What One Professor's Travel Ban Says About The UAE's Influence On U.S. Universities

Andrew Ross is a tenured professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University who has authored a long list of respected works on debt, labor and social theory. But the United Arab Emirates denied Ross entry to the country to study migrant labor conditions in March, and Ross believes the UAE’s financial generosity to NYU has limited the university’s willingness to advocate on his behalf. The UAE is home to, and chief funder of, a lush new NYU campus in Abu Dhabi. The university...