Roy Germano & Universes in THE MATRIX

Roy Germano — by the small-world principle — is within 6 degrees of most humanity. The matrix uses the principle behind this phenomenon to position the world's artists within discoverable reach of each other, and the planet.
THESE CURATED NODES are one degree forward from this Roy Germano node. Are these Roy Germano's curations?

CURATION STATUS

1 degree forward: by The Matrix

Who & Where

Name: Roy Germano
City/Place: Brooklyn, NY
Country: United States

Life & Work

Bio: Roy Germano is a senior research scholar and adjunct associate professor at New York University. He holds in a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago. He made The Other Side of Immigration while collecting survey data in rural Mexico as a National Science Foundation Fellow.

Roy is also an author. His new book is called Outsourcing Welfare: How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries (Oxford University Press). His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Migration Studies, Latino Studies, Research & Politics, Perspectives on Politics, the NYU Law Review, Electoral Studies, and others. He has contributed to a variety of media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Univision, Telemundo, and many others.

His other documentary films include A Mexican Sound and Immigrant America, which was broadcast by Vice News.

Media & Markets

▶ Twitter: roy_germano
▶ Website: http://www.roygermano.com
▶ Website 2: http://www.theothersideofimmigration.com
▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCua5-WDGjTabpY0rMjNSG9g

Quotes, Notes & Etc. OUTSOURCING WELFARE

Roy Germano's Outsourcing Welfare shows how international migrants have assumed a social welfare burden once reserved for national governments. The hundreds of billions of dollars they send to their home countries each year helps millions of families pay for food, healthcare, housing, and education. This money--known as "remittances"--is three times larger than aid sent by the world's richest countries. It fills an important welfare gap throughout the developing world in an era of austerity and neoliberal globalization. Based on ethnographic research in Mexico and Central American and analyses of survey data from 50 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. Published in 2018 by Oxford University Press.

An "illuminating book" that "addresses an important but often overlooked consequence of international migration"
- Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs

"In the present political climate, it is difficult not to read Roy Germano's book as a warning. With the rise in nationalistic rhetoric in some wealthy democracies focused on erecting barriers to migration, Outsourcing Welfare points to the serious harm that building walls may cause to people living in poorer states."
- Michael Tyburski, Perspectives on Politics

“A major contribution to the field...the first comprehensive study on the relationship between remittances and political behavior.”
- David Doyle, University of Oxford

“Germano is masterful in making us see immigration ‘from the other side.'”
- Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University

THE OTHER SIDE OF IMMIGRATION

An award-winning documentary by Roy Germano about why millions of Mexicans have immigrated to the U.S. in recent decades and what has happened to the families and communities they left behind. Through an approach that is both subtle and thought-provoking, The Other Side of Immigration provides a perspective on undocumented immigration rarely witnessed by American eyes, challenging audiences to imagine more creative and effective solutions. A 2011 American Library Association Notable Video and invited selection at hundreds of film festivals, museums, universities, and community events.

“The Other Side of Immigration does more than any other work to give people otherwise disparaged as ‘threatening’ and ‘illegal’ a human face and to reveal the devastating personal effects of U.S. immigration and economic policies on our closest neighbors.”
- Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University

“The Other Side of Immigration is an intelligent, thought-provoking, beautiful, and caring look at the costs of policies in Mexico and the United States that lead to illegal immigration by so many. It is an understatement to say that the film has made me think...”
- Liza Finkel, Portland State University

“I recommend The Other Side of Immigration with enthusiasm for a wide range of audiences, including community groups, higher education institutions, public schools, and policy makers.”
- Scott Fletcher, Lewis & Clark College

Clips (more may be added)

Documental: "A Mexican Sound/Un Son Mexicano"
By Roy Germano

188 views
Living in Mexico Opened my Mind
By Roy Germano

132 views
A Non-Jew Visits a Hasidic Synagogue in Brooklyn
By Roy Germano

164 views
A Non-Jewish Brooklynite Visits Hasidic Crown Heights
By Roy Germano

150 views
Roy Germano CNN interview about Why Immigrants Risk U.S. Border Crossing (June 2018)
By Roy Germano

128 views

Roy Germano

THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone.

The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it sings.

w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio

Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.

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