Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Alumnus Dmytro Kuchirka Hopes to Return to Ukraine ‘to Make Life Better’ and Help Rebuild
He was in his senior year at the Maxwell School when the Russian invasion began.
‘We Left Everything Because Life was More Precious,’ says Visiting Scholar from Ukraine
Since fleeing Kyiv at the start of the Russian invasion, Tetiana Hranchak has found community and continued her work in the Maxwell School.
See related: Promotions & Appointments, Refugees, Ukraine
RSF Grant Supports Research on Youth Poverty, Housing and International Migration
Maxwell sociologist Sean J. Drake is exploring the neighborhood and school experiences of refugee and other migrant youth in Syracuse and New York City.
See related: Children, Adolescents, Grant Awards, Housing, Income, New York State, Parenting & Family, Refugees
‘Unearthing Africa's Long Lost Past’: Maxwell Professor Unearths England’s First Outpost
The remarkable discovery of Fort Kormantine by archaeologist Christopher DeCorse illuminates a critical period in Atlantic history.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Archaeology, Grant Awards, Migration, Student Experience, Trade
Doctoral Candidate Says Project Provided an ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’
Matthew O’Leary joined the team of archaeologists led by Maxwell Professor Christopher DeCorse in coastal Ghana this past summer.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Archaeology, Grant Awards, Migration, Student Experience, Trade
Zhang Comments on the Impact of Immigration Issues on AI Researchers in Marketplace Article
“Sixty-nine percent of those who currently live in the U.S. say that visa and immigration issues are a serious problem for them conducting AI research,” says Baobao Zhang, assistant professor of political science and senior research associate in the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute.
See related: Autonomous Systems, Government, U.S. Immigration, United States
Kurien Quoted in Texas Standard Article on Immigrant Churches in Diaspora Network, US Church Growth
Prema Kurien, professor of sociology, says there is a logical reason why immigrant groups exhibit higher rates of religiosity. “Immigration and relocation from a familiar context to something completely unfamiliar is a theologizing experience,” Kurien says. “It raises existential questions—things that people don’t think about when they are in their home country with a familiar community.”
See related: Religion, U.S. Immigration, United States
Elizabeth Cohen Speaks With Washington Examiner About the Ending of Title 42
“Title 42 is only the most recent of a long history of using health concerns as a justification for free movement restrictions," says Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science. "For example, it was only in 2010 that restrictions were removed on the entry of persons who are HIV positive."
See related: Congress, Federal, Political Parties, U.S. Immigration, United States
McCormick Discusses Biden’s Call with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Politico
“If the U.S. dismissed him wholeheartedly, it’s going to make these conversations—and again some of these are happening behind closed doors—a hell of a lot more difficult to be had,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair on Mexico-U.S. Relations, regarding the immigration talks between the U.S. and Mexico as Title 42 lifts this week.
Pearson Study on Southern White Migrants and the Political Landscape Featured in The Economist
Between 1900 and 1940, roughly five million southern whites left former Confederate states and neighboring Oklahoma. In a peer-reviewed study to be published later this year, Thomas Pearson, assistant professor of economics, and his co-authors found that this group was not just greater in number, but, as they spread their culture and attitudes, perhaps in political influence, too.
See related: Migration, Political Parties, Race & Ethnicity, United States