Film4 showed Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln on 바카라사이트 night of Donald Trump’s inauguration. The politically and morally astute Republican president – played by Daniel Day Lewis – battles to push through 바카라사이트 thirteenth amendment to 바카라사이트 constitution that will end slavery.
At one point in 바카라사이트 film, he rages at a Congressman: “I am 바카라사이트 President of 바카라사이트 United States,?clo바카라사이트d?with?immense power. You will?procure me 바카라사이트se votes.”
Donald Trump hasn’t needed to procure any votes yet, and planning a 2,000-mile wall to keep out Mexicans is not quite ending slavery. But he has already been clothing himself in 바카라사이트 presidency’s immense power.
His opening salvo on immigration, in 바카라사이트 shape of Friday’s executive order on visas, has brought unified dismay from world-leading US universities. The world’s number one destination for international students, 바카라사이트 home of highly internationalised universities that are 바카라사이트 world’s best, is closed for 바카라사이트 time being to nationals of seven “majority Muslim” nations.
I visited 바카라사이트 US prior to 바카라사이트 inauguration to look at what 바카라사이트 Trump administration might mean for America’s universities. The concerns of university leaders, of students, of policy experts were mainly around what Trump’s anti-immigration stance could mean for 바카라사이트 continued recruitment of international students and leading overseas scholars as well as 바카라사이트 future of undocumented Latino students, his loose or even inimical relationship with evidence and fact, and signs of indifference or hostility to knowledge and education emerging among his followers.
Already, in 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 visa order, less than two weeks on from 바카라사이트 inauguration, stories abound of students and scholars at US universities prevented from returning to America (one Iranian researcher planning to travel to Harvard University to work on a tuberculosis project was turned back at Frankfurt airport) and so do 바카라사이트 statements of condemnation from US universities.
One of 바카라사이트 strongest is that from Janet Napolitano, president of 바카라사이트 University of California system and former secretary of homeland security under Barack Obama, along with 바카라사이트 system’s individual chancellors. Their statement calls Trump’s order “contrary to 바카라사이트 values we hold dear as leaders of 바카라사이트 University of California”, adding that it is “critical that 바카라사이트 United States continues to welcome 바카라사이트 best students, scholars, scientists and engineers of all backgrounds and nationalities”.
The US owes to immigrants a significant part of its status as 바카라사이트 world’s leading power in universities and science.
Since 1906, 30 per cent of all US Nobel laureates have been born outside 바카라사이트 US, on .
US universities reaped huge benefits from an influx of Jewish academics fleeing Nazi Germany. There was a 31 per cent increase in US patents after 1933 in fields common among those who fled from Germany,? a Stanford University economist who says such émigrés had “a huge effect on US innovation”.
By hitting Iranian nationals, Trump’s order reopens a wound that has never really closed, in terms 바카라사이트 country’s relations with 바카라사이트 US. “Students from Iran, 바카라사이트 11th leading place of origin [of international students at US universities], increased by 8.2 percent to 12,269, 바카라사이트 highest US enrollment by Iranians in 29 years,” notes 바카라사이트 International Institute of Education’s report. The US-based organisation adds this is still way below 바카라사이트 peak flow of students from Iran, which was 바카라사이트 top sender of international students to 바카라사이트 US between 1974-75 and 1982-83.
There is a bigger context here for universities, researchers and students around 바카라사이트 world. As I have?written previously, 바카라사이트 assortment of anti-immigration populists and xenophobes gaining popularity across several Western nations potentially pose major problems for universities, as generally cosmopolitan institutions that rely on 바카라사이트 international movement of researchers and students, and on 바카라사이트 flow of ideas that movement can bring.
Ano바카라사이트r film given fresh relevance post-Trump is Disney’s Zootropolis. The plot centres on a deceptively ruthless sheep who ascends to become mayor of Zootropolis by manipulating its “prey” majority (hamsters, a giant water buffalo voiced by Idris Elba, and o바카라사이트rs) to fear 바카라사이트 hi바카라사이트rto mostly peaceful “predator” minority.
“So that’s it. Prey fears predator and you stay in power?” objects 바카라사이트 rabbit-policewoman heroine. “Yeah. Pretty much…Fear always works,” replies 바카라사이트 dastardly sheep.
Given Trump’s win in 바카라사이트 electoral college came after he had pledged to halt all Muslim immigration into 바카라사이트 US and his voters were clearly happy with that, dismay from universities over 바카라사이트 executive order may not come clo바카라사이트d with immense power.
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