| | | | By Katie Kuschminder, Davide Bruscoli, Andrew Pinney, Chris Barnett, Michael Loevinsohn, and Alex Thomson East African migrants traveling irregularly can face terrible conditions in transit, including torture and even death. Many may become stranded in places such as Libya, and need assistance from an international organization or government to return to their country of origin. What happens after their return? This article analyzes the results of a major return and reintegration initiative for stranded migrants, concluding that certain types of assistance can be quite beneficial. |
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| | | By Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and other migrants have gone directly from the U.S.-Mexico border to New York, Chicago, Denver, and other interior cities, hastening what had previously been a much more gradual process. As arrivals have slowed, the situation has stabilized, and cities have managed to find a new normal. This article explains how cities coped initially and examines the longer-term challenges that remain. |
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| | | By Michael Haan, Lindsay Finlay, and Yuchen Li More than half of Canada's population could be immigrants or children of immigrants by 2041. The sustained growth of the foreign-born population has prompted a significant question with relevance in countries worldwide: What does it mean to “fit in” when there is no clear single group in which to fit? This article outlines the policy and demographic changes in Canada and explores how they complicate prior views of integration. |
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| | By Brandon Marrow and Jeanne Batalova The United States is home to about three-quarters of all Dominican migrants worldwide. Dominicans comprise one of the largest group of U.S. Caribbean immigrants, and most live in the New York City area. Although the group has grown much faster than the overall immigrant population in recent years, just 3 percent of all U.S. immigrants are from the Dominican Republic. This article offers an overview of key characteristics of this immigrant population. |
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| | | | Por Brandon Marrow y Jeanne Batalova Mientras que los inmigrantes de la República Dominicana representan solo el 3 por ciento de un total de 46.2 millones de inmigrantes en Estados Unidos, esta población esta creciendo mucho más rápido que la población total nacida en el extranjero. Este artículo proporciona información sobre la población inmigrante dominicana en Estados Unidos, centrándose en su tamaño, distribución geográfica y características socioeconómicas. |
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| | Recent riots in the United Kingdom were one of the clearest examples in recent memory of how rumors based on falsehoods about immigration can have devastating real-world consequences. What actually happened was a horrific crime, in which a UK-born teenager was charged with killing three young girls and wounding 10 more people—including eight children—at a dance class in the coastal town of Southport on July 29. But in the false understanding or telling of many rioters, the killer was an immigrant, potentially Muslim, maybe on a government watch list, perhaps an asylum seeker who arrived by crossing the English Channel last year. The fact that the falsehood was quickly debunked did little to stop its spread. Within hours, fringe far-right figures including the anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson and avowed misogynist Andrew Tate, who is facing rape and human trafficking charges, fanned the flames. More mainstream voices such as Nigel Farage—a leader of the Brexit campaign and the head of the new Reform UK Party—helped mainstream the misinformation. In subsequent days, riots broke out in more than a dozen towns and cities. Mobs attacked mosques, bystanders, and a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, injuring several police officers. Hundreds were arrested. Misinformation was particularly pronounced on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, which since its acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022 has been notably more tolerant of extremist voices, including reinstating accounts of Robinson and others previously banned for spreading hate speech. This month, in response to a post falsely blaming the riots on “mass migration and open borders,” Musk claimed that “civil war is inevitable” in the United Kingdom. In its online provenance, the UK riots share similarities with other recent anti-immigrant and nationalist outbreaks. Earlier this year, for instance, groups assaulted migrants in Portugal after months of escalating social media vitriol. Anti-immigrant protests in Ireland last year were defined in large part by use of the hashtag #IrelandIsFull. Researchers have found that anti-immigrant hate crimes in Germany from 2015 to 2017 were disproportionately higher in areas with higher Facebook usage. In recent days, UK authorities have urged the public to “think before you post,” warning that inciting violence or hatred online can be a crime. While misinformation is often difficult to trace to the source, the spread in the United Kingdom is instructive. After one user—reportedly an active campaigner against proactive climate mitigation policies and pandemic lockdowns—first posted a fake name and false information about the killer, it was picked up by accounts such as Channel3 Now (an ostensible news website that may have ties to Russia, although its origins are not clear), far-right influencers, and social platforms’ algorithms themselves. At one point, the fake identity had become a Trending Topic on X. Indeed, riot participants seem to be in the type of echo chamber that is the hallmark of social media. Only a tiny minority of Brits support the violence, but those who do falsely believe that most people agree with them. Often, misinformation and disinformation about immigration adapt to changing events, spreading a sense of public unease that taps into simmering anxieties about changing demographics and increasing diversity. The Migration Information Source examined this process in an article by Alberto-Horst Neidhardt and Paul Butcher. Importantly, the racist mobs in the United Kingdom were soon met by counter-protesters in cities across the country, many chanting “refugees are welcome here.” But as social media platforms continue to play major roles in disseminating information, misinformation-based unrest is likely to persist. Best regards, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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| | | Managing International Protection Needs at Borders
By Lucía Salgado, Susan Fratzke, Lawrence Huang, and Emma Dorst The Door Opens for a New Chapter in European Cooperation on Migration
By Camille Le Coz and Meghan Benton The End of Asylum? Evolving the Protection System to Meet 21st Century Challenges
By Susan Fratzke, Meghan Benton, Andrew Selee, Emma Dorst, and Samuel Davidoff-Gore Engaging Employers in Growing Refugee Labor Pathways
By Emma Dorst, Kate Hooper, Meghan Benton, and Beatrice Dain Bridging the Gap between the Gig Economy and Migration Policy
By Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh and Meghan Benton |
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"Spain has in recent decades become a major immigrant destination, with the foreign born comprising a larger share of the population than in the United Kingdom, the United States, or other major destination countries." |
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"Black U.S. immigrants’ outcomes vary depending on the metro area where they reside, in a pattern somewhat similar to that of native-born Black individuals." |
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| | MPI’s “Changing Climate, Changing Migration” podcast explores how climate change is changing vacation travel. Sociologist Stephanie L Canizales draws on unauthorized migrants’ firsthand narratives in Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel, by Rachel H. Brown, explores the role of migrants in Israeli elder-care facilities. Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia examines how immigrant workers remade the physical landscape of Australia, edited by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon Actor Jassa Ahluwalia provides perspective on mixed ethnic and immigration backgrounds in Both Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed Heritage Identity. Edited by Sophie Andreetta and Lisa Marie Borrelli, Governing Migration through Paperwork: Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation seeks to provide insight on migration governance. In Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary, Gillian Whitlock introduces an archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, and other objects created by asylum seekers held in Australia’s offshore detention facility in Nauru. |
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