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Best podcasts about alex aleinikoff

Latest podcast episodes about alex aleinikoff

Tempest Tossed
It’s Not the Immigrants, It’s the Attack on US Workers

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 24:17


According to a new book by Ruth Milkman, the frequently heard argument that immigrants undercut wages and conditions for US workers gets it exactly backwards: deteriorating wage levels and working conditions drive US workers from jobs that employers then seek to fill with immigrant labor. Professor Milkman joins Alex Aleinikoff for a discussion of Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat.

Tempest Tossed
The immigrant-as-criminal narrative: A conversation with Alina Das

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2020 31:54


NYU Professor Alina Das discusses with Alex Aleinikoff her book No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants--a powerful critique of this nation's mass deportation machinery and how it arose out of, and reflects, America's history of racially exclusionary immigration policies.

Tempest Tossed
Entry Denied: Hector Tobar On Borders of Race

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 25:08


Author and journalist Hector Tobar joins Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos to discuss the how "the Wall" and Latino immigration are shaping understanding of race and belonging in the United States.

Tempest Tossed
Entry Denied: The Wall

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2020 28:18


How much of Trump's border wall has been built? Will it stop undocumented migration? What do people living in the border region think about it? Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos talk with Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff and DW Gibson, author of the recently published 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall.

Tempest Tossed
Entry Denied: The Trump Travel Bans

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2020 21:47


In a range of actions of startling scope, President Trump has denied entry to persons from a number of Muslim-majority countries and African states and has dramatically decreased the number of refugees admitted to the US. Using the justification of the COVID-19 crisis, he has now extended entry bans to most persons eligible to enter as immigrants. Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos discuss the source and impact of these unprecedented presidential orders with a journalist, a refugee and the director of a refugee resettlement agency.

Tempest Tossed
Entry Denied: How We Got Here

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 33:48


Walls, a ban on Muslims, a promise to end DACA:  How did immigration become a central feature of Donald Trump's campaign for President? Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos talk with New York Times reporters Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis who share their first hand accounts.

Tempest Tossed
Coming Soon...Entry Denied: Immigration Policy in the Time of Trump

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 2:28


On June 30, Tempest Tossed returns with a special 8-part series: Entry Denied: Immigration policy in the time of Trump.  Co-hosted by Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos, Entry Denied examines the dramatic impact of Trump policies on migrants, refugees, immigrant communities and the nation.

Tempest Tossed
The power of the President and the human rights of migrants in the midst of the pandemic: Two Conversations

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 28:38


Alex Aleinikoff talks with Lucas Guttentag on the legality of Trump orders to ban the admission of immigrants and asylum seekers, and with Monette Zard and Ian Kysel about human rights principles that protect migrants even as states take strong measures to combat COVID-19.

Tempest Tossed
Essential and undervalued: Migrant workers and DACA recipients in the time of COVID-19

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020 25:04


Migrants workers fill jobs deemed essential in the response to the pandemic. They are also disproportionately represented in the most hard hit occupations. Julia Gelatt (Migration Policy Institute) and Marisol Orihuela and Muneer Ahmad (Yale Law School) join Alex Aleinikoff in two conversations on migrants and the COVID-19 crisis.

Tempest Tossed
Reporting Immigration in the Era of Trump: A Conversation with Jonathan Blitzer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2019 49:54


The New Yorker’s immigration reporter Jonathan Blitzer joins host Alex Aleinikoff and journalist Ladane Nasseri to discuss U.S. border policy, the resignation of Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan and the Democrats’ difficult balancing act on immigration.

Tempest Tossed
Dreaming and legislating: A conversation with New York State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 41:40


Tempest Tossed returns! Catalina Cruz, the first DREAMER in the New York State Assembly, joins Alex Aleinikoff to talk about immigration policy, differences between campaigning and governing, and how she advocates for her Queens, NY district and community.

Tempest Tossed
Dismantle a Wall with Words": A conversation between Maya Wiley and Alex Aleinikoff

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2019 40:50


Walls--real and virtual--divide us by nation, by race, by religion, by the kind of information we seek and receive. Alex and Maya Wiley discuss the many walls of America--as well as the "non-walls" that permit freedom of movement and information for all throughout the nation. How do walls mark out who belongs, whose views count, and whose history gets told?

Tempest Tossed
(Mis)State(ment) of the Union

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2019 15:11


Trump's State of the Union address repeated his false claims that link crime with immigration. Tanvi Misra helps set the record straight, and Alex Aleinikoff discusses Trump's nativist assault on the moral fabric of the US.

Tempest Tossed
Border Tragedies--A Tempest Tossed Essay by Alex Aleinikoff on Trump border policies.

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2018 31:38


The death of 7 year old Jakelin Caal while in Border Patrol custody is a tragedy, and it is sadly emblematic of Trump Administration border policies that have devastated families, undermined U.S. asylum laws and betrayed traditional American values.  Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, takes a comprehensive and critical look at Trump border actions and argues for policies true to the facts and to values of decency and fairness.

Tempest Tossed
"Public charge" Explained: What the Trump Administration's proposed rule will do and why it matters. A conversation with Mark Greenberg of the Migration Policy Institute.

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2018 29:57


The Trump Administration has proposed a new rule that will affect every person seeking to enter the United States or receive a green card--it will greatly expand the number of people who can be excluded from the U.S. because they are "likely to become a public charge."  What does "public charge" mean and how would the new rule work? And why is the Trump Administration proposing it? Mark Greenberg, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, joins Alex Aleinikoff for an in-depth discussion of the proposed rule and its potential consequences.

Tempest Tossed
Resignation with honor: A conversation with David Martin, former member of the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2018 28:29


Alex Aleinikoff speaks with David Martin on why he resigned from the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council, what he objects to in Trump Administration immigration policies and what balanced and responsible immigration policy could look like.

Tempest Tossed
'César's Choice': The conditions and decisions facing reunited immigrant families--a conversation with Prof. Lauren Gilbert

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2018 26:57


Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Professor Lauren Gilbert on the detention of re-united immigrant families and the difficult choices they face:  should they return to their home countries together, should the parent return and child stay in the U.S., or should the family remain in ICE detention to pursue claims to political asylum?  

Tempest Tossed
"Contrary to popular belief, the Supreme Court did not hold that the Travel Ban is lawful"--a conversation with Prof. Marty Lederman

Tempest Tossed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2018 39:33


Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Georgetown Law Professor Marty Lederman on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the travel ban.

Kaldor Centre UNSW
A conversation with Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill about the Global Compacts on Refugees

Kaldor Centre UNSW

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2018 19:47


“If you were still a legal adviser to a country … would you recommend your government sign the Global Compact for Refugees as currently is drafted?” asks Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, of the Kaldor Centre’s Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Hear the answer in this discussion about the historical promise of the refugee protection system, where it has fallen down, and whether the Global Compact is fit for purpose.

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Kaldor Centre UNSW
A conversation with Prof Guy S Goodwin-Gill – State responsibility and Australia’s refugee policies

Kaldor Centre UNSW

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 13:28


Is Australia responsible for asylum seekers sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island? Questions of liability – civil, criminal and political – are at the heart of this podcast conversation between the Kaldor Centre’s acting Director, Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, and Alex Aleinikoff, the Director of The New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility in New York.

Displaced
Alex Aleinikoff: let's start with how we define ‘refugee'

Displaced

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2018 61:16


The definition of a refugee - and how we think about the entire refugee system - needs to be changed, says Alex Aleinikoff, who was UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees from 2010-15. He talks to Ravi and Grant about why the definition matters, what it needs to expand to include, and how to build a humanitarian system that responds to the needs of the day. As the nature of conflict and displacement has changed, Alex brings a historical perspective to the discussion. They dive into the challenging and important issue of 'burden-sharing': how do we decide who takes on the responsibility for helping refugees? Enjoy their discussion and also check out Alex’s upcoming book, “The Arc of Protection: Towards a New International Refugee Regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices