Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
5.0from 31 ratings
- 20
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times
Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times examines Trump administration policies and actions affecting immigration and migrants and their communities. It adopts a broad perspective, seeing immigration policies in the context of constitutional law and principles, US history and our national narrative. The podcast is hosted by Alex Aleinikoff, Senior Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School; Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and Faculty Co-Director, Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy; and Amanda Frost, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law. Unsettled is produced with support from the Oscar M. Reubhausen Fund at Yale Law School, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, and the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility at The New School. Unsettled is produced by Samantha Gattsek. The cover art was designed by Aam Creative. The music was composed by Achilles Kallergis.
- Publisher
- Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 20 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Season 3, Episode 3: The Shadow Surge in ICE arrests
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Season 3, Episode 2: International Students
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Season 3, Episode 1: Revisiting Birth Right Citizenship
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Season 3, Episode 3: The Shadow Surge in ICE arrests
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's incentive for state police departments, local police departments, local sheriffs to participate in these agreements that allow them to become deputized officers of ICE. And that really allows ICE to extend... its reach and so that has made the dragnet more decentralized and because it's more decentralized it has attracted less attention okay and your article described how these arrests were being carried out as people were going about their everyday routines they were going to soccer matches or leaving church on a sunday or having a beverage at a cafe even sometimes outside of polling locations, but how are they picking the individuals they're targeting? […]
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- Jazmíne Ulloa
- Hiroshi Motomura
- Cristina Rodriguez
- Jon Blitzer
- Frank Sharry
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- 25 ratings
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- 6 ratings
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