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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. (#1) State Department immigrant visas by post, July 2019
2. (#2) DHS letter of intent on cooperation with El Salvador, USCIS Ombudsman's annual report to Congress
3. (#3) EOIR adjudication statistics
4. (#4) Latest issue of CBP Frontline Magazine
5. (#5) Finland: Population statistics
6. (#6) Ireland: Migration and population statistics
7. (#7) U.K.: Quarterly migration statistics
8. (#8) Belgium: Statistics on Britons naturalizing

REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
9. (#9) CATO Institute report on criminal immigrants in Texas
10. (#10) "Inclusive Approach to Immigrants Who Are Undocumented Can Help Families and States Prosper"
11. (#11) "Interior immigration enforcement policy and the subjective well-being of US residents: evidence from secure communities"
12. (#12) "Refugee Integration: Translating Local Experiences to Policy Solutions"
13. (#13) "Korean immigrant older adults residing in Non-Korean ethnic enclaves:"
14. (#14) "Politicizing immigration in Western Europe"
15. (#15) TRAC report on 'remain in Mexico' policy for asylum seekers
16. (#16) Four new features from the Migration Policy Institute
17. (#17) Three new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
18. (#18) Six new papers from the Social Science Research Network
19. (#19) Thirteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog

BOOKS
20. (#20) Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?
21. (#21) The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
22. (#22) African Americans & American Africans: Migration, History, Race and Identities
23. (#23) Immigration and Democracy
24. (#24) Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands
24. (#24) At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean

JOURNALS
26. (#26) Citizenship Studies
27. (#27) Comparative Migration Studies
28. (#28) Ethnic and Racial Studies
29. (#29) International Migration Review
30. (#30) IZA Journal of Migration
31. (#31) Refugee Survey Quarterly
32. (#32) The Social Contract

Immigrant Visas by Post, July 2019
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs
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Letter of Intent in Furtherance of Cooperation with El Salvador
Department of Homeland Security, August 29, 2019
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Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman's 2019 Annual Report to Congress
Department of Homeland Security, July 12, 2019
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Executive Office for Immigration Review Adjudication Statistics
September 3, 2019
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Frontline Magazine
Summer 2019
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Latest articles:

SAVING LOST MIGRANTS IN THE SCORCHING TEXAS HEAT
Border Patrol program looks to save illegal aliens lost in the wilderness
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Carla Provost: From Agent to Chief
By Jayna Desai
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STOPPING SMUGGLERS
How CBP's Aircraft Search Team uncovers internal conspiracies with the airlines
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Finland's preliminary population figure 5,522,848 at the end of July
Statistics Finland, August 27, 2019
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Summary: According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population was 5,522,848 at the end of July. Our country's population increased by 4,929 persons during January-July. The reason for the increase was migration gain from abroad, since immigration exceeded emigration by 10,226. The number of births was 4,948 lower than that of deaths.
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According to the preliminary statistics for July, 17,568 persons immigrated to Finland from abroad and 7,342 persons emigrated from Finland. The number of immigrants was 782 higher and the number of emigrants 2,613 lower than in the corresponding period of the previous year. In all, 5,091 of the immigrants and 4,702 of the emigrants were Finnish citizens.

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Population and Migration Estimates
Statistics Ireland, August 27, 2019
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Excerpt: The number of immigrants to the State in the year to April 2019 is estimated to have decreased by 1.9% to 88,600 from 90,300 the previous year. The number of emigrants declined over the same period to 54,900 (-2.5%) from 56,300. These combined changes have resulted in net inward migration for Ireland in 2019 of 33,700.

Irish nationals experienced a return to net outward migration, falling to -2,100 in 2019 from the positive net inflow of 100 the previous year. Net inward migration among non-Irish nationals remained strong, increasing to 35,800 in 2019 from 33,900 in 2018.

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Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: August 2019
Office for National Statistics, August 22, 2019
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More and more Britons acquire the Belgian nationality
Statistics Belgium, September 5, 2019
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Summary: In June, 3,343 people obtained the Belgian nationality. Among them, 176 Britons, bringing to 3,630 the number of Britons who have obtained Belgian nationality since the announcement of Brexit. Over the first six months of the year, 773 Britons have become Belgian, i.e. 64 % more than in the first six months of 2018.

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Criminal Immigrants in Texas in 2017: Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sex Crimes, Larceny, and Other Crimes
By Alex Nowrasteh
Immigration Research and Policy Brief No. 13, August 27, 2019
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Inclusive Approach to Immigrants Who Are Undocumented Can Help Families and States Prosper
By Erica Williams, Eric Figueroa, Wesley Tharpe
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, August 21, 2019
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Interior immigration enforcement policy and the subjective well-being of US residents: evidence from secure communities
By Christian Gunadi
Applied Economic Letters, Vol. 26, No. 18, October 2019
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Refugee Integration: Translating Local Experiences to Policy Solutions
By Elizabeth Ferris
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, June 17, 2019
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Korean immigrant older adults residing in Non-Korean ethnic enclaves: Acculturation strategies and psychosocial adaptation
By Stephanie L. Rhee
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Vol. 29, No. 7, October 2019
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Politicizing immigration in Western Europe
By Edgar Grande, Tobias Schwarzbözl, and Matthias Fatke
Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 10, October 2019
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University

Increasing Numbers "Remain in Mexico" Awaiting Immigration Court Hearings
August 26, 2019
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New from the Migration Policy Institute

The Multicultural Dilemma: Amid Rising Diversity and Unsettled Equity Issues, New Zealand Seeks to Address Its Past and Present
By Rachel Simon-Kumar
Migration Information Source Feature, September 5, 2019
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Brazilian Immigrants in the United States
By Brittany Blizzard and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source Spotlight, August 29, 2019
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Leveraging the Potential of Home Visiting Programs to Serve Immigrant and Dual Language Learner Families
By Maki Park and Caitlin Katsiaficas
MPI Policy Brief, August 2019
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A Tightening Grip Abroad: Authoritarian Regimes Target Their Emigrant and Diaspora Communities
By Gerasimos Tsourapas
Migration Information Source Feature, August 22, 2019
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants
By Chunbei Wang and Magnus Lofstrom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12555, August 2019
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Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban
By Daniel Masterson and Vasil Yasenov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551, August 2019
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
By Martin Guzi, Peter Huber, and Stepan Mikula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12535, August 2019
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New from the Social Science Research Network

1. Presidential Power to Protect Dreamers: Abusive or Proper?
By Kevin Fandl, Temple University Fox School of Business and Management
Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2018
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2. Translating Crimes
By Eric S. Fish, Independent
Posted: August 22, 2019
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3. Not in My Backyard: How States and Localities use Civil Resistance Tactics to Protect Immigrant Communities
By Kevin Fandl, Temple University Fox School of Business and Management
Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 2019
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4. Where Do Migrants from Countries Ridden by Environmental Conflict Settle? On the Scale, Selection and Sorting of Conflict-Induced Migration
By Tim Krieger, Laura Renner, and Lena Schmid; University of Freiburg
Posted: August 24, 2019
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5. Litigation Post-Pereira: Where Are We Now?
By Geoffrey A. Hoffman, University of Houston Law Center
Forthcoming in the AILA L.J.
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6. Identifying Limits to Immigration Detention Transfers and Venue
By Adrienne Pon, Independent
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 747, 2019
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog

1. News from the Trump Administration: Military Projects Are Losing Funding To Trump's US/Mexico Border Wall
September 5, 2019
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2. With Immigration Status in Limbo, Some TPS Holders Consider Heading North — To Canada
September 4, 2019
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3. Teaching Marriage Fraud
September 3, 2019
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4. Private Bills: Last Ditch, Not Great Option
September 2, 2019
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5. Fourth Circuit Rejects Attorney General Sessions' Effort to Limit Immigration Court Case Closures
August 30, 2019
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6. Peter Margulies: What Ending the Flores Agreement on Detention of Immigrant Children Really Means
August 30, 2019
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7. Impeding or Accelerating Assimilation? Immigration Enforcement and Its Impact on Naturalization Patterns
August 27, 2019
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8. States Challenge Trump Administration's Effort to End the Flores Settlement
August 27, 2019
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9. Federal arrests of noncitizens triple over 20 years
August 26, 2019
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10. Is the Trump Administration Arresting Undocumented Activists?
August 25, 2019
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11. Employers Struggle With Hiring Undocumented Workers: 'You Cannot Hire American Here'
August 25, 2019
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12. Trump Administration to Make Reforms to Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals: Will They be Less Independent?
August 25, 2019
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13. The Conversation: A Short Explanation of the Flores Settlement and Its Possible Demise
August 23, 2019
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Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?
By Michelle Malkin

Regnery Publishing, 256 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1621579719, $26.09
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Book Description: In the name of compassion—but driven by financial profit—globalist elites, Silicon Valley, and the radical Left are conspiring to undo the rule of law, subvert our homeland security, shut down free speech, and make gobs of money off the backs of illegal aliens, refugees, and low-wage guest workers.

Politicians want cheap votes or cheap labor. Church leaders want pew-fillers and collection plate donors. Social justice militants, working with corporate America, want to silence free speech they deem “hateful,” while raking in tens of millions of dollars promoting mass, uncontrolled immigration both legal and illegal.

Malkin names names—from Pope Francis to George Clooney, from George Soros to the Koch brothers, from Jack Dorsey to Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg. Enlightening as it is infuriating, Open Borders Inc. reveals the powerful forces working to erase America.

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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
By Dina Nayeri

Catapult, 368 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1948226421, $18.08
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Book Description: What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world.

Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel–turned–refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials.

Nayeri confronts notions like “the swarm,” and, on the other hand, “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis.

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African Americans & American Africans: Migration, History, Race and Identities
By Dmitri M. Bondarenko

Sean Kingston Publishing, 184 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1912385007, $75.00
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Book Description: In America today, two communities with sub-Saharan African genetic origins exist side by side, though they have differing histories and positions within society. This book explores the relationship between African Americans, descendants of those Africans brought to America as slaves, and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who have come to the United States of America voluntarily, mainly since the 1990s. Members of these groups have both a great deal in common and much that separates them, largely hidden in their assumptions about, and attitudes towards, each other.

In a work grounded in extensive fieldwork Bondarenko and his research team interviewed African Americans, and migrants from twenty-three African States and five Caribbean nations, as well as non-black Americans involved with African Americans and African migrants. Seeking a wide range of perspectives, from different ages, classes and levels of education, they explored the historically rooted mutual images of African Americans and contemporary African migrants, so as to understand how these images influence the relationship between them. In particular, they examined conceptions of ‘black history’ as a common history of all people and nations with roots in Africa.

What emerges is a complex picture. While collective historical memory of oppression forges solidarity, lack of knowledge of each other’s history can create distance between communities. African migrants tend to define their identities not by race, but on the basis of multiple layers of national, ethnic, religious and linguistic affinities (of which African Americans are often unaware). For African Americans, however, although national and regional identities are important, it is above all race that is the defining factor. While drawing on wider themes from anthropology and African studies, this in-depth study on a little-researched subject allows valuable new understandings of contemporary American society.

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Immigration and Democracy
By Sarah Song

Oxford University Press, 264 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 0190909226, $25.45
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Book Description: Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue?

Some contend that borders should generally be open and people should be free to migrate in search of better lives. Others insist that governments have the right to unilaterally close their borders and should do so. In Immigration and Democracy, Sarah Song develops an intermediate ethical position that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. She argues that political membership is morally significant, even if morally arbitrary. Political membership grounds particular rights and obligations, and a government may show some partiality toward the interests of its members. Yet, we also have universal obligations to those outside our orders. Where prospective migrants have urgent reasons to move, as in the case of refugees, their interests may trump the less weighty interests of members. What is required is not open or closed borders but open doors.

An accessible ethical framework that clarifies and deepens the ideas with which members of democratic societies can debate immigration, Immigration and Democracy considers the implications of a realistically utopian theory for immigration law and policy.

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Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands
By Bryan Fanning and Lucy Michael

Manchester University Press, 272 pp.

Paperback, ISBN: 1526145596, $29.27
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Book Description: Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands examines how a wide range of immigrant groups who settled in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland since the 1990s are faring today. It asks to what extent might different immigrant communities be understood as outsiders in both jurisdictions. Chapters include analyses of the specific experiences of Polish, Filipino, Muslim, African, Roma, refugee and asylum seeker populations and of the experiences of children, as well as analyses of the impacts of education, health, employment, housing, immigration law, asylum policy, the media and the contemporary politics of borders and migration on successful integration. The book is aimed at general readers interested in understanding immigration and social change and at students in areas including sociology, social policy, human geography, politics, law and psychology.

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At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean
By Cetta Mainwaring

Oxford University Press, 240 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 0198842511, $80.00
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Book Description: The Mediterranean Sea is now the deadliest region in the world for migrants. Although the death toll has been rising for many years, the EU response remains fragmented and short sighted. Politicians frame these migration flows as an unprecedented crisis and emphasize migration control at the EU's external boundaries. In this context, At Europe's Edge investigates why the EU prioritizes the fortification of its external borders; why migrants nevertheless continue to cross the Mediterranean and to die at sea; and how EU member states on the southern periphery respond to their new role as migration gatekeepers. The book addresses these questions by examining the relationship between the EU and Malta, a small state with an outsized role in migration politics as EU policies place it at the crosshairs of migration flows and controls. The chapters combine ethnographic methods with macro-level analyses to weave together policymaker, practitioner, and migrant experiences, and
demonstrate how the Mediterranean is an important space for the contested construction of 'Europe'. This book provides rich insight into the unexpected level of influence Malta exerts on EU migration governance, as well as the critical role migrants and their clandestine journeys play in animating EU and Maltese migration policies, driving international relations, and producing Malta's political power. By centring on the margins, the book pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.

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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 23, No. 6, September 2019
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Selected articles:

Enforcing and disrupting circular movement in an EU Borderscape: housingscaping in Serbia
By Marta Stojić Mitrović and Ana Vilenica
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For ‘common struggles of migrants and locals’. Migrant activism and squatting in Athens
By Valeria Raimondi
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Urban commons and freedom of movement The housing struggles of recently arrived migrants in Rome
By Nicola Montagna and Margherita Grazioli
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The micropolitics of border struggles: migrants’ squats and inhabitance as alternatives to citizenship
By Deanna Dadusc
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Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais
By Travis Van Isacker
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Migrants’ inhabiting through commoning and state enclosures. A postface
By Massimo De Angelis
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 7, No. 35-36, September 3, 2019
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Latest Articles:

New directions in migration studies: towards methodological de-nationalism
By Bridget Anderson
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Unpacking domestic preferences in the policy-‘receiving’ state: the EU’s migration cooperation with Senegal and Ghana
By Melissa Mouthaan
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 42, No. 16, October 2019
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Selected articles:

National frenemies: linguistic intergroup attitudes in Canada
By Mike Medeiros
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The happiness of European Muslims post-9/11
By Aslan Zorlu and Paul Frijters
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Unmaking citizens: passport removals, pre-emptive policing and the reimagining of colonial governmentalities
By Nisha Kapoor and Kasia Narkowicz
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Double standards? Attitudes towards immigrant and emigrant dual citizenship in the Netherlands
By Maarten Vink, Hans Schmeets, and Hester Mennes
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Contesting the deportation state? Political change aspirations in protests against forced returns
By Leila Hadj Abdou and Sieglinde Rosenberger
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The role of country of origin engagement in second-language proficiency of recent migrants
By Nella Geurts and Marcel Lubbers
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The promise of the social contract: Muslim perspectives on the culturalization of citizenship and the demand to denounce violent extremism
By Margaretha A. van Es
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Ethnic niche formation at the top? Second-generation immigrants in Norwegian high-status occupations
By Arnfinn H. Midtbøen and Marjan Nadim
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International Migration Review
Vol. 53, No. 3, September 2019
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Articles:

Congregants and Citizens: Religion and Naturalization among US Immigrants
By Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber
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Migration, Gender Roles, and Mental Illness: The Case of Somali Immigrants in Norway
By Anders Næss
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IZA Journal of Migration
Vol. 10, No. 2, August 2019
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Diaspora Externalities
By Hillel Rapoport
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Refugee Survey Quarterly
Vol. 38, No. 3, September 2019
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Articles:

Subversive Humanitarianism: Rethinking Refugee Solidarity through Grass-Roots Initiatives
By Robin Vandevoordt
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“Not Without My Daughter”: EU Asylum Law, Gender, and the Separation of Refugee Families
By Jinan Bastaki
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Tibetan Refugee Journeys: Representations of Escape and Transit
By Rebecca Frilund
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The Importance of Employment in the Acculturation Process of Well-Educated Iraqis in Finland: A Qualitative Follow-up Study
By Anu Yijala and Tiina Luoma
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The Social Contract
Vol. 29, No. 4, Summer 2019
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The Melting Pot and Its Limits
By Social Contract Editors
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Whatever Became of Assimilation?
By Paul Nachman
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The Hispanic Assimilation Problem: Bilingual Ed and Other Factors
By George Rodriguez
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The Quiet War against Assimilation Goes Forward
By Brenda Walker
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Assimilation: Imposition on Immigrants or Crucial to America’s Survival?
By Leon Kolankiewicz
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Are Hispanics Assimilating?
By Alan Wall
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The End of Assimilation
By James Kirkpatrick
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Open Borders: A Truly Bipartisan Effort
By Dave Gibson
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Thinking Outside the Box: New Paths for Restrictionists
By John Vinson
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Uber, Lyft Are Waging a ‘War on Women’ with their Fleet of Foreign Drivers
By Dave Gibson
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R.I.P. Georgie Anne Geyer (1935–2019): A Trailblazing Journalist Who Dared to Connect the Dots
By Leon Kolankiewicz
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Reconciling the West to Extinction
By Martin Witkerk
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