Immigration Reading, 4/30/20
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. State Department Visa Bulletin - May 2020
2. CRS reports on COVID-19 impact on travel restrictions at borders and enforcement and detention
3. GAO report on care of pregnant women in immigration detention
4. U.S. Supreme Court decision in Barton v. Barr
5. Norway: Statistics on immigrant unemployment
6. Finland: Population statistics
7. Belgium: Statistics on naturalizations
8. E.U.: Statistics on asylum seekers
9. Australia: Statistics on the foreign-born population
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
10. SCOTUSblog analysis of Barton v. Barr opinion
11. New issue brief from FAIR
12. Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration index and voter support for immigration moratorium
13. TRAC report on ICE detention facilities and the COVID-19 virus
14. Two new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
15. Two new features from the Migration Policy Institute
16. Three new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
17. Report on undocumented students in higher education
18. CATO Institute Research and policy analysis and policy brief
19. Eleven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
20. Twenty-one new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
21. KNOMAD brief: COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens
22. UNHCR - The Refugee Brief
23. "Immigrant self-employment and local unemployment in Sweden"
24. U.K.: New briefing paper from MigrationWatch
BOOKS
25. The shifting border: Legal cartographies of migration and mobility
26. How media and conflicts make migrants
27. Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation
28. Border Frictions: Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline
29. Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
30. Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire
JOURNALS
31. Anti-Trafficking Review
32. Comparative Migration Studies
33. CSEM Newsletter
34. International Migration Review
35. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
36. Journal on Migration and Human Security
37. Journal of Refugee Studies
1.
Visa Bulletin for May 2020
Vol. X, No. 41, May 2020
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https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Bulletins/visabulletin_may2020.pdf
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New from the Congressional Research Service
COVID-19: Restrictions on Travelers at U.S. Land Borders
CRS Insight, updated April 23, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/IN11308.pdf
COVID-19's Effect on Interior Immigration Enforcement and Detention
CRS In Focus, April 14, 2020
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/IN11335.pdf
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3.
New from the General Accountability Office
Immigration Detention: Care of Pregnant Women in DHS Facilities
GAO-20-330, Published: March 24, 2020, Publicly Released: April 21, 2020.
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/706272.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705468.pdf
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Barton v. Barr
Supreme Court of the United States, No. 17–1678
Argued November 4, 2019, Decided April 23, 2020
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-725_6khn.pdf
Held: For purposes of cancellation-of-removal eligibility, a §1182(a)(2) offense committed during the initial seven years of residence does not need to be one of the offenses of removal.
(a) The cancellation-of-removal statute functions like a traditional recidivist sentencing statute, making a noncitizen’s prior crimes relevant to eligibility for cancellation of removal. The statute’s text clarifies two points relevant here. First, cancellation of removal is precluded when, during the initial seven years of residence, the noncitizen “committed an offense referred to in section 1182(a)(2),” even if (as in Barton’s case) the conviction occurred after the seven years elapsed. Second, the offense must “rende[r] the alien inadmissible” as a result. For crimes involving moral turpitude, the relevant category here, §1182(a)(2) provides that a noncitizen is rendered “inadmissible” when he is convicted of or admits the offense. §1182(a)(2)(A)(i).
As a matter of statutory text and structure, the analysis here is straightforward. Barton’s aggravated assault offenses were crimes involving moral turpitude and therefore “referred to in section 1182(a)(2).” He committed the offenses during his initial seven years of residence and was later convicted of the offenses, thereby rendering him “inadmissible.” Barton was, therefore, ineligible for cancellation of removal.
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Removal of a lawful permanent resident from the United States is a wrenching process, especially in light of the consequences for family members. Removal is particularly difficult when it involves someone such as Barton who has spent most of his life in the United States. Congress made a choice, however, to authorize removal of noncitizens—even lawful permanent residents—who have committed certain serious crimes. And Congress also made a choice to categorically preclude cancellation of removal for noncitizens who have substantial criminal records. Congress may of course amend the law at any time. In the meantime, the Court is constrained to apply the law as enacted by Congress. Here, as the BIA explained in its 2006 JuradoDelgado decision, and as the Second, Third, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits have indicated, the immigration laws enacted by Congress do not allow cancellation of removal when a lawful permanent resident has amassed a criminal record of this kind.
We affirm the judgment of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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5.
Registered unemployed among immigrants
Statistics Norway, April 20, 2020
https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/innvarbl/kvartal
Summary: 5.5 % of immigrants are registered as unemployed Q1 2020
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More births in the early part of the year than in January to March last year
Statistics Finland, April 24, 2020
http://www.stat.fi/til/vamuu/2020/03/vamuu_2020_03_2020-04-24_tie_001_en.html
Summary: According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population at the end of March was 5,528,390. During January–March Finland's population increased by 3,098 persons. The reason for the population increase was migration gain from abroad: the number of immigrants was 4,763 higher than that of emigrants. The number of births was 2,337 lower than that of deaths.
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3,513 naturalisations in January
Statistics Belgium, April 28, 2020
https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/population/changes-nationality
Summary: In January 2020, 3,513 persons obtained the Belgian nationality. The main countries of origin of naturalised Belgians in January are Morocco, Romania, Italy, Afghanistan and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Almost 14,000 unaccompanied minors among asylum seekers registered in the EU in 2019
Eurostat, April 28, 2020
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10774034/3-28042020-AP-EN.pdf/03c694ba-9a9b-1a50-c9f4-29db665221a8
Summary: In 2019, 13,800 asylum seekers applying for international protection in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) were considered to be unaccompanied minors, nearly 20% fewer than in 2018 (16,800), continuing the downward trend that started after the peak year 2015 (92,000).
In 2019, at the EU level, unaccompanied minors accounted for 7% of all asylum applicants aged less than 18.
The majority of unaccompanied minors were males (85%). Two-thirds were aged 16 to 17 (9,200 persons), while those aged 14 to 15 accounted for 22% (3,100 persons) and those aged less than 14 for 11% (1,500 persons).
Two in three asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors in the EU in 2019 were the citizens of six countries: Afghanistan (30%), Syria and Pakistan (both 10%) as well as Somalia, Guinea or Iraq (5% each).
EU granted protection to almost 300,000 asylum seekers in 2019
27% of the beneficiaries were Syrians
April 27, 2020
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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10774018/3-27042020-AP-EN.pdf/b8a85589-ab49-fdef-c8c0-b06c0f3db5e6
Excerpt: The total number of asylum seekers granted protection in the EU in 2019 comprised of 141,100 grants of refugee status (48% of all positive decisions), 82,100 grants of subsidiary protection (28%) and 72,700 grants of humanitarian protection (25%).
The largest group of beneficiaries of protection status in the EU in 2019 remained Syrians (78,600 or 27% of the total number of persons granted protection status in the EU), followed by Afghans (40,000 or 14%) and Venezuelans (37,500 or 13%). The number of Venezuelans rose by nearly 40 times in 2019 compared with 2018,when almost 1,000 Venezuelans were granted protection status in the EU.
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Australia's population: over 7.5 million born overseas
Australian Bureau of Statistics, April 28, 2020
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/35A203AB6DD3CA0BCA257600002314F7
Summary: More than 7.5 million people living in Australia in 2019 were born overseas, with those born in England continuing to be the largest group, according to new data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
ABS Director of Migration Statistics Jenny Dobak said new figures showed that in 2019 just under 30 per cent of Australia's resident population were born overseas.
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Opinion analysis: Divided court upholds restrictive reading of immigration statute, limiting relief to noncitizens facing removal
By Jayesh Rathod
SCOTUSblog.com, April 24, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/opinion-analysis-divided-court-upholds-restrictive-reading-of-immigration-statute-limiting-relief-to-noncitizens-facing-removal/
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Veteran Needs vs. Illegal Alien Costs
By Spencer Raley and Casey Ryan
FAIR Issue Brief, April 2020
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https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/issue-brief-veterans-vs-illegal-alien-costs.pdf
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
April 19-23, 2020
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https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/immigration_index/crosstabs_rasmussen_reports_immigration_index_april_19_23_2020
Excerpt: On the question of illegal immigration, is the government doing too much or too little to reduce illegal border crossings and visitor overstays?
Too much:
34 percent
Too little:
36 percent
About right:
23 percent
Not sure:
7 percent
Most Favor Trump’s Halt to Immigration to Help U.S. Workers; Democrats Don’t
April 24, 2020
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/disease/most_favor_trump_s_halt_to_immigration_to_help_u_s_workers_democrats_don_t
Excerpt: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a temporary halt to most immigration because of the economic impact of the coronavirus. Thirty-one percent (31%) are opposed, while 13% are undecided.
Fifty-two percent (52%) agree with the president’s rationale for the temporary freeze: “By pausing immigration, we will help put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs. We must first take care of the American worker.” Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree.
Eighty-two percent (82%) of Republicans think American workers should come first, but most Democrats (53%) disagree. Voters not affiliated with either major party are closely divided.
But then 85% of GOP voters and 53% of unaffiliateds support the temporary halt to most immigration, a position shared by just 34% of Democrats.
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Large Numbers at Risk in ICE Detention Facilities for the COVID-19 Virus
April 21, 2020
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https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/605/
Excerpt: As of April 11, 2020 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports they were holding 32,309 individuals in custody. Almost six out of every ten of these individuals—or 18,535—had never been convicted of even a minor petty offense. ICE states that the agency "is committed to ensuring that those in our custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments." Yet with the rising death toll across this country from the COVID-19 virus, ICE's commitment is being questioned.
While testing remains very limited, ICE is reported as already identifying 124 individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 across 25 of its detention facilities. Additionally, two recent flights deporting ICE detainees to Guatemala were found to have large numbers of people who were already infected with the virus[1]. As many experts have pointed out, given the ease with which the virus can spread and the impossibility of adhering to social distance guidelines, there is little to prevent detainees housed in close proximity to one another in these facilities to avoid becoming infected should anyone—whether a newly arriving detainee or a member of the staff—become infected.
Where are ICE detainees at risk of COVID-19 currently being held? ICE has not released current specifics. Data are available, however, for facilities which ICE reports it used at some time during FY 2020. A total of 35 out of the 184 on the list were so-called "dedicated facilities," which exclusively housed ICE detainees. The others housed individuals also held for other law enforcement agencies. Most were licensed to hold detainees for lengthy periods, if required. However, 30 of the 184 were only authorized to house ICE detainees temporarily for up to 72 hours. Table 1 at the end of this report provides a detailed listing of each of the facilities which ICE reports using as of April 6, 2020 at some point during the past fiscal year along with average number of detainees ICE housed there.
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14.
New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Immigration Policy Levers for US Innovation and Startups
By Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
NBER Working Paper No. w27040, April 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w27040
Ageing-Driven Migration and Redistribution: Comparing Policy Regimes
By Assaf Razin and Alexander Horst Schwemmer
NBER Working Paper No. w26998, April 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w26998
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
Vulnerable to COVID-19 and in Frontline Jobs, Immigrants Are Mostly Shut Out of U.S. Relief
By Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter
Migration Information Source Policy Beat, April 24, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/covid19-immigrants-shut-out-federal-relief
A Proxy War on Minorities? India Crafts Citizenship and Refugee Policies through the Lens of Religion
By Neeraj Kaushal
Migration Information Source Feature, April 16, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/india-controversial-citizenship-amendment-act-register-citizens
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Immigrant Franchise and Immigration Policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era
By Costanza Biavaschi and Giovanni Facchini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13195, April 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13195/immigrant-franchise-and-immigration-policy-evidence-from-the-progressive-era
Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?
By Rama Dasi Mariani, Alessandra Pasquini, and Furio C. Rosati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13181, April 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13181/elementary-facts-about-immigration-in-italy-what-do-we-know-about-immigration-and-its-impact
Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes
By Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, and Luigi Minale
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13149, April 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13149/lift-the-ban-initial-employment-restrictions-and-refugee-labour-market-outcomes
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Undocumented Students in Higher Education: How Many Students Are in U.S. Colleges and Universities and Who Are They?
The New American Economy, April 15, 2020
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https://research.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/PAHEI_NAE_Undocumented_Students.pdf
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Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2018: Demographics and Policy Implications
By Michelangelo Landgrave and Alex Nowrasteh
CATO Institute Policy Analysis No. 890, April 21, 2020
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https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/illegal-immigrant-incarceration-rates-2010-2018-demographics-policy
Backlog for Skilled Immigrants Tops 1 Million: Over 200,000 Indians Could Die of Old Age While Awaiting Green Cards
By David J. Bier
CATO Immigration Research and Policy Brief No. 18, March 30, 2020
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https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/backlog-skilled-immigrants-tops-1-million-over
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19.
New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The Effect of the Exposure to Refugees on Crime Activity: Evidence from the Greek Islands
By Rigissa Megalokonomou, University of Queensland - School of Economics and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis, Bangor Business School; Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
Posted: April 27, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566564
2. A Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Border Openness, Human Capital and Legal Institutions in Explaining Economic Development
Olayinka Oyekola, University of Exeter INTO
Posted: April 24, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3564738
3. Corporate Crimmigration
By Brandon L. Garrett, Duke University School of Law
University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3553290
4. Global Talent and U.S. Immigration Policy
By William Kerr, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-107
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3581039
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=58059
5. Zero-Tolerance: The Trump Administration's Human Rights Violations Against Migrants on the Southern Border
By Jeffrey R. Baker, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law and Allyson McKinney Timm, Justice Revival
13 Drexel Law Review, Forthcoming
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3559908
6. Exceptional Circumstances: Immigration, Imports and Climate Change as Emergencies
By Daniel A. Farber, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Posted: April 20, 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3546613
7. Immigration, Science, and Invention. Lessons from the Quota Acts
By Petra Moser, NYU Stern Department of Economics and Shmuel San, New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics
Posted: April 15 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3558718
1. Citizenship, Personhood, and the Constitution in 2020
By Rachel F. Moran, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Harvard Law & Policy Review, 2020, On-Line Symposium on “The Future of Progressive Constitutionalism”
UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2020-35
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3577238
8. Political Hedgehogs: The Geographical Sorting of Refugees in Sweden
By Johan Wennström, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Ozge Oner, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Forthcoming
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3560348
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340183159_Political_Hedgehogs_The_Geographical_Sorting_of_Refugees_in_Sweden
9. The Legacy of State Socialism on Attitudes toward Immigration
By Martin Lange, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Posted: April 15 2020
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3560105
10. 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, and Alexander Willen
Cornell University
DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1858
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3576395
https://ideas.repec.org/p/diw/diwwpp/dp1858.html
11. Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By William Kerr, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-105
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3578086
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=58032
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. Anil Kalhan: Trump's New Immigration Ban Is Potentially More Dangerous, and More Legally Vulnerable, Than You Might Think
April 30, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/anil-kalhan-trumps-new-immigration-ban-is-potentially-more-dangerous-and-more-legally-vulnerable-tha.html
2. Court refuses to suspend Trump's immigration suspension
April 30, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/court-refuses-to-suspend-trumps-immigration-suspension.html
3. Trump Warns Sanctuary Jurisdictions May Not Get Funding to Fight Coronavirus
April 28, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/trump-warns-sanctuary-jurisdictions-may-not-get-funding-to-fight-coronavirus.html
4. Trump Warns Sanctuary Jurisdictions May Not Get Funding to Fight Coronavirus
April 28, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/trump-warns-sanctuary-jurisdictions-may-not-get-funding-to-fight-coronavirus.html
6. Poll shows support for Trump's immigration pause
April 28, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/poll-shows-support-for-trumps-immigration-pause.html
6. Immigration Article of the Day: Citizenship and the Constitution
By Gautam Bhatia
April 28, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/citizenship-and-the-constitution-13-pages-posted-17-apr-2020-gautam-bhatia-yale-university-law-school-date-written-march.html
7. As COVID-19 Slows Human Mobility, Can the Global Compact for Migration Meet the Test for a Changed Era?
April 28, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/as-covid-19-slows-human-mobility-can-the-global-compact-for-migration-meet-the-test-for-a-changed-era.html
8. Cyrus Mehta: Building the Legal Case to Challenge Trump’s Immigration Ban
April 27, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/cyrus-mehta-building-the-legal-case-to-challenge-trumps-immigration-ban-.html
9. DACA recipients unsettled to learn ICE can access their personal information
April 27, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/daca-recipients-unsettled-to-learn-ice-can-access-their-personal-information.html
10. Trump administration sued for denying stimulus checks to U.S. citizens married to immigrants
April 26, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/trump-administration-sued-for-denying-stimulus-checks-to-us-citizens-married-to-immigrants.html
11. Immigrat ion Article of the Day: Zero-Tolerance: The Trump Administration's Human Rights Violations Against Migrants on the Southern Border
By Jeffrey R. Baker and Allyson McKinney Timm
April 25, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-zero-tolerance-the-trump-administrations-human-rights-violations-agai.html
12. Immigration Article of the Day: Citizenship, Personhood, and the Constitution in 2020
By Rachel F. Moran
April 24, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-citizenship-personhood-and-the-constitution-in-2020-by-rachel-f-moran.html
13. Guest Post: Nancy Morawetz -- The Illogic and Cruelty of Barton v. Barr
April 23, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/guest-post-nancy-morawetz-the-illogic-and-cruelty-of-barton-v-barr.html
14. Good Governance Demands the End of ICE Enforcement and Detention under COVID-19
April 23, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/good-governance-demands-the-end-of-ice-enforcement-and-detention-under-covid-19.html
15. President Trump’s immigration suspension has nothing to do with coronavirus
By Carly Goodman
April 22, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/carly-goodman-president-trumps-immigration-suspension-has-nothing-to-do-with-coronavirus.html
16. ICE Has Access to DACA Recipients’ Personal Information Despite Promises Suggesting Otherwise, Internal Emails Show
April 22, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/ice-has-access-to-daca-recipients-personal-information-despite-promises-suggesting-otherwise-internal-emails-show.html
17. Denying Citizenship: Immigration Enforcement and Citizenship Rights and (2) Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983-2013
By Emily Ryo and Ian Peacock
April 22, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-articles-of-the-day-denying-citizenship-immigration-enforcement-and-citizenship-rights-a.html
18. Immigration Article of the Day: Abdication Through Enforcement
By Shalini Bhargava Ray
April 21, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-abdication-through-enforcement-by-shalini-bhargava-ray.html
19. Guest Post: Are SG Confessions of Error Now Secret?
By Nancy Morawetz
April 20, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/guest-post-are-sg-confessions-of-error-now-secret-by-nancy-morawetz.html
20. US Deporting Migrants Carrying Coronavirus to Home Countries
April 20, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/us-deporting-migrants-carrying-coronavirus-to-home-countries.html
21. Immigration Article of the Day: The Case Against Prosecuting Refugees
By Evan J. Criddle
April 18, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/immigration-article-of-the-day-the-case-against-prosecuting-refugees-by-evan-j-criddle.html
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COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens
KNOMAD Migration and Development Brief No. 32, April 2020
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https://www.knomad.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/Migration%20and%20Development%20Brief%2032_0.pdf
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The Refugee Brief
By Kristy Siegfried
UNHCR, April 24, 2020
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https://www.unhcr.org/refugeebrief/the-refugee-brief-24-april-2020/
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Immigrant self-employment and local unemployment in Sweden
By Chizheng Miao
The Manchester School, Vol. 88, No. 3, June 2020
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/manc.12315
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The Coronavirus crisis and border control
MigrationWatch Briefing Paper 473, April 22, 2020
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https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/473/the-coronavirus-crisis-and-border-control
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The shifting border: Legal cartographies of migration and mobility: Ayelet Shachar in dialogue
By Ayelet Shachar
Manchester University Press, 280 pp.
Hardcover, 1526145316, $35.94
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526145316/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2014 KB, ASIN: B0869QY54T, $34.15
Book Description: The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country’s territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This transformation upsets our assumptions about waning sovereignty, while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. At the same time, it presents a tremendous opportunity to rethink states’ responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.
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How media and conflicts make migrants
By Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, et al.
Manchester University Press, 225 pp.
Hardcover, 1526138115, $120.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526138115/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1526138131, $22.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526138131/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1255 KB, ASIN: B087JNBZJ5, 224 pp., $18.95
Book Description: Has ‘migrant’ become an unshakeable identity for some people? How does this happen and what role does the media play in classifying individuals as ‘migrants’ rather than people? This volume denaturalises the idea of the ‘migrant’, pointing instead to the array of systems and processes that force this identity on individuals, shaping their interactions with the state and with others. Drawing on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the United Kingdom and Italy, the authors examine how media representations construct global conflicts in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. How media and conflicts make migrants argues that listening to those on the sharpest end of the immigration system can provide much-needed perspective on global conflicts and inequalities. In challenging the conventional expectation for immigrants to tell sad stories about their migration journey, the book explores experiences of discrimination as well as acts of resistance. Interludes, interspersed between chapters, explore these issues through songs, jokes and images. Offering an essential account of the interplay between a climate of diversifying but distrustful media use and uncertainty about the shape of global politics, this volume argues that not only is the world itself changing rapidly, but also how people learn about the world. Understanding attitudes to migrants and other apparently ‘local’ political concerns demands a step back to consider this unstable global context of (mis)understanding.
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Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation
By Lauren Heidbrink
Stanford University Press, 240 pp.
Hardcover, 150361154X, $85.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/150361154X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1503612074, $25.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1503612074/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2806 KB, ASIN: B085TPSXGB, $25.00
Book Description: Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United States. In communities of origin in Guatemala, zones of transit in Mexico, detention centers for children in the U.S., government facilities receiving returned children in Guatemala, and communities of return, young people share how they negotiate everyday violence and discrimination, how they and their families prioritize limited resources and make difficult decisions, and how they develop and sustain relationships over time and space.
Anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink shows that Indigenous youth cast as objects of policy, not participants, are not passive recipients of securitization policies and development interventions. Instead, Indigenous youth draw from a rich social, cultural, and political repertoire of assets and tactics to navigate precarity and marginality in Guatemala, including transnational kin, social networks, and financial institutions. By attending to young people's perspectives, we learn the critical roles they play as contributors to household economies, local social practices, and global processes. The insights and experiences of young people uncover the transnational effects of securitized responses to migration management and development on individuals and families, across space, citizenship status, and generation. They likewise provide evidence to inform child protection and human rights locally and internationally.
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Border Frictions: Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline
By Karine Côté-Boucher
Routledge, 218 pp.
Hardcover, 0367136414, $155.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0367136414/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2623 KB, ASIN: B086WNY2HQ, $57.95,
Book Description: How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency.
Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of security and trade facilitation best managed with surveillance technologies. Based on interviews with border officers, ethnographic work carried out in the vicinity of land border ports of entry and policy analysis, this book illuminates features seldom reviewed by critical border scholars. These include the fraught circulation of data, the role of unions in shaping the border policy agenda, the significance of professional socialization in the making of distinct generations of security workers and evidence of the masculinization of bordering. In a time when surveillance technologies track the mobilities of goods and people and push their control beyond and inside geopolitical borderlines, Côté-Boucher unpacks how we came to accept the idea that it is vital to deploy coercive bordering tactics at the land border.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, social theory, politics, and geography and appeal to those interested in learning about the everyday reality of policing the border.
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Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
By Ilya Somin
Oxford University Press, 272 pp.
Hardcover, 0190054581, $29.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0190054581/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1845 KB, ASIN: B0876CHH3M, $9.99
Book Description: Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But, it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have little chance of making a difference, and they also face strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet," however, avoids both of these pitfalls and offers a wider range of choices. In Free to Move, Ilya Somin explains how broadening opportunities for foot voting can greatly enhance political liberty for millions of people around the world.
People can vote with their feet by making decisions about whether to immigrate, where to live within a federal system, and what to purchase or support in the private sector. These three areas are rarely considered together, but Somin explains how they have major common virtues and can be mutually reinforcing. He contends that all forms of foot voting should be expanded and shows how both domestic constitutions and international law can be structured to increase opportunities for foot voting while mitigating possible downsides.
Somin addresses a variety of common objections to expanded migration rights, including claims that the "self-determination" of natives requires giving them the power to exclude migrants, and arguments that migration is likely to have harmful side effects, such as undermining political institutions, overburdening the welfare state, increasing crime and terrorism, and spreading undesirable cultural values. While these objections are usually directed at international migration, Somin shows how a consistent commitment to such theories would also justify severe restrictions on domestic freedom of movement. That implication is an additional reason to be skeptical of these rationales for exclusion. By making a systematic case for a more open world, Free to Move challenges conventional wisdom on both the left and the right.
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Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire
By Nadine El-Enany
Manchester University Press, 296 pp.
Hardcover, 1526145421, $30.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526145421/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 542 KB, ASIN: B084Q6L7WG, 278 pp., $22.95
Book Description: (B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain’s colonial history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as a gift once given to the world. Meanwhile immigration laws are justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out. In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back what is theirs.
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Anti-Trafficking Review
No. 14, April 2020
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal
Special Issue – Technology, Anti-Trafficking, and Speculative Futures
Articles:
Freeing the Modern Slaves, One Click at a Time: Theorising human trafficking, modern slavery, and technology
By Sanja Milivojevic, Heather Moore, and Marie Segrave
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/442/351
There’s an App for That? Ethical consumption in the fight against trafficking for labour exploitation
By Stephanie A. Limoncelli
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/443/353
Addressing Exploitation in Supply Chains: Is technology a game changer for worker voice?
By Laurie Berg, Bassina Farbenblum, and Angela Kintominas
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/444/355
Witnessing in a Time of Homeland Futurities
By Annie Isabel Fukushima
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/445/357
Same Same but Different? Gender, sex work, and respectability politics in the MyRedBook and Rentboy closures
By Samantha Majic
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/446/359
'I've Never Been So Exploited': The consequences of FOSTA-SESTA in Aotearoa New Zealand
By Erin Tichenor
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/447/361
Erased: The impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the removal of Backpage on sex workers
By Danielle Blunt and Ariel Wolf
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/448/363
The Use of Digital Evidence in Human Trafficking Investigations
By Isabella Chen and Celeste Tortosa
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/449/365
Surveillance and Entanglement: How mandatory sex offender registration impacts criminalised survivors of human trafficking
By Kate Mogulescu and Leigh Goodmark
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/450/367
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, No 15, April 24, 2020
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/
Latest Article:
Barcelona: municipalist policy entrepreneurship in a centralist refugee reception system
By Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas and Dirk Gebhardt
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https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40878-020-0173-z
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CSEM Newsletter
April 24, 2020
https://www.csem.org.br/
Latest Articles:
The COVID-19 excuse? How migration policies are hardening around the globe
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/the-covid-19-excuse-how-migration-policies-are-hardening-around-the-globe/
The COVID-19 pandemic suggests the lessons learned by european asylum policymakers after the 2015 migration crisis are fading
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/the-covid-19-pandemic-suggests-the-lessons-learned-by-european-asylum-policymakers-after-the-2015-migration-crisis-are-fading/
Coronavirus exacerbates LGBTQI refugees’ isolation and trauma
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/coronavirus-exacerbates-lgbtqi-refugees-isolation-and-trauma/
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Latin American church intensifies work with migrants and refugees during coronavirus crisis
April 17, 2020
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/latin-american-church-intensifies-work-with-migrants-and-refugees-during-coronavirus-crisis/
Greece: Free Unaccompanied Migrant Children
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/greece-free-unaccompanied-migrant-children/
COVID-19: ensuring refugees and migrants are not left behind
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/covid-19-ensuring-refugees-and-migrants-are-not-left-behind/
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International Migration Review
Online first, April 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mrxa/current
Latest Articles:
The Many Forms of Multiple Migrations: Evidence from a Sequence Analysis in Switzerland, 1998 to 2008
By Jonathan Zufferey, Ilka Steiner, and Didier Ruedin
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918320914239
When Politics Trumps Economics: Contrasting High-Skilled Immigration Policymaking in Germany and Austria
By Melanie Kolbe
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918320914867
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 46, No. 9, May 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/46/9
Articles:
Migrant categorizations and European public opinion: diverging attitudes towards immigrants and refugees
By David De Coninck
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1694406
The long-term economic integration of resettled refugees in Canada: a comparison of Privately Sponsored Refugees and Government-Assisted Refugees
By Lisa Kaida, Feng Hou, and Max Stick
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1623017
Gendered context of assimilation: the female second-generation advantage among Latinos
By Nicol M. Valdez and Van C. Tran
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1569504
Understanding high-skilled intra-European migration patterns: the case of European physicians in Germany
By Regina Becker and Céline Teney
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1561249
No integration paradox among adolescents
By Floor M. van Maaren and Arnout van de Rijt
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1551126
Intra-European migration decisions and welfare systems: the missing life course link
By Petra W. de Jong and Helga A.G. de Valk
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1611421
‘We don’t worry that much about language’: street-level bureaucracy in the context of linguistic diversity
By Clara Holzinger
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1610365
Integration into liminality: women’s lives in an open centre for migrants at Europe’s Southern Antechamber
By Nina Sahraoui
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597690
Structural position and relative deprivation among recent migrants: a longitudinal take on the integration paradox
By Nella Geurts, Marcel Lubbers & Niels Spierings
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1675499
Technology driven crimmigration? Function creep and mission creep in Dutch migration control
By Tim Dekkers
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1674134
Doctors as migration brokers in the mandatory medical screenings of immigrants to the United States
By Sofya Aptekar
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1494545
More than noise? Explaining instances of minority preference in correspondence studies of recruitment
By Giuliano Bonoli and Flavia Fossati
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1502658
At the borders of languages: the role of ideologies in the integration of forced migrants in multilingual Luxembourg
By Erika Kalocsányiová
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1510307
Intergenerational transmission in religiosity in immigrant and native families: the role of transmission opportunities and perceived transmission benefits?
By Konstanze Jacob
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1515009
Better together? Multicultural dilemmas and practices in funding of Muslim civil society organisations?
By Ragna Lillevik
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1663161
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Vol. 46, No. 8, April 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/46/8
Articles:
Special Issue: Thai-Western Mobilities and Migration
Globalising Thailand through gendered ‘both-ways’ migration pathways with ‘the West’: cross-border connections between people, states, and places
By Paul Statham, Sarah Scuzzarello, Sirijit Sunanta, and Alexander Trupp
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1711567
Globalising the Thai ‘high-touch’ industry: exports of care and body work and gendered mobilities to and from Thailand
By Sirijit Sunanta
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1711568
Living the long-term consequences of Thai-Western marriage migration: the radical life-course transformations of women who partner older Westerners
By Paul Statham
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1565403
Thai wives in Europe and European husbands in Thailand: how social locations shape their migration experiences and engagement with host societies
By Manasigan Kanchanachitra and Pattraporn Chuenglertsiri
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1711569
Practising privilege. How settling in Thailand enables older Western migrants to enact privilege over local people
By Sarah Scuzzarello
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1711570
Transnational intimacy and economic precarity of western men in northeast Thailand
By Megan Lafferty and Kristen H. Maher
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1711571
Intergenerational strategies: the successes and failures of a Northern Thai family's approach to international labour migration
By Sarah Turner and Jean Michaud
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1544487
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Journal on Migration and Human Security
Online first, April 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mhs/current
Latest article:
Implementation of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration: A Whole-of-Society Approach
By J. Kevin Appleby
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2331502420907377
International Migration and Work: Charting an Ethical Approach to the Future
By Donald Kerwin
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2311502420913228
A Study and Analysis of the Treatment of Mexican Unaccompanied Minors by Customs and Border Protection
By Kiera Coulter, Samantha Sabo, Daniel Martínez, Katelyn Chisholm, Kelsey Gonzalez, Sonia Bass Zavala, Edrick Villalobos, Diego Garcia, Taylor Levy, and Jeremy Slack
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2331502420915898
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Journal of Refugee Studies
Vol. 33, No. 1, March 2020
https://academic.oup.com/jrs/issue/33/1
Special Issue: Rethinking Refugee Self-Reliance
Articles:
Old Concepts Making New History: Refugee Self-reliance, Livelihoods and the ‘Refugee Entrepreneur’
By Claudena Skran and Evan Easton-Calabria
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez061
Refugees as Actors? Critical Reflections on Global Refugee Policies on Self-reliance and Resilience
By Ulrike Krause and Hannah Schmidt
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez059
Assessing the Jordan Compact One Year On: An Opportunity or a Barrier to Better Achieving Refugees’ Right to Work
By Amanda Gray Meral
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez074
Self-reliance and Social Networks: Explaining Refugees’ Reluctance to Relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei
By Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, and Olivier Sterck
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez084
Measuring the Self-Reliance of Refugees
By Kellie Leeson, Prem B Bhandari, Anna Myers, and Dale Buscher
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez076
Fostering Refugee Self-reliance: A Case Study of an Agency's Approach in Nairobi
By Amy G. Slaughter
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez060
Towards a Refugee Livelihoods Approach: Findings from Cameroon, Jordan, Malaysia and Turkey
By Caitlin Wake and Veronique Barbelet
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez033
Warriors of Self-reliance: The Instrumentalization of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
By Evan Easton-Calabria
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez062
Self-reliance as a Concept and a Spatial Practice for Urban Refugees: Reflections from Delhi, India
By Jessica Field, Anubhav Dutt Tiwari, and Yamini Mookherjee
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez050
The Kalobeyei Settlement: A Self-reliance Model for Refugees?
By Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, and Olivier Sterck
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez063
Towards a Neo-cosmetic Humanitarianism: Refugee Self-reliance as a Social-cohesion Regime in Lebanon’s Halba
By Estella Carpi
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez083
From Refugee to Entrepreneur? Challenges to Refugee Self-reliance in Berlin, Germany
By Alexandra Embiricos
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez073
Refugee entrepreneurship and self-reliance: the UNHCR and sustainability in post-conflict Sierra Leone
By Claudena Skran
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez102
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