Immigration Reading, 4/3/20
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. DHS fact sheet on measures on the border to limit the spread of coronavirus
1. GAO reports on H-2b visas
1. U.S. Supreme Court decision in Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
4. Canada: Statistics on temporary foreign agricultural workers, 2016-18
5. E.U.: Citizenship and asylum-seeker statistics
6. Norway: Naturalization statistics
7. Sweden: Population and naturalization statistics
8. Czech Rep.: Population statistics
9. Australia: Population statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
10. SCOTUSblog report on Supreme Court decision in Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
11. Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration index
12. TRAC reports on distribution of residents with pending immigration hearings
13. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
14. Four new features from the Migration Policy Institute
15. Three new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
16. Three new papers on remittances from the Inter American Dialogue
17. Six new papers from the Social Science Research Network
18. Fifteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
19. "Challenging Credible Fear Interview and Bond Hearing Delays"
20. "Border Walls and Crime: Evidence from the Secure Fence Act"
21. "Immigrant Access to Driver’s Licenses;" legislative bulletin
22. ":Transnational death and its association with psychological distress among undocumented Mexican immigrants"
23. "The regressive power of labels of vulnerability affecting disabled asylum seekers in the UK"
24. UNHCR bulletin on halting COVID-19 and saving refugee lives
BOOKS
25. North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
26. Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration
27. Involuntary Migration And Resettlement: The Problems and Responses of Dislocated People
28. Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War
29. Stories From a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit
30. Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France
31. Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration
JOURNALS
32. Citizenship Studies
33. Comparative Migration Studies
34. CSEM Newsletter
35. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
36. Journal on Migration and Human Security
37. Regional Studies
1.
Fact Sheet: DHS Measures on the Border to Limit the Further Spread of Coronavirus
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, March 23, 2020.
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https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/23/fact-sheet-dhs-measures-border-limit-further-spread-coronavirus
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New from the General Accountability Office
H-2b Visas: Additional Steps Needed to Meet Employers' Hiring Needs and Protect U.S. Workers
GAO-20-230, April 1, 2020
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705639.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705640.pdf
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Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
Supreme Court of the United States, No. 18-776
Argued, December 9, 2019, Decided: March 23, 2020
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-776_8759.pdf
Held: Because the Provision’s phrase “questions of law” includes the application of a legal standard to undisputed or established facts, the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it had no jurisdiction to consider petitioners’ claims of due diligence for equitable tolling purposes.
(a) Nothing in the statute’s language precludes the conclusion that Congress used the term “questions of law” to refer to the application of a legal standard to settled facts. Indeed, this Court has at times referred to the question whether a given set of facts meets a particular legal standard as presenting a legal inquiry.
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Agricultural sector workers from the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, 2016, 2017 and 2018
Statistics Canada, March 24, 2020
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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/daily-quotidien/200324/dq200324b-eng.pdf
Summary: In 2018, 49,622 temporary foreign workers filled 54,734 jobs in agricultural operations.
Data on the number of temporary foreign workers employed in the agriculture sector in 2016, 2017 and 2018 are now available.
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See who acquires the citizenship of your country
Eurostat, March 30, 2020
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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/WDN-20200330-1
Summary: Are you aware which are the top nationalities to have been granted citizenship by your country? Or which are the main EU citizenships acquired?
Find out with Eurostat's interactive data visualisation on acquisition of citizenship which has now been updated with 2018 data.
Where asylum seekers come from and where they go
March 20, 2020
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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/WDN-20200320-1
Summary: Are you interested in finding out the citizenship of those seeking asylum in your country? Which EU countries receive the most asylum applications? To reply to your questions, try using our interactive visualisation, which has been updated with 2019 data.
By clicking here, you can see the top three citizenships of first-time asylum applicants in the EU Member States, the UK and EFTA countries.
It also works in reverse - you can select the applicants’ country of citizenship to see the three main EU countries in which they apply for asylum.
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Naturalisations
Statistics Norway, March 31, 2020
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https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/statsborger/aar
Summary: 13,200 naturalizations.
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Record number of Brits become Swedish citizens – three times more than a year ago
Statistics Sweden, March 19, 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-changes2/
Summary: In 2019, Sweden’s population increased by 97,404 people, 94 percent of whom had a foreign background and the remaining 6 percent had a Swedish background.
In total, 64,206 people were granted Swedish citizenship in 2019, which was slightly more than in 2018. British citizens who applied for and were granted Swedish citizenship was a group that increased significantly. In 2019, 4 495 British citizens were granted Swedish citizenship, which is three times more than in 2018. Immigration to Sweden decreased from 132 602 persons in 2018 to 115 805 in 2019. A large part of this decrease is due to a lower immigration rate among relatives to refugees.
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Population change - year 2019
Population growth was the highest over the last 11 years
Statistics Czech Republic, March 20, 2020
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https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/ari/population-change-year-2019
Summary: In 2019, the population of the Czech Republic increased by 44.1 thousand to 10.69 million. The whole increase was ensured by international migration, while the population slightly decreased by natural change. There was a moderate year-on-year decline in the number of births. Conversely, the number of marriages slightly increased.
During the year 2019, the population of the Czech Republic rose by 44.1 thousand to 10.69 million (on 31 Dec.). The population growth was the highest over the last 11 years. The whole increase was caused by positive balance of international migration (44.3 thousand); the balance of natural change was negative. The number of deaths exceeded the number of live births by 131.
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In 2019, a total of 65.6 thousand persons immigrated from abroad to the Czech Republic (by 7.4 thousand more than in a previous year). In the opposite way, the number of people emigrated from the Czech Republic was 21.3 thousand (by 1.8 thousand more year-on-year). Due to net migration, the population of the Czech Republic increased by 44.3 thousand. A higher population growth thanks to international migration was recorded in 2008 for the last time. More than 40% of net migration was formed by nationals of Ukraine (18.2 thousand); the second highest was the migration balance of Slovak nationals (4.6 thousand) and the third one belonged to Russian nationals (2.7 thousand). Statistics of international migration of Czechs recorded 2.2 thousand immigrants from abroad, and 3.8 thousand emigrants in 2019.
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Australia's population grows by 1.5 per cent
Australian Bureau of Statistics, March 19, 2020
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https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/CA1999BAEAA1A86ACA25765100098A47?OpenDocument
Summary: Australia's population grew by 1.5 per cent during the year ending 30 September 2019, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
ABS Demography Director Beidar Cho said: "The population at 30 September 2019 was 25.5 million people, following an annual increase of 371,100 people."
Natural increase accounted for 37.5 per cent of annual population growth, while net overseas migration accounted for the remaining 62.5 per cent.
There were 304,400 births and 165,300 deaths registered in Australia during the year ending 30 September 2019. Natural increase during this period was 139,100 people, a decrease of 6.6 per cent from the previous year.
There were 534,100 overseas migration arrivals and 302,000 departures during the year ending 30 September 2019, resulting in net overseas migration of 232,100 people. Net overseas migration was down 4.2 per cent compared to the previous year.
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Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
SCOTUSblog, March 23, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/guerrero-lasprilla-v-barr/
Holding: Because the phrase “questions of law” in the Immigration and Nationality Act’s Limited Review Provision, 8 U.S.C. §1252(a)(2)(D), includes the application of a legal standard to undisputed or established facts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in holding that it had no jurisdiction to consider the petitioners’ “factual” due diligence claims for equitable tolling purposes.
Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 7-2, in an opinion by Justice Breyer on March 23, 2020. Justice Thomas filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Alito joined as to all but Part II–A–1.
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
March 31, 2020
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https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/immigration_index/immigration_index_mar31
Excerpt: In the latest survey, 39% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the government is doing too little to reduce illegal border crossings and visitor overstays. Thirty-one percent (31%) say it is doing too much. Twenty-two percent (22%) rate the level of action as about right.
Little changed is the 68% who continue to believe the government should mandate employers to use the federal electronic E-Verify system to help ensure that they hire only legal workers for U.S. jobs. But a new low of 17% disagree, with more (15%) now undecided.
Similarly little changed from past surveys is the 58% 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 33% who Strongly Favor. Thirty-four percent (34%) are opposed, including 17% 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 20% who Strongly Favor it. Forty-nine percent (49%) remain opposed, including 30% who are Strongly Opposed. These findings also have moved little over the course of the Immigration Index’s history to date.
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Mapping Where Immigrants Reside While Waiting For Their Immigration Court Hearing
March 24, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/600/
Excerpt: Each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are home to residents with deportation cases currently pending before the Immigration Court[3]. Forty-three (43) out of fifty states have at least 1,000 deportation cases currently pending before the court. Even within states, immigrants in removal proceedings reside in more counties[4] than ever before. Altogether at least 2,733 counties have residents in removal proceedings[5]. Of these, 686 counties have 100 or more such residents and 176 have 1,000 or more.
Los Angeles County in California tops the list with the most residents waiting their hearings - 63,847. This is followed by Harris County in Texas where Houston is located with 51,687. Queens County in New York City ranks third with 37,428 residents waiting for hearings. In fourth place is Miami-Dade County in Florida with 27,921, followed in fifth place by Kings County in New York City with 22,559.
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World
By David Lagakos, Samuel Marshall, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Corey Vernot, and Michael E. Waugh
NBER Working Paper No. 26868, March 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w26868
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
Africa Deepens its Approach to Migration Governance, But Are Policies Translating to Action?
By Camille Le Coz and Antonio Pietropolli
Migration Information Source Feature, April 2, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/africa-deepens-approach-migration-governance
Crisis within a Crisis: Immigration in the United States in a Time of COVID-19
By Muzaffar Chishti and Sarah Pierce
Migration Information Source Policy Beat, March 26, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/crisis-within-crisis-immigration-time-covid-19
Immigrant Workers: Vital to the U.S. COVID-19 Response, Disproportionately Vulnerable
By Julia Gelatt
MPI Fact Sheet, March 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrant-workers-us-covid-19-response
Amid an Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis in Syria, the European Union Faces the Perils of Devolving Migration Management to Turkey
By Diana Rayes
Migration Information Source Feature, March 20, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/amid-humanitarian-crisis-syria-eu-faces-perils-devolving-migration-third-countries
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants
By Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13093, March 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13093/culture-and-gender-allocation-of-tasks-source-country-characteristics-and-the-division-of-non-market-work-among-us-immigrants
Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
By Laura Ansala, Olof Aslund, and Matti Sarvimaki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13089, March 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13089/immigration-history-entry-jobs-and-the-labor-market-integration-of-immigrants
Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
By Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, and Lucas Guichard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13083, March 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13083/rational-inattention-and-migration-decisions
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New from the Inter American Dialogue
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019: Emerging Challenges
By Manuel Orozco
March 2020
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https://www.thedialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Remittances-to-the-LAC-2019_Emerging-Challenges-1.pdf
The Remittance Marketplace in 2019: The Growing Role of Digital Payments
March 2020
By Manuel Orozco, Kathryn Klaas, and Nicole Ledesma
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https://www.thedialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Remittance-Marketplace-in-2019_Growing-role-of-digital-payments-3.pdf
Migrants and the Impact of COVID-19 on Remittances
By Manuel Orozco
March 20, 2020
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https://www.thedialogue.org/analysis/migrants-and-impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-remittances/
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Immigration Control and Management System Using Blockchain
By Abhay Goel, Abhishek Sharma, Deepak Gupta, and Ashish Khanna
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (all)
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3564189
2. The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugee, and Citizens in an Anxious Age
By Hiroshi Motomura, University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
105 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2020)
UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-06
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3564476
3. The Effects of Pre-K on Later Grade Enrollments: Is Pre-K a Welfare Magnet?
By Richard DiSalvo, Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Tarsha Vasu, University of Rochester
Posted: April 1, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3550287
4. The Absent Rewards of Assimilation: How Ethnic Penalties Persist in the Swiss Labour Market
By Daniel Auer, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Flavia Fossati, University of Lausanne
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273343
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328508161_The_absent_rewards_of_assimilation_how_ethnic_penalties_persist_in_the_Swiss_labour_market
5. The Political Economy of Populism
By Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Elias Papaioannou, London Business School
Posted: March 19, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3542052
https://cepr.org/content/two-free-dp-downloads-27-february-2020-rising-protectionism-and-global-value-chains-and
6. Racial Profiling: Past, Present, and Future?
David A. Harris, University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
Criminal Justice, Vol. 34, p. 10, Winter 2020
U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-08
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3543744
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/criminal_justice/publications/criminal-justice-magazine/2020/winter/racial-profiling-past-present-and-future/
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. New Yorker: The Doubled Fears of the Undocumented During the Coronavirus Shutdown
By Charles Bethea
April 2, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/new-yorker-the-doubled-fears-of-the-undocumented-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-by-charles-bethea.html
2. Proposition 187 and Its Political Aftermath: Lessons for U.S. Immigration Politics After Trump
April 1, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/proposition-187-and-its-political-aftermath-lessons-for-us-immigration-politics-after-trump.html
3. Immigration groups sue Trump administration for keeping courts open during pandemic
March 31, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/immigration-groups-sue-trump-administration-for-keeping-courts-open-during-pandemic.html
4. Trump Administration Is Deporting Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids Due To The Coronavirus
March 31, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/trump-administration-is-deporting-unaccompanied-immigrant-kids-due-to-the-coronavirus.html
5. Cornavirus, DACAamented Health Care Workers, and the Supreme Court
March 30, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/trump-administration-is-deporting-unaccompanied-immigrant-kids-due-to-the-coronavirus.html
6. Central America fears Trump could deport the coronavirus
March 30, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/central-america-fears-trump-could-deport-the-coronavirus.html
7. 'Like sitting ducks': Amid coronavirus, families, attorneys sound alarm over ICE detainees
March 29, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/like-sitting-ducks-amid-coronavirus-families-attorneys-sound-alarm-over-ice-detainees.html
8. Immigrant Workers: Vital to the U.S. COVID-19 Response, Disproportionately Vulnerable
March 27, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/immigrant-workers-vital-to-the-us-covid-19-response-disproportionately-vulnerable.html
9. Noncitizen Taxpayers will not get a stimulus check
March 27, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/noncitizen-taxpayers-will-not-get-a-stimulus-check.html
10. REAL ID Act implementation delayed amid covid-19 response
March 26, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/real-id-act-implementation-delayed-amid-covid-19.html
11. The Supreme Court Continues Its Move Toward Ensuring Judicial Review of Removal Orders: Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
March 24, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/the-supreme-court-continues-its-move-toward-ensuring-judicial-review-of-removal-orders-.html
12. 40 years of the Refugee Act of 1980 -- The Refugee Act of 1980: A Forlorn Anniversary
March 22, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/40-years-of-the-efugee-act-of-1980-the-refugee-act-of-1980-a-forlorn-anniversary.html
13. President Trump halts most traffic on U.S. border with Mexico
March 21, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/president-trump-halts-most-traffic-on-us-border-with-mexico.html
14. CNN's 13 Changes to the Immigration System During the Coronavirus Pandemic
March 20, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/cnns-13-changes-to-the-immigration-system-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html
15. Coronavirus Is Spreading across Borders, But It Is Not a Migration Problem
March 20, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/03/coronavirus-is-spreading-across-borders-but-it-is-not-a-migration-problem.html
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Challenging Credible Fear Interview and Bond Hearing Delays
Padilla v. ICE, No. 2:18-cv-928 MJP (W.D. Wash. filed June 25, 2018)
American Immigration Council, March 2020
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https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/litigation/challenging-credible-fear-interview-and-bond-hearing-delays
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Border Walls and Crime: Evidence from the Secure Fence Act
By Ryan Abman and Hisham Foad
Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 207, March 25, 2020
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https://www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-policy/border-walls-crime-evidence-secure-fence-act
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Immigrant Access to Driver’s Licenses
National Immigration Forum, March 13, 2020
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https://immigrationforum.org/article/immigrant-access-to-drivers-licenses/
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Legislative Bulletin
By Danilo Zak
National Immigration Forum, March 27, 2020
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https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-march-13-2020/
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Miles over mind: Transnational death and its association with psychological distress among undocumented Mexican immigrants
By Luz M. Garcini, Thania Galvan, Ryan Brown, Michelle Chen, Elizabeth A. Klonoff, Khadija Ziauddin, and Christopher P. Fagundes
Death Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 2020
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07481187.2019.1573862
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The regressive power of labels of vulnerability affecting disabled asylum seekers in the UK
By Rebecca Yeo,
Disability & Society, Vol. 35, No. 4, April 2020
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2019.1639688
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Q&A: Access to health services is key to halting COVID-19 and saving refugee lives
UNHCR’s leading public health expert says prevention and inclusion must be at the heart of the response for displaced people, especially in areas with weak health services.
By Jonathan Clayton in Geneva
UNHCR, March, 27 2020
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https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/latest/2020/3/5e7dab2c4/qa-access-health-services-key-halting-covid-19-saving-refugee-lives.html
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25.
North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
By Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor Konrad
University of Arizona Press, 424 pp.
Hardcover, 0816541043, $95.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816541043/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0816539529, $33.55
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816539529/centerforimmigra
Book Description: "North American Borders in Comparative Perspective provides a balanced and comparative view of borders in the diverse and dynamic region formed by Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The authors argue that North America is "not a level playing field for trade, migration, and other forms of exchange." In addition to traditional national and regional boundaries, the borders in North America are "increasingly based on wealth, race, education, and politics." By examining North America with a comparative perspective, the authors reveal "the distinctive nature of i) the over-portrayed Mexico-US border, and ii) the largely overlooked Canada-US border.""--
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Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration
By Graciela S. Cabana and Jeffery J. Clark
University Press of Florida, 362 pp.
Hardcover, 0813036070, $49.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813036070/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0813068193, $28.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/00813068193/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 17929 KB, ASIN: B085F385V7, $26.60
Book Description: "Cabana and Clark have chosen to base their research into migration on careful study of how real people actually behave over time and space. We are well served by this rugged empiricism and by the multidisciplinary breadth of their approach."?Dean R. Snow, Pennsylvania State University
"A thorough survey of the ways in which anthropologists across the four subfields have defined and analyzed human migration."?John H. Relethford, author of Reflections of Our Past: How Human History Is Revealed in Our Genes
All too often, anthropologists study specific facets of human migration without guidance from the other subdisciplines (archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics) that can provide new insights on the topic. The equivocal results of these narrow studies often make the discussion of impact and consequences speculative.
In the last decade, however, anthropologists working independently in the four subdisciplines have developed powerful methodologies to detect and assess the scale of past migrations. Yet these advances are known only to a few specialized researchers.
Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration brings together these new methods in one volume and addresses innovative approaches to migration research that emerge from the collective effort of scholars from different intellectual backgrounds. Its contributors present a comprehensive anthropological exploration of the many topics related to human migration throughout the world, ranging from theoretical treatments to specific case studies derived primarily from the Americas prior to European contact.
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Involuntary Migration And Resettlement: The Problems and Responses of Dislocated People
By Art Hansen
Routledge, 348 pp.
Hardcover, 0367022435, $141.45
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0367022435/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0367172305, $49.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0367172305/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 4066 KB, ASIN: B085VRBBYV, $49.95
Book Description: Involuntary migration occurs when there has been, or will be, a catastrophic change in people's environment and they have little or no choice but to relocate. Causes range from natural disasters to sociopolitical upheaval (war, revolution, pogrom) and even to planned changes (dams, atomic experimentation, urban renewal). Although there are excellent studies of specific instances of forced migration, this book is the first to address the broad scope of issues and the wide variety of contexts in which migration and resettlement schemes have occurred. The authors investigate the responses of dislocated people facing dislocation and resettlement and ask specifically: What are the common stresses of dislocation and resettlement? What are the patterns of individual and group reactions and strategies as people respond to the stresses and opportunities of relocation? What significant similarities and differences exist among situations of involuntary migration and how do these pressures relate to those faced by people who move voluntarily?
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Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War
By Uzma Quraishi
University of North Carolina Press, 336 pp.
Hardcover, 1469655187, $90.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1469655187/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1469655195, $29.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1469655195/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 10622 KB, B07XVJSGVZ, $22.99
Book Description: In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with the recently partitioned states of India and Pakistan. U.S. operations in these two countries became the second- and fourth-largest in the world, creating migration links that resulted in the emergence of American universities, such as the University of Houston, as immigration hubs for the highly selective, student-led South Asian migration stream starting in the 1950s. By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country.
Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century, arguing that South Asian immigrants appealed to class conformity and endorsed the model minority myth to navigate the complexities of a shifting Sunbelt South. By examining Indian and Pakistani immigration to a major city transitioning out of Jim Crow, Quraishi reframes our understanding of twentieth-century migration, the changing character of the South, and the tangled politics of race, class, and ethnicity in the United States.
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Stories From a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit
By Ben Rogaly
Manchester University Press, 224 pp.
Hardcover, 1526131749, $120.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526131749/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1526131730, 232 pp., $30.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526131730/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 743 KB, ASIN: B0869PWSSF, $28.50
Book Description: Nationalists and nativists often blame the figure of the immigrant ‘other’ for society’s ills, contrasting this with the ‘local’ or ‘native’ whose livelihood and way of life are seen as under threat from immigration. Being at ease with difference is seen as the worldview of a cosmopolitan elite. Stories from a migrant city argues for an urgent transformation of how such terms are understood and deployed. Drawing on eight years of research in an English provincial city and a biographical approach to oral history, this book challenges the ways in which people have come to be seen as ‘migrants’ or ‘locals’ and understood to have opposing interests. Non-elite cosmopolitanism is shown to be alive and well, in spite of racism, the legacies of empire and the devastating effects of four decades of neoliberalism.
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Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France
By Stéphanie Larchanche
Rutgers University Press, 240 pp.
Hardcover, 081359538X, $120.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081359538X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0813595371, $34.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813595371/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2875 KB, ASIN: B085VRBBYV, $33.20
Book Description: Cultural Anxieties is a gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants. In particular, she documents how restrictive immigration policies, limited resources, and social anxieties about the “other” combine to constrain the work of state social and health service providers who refer migrants to the clinic and who tend to frame "migrant suffering" as a problem of integration that requires cultural expertise to address. In this context, Larchanché describes how staff members at Minkowska struggle to promote cultural competence, which offers a culturally and linguistically sensitive approach to care while simultaneously addressing the broader structural factors that impact migrants’ mental health. Ultimately, Larchanché identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices and promoting hospitality—including professional training, action research, and advocacy.
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Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration
By Donatella Di Cesare
Polity, 260 pp.
Hardcover, 1509533540, $75.64
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509533540/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1509533559, $25.60
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1509533559/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 567 KB, B07XVJSGVZ, $26.95
Book Description: From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Yet at the same time, calls to defend national sovereignty are becoming ever more vitriolic, with those fleeing war, persecution, and famine vilified as a threat to our security as well as our social and economic order.
In this book, written amidst the dark resurgence of appeals to defend ‘blood and soil’, Donatella Di Cesare challenges the idea of the exclusionary state, arguing that migration is a fundamental human right. She develops an original philosophy of migration that places the migrants themselves, rather than states and their borders, at the centre. Through an analysis of three historic cities, Athens, Rome and Jerusalem, Di Cesare shows how we should conceive of migrants not as an other but rather as resident foreigners. This means recognising that citizenship cannot be based on any supposed connection to the land or an exclusive claim to ownership that would deny the rights of those who arrive as migrants. Instead, citizenship must be disconnected from the possession of territory altogether and founded on the principle of cohabitation – and on the ultimate reality that we are all temporary guests and tenants of the earth.
Di Cesare’s argument for a new ethics of hospitality will be of great interest to all those concerned with the challenges posed by migration and with the increasingly hostile attitudes towards migrants, as well as students and scholars of philosophy and political theory.
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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 24, No. 3, April 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/24/3
Articles:
Introduction: expulsion and citizenship in the 21st century
By Rutger Birnie and Rainer Bauböck
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1733260
Banishment and the pre-history of legitimate expulsion power
By Matthew J. Gibney
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2019.1700044
The power to expel vs. the rights of migrants: expulsion and freedom of movement in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960s—1970s
By Jannis Panagiotidis
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1714876
Beyond the deportation regime: differential state interests and capacities in dealing with (non-) deportability in Europe
By Arjen Leerkes and Marieke Van Houte
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1718349
When losing citizenship is fine: denationalisation and permanent expatriation
By Jules Lepoutre
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1733259
Just what’s wrong with losing citizenship? Examining revocation of citizenship from a non-domination perspective?
By Iseult Honohan
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2019.1700045
Citizenship, domicile and deportability: who should be exempt from the state’s power to expel?
By Rutger Birnie
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1722412
A free movement paradox: denationalisation and deportation in mobile societies?
By Rainer Bauböck
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1733256
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, No 13, March 23, 2020
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/
Latest Articles:
After the refugee crisis: public discourse and policy change in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
By Anniken Hagelund
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https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0169-8
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CSEM Newsletter
March 27, 2020
https://www.csem.org.br/
Latest Articles:
Migration and migrant integration: Enabling knowledge-based approaches to migration policy
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/migration-and-migrant-integration-enabling-knowledge-based-approaches-to-migration-policy/
Migration is helping Africa in many ways
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/migration-is-helping-africa-in-many-ways/
Coronavirus could hit immigrant detainees hard in places that are already ‘a petri dish’
March 22, 2020
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/coronavirus-could-hit-immigrant-detainees-hard-in-places-that-are-already-a-petri-dish/
10 things you should know about coronavirus and refugees
March 22, 2020
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/10-things-you-should-know-about-coronavirus-and-refugees/
Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South
By Inka Stock, Aysen Ustubici, and Susanne U. Schultz
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https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0161-3
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 46, No. 6, March 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/46/6
Special Issue: Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Practices, Narratives of Belonging and the Role of the State
Articles:
Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential
By Félix Krawatzek and Lea Müller-Funk
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554282
Relief and revolution: Russian émigrés’ political remittances and the building of political transnationalism
By Lynne Ann Hartnett
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554290
Political remittances and the diffusion of a rights-based approach to migration governance: the case of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)
By Nicola Piper and Stefan Rother
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554291
Language, locality, and transnational belonging: remitting the everyday practice of cultural integration
By Félix Krawatzek and Gwendolyn Sasse
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554295
‘We’re coming!’ Danish American identity, fraternity, and political remittances in the era of World War II
By Iain Anderson
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554297
Fluid identities, diaspora youth activists and the (Post-)Arab Spring: how narratives of belonging can change over time
By Lea Müller-Funk
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554300
The paradox of diaspora engagement: a historical analysis of Japanese state-diaspora relations
By Ayumi Takenaka
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554301
Direct and indirect political remittances of the transnational engagement of Hungarian kin-minorities and diaspora communities
By Eszter Kovács
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554315
Imams for the diaspora: the Turkish state’s International Theology Programme
By Benjamin Bruce
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554316
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Vol. 46, No. 5, February 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/46/5
Selected articles:
The working mother-in-law effect on the labour force participation of first and second-generation immigrant women in the UK
By Albert F. Arcarons
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1539268
Expectations for family transitions in young adulthood among the UK second generation
By Ann Berrington
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1539276
The puzzle of high political partisanship among ethnic minority young people in Great Britain
By Nicole Martin and Jonathan Mellon
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1539285
The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations
By Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1539286
Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England
By Renee Luthra, Alita Nandi, and Michaela Benzeval
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1539287
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Journal on Migration and Human Security
Online first, April 1, 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mhs/current
Latest articles:
Immigration Detention, Inc.
By Denise Gilman and Luis A. Romero
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https://doi.org/10.1177/2311502418765414
Predicting Unauthorized Salvadoran Migrants’ First Migration to the United States between 1965 and 2007
By Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal and Karen A. Pren
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2311502418765414
From Right to Permission: Asylum, Mediterranean Migrations, and Europe’s War on Smuggling
By Maurizio Albahari
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2311502418767088
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Regional Studies
Vol. 54, No. 4, April 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cres20/current
Selected articles:
Segregation trends in Athens: the changing residential distribution of occupational categories during the 2000s?
By Thomas Maloutas and Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2018.1556392
Regional distribution and location choices of immigrants in Germany?
By Kerstin Tanis
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2018.1490015
Southern Europe skilled migration into Mexico: the impact of the economic crisis?
By Cristóbal Mendoza
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2018.1447101
A spatial approach to the impact of immigration on wages: evidence from Spain?
By María Gutiérrez-Portilla, José Villaverde, Adolfo Maza, and María Hierro
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2018.1424994
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