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The Global Migration Center is pleased to invite you to its new event series, ‘Migration Talks’. This series of lectures has been designed to allow guest speakers from a variety of disciplines to present their works on the topic of migration and engage in discussion with the broader Graduate Institute community. This represents a unique opportunity for students, doctoral candidates, and researchers to network, discuss research, and foster interdisciplinary intellectual engagements over the crucial topic of migration in its multiple nuances.
About the speaker
Alex Aleinikoff is Dean of The New School for Social Research and University Professor at The New School. He has served as Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility since January 2017.
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), has been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. He is also the author of The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime (Stanford University Press, 2019, co-authored by Leah Zamore) and Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship ( Harvard University Press, 2002). He is a co-author of leading legal casebooks on immigration law and forced migration. He is currently working on several projects relating to climate migration and reform of the international protection regime.
Before coming to The New School, Alex was United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees from 2010-2015. He was Dean, Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs, and a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center, and was a faculty member at the University of Michigan Law School. He served as Co-chair of the Immigration Task Force for President Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the general counsel, and then Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs, at the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Alex received a JD from Yale Law School and a BA and honorary Doctorate of Laws from Swarthmore College. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
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