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Croft News
February 8, 2016

Croft Visiting Speaker: The Refugee Crisis in Europe:  Old Issues, New Challenges

Monday, February 8, 2016 - 7 p.m. - The Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107) - Professor Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia

On Monday, February 8, the Croft Institute will host Professor Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Professor at the Division for Global Affairs (DGA) and at the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  She is also Senior Researcher affiliated with the CEVIPOF (Center for Political Research, Sciences Po Paris).

Her research focuses on the politics of immigration and anti-discrimination, security issues, racism and xenophobia, immigrant integration, urban racism, and European policies. She has published six books and contributed to twenty-four edited volumes. Her recent publications include Les Frontières du Racisme (Presses de Sciences Po, 2011); Frontiers of Fears: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe (Cornell University Press, 2012); and How Does it Feel to Be a Threat? Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the US and Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, NYU Series, 2015). She is currently co-directing a transatlantic research project on “Migrant and Minority Mobilization US-UK” funded by the IDEX- Université Paris Sorbonne Cité (UPSC).

Croft lectures are free and open to the public.