This panel will bring together Cornell experts and practitioners in the field of immigration. An interdisciplinary group of scholars will discuss the racialized history of immigration in the United States, the contemporary role of immigration status for driving inequality, and the devastating role of war in displacing migrants. We will also consider the role of praxis for upholding both the rights of migrants and the right to stay home. We will hear from a team of legal advocates engaged in immigrant defense, as well as a scholar activist focused on building transnational solidarities. Together these perspectives will offer an informed and critical corrective to the contemporary debates on immigration in the United States and beyond. María Cristina García H. A. Newman Professor of American Studies, Department of History, and Director, Latino Studies Program “Immigration Myths: Are Today’s Immigrants All that Different from Your Immigrant Ancestors?” Matt Hall Professor of Public Policy and Sociology and Director, Cornell Population Center “(Un)authorized Precarity: How Immigration Status Drives Inequality” Saida Hodžić Associate Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies “War, Displacement, and the Death of Human Rights” Cornell Immigration Law & Advocacy Clinic “The Racialized Injustices Facing Immigrant Defense” Emina Bužinkić AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges Editorial Collective and the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) – Zagreb, Croatia “Countering Politics of Death & Erasure: People's Tribunal & Migrant Justice” Shannon Gleeson (Moderator) Edmund Ezra Day Professor, Chair of the Department of Global Labor & Work, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Brooks School of Public Policy Co-sponsored by the Cornell Population Center, the ILR School, and the Cornell Law School Chapter, National Lawyers’ Guild. Refreshments will be served Contact smg338@cornell.edu for questions or accommodations

The future of work is hot. Literally. Unpredictable seasons, droughts, floods, warming temperatures, rising seas, and a host of other climatic factors are changing what work is, what it means, and what it does to the body. These effects are unevenly felt across geographies, forms of difference, and inequalities. The impacts of climate change – extreme temperatures and changing agricultural cycles - on agrarian environments demand new frameworks to analyze work in the agrarian present and future. We invite abstracts that conceptualize climate change as a problem of work. Rather than restricting a changing climate to new weather patterns, shifting topographies, and techno-fixes, this conference opens a conversation to think about climate change through other anthropogenic changes, such as sociopolitical and economic transformations. This graduate conference will bring graduate students across disciplines to speak on a variety of topics including agrarian change, urban and rural relations, infrastructural transitions, uneven geographies of risk, and the politics of scale and temporality. We invite graduate students to send abstracts of up to 250 words to hak78@cornell.edu by March 1st, 2024.