SSRC Work and Experts Related to

Migration

Features and Press Releases

March 23rd 2010
"Haiti: Can Catastrophe Spur Progress?" with William O'Neill
May 7th 2009
Creating Local Spaces for Global Faiths
December 8th 2008
This Classroom Doesn't Love a Wall
The award-winning French film The Class follows a year in the life of a French schoolteacher working at junior high school in a tough neighborhood in Paris. Does it help to explain why France’s educational system has proved so resistant to multiculturalism? We asked anthropologist John Bowen for an appraisal. He wrote a chapter on this theme for the SSRC-sponsored volume Just Schools.
October 17th 2008
JUST SCHOOLS: "Divided we stand, united we fall..."
Two leading thinkers on justice and American education talk to Adam Strom of Facing History and Ourselves about why they edited a major new work exploring the challenges schools are facing in accommodating various races, backgrounds, and religions. The book came out of an SSRC project.
May 22nd 2008
"Too Little Too Late" Threatens South Africa's Fragile Democracy
Days after SSRC teams researching the religious lives of migrant minorities visited Alexandra, South Africa, rioters wielding guns and iron bars and chanting "kick the foreigners out" rampaged through the sprawling township and attacked immigrant settlers. The violence, which began on May 11, has spread, leaving 42 dead and forcing thousands to flee across Johannesburg. Loren Landau, advisor to the the SSRC project and a Southern Africa migration specialist, offers a reading on the situation and a prescription for keeping the country from deeper division and chaos.
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