| | | | | By Muzaffar Chishti, Julia Gelatt, and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh U.S. cities have welcomed immigrants for generations. But many arrivals coming from the border in recent months have no pre-existing connections in the country and must wait months to work legally. With little federal support, cities have been primarily responsible for meeting the needs of the likely historic number of arrivals, causing financial strains that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has described as existential. This article makes sense of the dynamics causing unprecedented pressure on local governments. |
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| By Caitlyn Yates and Juan Pappier The Darien Gap features high mountains, hundreds of rivers, gangs of bandits, and virtually no inviting infrastructure. In recent years, it has become a major migration corridor. For asylum seekers and other migrants heading from South America to the United States and other northern destinations, it is now the primary passageway. This article explains the massive rise in migration through the region, conditions migrants face, and how governments have tried to manage the movement. |
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| | | | Por Jiaxin Wei y Jeanne Batalova Los cubanos constituyen el mayor grupo de inmigrantes caribeños en Estados Unidos. La población está creciendo, ya que en los últimos años se ha producido la mayor oleada de emigración de la historia moderna de Cuba. Este artículo ofrece estadísticas clave sobre los 1.3 millones de inmigrantes cubanos en Estados Unidos. |
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| | Were it not for immigration, many high-income countries would be shrinking. The fertility rate—the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime—is well below replacement levels in the European Union, the United States, and other advanced industrialized economies. Worldwide, about two-thirds of humanity lives in a country with a fertility rate below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. Without immigrants, these countries would have fewer people to boost the economy and care for an increasingly graying population. Some countries are already there. Last year, China reported a declining population for the first time in 60 years. That milestone seemed inevitable, given the country’s ambivalent approach to immigration and the high bars for obtaining permanent residence—not to mention the legacy of the one-child policy—as Heidi Østbø Haugen and Tabitha Speelman explained in the Migration Information Source. Other East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea have faced similar declines. Nations more open to immigration have a different fate. If the European Union halted all new arrivals, its population would shrink by more than 100 million by 2050, according to recent projections, whereas a pro-growth scenario would see the population grow by 72 million people, to nearly 519 million. The U.S. population meanwhile grew by just 7.4 percent between 2010 and 2020, the lowest rate since the Great Depression, partly because of reduced immigration (legal immigration has remained more or less steady, but the number of unauthorized immigrants has slightly declined since 2007). Slowed growth is likely to continue, with the U.S. population estimated to increase by about 40 million people by 2053, to 373 million, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Eventually, the world as a whole will stop growing—though no time soon, notwithstanding Elon Musk’s fears of population collapse. The global population, currently at 8 billion, is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, and 10.4 billion by 2100. Still, globally, the fertility rate has more than halved since 1960 and the world’s population may shrink after 2100, for the first time since the Black Death ravaged the globe more than six centuries ago. Depending on whom you ask, that trend could spell long-term challenges. A shrinking population means a weaker global economy and reduced innovation, some fear. Perhaps ironically, recent concerns about declining populations mirror demographers’ Malthusian fears of a generation ago, that an overpopulated world would lead to widespread famine and poverty. Those kinds of anxieties featured prominently in movements to restrict immigration. Will declining populations have the opposite effect? Best regards, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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"The number of Venezuelan immigrants in the United States has nearly tripled since 2010, coinciding with a period of severe economic and political crisis that has resulted in the largest prolonged displacement event in the Americas." |
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"Widespread Senegalese migration to France first began with temporary workers. As their stays became more permanent, they brought their families to live with them." |
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| | The latest episode of MPI’s World of Migration podcast explores the growing interest in private individuals and organizations sponsoring refugees, speaking with a sponsor. The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival, by Lisa M. Hamilton, traces a woman’s journey from Laos to California. Why did two-fifths of post-War War II migrants to Australia decide not to remain? When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, edited by Ruth Balint, Joy Damousi, and Sheila Fitzpatrick, offers some answers. Kristin Surak’s The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires investigates the global market for citizenship. A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh, is based on a decade of fieldwork in the region. In Listening to Laredo: A Border City in a Globalized Age, Mehnaaz Momen explores the changes that have gripped a city on the U.S.-Mexico border. Tendayi Bloom examines civil society activities around the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration in Noncitizen Power: Agency and the Politics of Migration. |
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