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** Immigration Reading, 8/8/19
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. (#1) State Department Immigrant Visas by Post
2. (#2) Joint DOJ/DHS IG report on law enforcement cooperation at the SW border
3. (#3) EOIR adjudication statistics
4. (#4) GAO reports on the need to improve CBP policies and inspections
5. (#5) Senate testimony on necessary actions to improve conditions at the SW border
6. (#6) Netherlands: Immigration statistics
7. (#7) Italy: Population statistics

REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
8. (#8) Harvard/Harris poll on voter support for presidential candidates opposed to illegal immigration
9. (#9) TRAC report on access to attorneys for asylum-seekers in Mexico
10. (#10) New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
11. (#11) Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
12. (#12) Three new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
13. (#13) Seven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
14. (#14) Nine new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
15. (#15) Three new postings on immigration cases from SCOTUS Blog
16. (#16) Blog posting: expansion of expedited removal and denial of due process
17. (#17) "Do Immigrants Import Terrorism?"
18. (#18) "Adults in Immigrant Families Report Avoiding Routine Activities Because of Immigration Concerns"
19. (#19) U.K.: Two new briefing papers from MigrationWatch
20. (#20) New report from the International Organization for Migration

BOOKS
21. (#21) A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
22. (#22) Does Immigration Increase Crime?: Migration Policy and the Creation of the Criminal Immigrant
23. (#23) Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights
24. (#24) Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World
25. (#25) Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia

JOURNALS
26. (#26) Comparative Migration Studies
27. (#27) Demography
28. (#28) Ethnic and Racial Studies
29. (#29) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
30. (#30) Population, Space and Place

Immigrant Visas by Post, June 2019
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs
July 2019
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A Joint Review of Law Enforcement Cooperation on the Southwest Border between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations
DOJ/DHS OIG Joint Report, July 31, 2019
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Executive Office for Immigration Review Adjudication Statistics
April 23, 2019

Pending Cases
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New Cases and Total Completions
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New Cases and Total Completions - Historical
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Administratively Closed Cases
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New from the General Accountability Office

Land Ports of Entry: CBP Should Update Policies and Enhance Analysis of Inspections
Government Accountability Office, GAO-19-658, August 6, 2019
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What is the U.S. Government Doing to Combat Human Trafficking?
WatchBlog, July 30, 2019
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
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Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border: What Is Required to Improve Conditions?

Member statements:
Chairman Ron Johnson, R (WI)
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Ranking Member Gary C. Peters
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Witness testimony:

Mark Morgan
Acting Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Jennifer L. Costello
Deputy Inspector General
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Immigration up in first half of 2019
Statistics Netherlands, July 31, 2019
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Summary: In the first six months of 2019, the population of the Netherlands grew more rapidly than in the same period last year. Nearly 46 thousand inhabitants were added. Mainly more people from abroad settled in the Netherlands, but the number of deaths was also smaller than in the first half of 2018. This is reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of the most recent population data.

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Resident population still decreasing
Statistics Italy, July 8, 2019
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Excerpt: Demographic decline slowed by the growth of foreign citizens Since 2015, the resident population has been decreasing, setting up a phase of demographic decline for the first time in the last 90 years. At 31 December 2018 the population amounted to 60,359,546 residents, over 124 thousand less than the previous year (-0.2%) and over 400 thousand less than four years earlier. The decline is entirely due to the Italian population, which decrease, with respect to the previous year, to 55 million 104 thousand units at December 31, 2018, 235 thousand less than the previous year (0.4%). The comparison with the same date in 2014, show a loss of Italian citizens (resident in Italy) equal to the disappearance of a city as large as Palermo (-677 thousand). It should also be considered that over the past four years, over 638 thousands new citizens have acquired citizenship. Without this contribution, the decline of Italians would have been around 1 million and 300 thousand units. In the last
four-years period, the simultaneous increase of over 241 thousand units of foreign citizens made it possible to contain the overall loss of residents. At December 31, 2018, there were 5,255,503 foreign citizens registered in the registry; compared to 2017 they increased by 111 thousand (+ 2.2%), reaching 8.7% of the total resident population.

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Monthly Harvard-Harris Poll: July 2019
August 2019
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Excerpt:
A new poll shows that a majority of black and Hispanic voters support presidential candidates who are against illegal immigration.
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Asked if they would support a candidate who was focused on “strengthening our border to reduce illegal immigrants,” 70 percent said they were likely, including 61 percent of Hispanics, 63 percent of blacks, and 69 percent of Independents.

Approximately 30 percent of Hispanics, 26 percent of blacks, and 37 percent of Independents said they were “very likely” to vote for such a candidate, with 31 percent of Hispanics, 37 percent of blacks, and 32 percent of Independents answering they were “somewhat likely” to vote for such a candidate.

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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University

Access to Attorneys Difficult for Those Required to Remain In Mexico
July 29, 2019
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research

Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration
By Santiago Pérez
NBER Working Paper No. 26127, July 2019
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New from the Migration Policy Institute

From Control to Crisis: Changing Trends and Policies Reshaping U.S.-Mexico Border Enforcement
By Randy Capps, Doris Meissner, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Jessica Bolter, and Sarah Pierce
August 2019
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Equipping Immigrant Selection Systems for a Changing World of Work (Transatlantic Council Statement)
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Meghan Benton, and Kate Hooper
July 2019
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African Countries Relax Short-Term Visa Policies for Chinese in Sign of Increased Openness to China
By Loksan Harley
Migration Information Source Feature, August 1, 2019
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data
By Benoit Dostie and Mohsen Javdani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12511, July 2019
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Immigration and Work-Related Injuries: Evidence from Italian Administrative Data
By Caterina Alacevich and Catia Nicodemo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12510, July 2019
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Immigration and the Evolution of Local Cultural Norms
By Sophia Schmitz and Felix Weinhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12509, July 2019
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New from the Social Science Research Network

1. Publicly Charged: A Critical Examination of Immigrant Public Benefit Restrictions
By Cori Alonso-Yoder, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Posted: August 5, 2019
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2. Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing Up in the United States
By Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Sociology and Roberto Gonzales, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 45, pp. 383-399, 2019
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3. Minority Rights through or against Majorities in Immigrant Welfare States
By David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law
Posted: August 2, 2019
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4. Immigrants, Labor Market Dynamics and Adjustment to Shocks in the Euro Area
By Gaetano Basso, Bank of Italy; Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti; Francesco D’Amuri, Bank of Italy; University of Essex Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER); and Giovanni Peri,
University of California, Davis Department of Economics
Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1195
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5. Searching for Humanitarian Discretion in Immigration Enforcement: Reflections on a Year as an Immigration Attorney in the Trump Era
By Nina Rabin, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Forthcoming, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-23
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6. A U.S.-Mexican Law School for Deportees: A Reply to Ami Kimpell
By Richard Delgado, University of Alabama School of Law
70 Florida L. Rev. Forum 108 (2019)
U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3426591
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7. International Student Flows from Developing Countries: Do Donors Have an Impact?
By Mauro Lanati, European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) and Rainer Thiele, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2019/49
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog

1. Increase in denials of visas to Mexicans and other countries due to public charge grounds
August 7, 2019
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2. Court Observers Bring Accountability to Immigration Court
August 7, 2019
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3. Trump Administration Sued Over Expanded Expedited Removal
August 6, 2019
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4. Restoring the Statutory Safety-Valve for Immigrant Crime Victims: Premium Processing for Interim U Visa Benefits
By Jason A. Cade and Mary Honeychurch
August 2, 2019
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5. Child Migrants and America’s Evolving Immigration Mission
By Shani King
August 1, 2019
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6. Deterrence without Protection of Asylum Seekers
By Susan Martin
July 31, 2019
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7. Immigration judges, attorneys, translators opposed to substitution of video instruction for in-person translaters
July 31, 2019
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8. Immigration Article of the Day: Financial Immigration Federalism
By Shayak Srakar
July 31, 2019
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9. Immigration Article of the Day: Do Immigrants Threaten US Public Safety?
July 29, 2019
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New from the SCOTUS Blog

Justices allow government to go ahead with funding for border wall
By Amy Howe
July 26, 2019
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Symposium: Immigration at the Roberts Court one year after Kennedy’s retirement
By John Malcolm
July 25, 2019
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Symposium: Supreme Court not ready to give president carte blanche over immigration
By Cecilia Wang
July 25, 2019
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Expansion of Expedited Removal: Why Pushing to the Limits of the Statute Unconstitutionally Deprives People of Due Process of Law
By David Isaacson
The Insightful Immigration Blog, July 24, 2019
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Do Immigrants Import Terrorism?
By Andrew C. Forrester, Benjamin Powell, Alex Nowrasteh, and Michelangelo Landgrave
CATO Institute Working Paper No. 56, July 31, 2019
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Adults in Immigrant Families Report Avoiding Routine Activities Because of Immigration Concerns
By Hamutal Bernstein, Dulce Gonzalez, Michael Karpman, and Stephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute Brief, July 24, 2019
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Evidential basis for MWUK’s ‘30 Million’ claim
MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper No. 464, August 6, 2019
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An amnesty for illegal migrants?
MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper No. 463, July 29, 2019
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New from the International Organization for Migration

Migrants and Their Vulnerability to Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Forced Labour
By Fiona David, Katharine Bryant, and Jacqueline Joudo Larsen
July 2019
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
By Jason DeParle

Viking, 400 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 067078592X, $28.00
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Book Description: When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age--the age of global migration. In a monumental book that gives new meaning to "immersion journalism," DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class. At the heart of the story is Tita's daughter, Rosalie. Beating the odds, she struggles through nursing school and works her way across the Middle East until a Texas hospital fulfills her dreams with a job offer in the States.

Migration is changing the world--reordering politics, economics, and cultures across the globe. With nearly 45 million immigrants in the United States, few issues are as polarizing. But if the politics of immigration is broken, immigration itself--tens of millions of people gathered from every corner of the globe--remains an underappreciated American success. Expertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a family saga and a global phenomenon. Restarting her life in Galveston, Rosalie brings her reluctant husband and three young children with whom she has rarely lived. They must learn to become a family, even as they learn a new country. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is a twenty-first-century classic, rendered in gripping detail.

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Does Immigration Increase Crime?: Migration Policy and the Creation of the Criminal Immigrant
By Francesco Fasani, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, et al.

Cambridge University Press, 212 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1108494552, $79.99
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Kindle, 212 pp., ASIN: B07VBNPCD8, $23.00

Book Description: Do migrants lead to an increase of crime rates in their host societies? This highly contentious issue has become a mainstay in the political debate and a lightning rod for the galvanization of populist movements, despite often lacking any empirical support. In this game-changing book, the authors examine what the existing data actually says, and provide their own novel evidence on the immigration-crime connection. Taking the unusual approach of analysing the subject from an economic perspective, the authors build on the pioneering work of Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker to construct their innovative arguments. By considering evidence from different countries, with a focus on establishing causal relationships, the authors are able to analyse not only if migrants do cause crime but also whether migration policies can play a role in shaping incentives for migrants to engage in crime. This book will appeal to students and academics across the social sciences, as well as
citizens interested in this topical issue.

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Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights
By Jonathan Darling and Harald Bauder

Manchester University Press, 256 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1526134918, $88.51
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Book Description: Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles makes the first sustained intervention into exploring how cities are challenging the primacy of the nation-state as the key guarantor of rights and entitlements. It brings together cutting-edge scholars of political geography, urban geography, citizenship studies, socio-legal studies and refugee studies to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of belonging and rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration. By offering a collection of empirical cases and conceptualisations that move beyond 'seeing like a state', Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles proposes not a singular alternative but rather a set of interlocking sites and scales of political imagination and practice. In an era when migrant rights are under attack and nationalism is on the rise, the topic of how citizenship, rights and mobility can be recast at the urban scale is more relevant than ever.

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Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World
By Todd Miller

Verso, 304 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1784785113, $88.51
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Book Description: The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those whose movements are restricted. But that is only part of the story. As journalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources, training, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield, enforcing the division between Global South and North.

The highly publicized focus on a wall between the United States and Mexico misses the bigger picture of strengthening border enforcement around the world.

Empire of Borders is a tremendous work of narrative investigative journalism that traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows, once again, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations.

In Syria, Guatemala, Kenya, Palestine, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.

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Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia
By Eve Lester

Cambridge University Press, 384 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1107173272, $43.75
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Book Description: The emergence of international human rights law and the end of the White Australia immigration policy were events of great historical moment. Yet, they were not harbingers of a new dawn in migration law. This book argues that this is because migration law in Australia is best understood as part of a longer jurisprudential tradition in which certain political-economic interests have shaped the relationship between the foreigner and the sovereign. Eve Lester explores how this relationship has been wrought by a political-economic desire to regulate race and labour; a desire that has produced the claim that there exists an absolute sovereign right to exclude or condition the entry and stay of foreigners. Lester calls this putative right a discourse of 'absolute sovereignty'. She argues that 'absolute sovereignty' talk continues to be a driver of migration lawmaking, shaping the foreigner-sovereign relation and making thinkable some of the world's harshest asylum policies.

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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 7, Nos. 31, 33; July 31, August 6, 2019
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Latest Articles:

How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda
By Veronika Fajth, Ozge Bilgili, Craig Loschmann, and Melissa Siegel
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From culture to class - legitimate boundary making in German immigration debates on Southern and Eastern Europeans
By Christian Ulbricht
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Demography
Vol. 56, No. 4, August 2019
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Selected articles:

Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
By J. David Brown, Misty L. Heggeness, Suzanne M. Dorinski, Lawrence Warren, and Moises Yi
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Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
By Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 42, No. 12, September 2019
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Selected articles:

Roots of group threat: anti-prejudice motivations and implicit bias in perceptions of immigrants as threats
By Scott Blinder and Lydia Lundgren
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Assimilation or social mobility? Explaining ethnic boundary crossing between the Ecuadorian 2001 and 2010 census
By Oliver Strijbis
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The school experiences of mixed-race white and black Caribbean children in England
By Kirstin Lewis and Feyisa Demie
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Class, race – and place: immigrants’ self-perceptions on inclusion, belonging and opportunities in Stockholm and Barcelona
By Zenia Hellgren
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Bound between care and control: Institutional contradictions and daily practices of healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation in Italy
By Roberta Perna
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Catholic heritage, ethno-racial self-identification, and prejudice against Haitians in the Dominican Republic
By Cristian L. Paredes
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 45, No. 12, September 2019
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Articles:

Seeking refuge in Europe: spaces of transit and the violence of migration management
By Leonie Ansems de Vries and Elspeth Guild
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The anti-policy of European anti-smuggling as a site of contestation in the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’
By Nina Perkowski and Vicki Squire
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Gendered mobilities and vulnerabilities: refugee journeys to and in Europe
By Eleonore Kofman
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The EC hotspot approach in Greece: creating liminal EU territory
By Anna Papoutsi, Joe Painter, Evie Papada, and Antonis Vradis
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Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily
By Alessio D’Angelo
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The ‘Great Migration’ of summer 2015: analysing the assemblage of key drivers in Turkey
By Franck Düvell
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Coping with the Libyan migration crisis
By Martin Baldwin-Edwards and Derek Lutterbeck
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Common agenda or Europe’s agenda? International protection, human rights and migration from the Horn of Africa
By Heaven Crawley and Brad K. Blitz
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Population, Space and Place
Vol. 25, No. 6, August 2019
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Selected articles:

Disjunctures of belonging and belief: Christian migrants and the bordering of identity in Singapore
By Lily Kong Orlando Woods
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Lifestyle migration from the Global South to the Global North: Individualism, social class, and freedom in a centre of “superdiversity”
By Daniel Robins
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“Kites” and “anchors”: The (im)mobility strategies of transnational Latin American families against the crisis in Spain
By Anastasia Bermudez and Laura Oso
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Forced migration in childhood and subsequent fertility: The Karelian displaced population in Finland
By Jan Saarela and Vegard Skirbekk
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