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36 Int'l Migration Rev. 5 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv36 and id is 1 raw text is: Reflections on International Migration after 9/11: Perspectives from Around the World Introduction At the November 2001 meeting of the Board of Editors, not far from ground zero, Aristide Zolberg suggested that a number of scholars be asked to share their reflections upon international migration in the wake of 9/11. The fol- lowing essays represent a sampling of perspectives upon and reactions to the violence of September 11, a day which some have suggested changed the course of human history. In 1993, the late Myron Weiner broke what amounted to a taboo with the publication of his edited volume International Migration and Security. Weiner was not alone in viewing the nexus between migration and security as a matter for serious scholarly inquiry. In Western Europe, the end of the Cold War wit- nessed the emergence of the so-called new security studies which put migration on the security agenda. Meanwhile, securitization of migration policies in many Western European states had long since been ongoing. Still, many students of international migration eschewed any connection between migration and secu- rity, often with the complaint that such scholarship masked an anti-immigrant agenda or unwittingly played into the hands of anti-immigrant extremists. Myron Weiner was excoriated for suggesting that migration could foster political instability and conflict. He took the criticism very personally and was deeply wounded by it. He confided once that he simply could not comprehend how the interdisciplinary field of migration studies could be so resistant to mea- sured, objective scrutiny of security dimensions of international migration. Weiner saw international migration as both independent and dependent vari- ables in conflict and security matters. In the aftermath of 9/11, it seemed like- ly that those who followed in Myron Weiner's footsteps would be taken more seriously, whether writing about international migration and security in Africa, Asia, North America or any other corner of the world. The attacks of 9/11 were long in the making and certainly not unprece- dented. The real question was: Would the shock of the scope of human and material losses lead to fundamental changes in international migration? The @ 2002 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved. 0198-9183/02/3601.0137 IMR Volume 36 Number 1 (Spring 2002):5-6 5

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