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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. (#1) State Department Visa Bulletin - March 2020
2. (#2) CRS reports on illicit drug smuggling, border barrier funding, and visa sanctions against 'recalcitrant' countries
3. (#3) GAO report on USCIS's oversight and data quality of credible and reasonable fear screenings
4. (#4) EPA IG report on management controls for Border 2020 Program Accomplishments
5. (#5) House testimony on assessing U.S. security assistance to Mexico
6. (#6) House markup of H.R. 2214, the NO BAN Act
7. (#7) Canada: Population statistics
8. (#8) Norway: Unemployment statistics for immigrants
9. (#9) Italy: Demographic indicators for 2019
10. (#10) Germany: Statistics apprentices with foreign citizenship
11. (#11) Austria: Naturalization and population statistics
12. (#12) N.Z.: International migration statistics

REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
13. (#13) New report from FAIR
14. (#14) Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration index and voter views on suing sanctuary cities
15. (#15) TRAC reports on criminal immigration prosecutions and asylum decisions
16. (#16) New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
17. (#17) Four new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
18. (#18) Three new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
19. (#19) Nine new papers from the Social Science Research Network
20. (#20) Fifteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
21. (#21) CATO report: "Financing Immigration: The Financial‐Market Value of a Market‐Based Immigration System"
22. (#22) HLR article: "Matter of L-E-A-"
23. (#23) "Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances?:"
24. (#24) "Ethical considerations in providing psychological services to unaccompanied immigrant children"
25. (#25) "Migrant Integration in Europe: Steps Towards a Comprehensive Approach"
26. (#26) U.K.: New working paper from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre

BOOKS
27. (#27) The Criminalization of Immigration: Truth, Lies, Tragedy, and Consequences
28. (#28) The Americanisation of Ireland: Migration and Settlement, 1841-1925
29. (#29) Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
30. (#30) The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue
31. (#31) New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity

JOURNALS
32. (#32) Citizenship Studies
33. (#33) Comparative Migration Studies
34. (#34) Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
35. (#35) International Migration Review

Visa Bulletin For March 2020
Vol. X, No. 39
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New from the Congressional Research Service

Illicit Drug Smuggling Between Ports of Entry and Border Barriers
February 7, 2020
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DHS Border Barrier Funding
Updated January 29, 2020
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Immigration: "Recalcitrant" Countries and the Use of Visa Sanctions to Encourage Cooperation with Alien Removals
CRS In Focus, updated January 23, 2020
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New from the General Accountability Office

Immigration: Actions Needed to Strengthen USCIS's Oversight and Data Quality of Credible and Reasonable Fear Screenings
GAO-20-250, February 19, 2020
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Management Controls Needed to Verify and Report Border 2020 Program Accomplishments
EPA Office of Inspector General, Report No. 20-P-0083, February 18, 2020
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U.S.-Mexico Border 2020 Program
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade
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Assessing U.S. Security Assistance to Mexico

Witness testimony:
Hugo Rodriguez
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Richard Glenn
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Barbara Feinstein
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United States Agency for International Development

Hearing video at link: [link removed]

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
House Committee on the Judiciary
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H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act or the NO BAN Act

(Agreed to by a Roll Call Vote of 22 Ayes and 10 Nos)

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Canada's population estimates: Subprovincial areas, July 1, 2019
Statistics Canada, February 13, 2020
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Summary:
Canada's population growth concentrated in urban regions, fuelled by permanent and temporary immigration

Canada continues to be more urbanized as the population of Canada's census metropolitan areas (CMAs) rose to 27.0 million (71.7%). CMAs outpaced growth in the rest of the country (1.7% versus 0.6%).

Permanent and temporary immigration continues to drive population growth in Canada's CMAs, accounting for almost all of their growth in 2018/2019. In contrast, international migration accounted for just over half of the population growth in non-CMAs of the country. This trend is linked to higher targets for permanent immigration, as defined by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and to various government programs that draw many temporary workers and foreign students to the country.

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Registered unemployed among immigrants
Statistics Norway, February 12, 2020
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Summary: 5.0 % of immigrants are registered as unemployed Q4 2019

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Demographic Indicators 2019
Italy National Institute of Statistics, February 11, 2020
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Highlights:

* 60.3 million total population
* 8.9 percent foreign nationals
* 19.6 percent born from foreign mothers
* 307,000 registrations from abroad

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Occupations with skilled labour shortage: number of new apprentices with foreign citizenship more than tripled from 2008 to 2018
German Federal Statistical Office, February 14, 2020
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Summary: The number of new apprentices is falling less rapidly in many occupational groups of the crafts sector than the relevant average for all vocational training occupations. This is shown by a special evaluation the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has carried out as the Skilled Immigration Act is entering into force on 1 March 2020. The total number of new apprenticeship contracts concluded in the years 2008 to 2018 decreased by 14.1%, from 607,600 to 521,900.

In these ten years, the number of new contracts of people holding a foreign citizenship almost doubled, from 31,100 to 61,000. Over the same period, the number of new apprenticeship contracts concluded for selected shortage occupations in the crafts sector which are on the labour shortage list of the Federal Employment Agency fell only slightly by 0.8% from approximately 135,000 to 134,000.

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10,606 new Austrian citizens in 2019: number of naturalisations increased by 12.2%
Statistics Austria, February 13, 2020
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Summary: In 2019, 10,606 persons acquired Austrian citizenship (including 106 residents abroad), as Statistics Austria reports. Compared to 2018, the number of naturalisations increased by 12.2%. After an all-time high in 2003 (45,112), the number of naturalisations dropped to a minimum in 2010 (6,190). Ever since, naturalisations have been consequently increasing again.

In 2019, Austrian citizenship was granted to 3,727 persons born in Austria (35.1%), 34.6% of the naturalised were under 18 years of age. Among people naturalised in 2019, the largest groups were former citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1,183 or 11.2%), Serbia (1, 008), Turkey (912), Kosovo (688) and the Russian Federation (464).

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Population reaches 8.9 million at the beginning of 2020
February 12, 2020
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Summary: According to preliminary results of Statistics Austria, 8,902,600 people were living in Austria on 1 January 2020. During 2019, the resident population increased by 43, 825 (+0.5%). Hence, population growth was slightly higher than in the previous year (2018: 36,508; +0.4%).

At the beginning of 2020, some 1.49 million foreign citizens were living in Austria, representing a share of 16.7% of the total population (compared to 16.2% on 1 January 2019). Germans (200,059 persons; +4.0%) were still the largest group of foreigners living in Austria; for the first time, Romanian nationals (123,461; +9.6%) followed in the second place.

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International migration: December 2019
Statistics New Zealand, February 16, 2020
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Summary: For migrant arrivals in the December 2019 year, New Zealand citizens were the largest group with 34,200 (± 700) arrivals. The next largest groups were citizens of:

China – 13,000 (± 300)
India – 12,500 (± 300)
South Africa – 11,400 (± 200)
Philippines – 8,500 (± 200)
Australia – 7,200 (± 500.)

For migrant departures in the December 2019 year, New Zealand citizens were the largest group with 43,300 (± 900) departures. The next largest groups were citizens of:

China – 11,300 (± 500)
United Kingdom – 5,500 (± 100)
India – 5,300 (± 300)
Australia – 3,700 (± 300).

Month
December 2019 month (compared with December 2018 month) provisional estimates were:

migrant arrivals – 14,600 (± 1200), up 12 percent
migrant departures – 12,800 (± 1100), up 27 percent
net gain – 1,800 (± 1500) migrants.

December 2019 month seasonally adjusted estimates were:

migrant arrivals – 13,200
migrant departures – 9,300
net gain – 3,900.

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Small Migrant Populations, Huge Impacts.
By Matt O’Brien, Spencer Raley, and Casey Ryan
Federation for American Immigration Reform Report, January 2020
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
February 18, 2020
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Excerpt: Among the findings in the latest survey, 41% of Likely U.S. Voters say the government is doing too little to reduce illegal border crossings and visitor overstays, while 34% think it’s doing too much. Eighteen percent (18%) rate the level of action as about right.

The sharp public political differences over illegal immigration are explained in part by the results of this question: 62% of Republicans think the government is doing too little to combat it, while 56% of Democrats say the government is doing too much. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 41% say the government is doing too little to reduce illegal immigration vs. 29% who say it’s doing too much.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of all voters still feel the government should mandate that employers use the federal electronic E-Verify system to help ensure they hire only legal workers for U.S. jobs. Just 19% disagree, while 14% are undecided.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) believe it is better for the country if U.S. businesses raise pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise. Only 26% disagree and think it's better for America if the government brings in new foreign workers to help keep business costs and prices down. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure which option is better.

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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
February 11, 2020
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Excerpt: Fifty-six percent (56%) favor allowing legal immigrants to bring only a spouse and minor children with them. Thirty-four percent (34%) want to allow them to bring in other adult relatives as well in a process that can include extended family and their spouses’ families.

The Census Bureau projects that current immigration policies are responsible for most U.S. population growth and will add 75 million people over the next 40 years. In terms of the effect on the overall quality of life in the United States, 36% want to continue immigration-driven population growth at the current levels. Forty-one percent (41%) favor slowing down immigration-driven population growth, while 13% want to have no such population growth at all.

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Voters Narrowly Favor Law Allowing Crime Victims to Sue Sanctuary Cities
February 13, 2020
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Excerpt: In response to a number of murders and other serious crimes by illegal immigrants freed by sanctuary cities, President Trump announced in last week’s State of the Union address his support for a bill that would allow victims of those crimes to sue the cities. Forty-four percent (44%) of voters favor a law that would allow crime victims to sue sanctuary cities. Forty percent (40%) are opposed. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.

Sixty percent (60%) of Republicans favor such a law, compared to 31% of Democrats and 45% of voters not affiliated with either major political party.

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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University

Sharp Decline in Criminal Immigration Prosecutions
February 12, 2020
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Excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security's three immigration enforcement agencies - Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - investigate both civil and criminal violations of the law. While these agencies can institute civil enforcement actions directly, they must refer any criminal matters to the Department of Justice whose prosecutors decide whether a criminal prosecution should be filed.

As shown in Figure 1, trends for referred cases have been driven largely by CBP rather than by ICE or USCIS. CBP-referred prosecutions began around 5,000 at the beginning of 2018, then rose sharply throughout the spring of 2018 and peaked around 11,000 during June through October of 2018 before steadily declining at the end of the year.

What accounts for this pattern in CBP's criminal referrals to the Department of Justice? The simplest explanation, if the percent of criminal referrals is constant, is that increases in the number of border crossings leads to increases in referrals. Yet the trend in CBP-referred prosecutions does not map neatly onto the trend in Border Patrol apprehensions along the Southwest border. In fact, just as apprehensions began climbing sharply in March of 2019, criminal prosecutions began to fall. Figure 2 compares trends in criminal prosecutions over the last two years with Border Patrol arrests of single adults, who one might expect to be prime targets for criminal prosecution[2]. Similarly, when Border Patrol arrests of adults in family units are plotted against criminal prosecutions, their apprehensions followed parallel month-to-month trends to those of single adults

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Asylum Decisions
By Custody, Representation, Nationality, Location, Month and Year, Outcome and more
Through January 2020
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research

Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
By Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones, and Tayfun Sonmez
NBER Working Paper No. 26767, February 2020
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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
By Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, and Stephen J. Trejo
NBER Working Paper No. 26742, February 2020
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New from the Migration Policy Institute

The Patchy Landscape of State English Learner Policies under ESSA
By Leslie Villegas and Delia Pompa
February 2020
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An Uneven Welcome: Latin American and Caribbean Responses to Venezuelan and Nicaraguan Migration
By Andrew Selee and Jessica Bolter
February 2020
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Seasonal Worker Programs in Europe: Promising Practices and Ongoing Challenges
By Kate Hooper and Camille Le Coz
February 2020
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Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
By Jeanne Batalova, Brittany Blizzard, and Jessica Bolter
Migration Information Source Spotlight, February 14, 2020
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective
By Artjoms Ivlevs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12984, February 2020
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Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States
By Giovanni Peri and Zachariah Rutledge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12976, February 2020
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Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship
By Kusum Mundra and Fernando Rios-Avila
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12975, February 2020
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New from the Social Science Research Network

1. Citizen Satisfaction with Online Passport Service Innovation in Indonesia within an Electronic Governance Perspective
By Choirul Saleh, University of Brawijaya
International Journal of Management (IJM), 10 (6), 2019
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2. The Human Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK
By Dáire McCormack-George, Trinity College (Dublin) - School of Law
Posted: February 13, 2020
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3. From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University; Soumyajit Mazumder, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14396
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4. The Plenary Power Meets the Police Power: Federalism at the Intersection of Health & Immigration
By Wendy E. Parmet, Northeastern University - School of Law
American Journal of Law & Medicine, Vol. 45, pp. 224-246 (2019)
Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 268-2020
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5. How Promoting a Merit-Based Immigration System Can Help Alleviate the DACA Problem
By Jose Gallegos, Western State College of Law
Posted: February 8, 2020
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6. Americans in Waiting: Finding Solutions for Long Term Residents
By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) School of Law
46 Notre Dame J. Legis. 29 (2019)
Penn State Law Research Paper No. 2-2020
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7. Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Croatia: Exploring Its Potential, (Rising) Barriers and Integration Patterns
By Ruzica Simic Banovic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Dpt of Economics; Mirela Alpeza, J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Faculty of Economics in Osijek; and Jan Brzozowski, Cracow University of Economics
Posted: February 4, 2020
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8. Economic Aspects of Migration Processes in Bulgaria
By Daniela Bobeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute; Dimitar Zlatinov Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski; and Eduard Marinov, New Bulgarian University
Economic Studies, Volume 28 (5), 2019
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9. Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration
By Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14317
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog

1. DACAmented in the Age of Deportation by Roberto G. Gonzales
February 20, 2020
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2. Immigration Not a Huge Issue at Nevada Democratic Debate, Protesters Jeer Joe Biden on Obama Immigration Record
February 20, 2020
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3. Brexit immigration reform to see low-skilled migrants banned from Britain this year?
February 20, 2020
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4. Trump Administration Continues Full Court Press on "Sanctuary" States and Cities, Implicates Complex Federalism Concerns
February 19, 2020
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5. "Trump's Changes to Immigration Could Take Years to Undo — Even With a New President" and "9 Ways Trump Has Overhauled Immigration to the US"
February 18, 2020
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6. Nondelegation challenge to the travel ban
February 18, 2020
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7. "Hidden Weapons" of Immigration Law: Interview with AIC
February 18, 2020
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8. What Detention Leaves Behind
February 17, 2020
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9. Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities
February 14, 2020
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10. Supreme Court to Decide Case About Judicial Review of Expedited Removal
February 14, 2020
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11. 9th Cir. On "eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers"
February 13, 2020
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12. NY sues Trump administration over bar on Global Entry
February 11, 2020
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13. Attorney General Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, 'significant escalation' against sanctuary cities
February 11, 2020
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14. Trump Suspends Global Entry Travel Program in New York in Response to Law Allowing Undocumented Immigrants to Secure Driver’s Licenses
February 7, 2020
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15. International Office for Migration -- “We were afraid”: Testimonies from the first Migrant Caravan of 2020
February 6, 2020
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Financing Immigration: The Financial‐Market Value of a Market‐Based Immigration System
By Alex Nowrasteh and Andrew C. Forrester
CATO Institute Immigration Research and Policy Brief No. 16, February 12, 2020
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Matter of L-E-A-
Attorney General Overrules Finding of Family as a Social Group.
133 Harv. L. Rev. 1500, February 10, 2020
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
By Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Miaomiao Zou
Journal of Developmental Studies, Vol 56, No. 3, March 2020
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Ethical considerations in providing psychological services to unaccompanied immigrant children
By Genevieve F. Dash
Ethics and Behavior, Vol 30, No. 2, February 2020
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Migrant Integration in Europe: Steps Towards a Comprehensive Approach
By Thomas Huddleston
OECD Forum Network, January 15, 2020
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre

Perverse incentives: an analysis of the border-management industry in the United States
By Emma Montoya
Working Paper, February 13, 2020
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The Criminalization of Immigration: Truth, Lies, Tragedy, and Consequences
By Robert Hartmann McNamara

Praeger, 219 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1440873704, $50.00
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Book Description: Presents the history of immigration to the United States; its criminalization under the Trump administration; debates over criminalization; effects on immigrants, U.S. residents, and the U.S. economy; and this country's relationships with other nations.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of past and current immigration policy in the United States and exposes falsehoods in the rhetoric and narrative portraying Latino and Mexican immigrants in the United States. Much support for intensified immigration enforcement and deportation is based on repeated statements by federal officials, including the U.S. president, that immigrants pose a threat to national security, contribute to crime, and take jobs away from native-born residents. The evidence has consistently concluded that these narratives are inaccurate.

This text examines white nationalism as a backdrop to understanding the rationale behind current immigration policy and tactics. It examines how political and economic factors, broadly defined as neoliberal policies, shape the immigration narrative. It addresses the criminal justice system's applicability to immigration, law enforcement efforts, problems with immigration courts and judges, and how the detention of immigrants is part of a larger mass incarceration of people of color. Finally, the text offers insight into the reasons for massive migration, with the United States contributing to the problem by supporting regimes that endorse or allow humanitarian crisis.

Separates fact from fiction regarding immigration problems and threats

Presents a history of immigration to the United States and contrasts past federal approaches with procedures launched by the Trump administration

Explains facts produced in research that are ignored by federal authorities pushing mistruths about immigrants

Examines the issues and problems with immigration courts and judges, and law enforcement, and shows how the immigrant detention process is part of a larger mass incarceration of people of color in the United States

Details the effects on immigrants, U.S. residents, the U.S. economy, and our relationship with other nations

Shows how the U.S. itself is at fault for helping to create conditions that spur massive migration

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The Americanisation of Ireland: Migration and Settlement, 1841-1925
By David Fitzpatrick

Cambridge University Press, 270 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1108486495, $39.99
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Book Description: Irish emigration to America is one of the clichés of modern Irish history; much less familiar is the reverse process. Who were the people who chose to return to Ireland? What motivated them? How did this affect Irish society? While many European countries were somewhat Americanised in this period, the Irish case was unique as so many Irish families had members in America. The most powerful agency for Americanisation, therefore, was not popular culture but circumstantial knowledge and personal contact. David Fitzpatrick demonstrates the often unexpected ways in which the reverse effects of emigration remoulded Irish society, balancing original demographic research with fascinating individual profiles to assemble a vivid picture of a changing Ireland. He explores the transformative impact of reverse migration from America to post-Famine Ireland, and offers penetrating insights into its growing population of American-born residents.

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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
By Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson

Crown, 304 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1984823213, $11.69
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Book Description: For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm. Rather than continuing to increase exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline—and in many countries, that decline has already begun.

In Empty Planet, John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker find that a smaller global population will bring with it many benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages; the environment will improve; the risk of famine will wane; and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women.

But enormous disruption lies ahead, too. We can already see the effects in Europe and parts of Asia, as aging populations and worker shortages weaken the economy and impose crippling demands on healthcare and social security. The United States and Canada are well-positioned to successfully navigate these coming demographic shifts--that is, unless growing isolationism leads us to close ourselves off just as openness becomes more critical to our survival than ever.

Rigorously researched and deeply compelling, Empty Planet offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent--but one that we can shape, if we choose.

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The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue
By Ayelet Shachar

Manchester University Press, 280 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1526145316, $35.95
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Book Description: The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. Traditionally, we think of a border as a hard, static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the lines on the map as governments have developed sophisticated legal tools to limit the rights of migrants both before and after they enter a country’s territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This dramatic transformation unsettles assumptions about waning sovereignty while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. It also presents a tremendous opportunity to creatively rethink states’ responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.

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New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity
By Bingyu Wang

Routledge, 196 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 0815368208, $134.61
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Book Description: There are growing waves of ‘desirable’ migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland. In purely demographic terms much of this diversity has been generated by policy shifts since the 1980s and the adoption of a comparatively liberal immigration policy based on personal merit without discrimination on the grounds of race, national or ethnic origin. Due to these changes, migrants from China, and Asia more broadly, have become increasingly significant in migration flows into New Zealand. This in turn makes New Zealand a valuable case study for understanding how Chinese migrants integrate into and affect their host nation.

Wang attempts to close a gap in contemporary research by relating cosmopolitanism to migration, particularly in the Asian context. With a cosmopolitan gaze towards migration studies, she makes four key contributions to the ongoing scholarly discussion. Firstly, this is the first comprehensive study to use cosmopolitanism as a framework to study the lives of contemporary Chinese migrants, with implications for migration studies as a whole. It sheds light on the relationship between cosmopolitanism and migrant mobility, taking a new approach to examine the living paradigms of international migrants. Secondly, this book identifies the emergence and development of cosmopolitanism outside the domain of Western middle-class groups. The concept of ‘rooted cosmopolitanism’ is utilised to break down the Eurocentric notion of cosmopolitanism, and to show the role played by Chinese rootedness during the process of becoming cosmopolitan and encountering diversity. Thirdly, the book advances and
enriches the knowledge of studies in ‘everyday cosmopolitanism’, by focusing on ‘cosmopolitanism from below’, locating quotidian and ‘down-to-earth’ cosmopolitan engagements that are grounded in everyday migrant lives. Fourthly, it looks at the emotional dimension of migrants negotiating difference and engaging in cosmopolitanism, particularly the ways in which emotions undermine and promote the development of cosmopolitan sociability.

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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2020
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Becoming a citizen through marriage: how gender, ethnicity and class shape the nation
By Anne Kristol and Janine Dahinden
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The ‘affective liminality’ of young immigrants in Belgium: from ruly to unruly feelings on the path towards formal citizenship
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Horizontal citizenship in Estonia: Russian speakers in the borderland city of Narva
By Alina Jašina-Schäfer and Ammon Cheskin
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‘Good residents’ for themselves: psychological screening and cultural imagination of future citizenship in contemporary Israel
By Galia Plotkin Amrami and Gita Kiper
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, Nos. 7-10, February 13, 14, and 17, 2020
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Ambiguous goals, uneven implementation – how immigration offices shape internal immigration control in Germany
By Caroline Schultz
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Another nexus? Exploring narratives on the linkage between EU external migration policies and the democratization of the southern Mediterranean neighbourhood
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Migration as one of several adaptation strategies for environmental limitations in Tunisia: evidence from El Faouar
By Karolina Sobczak-Szelc and Naima Fekih
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Emigrant citizenship, privileged local belonging and the option to return: Germans on the Turkish coast
By Margit Fauser
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Vol. 27, No. 2, February 2020
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Second-generation Central Americans and the formation of an ethnoracial identity in Los Angeles
By Ariana J. Valle
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Narratives of exile twenty years on: long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
By Monika Winarnita, Carol Chan, and Leslie Butt
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Diasporic kinship hegemonies and transnational continuities in the Hmong diaspora
By Sangmi Lee
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International Migration Review
Online first, February 2020
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Who Signs Up for E-Verify? Insights from DHS Enrollment Records
By Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, and Sarah Greer
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Copying Europe? Integration as a Citizenship Requirement in Australia
By Heli Askola
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Mexican Consular Protection Services across the United States: How Local Social, Economic, and Political Conditions Structure the Sociolegal Support of Emigrants
By Ricardo D. Martínez-Schuldt
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