Interview by Jessica Stallone with Justin Gest on his new book Majority, Minority, Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Call for 2022-2023 Graduate Student Applications for the R.F. Harney Graduate Research Fellowship in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies
The R.F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy … More
Latest publication by Ayelet Shachar investigates the role of wealth as both accelerator and barrier to citizenship
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship Combining insights from the history of citizenship with contemporary legal analysis, … More
Ayelet Shachar’s latest article in “Citizenship Studies”
Combining insights from the history of citizenship with contemporary legal analysis, this article both highlights and problematizes what we may … More
New Publication by Marie-Eve Loiselle in the Journal Law, Culture and the Humanities
This article investigates the role the law has played in the construction of the US–Mexico border wall. It explores two … More
Jurisprudence Lecture by Ayelet Shachar
The Jurisprudence Lecture, delivered by Ayelet Shachar, challenges the established dichotomy between open and closed borders, showing that one of the most remarkable developments of recent years is that borders are simultaneously both more open and more closed. Membership boundaries are not fixed or static. Instead, they expand or shrink, selectively and strategically, depending on the target populations they encounter.
New publication by Ayelet Shachar and Marie-Eve Loiselle in the Green European Journal
In recent years, surveillance technologies have increasingly been deployed to monitor, control, and curtail the movement of people. The pandemic is accelerating this trend. While controlling the spread of Covid-19 is of paramount importance, a global regime of technologically enabled exclusion underpinned by a discourse of contagion is emerging. Even in a crisis, a debate over the future of mobility and technological surveillance is critical.
Shifting borders: invisible, but very real
In a new article published in the UNESCO Courier, Prof Ayelet Shachar warns that the COVID-19 pandemic accentuated the trends … More
Professor Ayelet Shachar appointed to the Munk School’s Robert F. Harney Professorship in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies
Congratulations to Professor Ayelet Shachar who has been appointed to the Munk School’s Robert F. Harney Professorship in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies for … More
New book by Ayelet Shachar
The shifting border: Legal cartographies of migration and mobility