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In the current context of a politics that normalizes cruelty and violence against migrants and racialized groups at large, how can we think beyond polarization and dehumanization towards a shared politic?
Join Amarela Varela and Eileen Truax, co-editors of Journalism and Human Mobility: Building a New Narrative on Migration, Natasha Iskander and Loren Landau, co-editors of Arrival at the Margins, and Carolina Aguilar Román, member of Colectiva Narrativas de Fronteras desde los Feminismos, in conversation with Alex Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso, co-editors of New Narratives of the Peopling of America as they discuss the challenges of current migration policies and debates, and how alternative narratives can gain space and support the ushering of new political horizons.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and Politics at The New School for Social Research and The New School.
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Alex Aleinikoff is the Executive Dean of The New School for Social Research and University Professor at The New School.Â
Alex has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. His latest book, New Narratives on the Peopling of America (co-edited with Alexandra Delano), was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024.Â
Alexandra Délano Alonso is Professor of Politics and Global Studies at The New School and Eugene M. Lang Professor for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. As a migration scholar, her earlier writing examines the Mexican state’s relations with its diaspora in the United States and, more recently, the shifting forms of agency and solidarity created by and for migrants at the margins of the state, both in Mexico and in the United States.
Eileen Truax is a veteran journalist specializing in migration and politics. Originally from Mexico, she lived in the United States for 18 years, where she extensively covered issues affecting immigrant communities. Her work has been published in several media outlets across the United States, Latin America, and Spain.Â
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Amarela Varela Huerta holds a Doctoral Degree in Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, a Specialization in Migration from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Communication Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Since 2008, she works as a professor/researcher at the Academy of Communication and Culture of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México.
Associate Professor of Sociology & James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service
 Natasha N. Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, conducts research on the relationship between migration and economic development. She looks at the ways that immigration and the movement of people across borders can provide the basis for the creation of new knowledge and of new pathways for political change.Â
Loren B Landau is Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford, Research Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration & Society, and co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL). He previously held visiting and faculty positions at Princeton, Georgetown, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.Â
Carolina Aguilar Román has PhD in Social Sciences from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Her research focuses on crimmigration, detention centers, undocumented migration, migrant youth and migrant struggles at the intersection of feminism, gender, race, class and age. She is a member of the academic collective Narrativas de Frontera desde los Feminismos, which centers the knowledges and voices of migrants.
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