| | | | By Julian Montalvo and Jeanne Batalova The South American immigrant population in the United States has grown faster rate than the overall foreign-born population, amid crises in Venezuela, Colombia, and elsewhere. Yet South Americans still account for only about one in ten U.S. immigrants. While they mirror the overall U.S. immigrant population in several demographic characteristics, there are some notable differences, as this article details. |
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| | By Yiran Yu Hong Kong finds itself in the middle of opposing trends. Amid political unrest, Beijing's increasing security pressure, and pandemic disruptions, many Hong Kongers have left and been replaced by a new group of immigrants, largely from mainland China. The dynamic has raised questions whether Hong Kong will remain a global cosmopolitan hub or instead turn inward to Asia. This article discusses the recent trends and long-term implications. |
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| | The European Parliament’s narrow approval last week of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum is a major step forward for the European Union’s nearly decade-long effort to more equitably balance the burdens among Member States in responding to asylum seeking. The accord would tighten controls at EU borders, involve new burden-sharing through a more flexible solidarity mechanism, and increase cooperation with countries of origin and transit, among other measures. The pact—technically ten separate texts—had suffered attacks from both the left and right. Critics have accused it alternatingly of ignoring asylum seekers’ rights by fast-tracking their removal and forcing individual countries to participate in broader EU asylum goals with which they may not agree. It comes amid escalating political concerns about heightened irregular immigration. There were more than 1 million first-time asylum seekers in the European Union last year, the most since 2016 and a 20 percent increase over 2022. The pact contains a soup-to-nuts overhaul of the European Union’s handling of asylum seekers. While it does not alter the core of the Dublin system, which mandates that asylum seekers are the responsibility of the first EU country in which they set foot, it introduces a new notion of “mandatory solidarity” that will involve relocating migrants from external border countries such as Greece and Italy to other Member States. If countries refuse, as Hungary’s leaders have said they will, they will be asked to pay compensation or provide other support. Still, key questions remain, as is often the case when dealing with the 27 different Member States. “[N]o one yet knows whether, in the rearview mirror, this hard-won compromise will have been a success or failure in moving towards more resilient and rights-respecting migration and asylum systems. There are too many wildcards and variables yet ahead,” wrote colleagues Hanne Beirens and Camille Le Coz last December, when the pact was first agreed by Member States. The pact is not set to go into effect until 2026, and myriad details about implementation remain to be hammered out. In the immediate term, the biggest impacts are likely to be political, since passage is a major victory for mainstream parties ahead of European Parliament elections in June. Irregular migration is a flashpoint in the election, and many incumbents will be eager to trumpet evidence that they are acting to secure order, amid rising support for nationalist politicians across the bloc. Best regards, Julian Hattem
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| | "Faced with an aging population and fertility rates too low to meet the country’s demand for workers, South Korea has gradually implemented a number of policies in recent years to relax its strict controls on immigration." |
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"The vast majority of people living in places highly vulnerable to climate change do not migrate." |
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"Rising maritime migration has been overshadowed by events at the U.S.-Mexico border, but is presenting a formidable challenge of its own to the U.S. government, one unseen in decades." |
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| | Forced Migration in Turkey: Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding, edited by Berna Şafak Zülfikar Savcı, Ludger Pries, and M. Murat Erdoğan, provides insights on the world’s largest refugee-hosting country. Historian Ana Raquel Minian’s In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States weaves together four stories of humanitarian migrants. African Perspectives on South–South Migration, edited by Meron Zeleke and Lahra Smith, shines a spotlight on migration within Africa. Maura Sellars, Scott Imig, and Doug Imig are the authors of Supporting Young Children of Immigrants and Refugees: The Promise and Practices of Early Care and Learning, which covers an array of approaches for working with young children of immigrant and refugee backgrounds. In We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History, Ray Suarez speaks to immigrants across the United States. |
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