This website showcases students’ research on the impact of government measures to contain COVID-19 on migrants for the Fall 2020 anthropology course Migration, Labor, and Walls. The projects examine developments in New York City as well as in Guatemala, Germany, the Gulf States, and Southern India. The subjects discussed include migrant children’s education, NGOs, the neighborhood of Hunts Point/Longwood in The Bronx, migrants harvesting asparagus in Germany, international students, undocumented workers as essential workers, food distribution and access, and Indian guestworkers in the Gulf States. Their findings reaffirm the strong connections of migration, labor, gender, race, and citizenship, and the relevance of an anthropological political economy approach.

Prof. Ismael García-Colón, College of Staten Island/CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Faculty