A discussion led by Vytis Čiubrinskas, Nina Glick Schiller, and Tricia Redeker-Hepner based on Transnationalites of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World (Čiubrinskas and Glick Schiller, Berghahn 2025) and The Anti Refugee Machine: Interpreting Global Migration Control (Redeker-Hepner and Treiber, forthcoming 2026)
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research and The New School.
Dr. Glick Schiller joins Zolberg from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany, where she is a Senior Research Partner. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, U.K., and will hold a two- month residency in 2024 as Scholar of Excellence at CERC Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Vytis Čiubrinskas is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University and visiting Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, at Southern Illinois University. He has published more than fifty articles and chapters on the politics of ethnic and national identity construction in relation to transnationalism, cultural heritage and social memory.
Professor of Anthropology, Social Justice & Human Rights, Senior Associate Director, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Tricia Redeker Hepner is a political and legal anthropologist with a regional focus on Northeast Africa and the Great Lakes Region of Eastern Africa, and thematic interests in migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict and peace. She has conducted research in the Horn of Africa and with refugees and asylum seekers from Eritrea/Ethiopia in North America, Europe, and Africa for over twenty years.
Vytis Čiubrinskas is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University and visiting Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, at Southern Illinois University. He has published more than fifty articles and chapters on the politics of ethnic and national identity construction in relation to transnationalism, cultural heritage and social memory. His recent publications include; Returning-Remitting-Receiving. Social Remittances of Transnational (Re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland (LIT Verlag, 2023), Transnacionalizmas ir Nacionalinio Identiteto Fragmentacija (Vytautas Magnus University Press, Lithuania, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).
