12/11/2025
Etnografski muzej, Zagreb i Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
11/11/2025
🌐 Organized by the newly formed Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network, migration teach-in/outs held globally on 11/11/2025 took place on campuses, libraries, and churches in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Australia. They were the launch actions of the Network.
📚 The format of Teach-ins was developed on campuses in the 1960s to set the facts straight about the origins and purpose of the war in Vietnam. Building on this history, in 2025 migration scholars spoke out against the war on migrants being waged by the Trump administration in US cities but in different formats in countries around the world.
🌍 Increasing numbers of countries are restricting the right of people to seek refuge, reunite families, study abroad, settle and work, become citizens, and maintain transnational lives.
👥 Unlike the 1960s, the invitation to these events extended beyond campuses to all those who question the criminalization and deportation of their migrant neighbors, co-workers, fellow students and community members.
💬 Teach-in/outs discussion groups and speakers answered questions about why it is important to publicly stand with migrants and refugees in the face of escalating attacks and supporting migration scholarship that documents that migrants build the social fabric wherever they settle.
❓ Questions on the agenda included the relationship between the arrival of migrants as refugees, workers, or students and demands for affordable housing, jobs, social benefits, and social services.
⚠️ Migration scholars are increasingly facing pressure to alter their teaching and research and limit their discussions of racialization, colonization, militarization, inequality, and political oppression that are underlying factors in migration and anti-immigrant diatribes.
🕊️ Remembrance Day was chosen for the global actions because it marks the end of World War I and the global desire for peace and an end to refugee-producing wars that now mark the 21st century.
📍 Teach-ins/outs were organized in at least 34 cities including São Paulo, Campinas, Florianopolis, Córdoba, Mexico City, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Warwick, Liverpool, Bristol, Bochum, Berlin, Osnabrück, Munich, Bern, Lausanne, Marseilles, Zagreb, Split, Prague, Norrköping, Malmö/Lund, New York (2), Keene, Syracuse, Claremont, Ann Arbor, Toronto, Casablanca, Tunis, Sydney, Tehran.
🗺️ For the global map (still expanding) see https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1mRrAqFo5HSQNCIdBxE7hVjJVSp4-Jbw&ll=-7.63333123551244e-14%2C0&z=2
✊ The Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network began with a statement signed by 1000 people and posted as a petition on the internet.
🔗 For more information and posters announcing the events see https://migrationscholarsmobilize.org/.
📝 To join the network go to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JoKgKiXwG-GSXcb6Phsn3J2Z7ofERV70r-6iT7_uS3Y/edit?ts=68bb0ceaContact [email protected]
📧 Contact: [email protected]
