On March 10, NYU Washington, DC will welcome NYU Tisch’s Deb Willis and Ellyn Toscano for this special DC Dialogue on Women and Migration(s).  This panel’s perspective on migration seeks to capture a breadth of experience: an account of the migration of women is the totality of many stories. Women have been part of global and historical movements of peoples, to escape war, to avoid persecution, for work, for security. Women have been uprooted, stolen, trafficked, enslaved. Women have been displaced from land despoiled of resources and habitats lost to extreme weather patterns and climate change. The topic of migration generates thoughts of memory, belonging and identity, borders and home, objects and affects, deprivation and indulgence, self-imagining, family and loss. Women have moved and migrated for deeply private and personal reasons – to reach potential freely, to lead meaningful lives, to secure a future for themselves and their families. Women have sailed, flown, driven and walked. Some have not survived the journey.

The Women and Migration(s) research group convened first in Florence and subsequently in Abu Dhabi, involving scholars, artists and writers from each national community. In Washington, DC, a panel of artists, activists, historians, and organizers will discuss their work in this area.