s transformation by refugees

October 4, 2022 • by Susan Hartman and Marisa Budlong

I wanted to put in perspective what these refugees had gone through, what the countries they left had gone through, what the refugee camp experience was like. So, there is this part where I talk about when they were each on the run: it is very traumatic material and this ...

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 2. Wendy Xu: “A Sound Not Unlike a Bell”

“The poem is an agitated bouquet of ideas”

June 22, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 2 of Multi-Verse, poet Wendy Xu reads her poem “A Sound Not Unlike a Bell” and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham....

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 1. Erika Meitner: “Thumbs-Up for the Mothership”

Sea level rise and migration in Episode 1 of new poetry podcast Multi-Verse

May 25, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 1 of Multi-Verse, poet Erika Meitner reads and discusses her poem “Thumbs-Up for the Mothership” in conversation with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham, touching on themes of climate change, migration, and Whitman vs Dickinson....