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Fourteen unmarked graves rest in a garden outside of Tuol Sleng. They memorialize the victims who remain unknown.

By Jamie Wise, undergraduate major in sociology (recipient of a Migration, Mobility and Immobility grant)

How do you remember a genocide? Forty…

Musicians playing guitar

By Sophia Enriquez, GAH graduate team fellow and PhD student in the School of Music

There is a booming…

Photograph of musician performing

By PhD Candidate Hannah Vidmar, Department of African and African American Studies

It was nearing 7:30 p.m. on a Saturday night in July when I found myself in a bajaj,…

Two images: Darcy C. Benson and a mural

By graduate student Darcy C. Benson, Department of History

I’m honored to have been awarded a research grant from the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project to fund my…

Photograph of presentation

By Senior Lecturer Danielle V. Schoon (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Associate Professor Ryan Skinner (School of Music) and Danielle Fosler-Lussier (School of Music)…

Photograph of a drumming performance

By PhD Student Clara Carolyne Fachini Zanirato, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The importance of research on migration studies has never been so high in the world as…

Black and white photograph Jewish refugee children

By PhD Candidate Sara Halpern, Department of History

Daniella Doron is a senior lecturer in History at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash…

Photograph of Daniella Doron

In this podcast, Ohio State PhD Candidate Nikki Freeman interviews Daniella Doron about her forthcoming book, Young Border Crossers: Jewish Youth during the Ages of Migration, which…

Julian Marcel Baldemira

By PhD Student Julian Marcel Baldemira, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

For decades, immigrants from Cuba have arrived on U.S. soil and established themselves in Florida…

Photograph of Shawntel Barriero

By PhD Student Shawntel Barreiro, Department of Linguistics

Over the past year, my research has focused on first- and second-generation Salvadorans who currently reside in…

A line of protestors

By PhD Candidate Malia Lee Womack, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

In what ways do international human rights (for…

Photograph of Hannah Kosstrin

By Associate Professor Hannah Kosstrin, Department of Dance, and affiliate faculty for the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies…

Día de los Muertos procession

By Sigma Delta Pi — Capítulo Mu Lamda (The Ohio State University)

El Capítulo Mu Lambda de la Universidad Estatal de Ohio ha sido muy activo durante estos últimos cuatro…

Photograph of meal prepared by Chef Morales

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, over 50 guests from the Ohio State community participated in an event called “KACHKA: An Immigrant Food Experience.”

Award-winning chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales…

Black and white historical photograph

This post is a book overview of Un Siècle de Réfugiés. Photographier l’exil [A Century of Refugees: Photographing Exile] by Bruno Cabanes, professor and Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn…

Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Becca Heller

(Becca Heller’s talk starts at 11:11 minutes; captions available)

On October 17, 2019, Becca Heller, founder and co-director of the International Refugee…

Group photo in St. Paul

By Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung, Department of Theatre

(Caption for photo, right: Meeting with Hmong American artists and…

Globe with network lines superimposed

By Professor Roger Beebe, Department of Art

My experimental documentary Amazonia started with a simple question: How does the…

Archives nationales d'outre-mer a Aix en Provence

By Graduate Student Daniela Edmeier, Department of History

To say that France has a complicated history with ethnic difference would be an understatement. Pick up any…

Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova will visit Ohio State and discuss her book, Border, during the Moving Subjects Week.

Internationally…

Members of the Amazonian Matses community

By Graduate Student Paloma Pinillos Chavez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Thanks to the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project’s support, I…

Marica Bodrožić (left) and May Mergenthaler (right)

The following post is a description of a video interview recorded on August 30, 2019 in May Mergenthaler's German 3102 course. The post is written by May Mergenthaler, assistant…

Village at dusk

By Graduate Student Luana Lamberti Nunes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

My research took place in Helvécia (Bahia) for about a month. The community of Helvécia is an…

B&W archival group photograph

By Graduate Student Tatsiana Shchurko, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

This summer, the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project supported my research…

Asil Koç, of Tahribad-ı İsyan, giving a Hip Hop workshop to migrant children at ASAM in Tarlabaşı

By Lecturer Danielle V. Schoon, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

In 2016, the European Union and Turkey implemented an agreement to regulate ‘irregular…

Bolivian restaurant sign in Barcelona

By Associate Professor Anna Babel, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

This summer, the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project helped fund an exploratory research trip…

Borders in Motion activity

The idea behind the symposium was to think together about the work and meanings that borders perform in the world and to combine scholarly reflections on mobility with artistic performance,…

Teresa Fiore

This past February, Prof. Teresa Fiore of Montclair State University engaged OSU students, staff, and faculty as MMI’s first scholar in residence. We invited Prof. Fiore for a series of events…

Sona Kazemi-Hill

Sona Kazemi PhD, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Global Migration, Disability, and Medical Humanities in the Department of English at the Ohio State University received an Zola Award honorable…

APTP Poster

On stage and in community performance workshops for youths and adults, the Albany Park Theater Project challenges inequality and racism by asking people to bear witness to stories that might…

MMI Postdoctoral Researchers

On Thursday, February 7th, five postdoctoral researchers funded by a grant from the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Discovery Theme facilitated a roundtable discussion on Interdisciplinary…