New Women New Yorkers

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Culture & events

New Women New Yorkers Launch Party: Celebrating Women Immigrants from Around the World

Written by Sabrina Axster   On March 14, 2015, New Women New Yorkers (NWNY) held its Launch Party at the Centre for Social Innovation to celebrate its first flagship program, LEAD. Close to 150 guests joined the NWNY team and its partners for an evening of inspiration and entertainment, featuring several keynote addresses, a silent auction, and more. Centre for Social Innovation, March 14, 6:30pm: NWNY team members are busy attending to final details before the event starts. Bartenders are...

Features & analyses

Tracing the history of Chinese immigrants in the US

Written by Sabrina Axster   When discussing immigration in the US, we are likely to think of immigrants from Latin America. Looking back, Irish migrants or Italians might also come to one’s mind. Relatively little known is the history of Chinese immigrants in the US, and their impact on US society and the immigration system in place today. In its exhibition “Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion,” the New York Historical Society sheds light on these aspects. It traces the links between China...

Portraits & interviews

February 2015 Immigration News At a Glance

Written by Kara DeDonato   This month’s news digest provides an update on the child migrant crisis before turning to the blocked executive action and immigration news closer to home in New York.   A brief update on the child migrant crisis In February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned that many of the children who are picked up by immigration officials in the US and Mexico might face persecution by local street gangs, known as ‘maras’, if...

Features & analyses

Discussing migration at the United Nations

Written by Sabrina Axster   At the Thirteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration which took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on February 12 and 13, UN experts, government delegations, civil society organizations, and academics discussed the most pressing global migration issues. Just a week later, during the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda to set and define new goals on poverty, hunger eradication, inequalities, and security, among other topics, many government delegations stressed the importance of giving...