, part of Global Cornell, has awarded grants totaling more than $600,000 to support faculty research addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration.
Funded projects this cycle reflect the Migrations initiative’s interdisciplinary priorities of racism, dispossession and migration in the United States – supported by the – and international, multispecies migration. Cornell faculty and their community partners will tell the stories of local migrant farmworkers, use documentary film to better understand climate change and dispossession, learn how migratory birds are affected by drug trafficking and more.
“We were delighted with the range and shape of the projects submitted for consideration for this year’s Migrations grants,” said Migrations co-chair , John Stambaugh Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences. He and – professor and chair of labor relations, law, and history in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a professor in the department of sociology – lead the initiative.
“This year’s awardees continue last year’s trajectory of projects in being incredibly diverse – geographically, methodologically and conceptually,” Tagliacozzo said.
A research project with 2021 funding, “A Laboratory on Human Trafficking,” reflects the ways these interdisciplinary collaborations benefit scholars.
“This is really an opportunity to break out of our academic silos and learn from one another,” said , assistant professor of history and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow in A&S.
Roebuck’s work represents the historical piece of the laboratory, which also includes contemporary perspectives on law and labor relations from partners , associate dean for academic affairs and Radice Family Professor of Law in Cornell Law School, and , assistant professor of international and comparative labor in ILR.
Kristin Roebuck and Tristan Ivory explain “A Laboratory on Human Trafficking.”
“The particular moment that we find ourselves in globally is one in which a number of social conditions are eroding,” said Ivory. “Human trafficking will be increasing, and it’s something that policymakers and the general public need to be aware of.”
The human trafficking project is featured in a .
2022 Migrations Awards
Just Futures Team Research Grants
Displaced and Uprooted: Stories of Belonging, Central American TPS Workers’ Defiant Struggle for their Right to Stay ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ in the U.S. ($150,000)
(ILR) | (ILR) | | (NYS chapters)
Climate, Dispossession, and Natural and Built Environments ($149,000)
(A&S) | (College of Architecture, Art, and Planning)
Food Beyond Borders: Visions of Hunting and Fishing in the Myanmar Diaspora ($149,000)
(College of Veterinary Medicine) | (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) | (CALS) | (CALS) | (CALS) | (Documentary Photographer & Founding Member of Thuma Collective)
More Just Futures Grants
2022-23 Migrations Exhibition Series at the Cherry Gallery in the Ithaca Arthaus
(AAP) | (A&S) | (A&S) | (A&S) | (A&S)
Collaborations with Farmworkers to Address Racial Inequalities: Advocating for Legal, Workplace, and Health Justice
(Cornell Farmworker Program, CALS)
Multicultural Cooperative Land Governance and Farming
(CALS) | (CALS)
The Alien Commons: Performance and Art Beyond Citizenship
(A&S)
Cross-Disciplinary Research Grants
(AAP): Right-to-Heal: Housing and Parks of Multispecies Migration
(A&S): From Minority to Majority: Pakistani Hindu Migration to India
(CALS, Lab of Ornithology): Linking Impacts of Narco-trafficking in Central America to Overwintering Migratory Birds
