Niambi Carter, Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Carter's work is concerned with migration as a feature of Black life, most importantly, the process of self-determination. How America helps, hinders, or honors those migrants’ claims for relief is central to her work, which is primarily domestic in orientation but also international. At the same time, Dr. Carter's work looks at contemporary and historical patterns of migration not only as human movement but also as political strategy. Now that migration is increasingly results from climate change, she is interested in what this means for Black people and how they are treated in the refugee context.