| | | | By Muzaffar Chishti and Kathleen Bush-Joseph In recent years, U.S. immigration policy has been increasingly set by the courts. Congress has spent decades declining to pass major new immigration laws, leaving presidents to enact most of their agenda by executive power. But as immigration has become a political wedge issue, state officials of both parties have raced to file lawsuits, handing significant power to federal judges whose decisions can have nationwide implications. The trend has profound consequences for U.S. immigration, as this article details. |
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| By Lucie Macková and Nikola Medová Czechia (also known as the Czech Republic) has hoped that high-skilled immigration can accelerate the rapid economic growth that has been underway since the country's transition from communism. While the numbers of highly skilled migrants have tripled over the past decade, however, many have struggled to integrate. Now, amid the arrival of hundreds of thousands of disproportionately well-educated Ukrainians over the last year, the government finds itself at a crossroads. This article provides an overview of Ukrainians in Czechia and details opportunities and challenges for immigration of well-educated individuals. |
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| | | Time and again in recent years, fires have swept through places housing migrants in close quarters. This week, a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico killed at least 38 men and injured more than two dozen others, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind in the country. Largely from Central and South America, the men were reportedly facing return to their origin countries after being denied U.S. entry. Just three weeks earlier, a fire ripped through a crowded Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, leaving 12,000 homeless. In previous years, fires killed scores of migrants trapped in a detention center in Yemen, destroyed the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, tore through the Calais “jungle” in northern France, and caused untold damage in smaller incidents that did not make international news. At times, fires have recurred in the same places over and over. For instance, Bangladesh’s defense ministry recorded a total of 222 fire incidents in Rohingya camps in 2021 and 2022. Many of these episodes share similarities. Often, blazes break out in informal, hastily assembled, and crowded spaces that were not built to house large numbers of people. In places such as these, flames can spread easily and decimate large areas before they can be contained. At times, the fires have been set intentionally, usually by frustrated individuals who feel they have no other way to protest their fate. This week’s fire in Juárez was reportedly set by migrants either to prevent their looming return or in protest against overcrowding, with 68 men crammed into a cell meant for no more than 50 and left without access to drinking water. The fire that burned down the Moria camp was also allegedly intentional, set amid tensions over pandemic-related restrictions. (In 2021, six Afghans were found guilty of arson in the Moria case and sentenced to several years in jail, although they have maintained their innocence.) These kinds of tragedies are not random. They are a logical consequence of government policies to bottle up often-desperate forcibly displaced people, house them in unsuitable structures, and keep them in extended limbo with little hope of receiving sanctuary. Given the dim prospects for that trend changing any time soon, more tragedies can be expected. Best regards, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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| | Migration, Integration, and Diaspora Engagement in the Caribbean: A Policy Review
By Valerie Lacarte, Jordi Amaral, Diego Chaves-González, Ana María Sáiz, and Jeremy Harris Revamping Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Workable Rescue?
By Doris Meissner Recommendations for the Task Force on New Americans
By Margie McHugh, Jacob Hofstetter, Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix, Valerie Lacarte, Maki Park, Delia Pompa, and Julie Sugarman SNAP Access and Participation in U.S.-Born and Immigrant Households: A Data Profile
By Valerie Lacarte, Lillie Hinkle, and Briana L. Broberg |
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| "Onward migration from Libya had previously been controlled by Gaddafi’s regime. Post-Gaddafi, the trade and extortion of human beings became a central source of income for communities in Libya, often to the migrants’ detriment." |
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"By and large, South American immigrants mirror the sociodemographic characteristics of the overall U.S. immigrant population with a few exceptions: They tend to be slightly more educated and more likely to participate in the labor force." |
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"Israel is a society of immigrants and their offspring: 23 percent of the Jewish majority as of 2018 was foreign born, 32 percent was comprised of the second generation (Israeli born to immigrant parents), and 47 percent was third generation (Israeli born to Israeli-born parents)." |
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| | In the latest episode of MPI's World of Migration podcast, Susan Fratzke speaks with Betsy Fisher, U.S. director of the nonprofit Talent Beyond Boundaries, about complementary pathways for humanitarian migrants. Maya Pagni Barak follows the cases of asylum seekers and other migrants in the United States in The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial. Eighteen voices come together to reflect on contemporary Armenian ethnic identity in We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora, edited by Aram Mrjoian. In Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border, Gilberto Rosas investigates restrictionist rhetoric, the far right, and a 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in Texas. Brilliance in Exile: The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karikó, by Istvan Hargittai and Balazs Hargittai, traces five periods of emigration over the last century. The Japanese Empire and Latin America, edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Sidney Xu Lu, explains the legacy of Japanese migration and expansion in the Western Hemisphere. |
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