Promoting Interdisciplinary Debates on Migration and Diversity
Located in the heart of Toronto—Canada’s most diverse city—the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy hosts the Harney Program, a hub for innovative ideas and cutting-edge research related to issues of citizenship, migration, and diversity.
Earlier this year and just two weeks before the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report was published, the…
The right to seek and enjoy asylum has never been more important than in today’s global landscape. At the same…
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship Combining insights from the history of citizenship with contemporary legal analysis,…
Event: Rethinking Citizenship and Movement in the Age of Digital Disruption launches a new collaboration with Max Planck Law and…
Combining insights from the history of citizenship with contemporary legal analysis, this article both highlights and problematizes what we may…
The R.F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy…
This article investigates the role the law has played in the construction of the US–Mexico border wall. It explores two…
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.
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.
In a new article published in the UNESCO Courier, Prof Ayelet Shachar warns that the COVID-19 pandemic accentuated the trends…
Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies 