Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, has won a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative that will bring together scholars across the university and beyond to study the links between racism, dispossession and migration.
Research, teaching and community engagement supported by the grant will “respond to historical and ongoing nativist and racialized violence in the U.S. by turning the university into a living laboratory,” according to the successful proposal titled “Cross-Border Movements: Racism, Dispossession, and Migration.”
The Just Futures Initiative, overseen by the foundation’s Higher Learning program, funded 16 proposals across the country seeking to address “long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality and injustice that tear at the fabric of democracy and civil society.” Goals include…
