Immigration Reading, 5/14/20
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. USCIS report on U Visa demographics for FY2019
2. GAO report on employment-related identity fraud
3. U.S. Supreme Court opinion in U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith
4. Norway: Reports on persons with refugee backgrounds, reasons for immigration
5. Sweden: Statistics on circular migrants
6. Finland: Statistics on net migration in Greater Helsinki
7. Netherlands: Statistics on Caribbean Dutch population
8. Germany: Statistics on citizens living in other European countries
9. N.Z.: Statistics on international migration
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
10. UN policy brief on COVID-19 and immigration detention
11. SCOTUSblog analysis of U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith opinion
12. Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration index
13. "The Immigrant Income Gap"
14. "H-1B Visas and Prevailing Wage Levels"
15. CATO Institute report on new immigration ideas for the 21st century
16. Two new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
17. Two new features from the Migration Policy Institute
18. New discussion paper from the Institute for the Study of Labor
19. Six new papers from the Social Science Research Network
20. Fifteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
21. U.K.: New briefing paper from MigrationWatch
22. U.K.: New article from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
23. "Challenging State Narratives about Immigrant Criminality"
24. Report on U.S. immigration detention under the Trump Administration
BOOKS
25. Defend the Border and Save Lives: Solving Our Most Important Humanitarian and Security Crisis
26. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
27. The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
28. Structures of Protection?: Rethinking Refugee Shelter
29. Migrant architects of the NHS: South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)
30. Bridging Troubled Waters: Australia and Asylum Seekers
JOURNALS
31. CSEM Newsletter
32. International Migration Review
33. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
34. Migration Letters
35. Population, Space and Place
1.
U Visa Demographics
Analysis of Data Through FY 2019
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, March 2020
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https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/statistics/U_Visa_Report_-_Demographics.pdf
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New from the General Accountability Office
Employment-Related Identity Fraud: Improved Collaboration and Other Actions Would Help IRS and SSA Address Risks
GAO-20-492, May 6, 2020
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/706695.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/706694.pdf
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U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith
Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 19–67
Argued February 25, 2020, Decided May 7, 2020
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-67_n6io.pdf
Respondent Evelyn Sineneng-Smith operated an immigration consulting firm in San Jose, California. She assisted clients working without authorization in the United States to file applications for a labor certification program that once provided a path for aliens to adjust to lawful permanent resident status. Sineneng-Smith knew that her clients could not meet the long-passed statutory application-filing deadline, but she nonetheless charged each client over $6,000, netting more than $3.3 million.
Sineneng-Smith was indicted for multiple violations of 8 U.S.C. §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) and (B)(i). Those provisions make it a federal felony to “encourag[e] or induc[e] an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law,” §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), and impose an enhanced penalty if the crime is “done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain,” §1324(a)(1)(B)(i). In the District Court, she urged that the provisions did not cover her conduct, and if they did, they violated the Petition and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment as applied. The District Court rejected her arguments and she was convicted, as relevant here, on two counts under §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) and (B)(i).
Sineneng-Smith essentially repeated the same arguments on appeal to the Ninth Circuit. Again she asserted a right under the First Amendment to file administrative applications on her clients’ behalf, and she argued that the statute could not constitutionally be applied to her conduct. Instead of adjudicating the case presented by the parties, however, the court named three amici and invited them to brief and argue issues framed by the panel, including a question never raised by Sineneng-Smith: Whether the statute is overbroad under the First Amendment. In accord with the amici’s arguments, the Ninth Circuit held that §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) is unconstitutionally overbroad.
Held: The Ninth Circuit panel’s drastic departure from the principle of party presentation constituted an abuse of discretion.
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Persons with refugee background
Statistics Norway, May 13, 2020
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https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/flyktninger/aar
Summary: 4.4 % of the Norwegian population has refugee background
Immigrants by reason for immigration
May 12, 2020
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https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvgrunn/aar
Summary: 4,340 new immigrants with refuge as reason for immigration in 2019
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Number of circular migrants in Sweden has increased
Statistics Sweden, May 12, 2020
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https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/statistical-news/circular-migration-2009-20182/
Summary: On 31 December 2018, there were around 5 200 foreign born persons aged 20-64 years in the population and who had immigrated to Sweden on several occasions in the last ten years. At least two of their residencies in Sweden and at least one of the residencies abroad lasted one year or more, which leads to being defined as a circular migrant.
Just over one in three of the circular migrants were born in Asia. Among these persons, the most common countries of birth were Iraq, India and Iran. Roughly one in four persons were born in the European Union, excluding the Nordic countries, where Poland was the most common country of birth.
The number of circular migrants in Sweden has increased in the last ten years, despite a drop in the number of circular migrants born in the Nordic countries. Circular migrants born in Iraq and India account for the main part of the increase.
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Total net migration in Greater Helsinki highest in at least 50 years
Statistics Finland, May 14, 2020
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https://www.stat.fi/til/muutl/2019/muutl_2019_2020-05-14_tie_001_en.html
Summary: According to Statistics Finland, the combined total net migration of municipalities in Greater Helsinki was 13,867 persons in 2019. The number is highest in at least 50 years. Total net migration includes migration gain from elsewhere in Finland and from abroad. Foreign-language speakers accounted for 71 per cent of total net migration in Greater Helsinki.
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Caribbean Dutch population up by over 800 in 2019
Statistics Netherlands, May 12, 2020
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https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/20/caribbean-dutch-population-up-by-over-800-in-2019
Summary: On 1 January 2020, the population of the Caribbean Netherlands stood at nearly 26 thousand, i.e. 830 more than one year previously. This increase is almost entirely on account of Bonaire, as Saba’s and Statia’s population hardly grew or did not grow at all. On balance, more people settled in the Caribbean Netherlands than left the islands. Natural growth played a modest role in the population increase. This is reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of the most recent population figures for the Caribbean Netherlands.
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Roughly 1.2 million Germans lived in other European countries in 2019
Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), May 6, 2020
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https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2020/05/PE20_154_91.html
Summary: Roughly 1.2 million German citizens resided in another European country in 2019. To mark Europe Day on 9 May, the Federal Statistical Office reports that Switzerland was the most popular emigration destination. Approximately 306,000 Germans lived there in 2019 (data source: Eurostat). The number of Germans living in Switzerland has grown for years; compared with 2018, it increased by 0.5%, or roughly 1,600 people. Austria came second, with approximately 192,000 Germans residing there in 2019.
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International migration: March 2020
Statistics New Zealand, May 13, 2020
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https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/international-migration-march-2020
Summary: Since January 2020, governments have imposed international travel restrictions in multiple countries, due to the spread of COVID-19 around the world. In March 2020, the New Zealand government introduced further measures to protect New Zealanders from the COVID-19 virus, effectively limiting travel to New Zealand and travel within New Zealand. These combined restrictions have affected the number of flights to and from New Zealand.
Annual
Year ended March 2020 (compared with year ended March 2019) provisional estimates were:
migrant arrivals – 157,200 (± 1,500), up 12.7 percent
migrant departures – 85,800 (± 1,100), down 4.7 percent
annual net migration gain – 71,500 (±1,700), up from 49,600 (± 200).
For migrant arrivals in the March 2020 year, New Zealand citizens were the largest group with 42,800 (± 800) arrivals. The next largest groups were citizens of:
India – 16,500 (± 300)
China – 14,600 (± 300)
South Africa – 12,200 (± 200)
Philippines – 8,600 (± 100)
United Kingdom – 7,500 (± 200).
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10.
COVID-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholders Do?
United Nations Network on Migration, May 2020
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https://migrationnetwork.un.org/sites/default/files/docs/un_network_on_migration_wg_atd_policy_brief_covid-19_and_immigration_detention_0.pdf
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Opinion analysis: Lawyers should lawyer, judges should judge – The court remands Sineneng-Smith
By Gabriel Chin
SCOTUSblog.com, May 7, 2020
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/05/opinion-analysis-lawyers-should-lawyer-judges-should-judge-the-court-remands-sineneng-smith/
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
May 12, 2020
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https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/immigration_index/immigration_index_may12
Excerpt: In the latest survey, 37% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the government is doing too little to reduce illegal border crossings and visitor overstays. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the government is doing too much. Twenty-one percent (21%) rate the level of action as about right.
Sixty-one percent (61%) 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 that’s a new low. Twenty-three percent (23%) disagree, with 16% undecided.
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Legal immigration has averaged around a million annually in recent years, but 47% of voters believe the government should be adding no more than 750,000 new immigrants each year, with 33% who say it should be fewer than 500,000. Thirty-seven percent (37%) favor adding one million or more legal newcomers per year, including 12% who say the figure should be higher than 1.5 million. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.
When businesses say they are having trouble finding Americans to take jobs in construction, manufacturing, hospitality and other service work, 61% say it is better for the country if these businesses raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise. Just 22% disagree and say it’s better for the country if the government brings in new foreign workers to help keep business costs and prices down. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.
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Research: The Immigrant Income Gap
By Stacey Fitzsimmons, Jen Baggs, and Mary Yoko Brannen
Harvard Business Review, May 7, 2020
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https://hbr.org/2020/05/research-the-immigrant-income-gap
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H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels
A majority of H-1B employers—including major U.S. tech firms—use the program to pay migrant workers well below market wages
By Daniel Costa and Ron Hira
Economic Policy Institute, May 4, 2020
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https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/
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15.
12 New Immigration Ideas for the 21st Century
By Alex Nowrasteh, David J. Bier, Daniel Griswold, Stuart Anderson, Michael Clemens, Michelangelo Landgrave, Jack Graham, Rebekah Smith, Grover Norquist, Justin Gest, Steve Kuhn, Nathan Smith, and Robin Hanson
CATO Institute White Paper, May 13, 2020
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https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/12-new-immigration-ideas-21st-century
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16.
New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
By Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card, and Daniel Parent
NBER Working Paper No. 27096, May 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w27096
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth
By Konrad B. Burchardi, Thomas Chaney, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Lisa Tarquinio, and Stephen J. Terry
NBER Working Paper No. 27075, May 2020
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w27075
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17.
New from the Migration Policy Institute
Barriers to COVID-19 Testing and Treatment: Immigrants without Health Coverage in the United States
By Randy Capps and Julia Gelatt
Fact Sheet, May 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/covid-19-testing-treatment-immigrants-health-insurance
Under Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Europe Feels the Pinch from Slowed Intra-EU Labor Mobility
By Monica Andriescu
Migration Information Source Feature, May 1, 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/covid19-europe-feels-pinch-slowed-intra-eu-labor-mobility
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18.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Immigration and Work Schedules: Theory and Evidence
By Timothy N. Bond, Osea Giuntella, and Jakub Lonsky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13236, May 2020
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https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13236/immigration-and-work-schedules-theory-and-evidence
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19.
New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The Reform of Chinese Migration Law and the Protection of Migrants’ Rights
By Bjorn Ahl, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Cologne and Pilar Czoske, University of Cologne; Institute of East Asian Studies
East Asian Migration Governance in Comparative Perspective: Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship, Routledge, Forthcoming
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3564036
2. Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication
By Christopher J. Walker, Ohio State University (OSU)Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Duke Law Journal, Vol. 69, pp. 1687-1694, 2020
Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 538
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https://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/charting-the-new-landscape-of-administrative-adjudication-walker-vol69-iss8/
3. Zealous Administration: The Deportation Bureaucracy
Robert Knowles, University of Baltimore School of Law and Geoffrey Heeren, University of Iowa College of Law
Rutgers Law Review, Forthcoming
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
4. Broken Records: Reconceptualizing Rational Basis Review to Address “Alternative Facts” in the Legislative Process
By Joseph Benjamin Landau, Fordham University School of Law
Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 425, 2020
Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3594832
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https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/lawreview/2020/03/broken-records-reconceptualizing-rational-basis-review-to-address-alternative-facts-in-the-legislative-process/
5. Unaccompanied Minors, Statutory Interpretation, and Due Process
By Shani M. King, University of Florida Levin College of Law and Nicole Silvestri Hall, No affiliation
108 California Law Review 1 (2020)
University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper No. 20-11
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https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/973/
6. Lower Barriers to Immigrant Healthcare Workers to Help Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Daniel T. Griswold and Jack Salmon, Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Mercatus Center George Mason University
Mercatus Special Edition Policy Brief
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https://www.mercatus.org/publications/covid-19-policy-brief-series/lower-barriers-immigrant-healthcare-workers-help-combat
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20.
Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. Is Asylum Dead in the U.S.? Trump administration grants asylum in two cases in two months
May 14, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/is-asylum-dead-in-the-us-trump-administration-grants-asylum-in-two-cases-in-two-months.html
2. Trump administration moving to extend border restrictions beyond pandemic
May 14, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/trump-administration-moving-to-extend-border-restrictions-beyond-pandemic.html
3. From The Bookshelves: Human Territoriality by Roger Eberhard
May 13, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/from-the-bookshelves-human-territoriality-by-roger-eberhard.html
4. Immigrants Fear Securing Unemployment Insurance and other COVID-19 Relief
May 12, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/president-trumps-strong-language-about-immigrant-benefit-recipients-and-aggressive-enforcement-measures-has-impacts-wel.html
5. Dreamers Interrupted: The Case of the Rescission of the Program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
By Rachel F. Moran
May 12, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/immigration-article-of-the-day-n-for-childhood-arrivals-by-rachel-f-moran.html
6. Unaccompanied Minors, Statutory Interpretation, and Due Process by Shani M. King and Nicole Silvestri Hall
May 11, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/immigration-article-of-the-day-unaccompanied-minors-statutory-interpretation-and-due-process-by-shan.html
7. Inside the Trump administration's campaign to restrict immigration to the United States
May 9, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/inside-the-trump-administrations-campaign-to-restrict-immigration-to-the-united-states.html
8. Republican Senators urge President to halt all immigrant work visas
May 8, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/republican-senators-urge-president-to-halt-all-immigrant-work-visas.html
9. Universities calling for aid to DACA recipients during covid19 pandemic
May 6, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/universities-calling-for-aid-to-daca-recipients-during-covid19-pandemic.html
10. R.V. vs. Mnuchin: USC Kids of Undocumented Parents Seek CARES Act Funds
May 5, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/rv-vs-mnuchin-usc-kids-of-undocumented-parents-seek-cares-act-funds.html
11. AILA and the American Immigration Council Obtain EOIR Politicized Hiring Plan
May 4, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/aila-and-the-american-immigration-council-obtain-eoir-politicized-hiring-plan.html
12. 'It's Infuriating': Critics Say Border Wall Still Going Up When They Can't Protest
May 4, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/its-infuriating-critics-say-border-wall-still-going-up-when-they-cant-protest.html
13. H. Lee Sarokin: Americans’ Faith in Law Is at Stake in the DACA Case
May 2, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/h-lee-sarokin-americans-faith-in-law-is-at-stake-in-the-daca-case.html
14. Responding the Pandemic: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020?
May 1, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/responding-the-pandemic-the-spanish-flu-of-1918-and-covid-19-in-2020.html
15. Seventh Circuit Rejects Trump's Effort to Defund Sanctuary Cities, Affirms Nationwide Injunction
April 30, 2020
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/seventh-circuit-rejects-trumps-effort-to-defund-sanctuary-cities-affirms-nationwide-injunction.html
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Unauthorised Channel Crossings
MigrationWatch Briefing Paper 474, May 8, 2020
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https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/474/unauthorised-channel-crossings
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
Participatory research: still a one-sided research agenda?
By Derya Ozkul
Migration Letters, April 13, 2020
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https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/804
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Challenging State Narratives about Immigrant Criminality
By Austin Kocher
University of Oxford Faculty of Law, May 1, 2020
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2020/05/challenging-state
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Justice-Free Zones: U.S. Immigration Detention Under the Trump Administration
By Eunice Hyunhye Cho, ACLU National Prison Project; Tara Tidwell Cullen, National Immigrant Justice Center; and Clara Long, Human Rights Watch
April 30, 2020
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https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources/justice_free_zones_immigrant_detention.pdf
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25.
Defend the Border and Save Lives: Solving Our Most Important Humanitarian and Security Crisis
By Tom Homan
Center Street, 272 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1546085939, $24.53
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1546085939/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1752 KB, ASIN: B07V1LR763, $14.99
Book Description: Former ICE Director Tom Homan has been at the forefront of the conservative fight to secure our borders and offers proof that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.
Illegal immigration is the most controversial and emotional issue this country faces today. President Trump was elected on his promise to fix illegal immigration and build a wall on our southern border. Because he won on this issue, the Democrats refuse to work with him, and we experienced a government shutdown as a result of this divide. The Democrats have supported funding in the past and, in his State of the Union, the President said that he wants to unify and work together to resolve this and all the other challenges facing America. The Democrats sat on their hands. They won't budge. Clearly, as a party, they don't care about the facts, only about denying whatever success they can to this president.
Former ICE Director and Fox News contributor Tom Homan knows the facts. He's spent his life on the border and knows that if we don't control illegal immigration now, this country will continue to suffer the consequences of crime, drugs, and financial strain - and it will get much much worse.
In Defend the Border and Save Lives, Homan shares what illegal immigration is really about. Illegal immigration should not be a partisan issue. Now is the time to fix this issue that has claimed so many victims and divided this country. We need to pull the curtain back and expose what truly happens and separate facts from fiction. Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime, and the victims are the illegals and their innocent children as well as the Americans who suffer at the hand of the criminals who sneak into this country.
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26.
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
By Jia Lynn Yang
W.W. Norton & Company, 336 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0393635848, $26.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393635848/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1656 KB, ASIN: B07ZTSK11Q, 331 pp., $12.99
Book Description: The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia.
In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel Celler and senator Herbert Lehman to the bull-headed Nevada senator Pat McCarran, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law. Through a world war, a refugee crisis after the Holocaust, and a McCarthyist fever, a coalition of lawmakers and activists descended from Jewish, Irish, and Japanese immigrants fought to establish a new principle of equality in the American immigration system. Their crowning achievement, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, proved to be one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, opening the door to nonwhite migration at levels never seen before?and changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined.
Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the "huddled masses," as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.
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The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
By John Washington
Verso, 352 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1788734726, $26.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1788734726/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 859 KB, ASIN: B07WCKKX2Z, 353 pp., $9.99
Book Description: Arnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning—that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb exploded in my life,” Arnovis said.
The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family’s search for safety shows how the United States—in concert with other Western nations—has gutted asylum protections for the world’s most vulnerable. Crisscrossing the border and Central America, John Washington traces one man’s quest for asylum. Arnovis is separated from his daughter by US Border Patrol agents and struggles to find security after being repeatedly deported to a gang-ruled community in El Salvador, traumatic experiences relayed by Washington with vivid intensity.
Adding historical, literary, and current political context to the discussion of migration today, Washington tells the history of asylum law and practice through ages to the present day. Packed with information and reflection, The Dispossessed is more than a human portrait of those who cross borders—it is an urgent and persuasive case for sharing the country we call home.
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Structures of Protection?: Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Edited by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
Berghahn Books, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1789207126, $149.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1789207126/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B07ZFBG7JN, 316 pp., $34.47
Book Description: Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement.
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Migrant architects of the NHS: South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)
By Julian M. Simpson
Manchester University Press, 336 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1784991309, $97.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1784991309/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1526145014, $23.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1788734726/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2405 KB, ASIN: B07WGQ52RH, 368 pp., $22.75
Book Description: Migrant architects of the NHS draws on forty-five oral history interviews and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the National Health Service was made. It tells the story of migrant South Asian doctors who became general practitioners in the NHS. Imperial legacies, professional discrimination and an exodus of UK-trained doctors combined to direct these doctors towards work as GPs in some of the most deprived parts of the UK. In some areas, they made up over half of the general practitioner workforce. The NHS was structurally dependent on them and they shaped British society and medicine through their agency.
Aimed at students and academics with interests in the history of immigration, immigration studies, the history of medicine, South Asian studies and oral history. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about how Empire and migration have contributed to making Britain what it is today.
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Bridging Troubled Waters: Australia and Asylum Seekers
By Tony Ward
Australian Scholarly Publishing, 270 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1925588386, $40.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1925588386/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Australian discussion of asylum seekers is polarized between slogans of ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Bring them here.' Both sides have good arguments – and both have their blind spots. And both are ill-prepared for surprises that emerge from a careful look at the details: in how most asylum seekers reach Australia; in changing public attitudes; in what policies work, and which do more damage than good.
This book aims to bridge the troubled waters. Surveying a wide range of evidence, it presents new insights on how best to approach a major issue for Australia’s future
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CSEM Newsletter
May 8, 2020
https://www.csem.org.br/
Latest Articles:
Russia’s labour migrants are caught between poverty and a pandemic
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/russias-labour-migrants-are-caught-between-poverty-and-a-pandemic/
The pandemic’s hidden human trafficking crisis
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/the-pandemics-hidden-human-trafficking-crisis/
Before coronavirus, Europe lacked empathy for migrants. The pandemic can teach us compassion
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/before-coronavirus-europe-lacked-empathy-for-migrants-the-pandemic-can-teach-us-compassion/
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Around the world, migrants and refugees are stranded between closed borders
May 3, 2020
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/around-the-world-migrants-and-refugees-are-stranded-between-closed-borders/
What hasn’t changed: Human trafficking continues in the COVID-19 pandemic
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https://www.csem.org.br/noticias/what-hasnt-changed-human-trafficking-continues-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/
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International Migration Review
Vo. 54, No. 2, June 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mrxa/current
Latest Articles:
Understanding Immobility: Moving Beyond the Mobility Bias in Migration Studies
By Kerilyn Schewel
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319831952
Second-Generation Contextual Mobility: Neighborhood Attainment from Birth to Young Adulthood in the United States
By Van C. Tran
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319832235
Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
By Frédéric Docquier, Aysit Tansel, and Riccardo Turati
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319849011
Attitudes of Turkish and Moroccan Belgians toward Redistribution and Government Responsibility: The Role of Perceived Discrimination, Generation, and Religious Involvement
By Jolien Galle, Koen Abts, Marc Swyngedouw, and Bart Meuleman
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319830695
Migration and Lived Experiences of Racism: The Case of High-Skilled Migrants in Wroclaw, Poland
By Krzysztof Jaskulowski and Marek Pawlak
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319839947
Status Loss: The Burden of Positively Selected Immigrants
By Per Engzell and Mathieu Ichou
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319850756
Persian Pride and Prejudice: Identity Maintenance and Interest Calculations among Iranians in the United Arab Emirates
By James Worrall and Alam Saleh
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319860154
Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform
By Geoffrey P. R. Wallace and Sophia Jordán Wallace
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319833924
To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
By Artjoms Ivlevs and Roswitha M. King
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319844176
Trust, Identity, Skills, or Recruitment?: Assessing Four Explanations of the Relationship between Associational Involvement and the Political Participation of Migrants
By Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0197918319856362
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 46, No. 10, May 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/46/10
Special Issue: Diaspora governance and transnational entrepreneurship: The rise of an emerging global social pattern in migration studies
Introduction: Diaspora governance and transnational entrepreneurship: the rise of an emerging social global pattern in migration studies
By Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Shahamak Rezaei
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559990
Articles:
Exploring the intersection of transnational, ethnic, and migration entrepreneurship
By Benson Honig
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559993
They are not all the same: immigrant enterprises, transnationalism, and development
By Alejandro Portes and Brandon P. Martinez
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559995
Transnational entrepreneurs: opportunity or necessity driven? Empirical evidence from two dynamic economies from Latin America and Europe
By Johannes von Bloh, Vesna Mandakovic, Mauricio Apablaza, José Ernesto Amorós, and Rolf Sternberg
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559996
Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
By R. Zapata-Barrero and Z. Hellgren
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559997
Prometheus, the double-troubled – migrant transnational entrepreneurs and the loyalty trap
By Shahamak Rezaei and Marco Goli
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559998
The mixed embeddedness of transnational migrant entrepreneurs: Moroccans in Amsterdam and Milan
By Giacomo Solano
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559999
Exploring the relationship between immigrant enclave theory and transnational diaspora entrepreneurial opportunity formation
By Osa-Godwin Osaghae and Thomas M. Cooney
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1560001
Entrepreneurs’ transnational networks channelling exports: diasporas from Central & South America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Asia, and the European culture region
By Ye Liu, Rebecca Namatovu, Emine Esra Karadeniz, Thomas Schøtt, and Indianna D. Minto-Coy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1560002
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Migration Letters
Vol. 17, No. 3, May 2020
https://mailchi.mp/439a06d156d7/ml1703
Articles:
Editorial: Modeling Migration, Insecurity and COVID-19
By Jeffrey H. Cohen
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/986
Ignorance in a Context of Tolerance: Misperceptions about Immigrants in Canada
By Daniel Herda
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/816
Coming of Age in the Border Regime: The End of Vulnerability?
By Laura Otto
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/764
Reframing Xenophobia in South Africa as Colour-Blind: The Limits of the Afro Phobia Thesis
By Amanuel Isak Tewolde
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/789
International Remittances and Private Healthcare in Kerala, India
By Mohd Imran Khan and Valatheeswaran C.
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/778
The Visibility of an Invisible Community’s Labour Exploitation in an Ethnic Economy: A Comparative Study on Kurdish Movers in the United Kingdom
By Mehmet Rauf Kesici
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/844
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Population, Space and Place
Vol. 26, No. 4, May 2020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15448452/current
Selected articles:
Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand
By Luise Porst and Patrick Sakdapolrak
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2314
Spatial variation in fertility across Europe: Patterns and determinants
By Nicholas Campisi, Hill Kulu, Julia Mikolai, Sebastian Klusener, and Mikko Myrskyla
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2308
Financial engagement of the Indian diaspora in Germany: Remitting to India
By Carsten Butsch
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2290
Bringing city size in understanding the permanent settlement intention of rural–urban migrants in China
By Tao Liu and Jiejing Wang
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2295
From migrant student to migrant employee: Three models of the school-to-work transition of mainland Chinese in Hong Kong
By Yinni Peng
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2283
Reunifying and separating: An analysis of residential arrangements of migrant couples in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
By Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Madeleine Wayack-Pambè, Abdramane Bassiahi Soura, Yacouba Compaoré, and Souleymane Sanogo
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2287
The construction of personal geographies among Romanian older migrants in Switzerland
By Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu and Claudio Bolzman
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2284
Ageing strategically: On migration, care, and diversity in later life
By Dora Sampaio
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/psp.2317
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