J.C. Salyer

J.C. Salyer

Associate Professor of Practice in Human Rights and Anthropology, Barnard College

J.C. Salyer is an anthropologist and a lawyer whose work focuses on law and society, immigration law, and social justice.   He is also the staff attorney for the Arab-American Family Support Center, a community-based organization in Brooklyn, and runs the organization’s immigration clinic.  His current research focuses on migration, disruption, and displacement related to climate change in the southwestern Pacific.

Working Group Affiliation

Migrant Personhood and Rights: Crises of Recognition, Project Director

Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics, Project Director