CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Raouf, Yasmine |
|---|---|
| Title | New York: The Empire City A Liberal City Goes Imperial to Govern Migration |
| Summary | Can a city be an imperial force? This paper investigates that question by taking New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams’ trip to Latin America in the Fall of 2023 as a case study. This trip was undertaken in the context of the ‘migrant crisis,’ and the press conferences and media appearances that colored that trip were used to spread the word that New York City was ‘at capacity’ and no longer capable of taking in any migrants. The Adams administration framed migration as an existential threat to the city, warning that it could end the city as it exists today. Through discourse analysis, this paper operationalizes concepts such as ‘care and control’ and ‘dark travel’ taken from postcolonial literature to explore the links between humanitarianism, border imperialism, and liberal city identity. |
| Supervisor | Christopher McIntosh |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/raouf_yasmine.pdf |
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