Immigration Reading, 3/5/20
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. DHS OIG report on ICE's criminal alien program
2. GAO report on U.S. assistance to Central America
3. Census Bureau report on population projections under alternative migration scenarios
4. Senate testimony on necessities for protecting the homeland
5. House testimony on DHS FY2021 budget request
6. House testimony on the effect of border barriers on private and tribal landowners
7. House testimony on the current state of the U.S. refugee program
8. U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kansas v. Garcia
9. U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hernandez et al. v. Mesa
10. Norway: Immigrant employment and population statistics
11. Sweden: Population statistics
12. Finland: Population statistics
13. U.K.: Immigration statistics for the year ended 12/19
14. Germany: Statistics on recognized foreign professional qualifications of health care professionals
15. E.U.: Report on overcrowding in migrant households
16. E.U.: Frontex report: 2019 in Brief
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
17. SCOTUSblog opinion analysis and argument preview
18. Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration index
19. TRAC reports on public charge cases and ICE detainer requests
20. Three new reports from the Pew Research Center
21. Two new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
22. Five new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
23. Eight new papers from the Social Science Research Network
24. Eighteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
25. "The Impact of Administration Policies on Immigration Levels and Labor Force Growth"
26. "A State-by-State Look at Children of Immigrants"
27. "Economic Impact of Immigration by State"
28. "Change Is Hard: Managing Fear and Anxiety About Demographic Change and Immigration in Polarized Times"
29. "Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?"
30. "Michigan Compact on Immigration"
31. "Complex pattern of ancient immigration from Africa, Asia and Europe"
BOOKS
32. Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
33. Hidden Out in the Open: Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
34. Contemporary European Emigration: Situating Integration in New Destinations
35. The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law
36. Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU From: Principles to Practice
JOURNALS
37. Comparative Migration Studies
38. CSEM Newsletter
39. Forced Migration Review
40. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
41. International Migration Review
42. Journal on Migration and Human Security
43. Population, Space and Place
1.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Criminal Alien Program Faces Challenges
DHS OIG-20-13, February 18, 2020
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https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-02/OIG-20-13-Feb20.pdf
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New from the General Accountability Office
U.S. Assistance to Central America: Status of Funding
GAO-20-163R, March 4, 2020
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705117.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-163R
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A Changing Nation: Population Projections under Alternative Migration Scenarios
By Sandra Johnson
U.S. Census Bureau Report Number P25-1146, February 2020
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https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p25-1146.html
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Senate Committee on Homeland Security
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/resources-and-authorities-needed-to-protect-and-secure-the-homeland
Resources and Authorities Needed to Protect and Secure the Homeland
Witness testimony:
Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Video of hearing: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/templates/watch.cfm?id=B53B903E-5056-A066-60E0-E5EB55132109
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
https://homeland.house.gov/a-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2021-budget-request-for-the-department-of-homeland-security
Review of the Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security
Member statements:
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/030320%20BGT%20Statement.pdf
Witness testimony:
Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony%20-%20Wolf.pdf
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, & Operations
https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/examining-the-effect-of-the-border-wall-on-private-and-tribal-landowners
Examining the Effect of the Border Wall on Private and Tribal Landowners
Member statements:
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/022720%20BSFO%20BGT%20Statement.pdf
Subcommittee Chairwoman Kathleen Rice
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/022720%20Rice%20BSFO%20Statement.pdf
Witness tesyimony:
Ned Norris Jr., Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony%20-%20Norris1.pdf
Reynaldo Anzaldua, Private Landowner from Hidaldo, Texas
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony%20-%20Anzaldua1.pdf
Nayda Alvarez, Private Landowner from Roma, Texas
https://homeland.house.gov/download/alvarez-testimony
Jim Chilton, Private Landowner from Arivaca, Arizona (minority witness)
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony%20-%20Chilton1.pdf
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship
https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=2820
The Current State of the U.S. Refugee Program
Witness tesyimony:
Biar Atem
Nevada Delegate and Board of Directors Member, Refugee Congress
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https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20200227/110569/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-AtemB-20200227.pdf
Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodrguez
Auxiliary Bishop of Washington and, Chair of the Committee on Migration, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
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https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20200227/110569/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-Dorsonville-RodrguezT-20200227.pdf
Lora Ries
Senior Research Fellow, Homeland Security, The Heritage Foundation
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https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20200227/110569/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-RiesL-20200227.pdf
Barbara Strack
Former Chief of the Refugee Affairs Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and, Curren
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https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20200227/110569/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-StrackB-20200227.pdf
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8.
Kansas v. Garcia
Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kansas
Supreme Court of the United States, No. 17–834
Argued October 16, 2019, Decided March 3, 2020
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-834_k53l.pdf
Holding: The Kansas statutes under which respondents were convicted are not preempted expressly or by implication under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Alito on March 3, 2020. Justice Thomas filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice Gorsuch joined. Justice Breyer filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan joined.
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Hernandez et al. v. Mesa
Supreme Court of the United States, No. 17–1678
Argued November 12, 2019, Decided February 25, 2020
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1678_m6io.pdf
Holding: (1) A Bivens remedy is not available when there are "special factors counselling hesitation in the absence of affirmative action by Congress," and the court recently clarified in Ziglar v. Abbasi what constitutes a special factor counselling hesitation; the court of appeals should consider how the reasoning and analysis in Ziglar bear on the question whether the parents of a victim shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent may recover damages for his death; (2) It would be imprudent for the Supreme Court to decide Jesus Hernandez’s Fourth Amendment claim when, in light of the intervening guidance provided in Abbasi, doing so may be unnecessary to resolve this particular case; and (3) with respect to Hernandez’s Fifth Amendment claim, because it is undisputed that the victim's nationality and the extent of his ties to the United States were unknown to the agent at the time of the shooting, the en banc court of appeals erred in granting qualified immunity based on those facts.
Judgment: Vacated and remanded in a per curiam opinion on June 26, 2017. Justice Thomas filed a dissenting opinion. Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Ginsburg joined. Justice Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
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Employment among immigrants, register-based
Statistics Norway, March 2, 2020
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https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/innvregsys/aar
Summary:
67.1% of the immigrants aged 20-66 years are employed Q4 2019
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Population growth at 39,400 in 2019
As 2020 began, Norway’s population stood at 5,367,580. Population growth for 2019 came in at 39,400.
February 27, 2020
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https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/population-growth-at-39-400-in-2019
Summary:
Stable immigration count, fewer births
After the number of immigrations spiked at 79,500 in 2011, it fell quickly in the following years. In 2018, the number was 52,500, whereas the number for 2019 was 52,200. Such a meagre reduction in the number of immigrations has rarely occurred after 2011, when the recent norm has been annual declines in the thousands.
Net immigration for 2019 came in at 25,300, which is a big rise from 2018’s figure of 18,100. Do note, though, that much of this increase is due to special circumstances with regards to the registering of emigrations in 2019. These resulted in the registering of about 5,000 fewer emigrations than would have been the case under normal circumstances and relate to non-Nordic EEA citizens.
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Sweden’s population grew by a million in the last ten years
Statistics Sweden, February 20, 2020
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https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/statistical-news/swedens-population-2019--population-changes/
Summary: As of the end of 2019, the second decade of the millennium came to an end. On New Year’s Eve, the population was 10 327 589, which is 986 907 more than on New Year’s Eve ten years earlier.
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Finland's preliminary population figure 5,528,442 at the end of January
Statistics Finland, February 25, 2020
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https://www.stat.fi/til/vamuu/2020/01/vamuu_2020_01_2020-02-25_tie_001_en.html
Summary: According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population was 5,528,442 at the end of January. Our country's population increased by 869 persons during January. The reason for the increase was migration gain from abroad, since immigration exceeded emigration by 1,127. The number of births was 671 lower than that of deaths.
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According to the preliminary statistics for January, 2,231 persons immigrated to Finland from abroad and 1,104 persons emigrated from Finland. The number of immigrants was 569 lower and the number of emigrants 268 lower than in the corresponding period of the previous year. In all, 636 of the immigrants and 739 of the emigrants were Finnish citizens.
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Immigration statistics, year ending December 2019
Quarterly and annual statistics relating to those: coming to the UK, extending their stay, gaining citizenship, applying for asylum, and being detained or removed, as well as immigration for work, study and family reasons.
U.K. Home Office, February 27, 2020
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https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2019
Summary of latest statistics:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2019/summary-of-latest-statistics
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Health and nursing care: number of recognised foreign professional qualifications nearly doubled from 2016 to 2018
Qualifications from Syria recognised most often for physicians
Federal Statistical Office of Germany, March 2, 2020
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https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2020/03/PE20_N009_212.html
Summary: The German health and nursing care system is facing a skilled labour shortage. To reduce this shortage, employers are searching also for skilled labour from abroad. In 2018 alone, the professional qualifications of 10,350 nurses from abroad were recognised in Germany. With regard to the new Skilled Immigration Act, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of qualified nursing staff was thus nearly twice as high as two years earlier (2016: 5,600).
In all of Germany, 36,400 foreign professional qualifications were recognised in 2018. The qualifications recognised were most often those of nurses (28.4%).
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Migrant integration: overcrowding rate
Eurostat, February 28, 2020
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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/DDN-20200228-1
Summary: In the European Union (EU), 35% of non-EU citizens were living in overcrowded households in 2018, meaning they did not have the number of rooms appropriate to the size of the household. By contrast, this rate was 17% for nationals and 20% for foreign EU citizens (i.e. EU citizens residing in another EU country).
Among EU Member States, the overcrowding rate recorded for non-EU citizens was the highest in Bulgaria (60%), Croatia (59%), Poland (56 %), Greece (55%) and Italy (54%). The lowest rates were observed in Malta (8%) and Cyprus (5%).
For foreign EU citizens, the overcrowding rate was highest in Greece and Italy (both 45%). In Malta there was not a significant number of foreign EU citizens living in overcrowded households in 2018.
The highest overcrowding rates for nationals were recorded in Romania (47%), Bulgaria (44%), Latvia (42%) and Croatia (41%), while the lowest were in Cyprus (2%) and Ireland (1%).
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2019 in brief
Frontex, January 17, 2020
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https://frontex.europa.eu/assets/Publications/General/frontex_inbrief_website_002.pdf
Summary: 2019 was an important year for Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. It was significant because for the first time we launched a large operation outside the European Union, in Albania. It was a leap towards becoming an essential player in keeping Europe’s citizens safe by securing our borders, even beyond the EU. It was also a transitional year as we began to prepare the ground for the creation of the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps that will also consist of the first European uniformed service.
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Opinion analysis: Justices block cross-border shooting lawsuit
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSblog, February 25, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/02/opinion-analysis-justices-block-cross-border-shooting-lawsuit/
Argument preview: What process is due in streamlined administrative procedures?
By Kari Hong
SCOTUSblog, February 24, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/02/argument-preview-what-process-is-due-in-streamlined-administrative-procedures/
Argument preview: Do federal courts have jurisdiction to review a challenge to an administrative denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture?
By Jennifer Chacon Guest
SCOTUSblog, February 24, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/02/argument-preview-do-federal-courts-have-jurisdiction-to-review-a-challenge-to-an-administrative-denial-of-relief-under-the-convention-against-torture/
Justices grant government’s stay request on “public charge” rule for Illinois
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSblog, February 21, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/02/justices-grant-governments-stay-request-on-public-charge-rule-for-illinois/
Argument preview: What does it mean to “induce” or “encourage” unlawful presence?
By Gabriel Chin
SCOTUSblog, February 19, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/02/argument-preview-what-does-it-mean-to-induce-or-encourage-unlawful-presence/
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
March 3, 2020
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https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/immigration_index/immigration_index_mar03
Excerpt: Little changed from week to week is the sizable 68% who 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. Twenty-one percent (21%) disagree, while 11% are undecided.
Also generally unchanged from past surveys is the 57% of voters who favor giving lifetime work permits to most of the approximately two million illegal residents who came to this country when they were minors, with 34% who Strongly Favor. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed, including 18% who are Strongly Opposed.
But just 44% favor giving lifetime work permits to most of the estimated 12 million illegal residents of all ages who currently reside in the United States, with 22% who Strongly Favor it. Forty-nine percent (49%) remain opposed, including 30% who are Strongly Opposed.
Legal immigration has averaged around a million annually in recent years, but 45% of voters believe the government should be adding no more than 750,000 new immigrants each year, with 32% who say it should be fewer than 500,000. Thirty-eight percent (38%) favor adding one million or more legal newcomers per year, including 11% who say the figure should be higher than 1.5 million. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Public Charge Law is Rarely Used to Deport Immigrants—Is That About to Change?
February 28, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/596/
Excerpt:
Less Than Half of All Public Charge Cases are Sustained in Immigration Court
Out of 4.7 million Immigration Court cases completed from October 1995 to January 2020, only 13,096 cited public charge statutes on the Notice to Appear (NTA) filed by DHS as a basis for the government seeking removal of the individual. Thus the usage of allegedly becoming a public charge as grounds for removal is also exceedingly rare in court proceedings. Court case-by-case records indicate that public charge grounds were cited in only 28 out of every 10,000 cases (0.28%), and were sustained in only 13 out of every 10,000 cases (0.13%). See Tables 2 and 3 at the end of this report.
When DHS does bring "public charge" charges against immigrants in court, it is usually cited along with other violations of the immigration rules. Only 10 percent of the time is it the sole charge. So reliance upon concerns that the immigrant is likely to become, or has become, a public charge as the sole reason for seeking removal are even rarer.
Finally, the records show that when the "public charge" rules are cited as the basis for seeking removal it is sustained less than half of the time (46%). When a "public charge" violation is the sole basis for seeking removal, it is sustained more often—71 percent of the time.
ICE Sends Detainers to 3,671 Law Enforcement Agencies in FY 2019
February 24, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/595/
Excerpt:
A total of 3,671 law enforcement agencies (LEAs) were sent detainers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials during fiscal year 2019. This figure is based on the latest detainer-by-detainer internal ICE records obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. ICE issues detainers asking local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to hold individuals up to 48 hours[1] in order to give ICE time to take them into custody and initiate deportation steps. ICE views detainers as a foundation of its Secure Communities program. According to its records, ICE sent detainers to LEAs in 2,158 counties in all 50 states.
Despite the large number of LEAs that received ICE detainer requests last year, the receipt of a request to turn someone the agency had taken into custody over to ICE was a relatively unusual event for most. A third (34%) of these law enforcement agencies received no more than three such requests during all of last year. About one in six (16%) received just a single detainer request.
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New from the Pew Research Center
Most of the 23 million immigrants eligible to vote in 2020 election live in just five states
By Luis Noe-Bustamante and Abby Budiman
Fact Tank, March 3, 2020
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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/03/most-of-the-23-million-immigrants-eligible-to-vote-in-2020-election-live-in-just-five-states/
How border apprehensions, ICE arrests and deportations have changed under Trump
By John Gramlich
Fact Tank, March 2, 2020
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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/02/how-border-apprehensions-ice-arrests-and-deportations-have-changed-under-trump/
Naturalized Citizens Make Up Record One-in-Ten U.S. Eligible Voters in 2020
Since 2000, size of immigrant electorate nearly doubled to 23.2 million
By Abby Budiman, Luis Noe-Bustamante, and Mark Hugo Lopez
February 26, 2020
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https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/02/26/naturalized-citizens-make-up-record-one-in-ten-u-s-eligible-voters-in-2020/
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Human Capital as Engine of Growth - The Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth Within and Across Countries
By Isaac Ehrlich and Yun Pei
NBER Working Paper No. 26810, February 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w26810
How do U.S. Visa Policies Affect Unauthorized Immigration?
By Brian K. Kovak and Rebecca Lessem
NBER Working Paper No. 26790, February 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w26790
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
Chasing Efficiency: Can Operational Changes Fix European Asylum Systems?
By Hanne Beirens
March 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/operational-changes-european-asylum-systems
Immigrant Women and Girls in the United States
By Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source Spotlight, March 4, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrant-women-and-girls-united-states
Interlocking Set of Trump Administration Policies at the U.S.-Mexico Border Bars Virtually All from Asylum
By Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter
Migration Information Source Policy Beat, February 27, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/interlocking-set-policies-us-mexico-border-bars-virtually-all-asylum
Seasonal Worker Programs in Europe: Promising Practices and Ongoing Challenges
By Kate Hooper and Camille Le Coz
MPI Policy Brief, February 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/seasonal-worker-programs-europe
Japan’s Labor Migration Reforms: Breaking with the Past?
By Deborah J. Milly
Migration Information Source Feature, February 20, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/japan-labor-migration-reforms-breaking-past
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The No-Existence Theory and Pre-Immigration Check-the-Box Planning
By Seth J. Entin, Holland & Knight, LLP
Tax Notes Federal, Volume 166, Number 3 (2020)
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3529423
https://www.hklaw.com/-/media/files/insights/publications/2020/01/thenoexistencetheoryandpreimmigrationchecktheboxplanning.pdf?la=en
2. Constitution on ICE: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operationsk
By Bess Chiu, Independent; Lynly Egyes, Independent; Jaya Vasandani, Independent; and Peter L. Markowitz, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Yeshiva University
Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic (2009)
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3527673
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&context=faculty-articles
3. Darkside Discretion in Immigration Casesk
By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
72 Admin. L. Rev. (2020 Forthcoming)
Penn State Law Research Paper No. 03-2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3544110
https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=fac_works
4. Thoughts on Public Charge Stay Order and Nationwide Injunction
By Geoffrey A. Hoffman, University of Houston Law Center
Posted: February 27, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3528306
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/01/thoughts-on-public-charge-stay-order-and-nationwide-injunctions-by-geoffrey-a-hoffman.html
5. The Character Skills of Immigrant
By Moiz Bhai, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Pavel Dramski, New American Economy
Posted: February 26, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3388352
6. Secure Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process
By Aarti Kohli, Independent; Peter L. Markowitz, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University; Lisa Chavez, University of California, Berkeley
Warren Institute of Law and Policy, U.C. Berkeley (Oct. 2011)
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3527648
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Secure-communitieS-by-the-numberS-%3A-An-AnAlysis-of-Kohli-Markowitz/07dda485ababf63e032953ef2be8fe53490be040
7. Immigration in Emerging Countries: A Macroeconomic Perspective
By Agustín Arias, Central Bank of Chile and Juan Guerra-Salas, Central Bank of Chile
Central Bank of Chile Working Paper No. 857, 2019
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3523393
https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/chbbcchwp/857.htm
8. Publicly Charged: A Critical Examination of Immigrant Public Benefit Restrictions
By Cori Alonso-Yoder, American University Washington College of Law
Denver Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 1, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3429368
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cb79f7efd6793296c0eb738/t/5e4474f50b0355603b8d4ec3/1581544694145/Vol+97_Issue+1_Alonso-Yoder_PRINT.pdf
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. IOM Urges Restraint, Calls for a Humane Response on EU-Turkey Border
March 5, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/iom-urges-restraint-calls-for-a-humane-response-on-eu-turkey-border.html
2. ICE Uses Facial Recognition
March 4, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/ice-uses-facial-recognition.html
3. New Study on Assimilation Rates of Immigrants
March 3, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/new-study-on-assimilation-rates-of-immigrants.html
4. Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Immigration
March 2, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/where-the-democratic-presidential-candidates-stand-on-immigration.html
5. ICE Uses Cellphone Location Data
March 2, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/ice-uses-cellphone-location-data.html
6. Coronavirus News: Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus
March 2, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/coronavirus-news-proclamation-on-the-suspension-of-entry-as-immigrants-and-nonimmigrants-of-certain-.html
7. The Trump Administration Is Gagging America’s Immigration Judges
February 29, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/the-trump-administration-is-gagging-americas-immigration-judges.html
8. Second Circuit Rules for Trump Administration in Sanctuary Cities Case
February 27, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/second-circuit-rules-for-trump-administration-in-sanctuary-cities-case.html
9. Justices Seem Inclined to Find Immigration Criminal Statute to Violate the First Amendment
February 26, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/mark-joseph-stern-for-slate-recaps-the-oral-arguments-in-the-supreme-court-yesterday-inunited-states-v-sineneng-smith-h.html
10. U.S. Supreme Court argument preview: What process is due in expedited removal?
February 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/us-supreme-court-argument-preview-what-process-is-due-in-expedited-removal-.html
11. Legal migration to decline by one-third due to Trump policies
February 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/legal-migration-to-decline-by-one-third-due-to-trump-policies.html
12. Supreme Court decides cross border shooting case
February 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/breaking-news-supreme-court-decides-cross-border-shooting-case.html
13. DHS Implements Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds Final Rule
February 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/dhs-implements-inadmissibility-on-public-charge-grounds-final-rule.html
14. Legal immigration will decline by 30 percent next year due to Trump policies, report projects
February 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/legal-immigration-will-decline-by-30-percent-next-year-due-to-trump-policies-report-projects.html
15. Supreme Court argument preview: Do federal courts have jurisdiction to review a challenge to an administrative denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture?
February 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/supreme-court-argument-preview-do-federal-courts-have-jurisdiction-to-review-a-challenge-to-an-admin.html
16. Federal Court Stops DHS From Arresting US Citizens’ Foreign Spouses During Marriage Interviews
February 24, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/federaol-court-stops-dhs-from-arresting-us-citizens-foreign-spouses-during-marriage-interviews.html
17. Tit for Tat: USCIS forbids citizenship ceremonies in sanctuary cities
February 23, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/uscis-forbids-citizenship-ceremonies-in-sanctuary-cities.html
18. Massachusetts judges ask ICE to stop deporting defendants who are pending trial without advance notice
February 22, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/02/massachusetts-judges-ask-ice-to-stop-deporting-defendants-who-are-pending-trial-without-advance-noti.html
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The Impact of Administration Policies on Immigration Levels and Labor Force Growth
National Foundation for American Policy Brief, February 2020
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https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Legal-Immigration.NFAP-Policy-Brief.February-2020.pdf
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A State-by-State Look at Children of Immigrants
Urban Institute, February 2020
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https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/low-income-working-families/projects/state-by-state-look-children-immigrants?cm_ven=ExactTarget&cm_cat=LHP_Children+of+Immigrants_National+Immigration&cm_pla=All+Subscribers&cm_ite=state-level+fact+sheets&[email protected]&cm_ainfo=&EA&email&COI&Immigration&
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Economic Impact of Immigration by State
By Adam McCann
WalletHub.com, January 28, 2020
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https://wallethub.com/edu/economic-impact-of-immigration-by-state/32248/
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Change Is Hard: Managing Fear and Anxiety About Demographic Change and Immigration in Polarized Times
By Suzette Brooks Masters
Welcoming America, January 2020
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https://www.welcomingamerica.org/sites/default/files/Changeishard_FINAL.pdf
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Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?
By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson
American Economic Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2020
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https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20190079&from=f
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Michigan Compact on Immigration
February 2020
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https://www.micompact.org/compact
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Complex pattern of ancient immigration from Africa, Asia and Europe
Researchers reconstruct migration movements through ancient DNA
Science Daily, February 26, 2020
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226095426.htm
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Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
By Robert Koulish, Maartje van der Woude, Ana Aliverti, Leonidas Cheliotis, Lana De Pelecijn, Steven De Ridder, and 13 more
Fordham University Press, 416 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0823287483, $125.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823287483/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0823287491, $34.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823287491/centerforimmigra
Kindle, $33.99, ASIN: B07V6ZPVQT
Book Description: As the distinction between domestic and international is increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and external borders, migrants―particularly people of color―have become emblematic of the hybrid threat both to national security and sovereignty and to safety and order inside the state. From building walls and fences, overcrowding detention facilities, and beefing up border policing and border controls, a new narrative has arrived that has migrants assume the risk for government-sponsored degradation, misery, and death. Crimmigrant Nations examines the parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the United States and Europe to offer an unprecedented look at this issue on an international level.
Beginning with the fears and concerns of immigration that predate the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the signing and implementation of the Schengen Agreement, Crimmigrant Nations critically analyzes nationalist state policies in countries that have criminalized migrants and categorized them as threats to national security. Highlighting a pressing and perplexing problem facing the Western world in 2020 and beyond, this collection of essays illustrates not only how anti-immigrant sentiments and nationalist discourse are on the rise in various Western liberal democracies, but also how these sentiments are being translated into punitive and cruel policies and practices that contribute to a merger of crime control and migration control with devastating effects for those falling under its reach. Mapping out how these measures are taken, the rationale behind these policies, and who is subjected to exclusion as a result of these measures, Crimmigrant Nations looks beyond the level of the local or the national to the relational dynamics between different actors on different levels and among different institutions.
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Hidden Out in the Open: Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
By Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and Ana Varela-Lago
University Press of Colorado, 312 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1607327988, $73.14
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1607327988/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1646420438, $27.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1646420438/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 4145 KB, B07MJWXG53, $17.00
Book Description: Hidden Out in the Open is the first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This panoramic study covers a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era in the United States, and by similarly momentous changes in Spain following the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Alfonso XII.
The chapters in this volume are geographically wide-ranging, reflecting the transnational nature of the Spanish diaspora in the Americas, encompassing networks that connected Spain, Cuba, Latin American countries, the United States, and American-controlled territories in Hawai’i and Panama. The geographic diversity reveals the different jobs immigrants engaged in, from construction gangs in the Panama Canal to mining crews in Arizona and West Virginia. Contributors analyze the Spanish experience in the United States from a variety of perspectives, discussing rural and urban enclaves, the role of the state, and the political mobilization of migrants, using a range of methodological approaches that examine ethnicity, race, gender, and cultural practices through the lenses of sociology, history, and cultural studies.
The mention of the Spanish influence in the United States often conjures up images of conquistadores and padres of old. Forgotten in this account are the Spanish immigrants who reached American shores in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hidden Out in the Open reveals the role of the modern migration of Spaniards in this "land of immigrants" and rectifies the erasure of Spain in the American narrative. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of US history and the history of modern Spain and Europe, as well as those interested ethnic and migration/diaspora studies, Hispanic/Latino studies, and the study of working class and radicalism.
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Contemporary European Emigration: Situating Integration in New Destinations
By Brigitte Suter and Lisa Åkesson
Routledge, 176 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0367193752, $130.97
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0367193752/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1049 KB, ASIN: B084SMJZ69, $49.95
Book Description: At a time when European unity is politically challenged by the question of immigration and integration, it is easy to overlook the fact that there are significant numbers of Europeans leaving the continent. Academically, little is known about why Europeans leave the continent, how they chose their destination, and how they experience their migrant life. Drawing on the lived experiences of contemporary European emigrants from a range of different countries, this book sheds light on how global economic, political and social transformations spur new forms of migration and mobility experiences.
Contemporary European Emigration explores how Europeans experience economic, cultural or social integration, and the power relations which play out between them and their hosts. By delving through the lenses of national and racial identity, gender, age, and profession, this book provides enticing insights into how Europeans see themselves in the world.
By shifting our focus to migrants leaving Europe and observing the emerging challenges to European superiority as they play out in the microlevel of people’s everyday lives, this book provides a nuanced understanding of contemporary migration. Researchers within Migration Studies and European Studies will find this book an important addition to the literature.
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The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law
By Mariagiulia Giuffré
Hart Publishing, 408 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 150990249X, $95.64
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/150990249X/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1192 KB, ASIN: B083ZT7V9S, $90.45
Book Description: This monograph could not be more timely, as discourses relating to refugees' access to territory, rescue at sea, push-back, and push-back by proxy dominate political debate. Looking at the questions which lie at the junction of migration control and refugee law standards, it explores the extent to which readmission can hamper refugees' access to protection. Though it draws mainly on European law, notably the European Convention on Human Rights, it also examines other international frameworks, including those employed by the United Nations and instruments such as the Refugee Convention. Therefore, this book is of importance to readers of international law, refugee law, human rights and migration studies at the global level. It offers an analysis of both the legal and policy questions at play, and engages fully with widely-disputed cases concerning readmission agreements, deportation with assurances and interception at sea. By so doing, this book seeks to clarify a complex field which has at times suffered from partiality in both its terminology and substance.
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Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU From: Principles to Practice
By Justine N Stefanelli
Hart Publishing, 248 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1509930450, $75.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509930450/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 8404 KB, ASIN: B082FWMS2H, $90.00
Book Description: Immigration detention is considered by many states to be a necessary tool in the execution of immigration policy. Despite the apparently key role it plays in immigration enforcement, the law on immigration detention is often vague, especially in relation to determining the circumstances under which prolonged detention remains lawful. As a result, the courts are frequently called upon to adjudicate these matters, with scant legal tools at their disposal. Though there have been some significant judgments on the legality of detention at the constitutional level, the extent to which these judgments have had an impact at the lower end of the judiciary is unclear. Indeed, it is the lower courts which are tasked with judging the legality of detention through habeas corpus or judicial review proceedings.
This book examines the way this has occurred in the lower courts of two jurisdictions, the UK and the US, and contrasts this practice not only in those jurisdictions, but with judgments rendered by the Court of Justice of the European Union, a constitutional court at the other end of the judicial spectrum whose judgments are applied by courts and tribunals in the EU Member States. Although these three jurisdictions use similar tests to evaluate the legality of detention, case outcomes significantly differ. Many factors contribute to this divergence, but key among them is the role that fundamental rights protection plays in each jurisdiction. Through a forensic evaluation of 191 judgments, this book compares the laws on detention in the UK, US and EU, and makes recommendations to these jurisdictions for improvement.
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, No. 11, March 4, 2020
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/
Latest Articles:
Data and research to inform global policy: the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration
By Ellen Percy Kraly and Bela Hovy
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0166-y
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CSEM Newsletter
February 29, 2020
https://www.csem.org.br/
Latest articles:
Italy’s Migrant Boot Camp
We go behind the scenes at a controversial Italian boot camp for migrants.
February 28, 2020
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/italys-migrant-boot-camp/
How the Coronavirus outbreak could hit refugees and migrants
‘The healthiest and wealthiest are the ones that tend to migrate. The ones left behind are poorer and sicker.’
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/how-the-coronavirus-outbreak-could-hit-refugees-and-migrants/
“Migration is key to the development of the region", IOM director general emphasizes during first visit to the Sahel and Senegal
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/migration-is-key-to-the-development-of-the-region-iom-director-general-emphasizes-during-first-visit-to-the-sahel-and-senegal/
Three Cardinals appeal for relocation of refugees in Europe
February 21, 2020
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/three-cardinals-appeal-for-relocation-of-refugees-in-europe/
Millions of children and families in Niger struggle as humanitarian needs mount – UNICEF
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/millions-of-children-and-families-in-niger-struggle-as-humanitarian-needs-mount-unicef/
Judge finds US in contempt for deporting migrant minors
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/judge-finds-us-in-contempt-for-deporting-migrant-minors/
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Forced Migration Review
February 2020
https://www.fmreview.org/
Cities and Towns
Selected articles:
Foreword: Time for cities to take centre stage on forced migration
By Marvin Rees
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/rees
Urban planning for refugee housing: responding to urgent needs
By Jessica Sadye Wolff
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/wolff
Active citizenship in Athens
By Kareem Alkabbani, Wael Habbal. and Tom Western
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/alkabbani-habbal-western
Women refugees, leisure space and the city
By Sarah Linn
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/linn
The path of least resistance? EU cities and locally organised resettlement
By Tihomir Sabchev and Moritz Baumgärtel
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/sabchev-baumgartel
Cities as partners: the case of Kampala
By Samer Saliba and Innocent Silver
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/saliba-silver
Improving information and communication to boost inclusion and self-reliance for urban refugees
By Laura Buffoni and Gail Hopkins
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/buffoni-hopkins
Pakistan’s urban refugees: steps towards self-reliance
By Muhammad Abbas Khan
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/abbaskhan
Places of refuge and risk: lessons from San Pedro Sula
By Yolanda Zapata
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/zapata
Effective civil society engagement with governments on issues around detention
By Grant Mitchell
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/mitchell
The spirit of Cartagena? Applying the extended refugee definition to Venezuelans in Latin America
By Cécile Blouin, Isabel Berganza, and Luisa Feline Freier
https://www.fmreview.org/cities/blouin-berganza-freier
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Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
Vol, 33, No. 3, Fall 2019
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/
Articles:
The Strange and Unexpected Afterlife of Pereira v. Sessions
By Patrick J. Glen and Alanna R. Kennedy
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https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/volume-34-number-1-spring-2020/the-strange-and-unexpected-afterlife-of-pereira-v-sessions/
An Analysis of the Applications and Implications of Chevron Deference in Immigration
By Jennifer Safstrom
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https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/an-analysis-of-the-applications-and-implications-of-chevron-deference-in-immigration/
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International Migration Review
March 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mrxa/current
Latest Articles:
Immigration Policy, Immigrant Skills, and Generational Dynamics
Class Background, Reception Context, and Intergenerational Mobility: A Record Linkage and Surname Analysis of the Children of Irish Immigrants
By Dylan Shane Connor
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318806891
Migration Policy and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance
By Massimiliano Tani
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318815608
The Decline in Earnings of Childhood Immigrants in the United States
By Hugh Cassidy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318824084
Immigrant Mobility, Aspirations, and Decision-Making
Modeling American Migration Aspirations: How Capital, Race, and National Identity Shape Americans’ Ideas about Living Abroad
By Helen B. Marrow and Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318806852
Are Movers More Egalitarian than Stayers? An Intergenerational Perspective on Intra-Household Financial Decision-Making
By Şebnem Eroğlu
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318809923
The Return of Citizenship? An Empirical Assessment of Legal Integration in Times of Radical Sociolegal Transformation
By Chris Moreh, Derek McGhee, and Athina Vlachantoni
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318809924
Understanding Transnational Connections: Networks, Diasporas, Relations
Social Networks and Transnational Social Fields: A Review of Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches
By Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Ashton M. Verdery, and José Luis Molina
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318812343
Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Home Countries and Immigrants’ Well-Being: New Evidence from Down Under
By Ha Trong Nguyen and Alan S. Duncan
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318813975
Origin-Country Culture, Migration Sequencing, and Female Employment: Variations among Immigrant Women in the United States
By Qian He and Theodore P. Gerber
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318821651
Immigration Enforcement, the State, and Social Outcomes
The Complex Sources of Immigration Control
By Darshan Vigneswaran
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318823191
The Academic Performance of Undocumented Students in Higher Education in the United States
Amy Hsin and Holly E. Reed
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918318825478
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Journal on Migration and Human Security
Online first, March 3 and February 26, 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mhs/current
Latest articles:
The Use of Executive Orders and Proclamations to Create Immigration Policy: Trump in Historical Perspective
By Michele Waslin
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https://doi.org/10.1177/2331502420906404
Not for Adults Only: Toward a Child’s Lens in Migration Policies in Asia
By Maruja M. B. Asis, Alan Feranil
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https://doi.org/10.1177/2331502420907375
Reverse Migration to Mexico Led to US Undocumented Population Decline: 2010 to 2018
By Robert Warren
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https://doi.org/10.1177/2331502420906125
What’s Wrong with Temporary Protected Status and How to Fix It: Exploring a Complementary Protection Regime
By Bill Frelick
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2331502419901266
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Population, Space and Place
Vol. 26, No. 2, March 2020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15448452/current
Selected articles:
“We are all brothers here”: The making of a life by Chechen refugees in Poland
By Michal Sipos
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2276
Re‐emigration of foreign‐born residents from Sweden: 1990–2015
By Andrea Monti
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2285
The impact of parental labour migration on left‐behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania
By Alina Botezat and Friedhelm Pfeiffer
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2277
“Knowledge migrants” or “economic migrants”? Patterns of academic mobility and migration from Southern Europe to Mexico
By Cristóbal Mendoza, Barbara Staniscia, and Anna Ortiz
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2282
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