A distinguished German political scientist who studies far right extremism has been denied a visa. He was supposed to come to UVa this term as a visiting professor, but Trump’s State Department won’t let him. cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/0…
Eyal Weizman, one of the founders of Foresic Architecture and a human rights activist-architect, has also been denied a visa. archpaper.com/2020/02/eyal-w…
It’s important to note that visas are denied all the time to scholars from South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, both for reasons of their personal politics and racism. (And students from East Asia also routinely run into visa problems.)
And also important to note that it isn’t just a US problem. Canada, for instance, denied visas to Nigerian scholars coming for a conference two years in a row. wired.com/story/african-…
.@ztsamudzi thread on the same topic is worth reading.
