Today’s estimated number of international migrants is more than three times what it was in 1970 — 272 million people, or 3.5% of the world’s population. Yet migration flows have been happening for centuries, along with the injustices that race-based rules and norms perpetuated on both newcomers and longstanding citizens. As human migration continues to rise, our society must know better so that we may do better.
In this webinar, Cornell faculty across several disciplines will discuss the relationship between migration and race-based discrimination, from the earliest forced movement of enslaved peoples to nations built on excluding or extracting from particular racial/ethnic groups. Through the lens of colonialism and conquest, they’ll examine the ways in which migrant discrimination is preserved today and how to address it.
This discussion is part of the
Cornell Migrations Initiative, which studies the nexus among racism, dispossession, and migration by cultivating dialogue and creative interdisciplinary collaboration.
