Immigration Reading, 9/19/19
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. State Department Visa Bulletin - October 2019
2. CRS reports on border barrier funding, mandatory detention, DHS public charge rule
3. GAO reports on estimates of foreign nationals unlawfully residing, U.S. aid to Mexico
4. House testimony on revocation of medical deferred action for minors
5. House testimony on global terrorism threats to the homeland
6. Canada: Population projections
7. Finland: Statistics on citizenship
8. Germany: Statistics on benefits for asylum seekers
9. Czech Rep.: Population statistics
10. N.Z.: Migration statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
11. TRAC report on immigration court backlog
12. Pew Research Center report on refugees
13. SCOTUSblog symposium on DACA
14. CATO Institute report on immigrants learning English
15. "More Than a Wall"
16. "How states can improve America’s immigration system"
17. Two new features from the Migration Policy Institute
18. Four new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
19. Eleven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
20. Fifteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
21. OECD: International Migration Outlook 2019
22. U.K.: New briefing paper from MigrationWatch
23. U.K.: New report from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
JOURNALS
24. Citizenship Studies
25. Comparative Migration Studies
26. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
27. Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies
28. Latino Studies
BOOKS
29. Migration, Borders and Citizenship: Between Policy and Public Spheres
30. What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home
31. Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement
32. Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
33. The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
1.
State Department Visa Bulletin
Vol. X, No. 34, October 2019
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Bulletins/visabulletin_october2019.pdf
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New from the Congressional Research Service
DHS Border Barrier Funding
Updated September 6, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45888.pdf
Is Mandatory Detention of Unlawful Entrants Seeking Asylum Constitutional?
By Hillel R. Smith
CRS Legal Sidebar, August 20, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/LSB10343.pdf
DHS Final Rule on Public Charge: Overview and Considerations for Congress
By Ben Harrington
CRS Legal Sidebar, August 16, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/LSB10341.pdf
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New from the General Accountability Office
Department of Homeland Security: Review of Report on Agency Estimates of Foreign Nationals Unlawfully Residing in the U.S.
GAO-19-640R, September 10, 2019
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/701279.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-640R
U.S. Assistance to Mexico: State and USAID Allocated over $700 Million to Support Criminal Justice, Border Security, and Related Efforts from Fiscal Year 2014 through 2018
GAO-19-647, September 10, 2019
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/701281.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-647
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
House Committee on Oversight and Reform
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-administration-s-apparent-revocation-of-medical-deferred-action-for
The Administration’s Apparent Revocation of Medical Deferred Action for Critically Ill Children
Witness testimony:
Maria Isabel Bueso
Concord, CA
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20190911/109892/HHRG-116-GO02-Wstate-BuesoM-20190911.pdf
Jonathan Sanchez
Boston, MA
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20190911/109892/HHRG-116-GO02-Wstate-SanchezJ-20190911.pdf
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
Penn State Law School
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20190911/109892/HHRG-116-GO02-Wstate-WadhiaS-20190911.pdf
Fiona S. Danaher
Pediatrician, MGH Chelsea Pediatrics and MGH Child Protection Program
Co-Chair, MGH Immigrant Health Coalition
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20190911/109892/HHRG-116-GO02-Wstate-DanaherMDMPHF-20190911.pdf
Anthony Marino
Director, Immigration Legal Services
Irish International Immigrant Center
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20190911/109892/HHRG-116-GO02-Wstate-MarinoA-20190911.pdf
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
House Committee on Homeland Security
https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/global-terrorism_threats-to-the-homeland-part-i
Global Terrorism: Threats to the Homeland, Part I
Chairman Bennie Thompson Opening Statement
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/091019%20BGT%20Opening%20Statement.pdf
Witnesses:
Peter Bergen, Vice President, Global Studies & Fellows, New America
Ali Soufan, Founder, The Soufan Center
Brian Levin, Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, California State University, San Bernardino
Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Hearing video: https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/global-terrorism_threats-to-the-homeland-part-i
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Population projections: Canada, provinces and territories, 2018 to 2068
Statistics Canada, September 17, 2019
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190917/dq190917b-eng.htm
Excerpt: 55 million Canadians by 2068?
While the populations of many developed countries are expected to decrease, Canada's population is projected to grow over the next 50 years, largely because of strong immigration.
Population growth, however, is likely to vary across the country, with the population of some provinces and territories increasing and others decreasing. As a result, the provinces and territories may experience diverse opportunities and challenges over the coming decades.
The Canadian population has grown substantially in recent years, increasing from 30.7 million people in 2000 to 37.1 million in 2018.
The projections show that growth would continue in Canada over the next 50 years, and that the population could reach between 44.4 million and 70.2 million inhabitants by 2068. In the medium-growth scenario, the Canadian population would grow from 37.1 million inhabitants in 2018 to 55.2 million by 2068.
According to the low- and medium-growth scenarios, the rate of population growth would slow in the coming years, owing mainly to an increasing number of deaths relative to births. The expected increase in the number of deaths is mainly related to population aging.
In all scenarios, immigration would remain the key driver of population growth over the next 50 years, as has been the case since the early 1990s.
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Number of persons receiving Finnish citizenship fell in 2018
Statistics Finland, September 13, 2019
https://www.stat.fi/til/kans/2018/kans_2018_2019-09-13_tie_001_en.html
Summary: According to Statistics Finland, Finnish citizenship was granted in 2018 to 9,211 foreign citizens permanently resident in Finland. Altogether, 3,008 fewer Finnish citizenships were granted than in 2017. In relative terms, the number fell by 25 per cent from the previous year.
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In 2018, Finnish citizenship was granted by far most often to citizens of Russia, numbering 1,766 of those who were granted Finnish citizenship. This was 992 fewer than in the year before. Somali citizens were the second largest group of recipients of Finnish citizenship, numbering 856. The third most Finnish citizenships were granted to citizens of Iraq, 621 and the fourth most to Estonian citizens, 541.
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Benefits for asylum seekers in 2018: number of people entitled to benefits declined by 12%
Statistics Germany, September 16, 2019
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2019/09/PE19_359_222.html
Summary: At the end of 2018, roughly 411,000 people in Germany received standard benefits in accordance with the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers (AsylbLG). That was a 12% decrease compared with 2017 (469,000 people). The number of recipients declined for the third year in a row after the all-time high of 2015 (975,000 people).
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Population change - 1st half of 2019
Nationals of Ukraine dominated the international migration
Czech Statistical Office,
https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/ari/population-change-1st-half-of-2019
Summary: At the end of June, the Czech Republic had almost 10.67 million inhabitants. From the beginning of the year the population increased by 18.8 thousand. The all increase resulted from the international migration. The number of live births was lower by 2.1 thousand than the number of deaths. The number of marriages was again higher in the year-on-year comparison.
The population of the Czech Republic increased by 18.8 thousand to nearly 10.67 million from 1 January to 30 June according to the preliminary statistical balance. The all increase resulted from the international migration, whose balance amounted to 20.9 thousand persons. The natural change reduced the population, when the number of live births was lower by 2.1 thousand than the number of deaths.
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Due to international migration, the population of the Czech Republic increased by 20.9 thousand people during the first six months of 2019.The total migration balance was higher by 2.7 thousand in year-on-year comparison. A total of 34.1 thousand people immigrated to the Czech Republic from abroad and 13.2 thousand people emigrated from the Czech Republic. Compared to the first half of 2018, flows of both immigrants and emigrants were higher in 2019. Foreign migration was dominated by nationals of Ukraine. They prevailed among both immigrants and emigrants, and they reached also the highest positive net migration (8.6 thousand). The second highest was the net migration of Slovak nationals (2.1 thousand), followed by the migration balance of Russian (1.1 thousand) and Romanian nationals (1.1 thousand). The migration balance of the Czech nationals was negative (-0.6 thousand).
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Net migration levels steady
Statistics New Zealand, September 10, 2019
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/net-migration-levels-steady
Summary: Annual net migration was provisionally estimated at 53,200 (± 900) in the year ended February 2019 compared with 51,500 in the previous year, Stats NZ said today.
“Increases for both migrant arrivals and migrant departures meant that there was a slight increase in net migration in the year ended February 2019,” population indicators manager Tehseen Islam said.
“Annual net migration has fluctuated between 49,000 and 55,000 since the year ended October 2017.”
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Provisional migrant arrivals were up 8,300 to 147,300 in the year ended February 2019. The top source countries for arrivals were:
Australia (25,800 – 15,600 of which were New Zealand citizens)
China (15,800)
India (12,300)
Provisional estimates of migrant departures were up 6,500 to 94,100.
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11.
New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Immigration Court's Active Backlog Surpasses One Million
September 18, 2019
https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/574/
Summary: The Immigration Court's active backlog of cases just passed the million case mark. The latest case-by-case court records through the end of August 2019 show the court's active case backlog was 1,007,155. If the additional 322,535 cases [1]which the court says are pending but have not been placed on the active caseload rolls are added, then the backlog now tops 1.3 million.
During the first eleven months of FY 2019, court records reveal a total of 384,977 new cases reached the court. If the pace of filings continues through the final month of this fiscal year, FY 2019 will also mark a new filing record.
While much in the news, new cases where individuals have been required to "Remain in Mexico" during their court processing currently make up just under 10 percent (9.9%) of these new filings. These MPP cases comprise an even smaller share - only 3.3 percent - of the court's active backlog.
As of the end of August, a total of 38,291 MPP cases had reached the court[2], of which 33,564 were still pending. MPP filings by month are shown below in Figure 1.
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Key facts about refugees to the U.S.
By Jens Manuel Krogstad
Pew Research Center, September 13, 2019
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/13/key-facts-about-refugees-to-the-u-s/
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Symposium: DACA is unlawful
By Elizabeth Murrill, Solicitor General of Louisiana.
SCOTUSblog, September 13, 2019
https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/09/symposium-daca-is-unlawful/
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Immigrants Learn English: Immigrants’ Language Acquisition Rates by Country of Origin and Demographics since 1900
By Michelangelo Landgrave
CATO Institute Research and Policy Brief No. 14, September 17, 2019
https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/immigrants-learn-english-immigrants-language
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15.
More Than A Wall
Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US borders
By Todd Miller
Transnational Institute, September 16, 2019
https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/more-than-a-wall-report.pdf
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How states can improve America’s immigration system
By John Hudak and Christine Stenglein
The Brookings Institution, September 10, 2019
https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-states-can-improve-americas-immigration-system/
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
Years After Crimea’s Annexation, Integration of Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Population Remains Uneven
By Marta Jaroszewicz
Migration Information Source Feature, September 19, 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/fyears-after-crimea-annexation-integration-ukraine-internally-displaced-population
As Lesvos Battles Migration Crisis Fatigue, the Value of Centralized Migration Decision-Making Is Questioned
By Tina Mavrikos-Adamou
Migration Information Source Feature, September 12, 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/lesvos-centralized-migration-management
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Self-Employment and Migration
By Samuele Giambra and David McKenzie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12624, September 2019
https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/12624/self-employment-and-migration
Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
By Michał Burzyńskia, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, and Jaime de Melo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12623, September 2019
https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/12623/climate-change-inequality-and-human-migration
Minimum Wages and the Health and Access to Care of Immigrants' Children
By Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, and Yang Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12606, September 2019
https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/12606/minimum-wages-and-the-health-and-access-to-care-of-immigrants-children
Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?
By Oded Stark and Lukasz Byra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12583, August 2019
https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/12583/can-a-deportation-policy-backfire
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19.
New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The Interior Structure of Immigration Enforcement
By Eisha Jain, University of North Carolina School of Law
167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1463 (2019)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3449559
2. The Movement to Decriminalize Border Crossing
By Ingrid V. Eagly, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
61 Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming
UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-31
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3453477
3. Migrant Domestic Workers and the Right to a Private and Family Life
By Natalie Sedacca, University College London, Faculty of Laws, Students
Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 7/2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3452551
4. Dreamers Deferred: The Broken Promise of Immigration Reform in the Obama Years
By Kristina M. Campbell, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
25 Tex. Hisp. J. L. & Pol'y 1 (Fall 2018)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3447382
5. The Law and Politics of the 'Shifting Border'
By Chimène Keitner, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Forthcoming, The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility, Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue (2020)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3446897
6. Litigating Citizenship
By Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Irina D. Manta, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Vanderbilt Law Review, Forthcoming
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3446454
7. Families Fleeing: Family Membership as a Basis for Asylum
By Christine Natoli, University of California Hastings College of the Law
5 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs (Forthcoming)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3445184
8. Financial Immigration Federalism
By Shayak Sarkar, University of California, Davis School of Law
107 Geo. L.J. 1561 (2019), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3449315
9. Criminalizing Work and Non-Work: The Disciplining of Immigrant and African American Workers
By Shirley Lung, CUNY School of Law
14 U. Mass. L. Rev. 290 (2019)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3445105
10. The Mythology of Sanctuary Cities
By Kit Johnson, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 28, 2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3445087
11. Abolishing the Toxic 'Tough-on-Immigration' Paradigm
By Felipe De Jesus Hernández, Harvard Law School
Harvard Kennedy School Journal of Hispanic Policy, 2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3444515
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. Jodi Goodwin Exposes Realities of Remain in Mexico: Part 1
September 19, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/jodi-goodwin-exposes-realities-of-remain-in-mexico-part-1.html
2. Abolishing the Toxic 'Tough-on-Immigration' Paradigm
By Felipe De Jesus Hernández
September 19, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/immigration-article-of-the-day-abolishing-the-toxic-tough-on-immigration-paradigm-by-felipe-de-jesus.html
3. Wall Street Journal: Bernie Sanders Touts Immigration Plans, but His Record Is "Complicated"
September 19, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/wall-street-journal-bernie-sanders-touts-immigration-plans-but-his-record-is-complicated-.html
4. Immigration Court's Active Backlog Surpasses One Million
September 18, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/immigration-courts-active-backlog-surpasses-one-million.html
5. Immigration Judge Disciplined for Violating Hatch Act
September 18, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/immigrtaion-judge-disciplined-for-violating-hatch-act-.html
6. Nearly 10-fold increase in immigration appeal costs, coming soon?
September 17, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/nearly-10-fold-increase-in-immigration-appeal-costs-coming-soon-.html
7. Border Courts Swamped With New Asylum Cases: Thousands of cases have been filed since President Trump started forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.
September 16, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/border-courts-swamped-with-new-asylum-cases-thousands-of-cases-have-been-filed-since-president-trump.html
8. Immigration a Footnote in Democratic Presidential Debate, DACA Protesters Make Presence Heard
September 14, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/immigration-a-footnote-in-democratic-presidential-debate-daca-protesters-make-presence-heard.html
9. Some Thoughts on September 11, 2001 and the Role of the Courts in Enforcing the Rule of Law
September 13, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/some-thoughts-on-september-11-2001-and-the-role-of-the-courts-in-enforcing-the-rule-of-law.html
10. Solicitor General Adds Latest Asylum Injunction to Supreme Court Stay Request
September 11, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/solicitor-general-adds-latest-asylum-injunction-to-supreme-court-stay-request.html
11. Stacy Caplow and Maryellen Fullerton, Migrant "Protection" Protocol: A Report from the Front Lines
September 10, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/stacy-caplow-and-maryellen-fullerton-migrant-protection-protocol-a-report-from-the-front-lines-.html
12. Death Match 2020: Democrats in Congress Versus Trump on Immigration
September 9, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/death-match-2020-democrats-in-congress-versus-trump-on-immigration.html
13. Old wine in new wine skins? Alabama challenges counting noncitizens for redistricting
September 8, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/old-wine-in-new-wine-skins-alabama-challenges-counting-noncitizens-for-redistricting.html
14. Funding for DHS disasters
September 6, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/funding-for-dhs-disasters.html
15. Report: FBI monitoring immigration activists as violent "extremists" — though there's been no violence
September 6, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/09/report-fbi-monitoring-immigration-activists-as-violent-extremists-though-theres-been-no-violence.html
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New from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
International Migration Outlook 2019
September 2019
https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/international-migration-outlook-2019_c3e35eec-en#page1
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How effective is enforcement action against sham marriage?
MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper No. 466, August 30, 2019
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/466/how-effective-is-enforcement-action-against-sham-marriage
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
Research in Brief: Exploring assumptions behind ‘voluntary’ returns from North Africa
By Anne-Line Rodriguez
August 30, 2019
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/research-in-brief-exploring-assumptions-behind-2018voluntary2019-returns-from-north-africa
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Migration, Borders and Citizenship: Between Policy and Public Spheres
By Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli, and David Jacobson
Palgrave Macmillan, 309 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 3030221563, $113.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3030221563/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 4878 KB, ASIN: B07WWBCMQM, $84.99
Book Description: This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another, yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and institutions from public debate and contestation.
Bringing together expertise from established and emerging academics, it examines the fluid and varied borderscape across policy and the public domains. The chapters encompass a wide range of analyses that covers local, national and transnational frameworks, policies and private actors. In doing so, Migration, Borders and Citizenship reveals the tensions between border control and state economic interests; legal frameworks designed to contain criminality and solidarity movements; international conventions, national constitutions and local migration governance; and democratic and exclusive constructions of citizenship.
This novel approach to the politics of borders will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and geographers working in the fields of migration, citizenship, urban geography and human rights; in addition to students and scholars of security studies and international relations.
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What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home
By Sonja Boon
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 328 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1771124237, $27.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1771124237/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 7249 KB, ASIN: B07Y2FJVR1, $19.99
Book Description: Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying “I’m Dutch-Canadian” to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to?
Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present.
Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.
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Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement
By Susan McGrath, Julie E.E. Young, et al.
University of Calgary Press, 336 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1773850857, $42.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1773850857/centerforimmigra
Book Description: In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have become increasingly politicized and sensationalized, researchers have come together to form regional and global networks dedicated to working with displaced people to learn how to respond to their needs ethically, compassionately, and for the best interests of the global community.
Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together academics and practitioners to reflect on a global collaborative refugee research network. Together, the members of this network have had a wide-ranging impact on research and policy, working to bridge silos, sectors, and regions. They have addressed power and politics in refugee research, engaged across tensions between the Global North and Global South, and worked deeply with questions of practice, methodology, and ethics in refugee research.
Bridging scholarship on network building for knowledge production and scholarship on research with and about refugees, Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together a vibrant collection of topics and perspectives. It addresses ethical methods in research practice, the possibilities of social media for data collection and information dissemination, environmental displacement, transitional justice, and more. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how to create and share knowledge to the benefit of the millions of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes.
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Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
By William D. Lopez
Johns Hopkins University Press, 232 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1421433311, $27.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1421433311/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1184 KB, ASIN: B07NRS3W3B, $16.49
Book Description: On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return―arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified, the kids screaming."
In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.
Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013, as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez combines rigorous research with narrative storytelling. Putting faces and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human experience of mixed-status communities in the small everyday towns that dot the interior of the United States.
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
By Dohra Ahmad
Penguin Classics, 320 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 0143133381, $15.30
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143133381/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 9577 KB, ASIN: B07N5HCTQ6, 317 pp., $12.99
Book Description: Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration.
Organized in four parts (Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature conveys the intricacy of worldwide migration patterns, the diversity of immigrant experiences, and the commonalities among many of those diverse experiences. Ranging widely across the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, across every continent of the earth, and across multiple literary genres, the anthology gives readers an understanding of our rapidly changing world, through the eyes of those at the center of that change. With thirty carefully selected poems, short stories, and excerpts spanning three hundred years and twenty-five countries, the collection brings together luminaries, emerging writers, and others who have earned a wide following in their home countries but have been less recognized in the Anglophone world. Editor of the volume Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction, notes, and suggestions for further exploration.
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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 23, No. 7, October 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/23/7
Selected articles:
Enacting biorelational citizenship in X-ray rooms and offices: on age assessments of migrants in Germany
By Sabine Netz
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2019.1651096
Identifying dead migrants: forensic care work and relational citizenship
By Amade M’charek and Sara Casartelli
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2019.1651102
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 7, No. 38, 39, 41, September 9, 11, 14, 2019
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/
Latest Articles:
How much can you take with you? The role of education in explaining differences in the risk of unemployment between migrants and natives
By Héctor Cebolla-Boado, María Miyar-Busto, and Jacobo Muñoz-Comet
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0144-4
Refugee immigration and the growth of low-wage work in the EU15
By Lars Fredrik Andersson, Rikard Eriksson, and Sandro Scocco
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0145-3
Mapping differential vulnerabilities and rights: ‘opening’ access to social protection for forcibly displaced populations
By Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0142-6
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 45, No. 13, October 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/45/13
Articles:
New and enduring narratives of vulnerability: rethinking stories about the figure of the refugee
By Kate Smith and Louise Waite
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1496816
Domesticating ‘transnational cultural capital’: the Chinese state and diasporic technopreneur returnees
By Na Ren and Hong Liu
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1534583
Labour market participation of Sub-Saharan Africans in the Netherlands: the limits of the human capital approach
By Diane Confurius, Ruben Gowricharn, and Jaco Dagevos
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1497956
Detention and its discontents: punishment and compliance within the U.K. detention estate through the lens of the withdrawal of Assisted Voluntary Return
By Sarah Walker
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1443805
Protective ethnicity: how Armenian immigrants’ extracurricular youth organisations redistribute cultural capital to the second-generation in Los Angeles
By Oshin Khachikian
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1497954
Personality and ideological bases of anti-immigrant prejudice among Croatian youth
By Jelena Matić, Ajana Low, and Denis Bratko
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1444470
Should I stay or should I go? What we can learn from working patterns of Central and Eastern European labour migrants about the nature of present-day migration
By Anita Strockmeijer, Paul de Beer, and Jaco Dagevos
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1562326
Transnational grandchildhood: negotiating intergenerational grandchild–grandparent ties across borders
By Adéla Souralová
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1443392
The influence of social networks, social capital, and the ethnic community on the U.S. destination choices of Mexican migrant men
By Christina A. Sue, Fernando Riosmena & Joshua LePree
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1447364
Selection, adaptation and advantage. Later-life health and wellbeing of English migrants to Australia
By Bram Vanhoutte, Vanessa Loh, James Nazroo, Hal Kendig, Kate O’Loughlin, and Julie Byles
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1446823
Why developmental states accept guest workers: bureaucratic policy-making and the politics of labour migration in Singapore
By Jack Jin Gary Lee
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1463845
Satisfied after all? Working trajectories and job satisfaction of foreign-born female domestic and care workers in Italy
By Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Livia Elisa Ortensi
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1465401
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Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 42, No. 14, September 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/42/14
Selected articles:
Racial nationalisms: Brexit, borders and Little Englander contradictions
Sivamohan Valluvan and Virinder S. Kalra
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1640890
Deportation, racism and multi-status Britain: immigration control and the production of race in the present
By Luke de Noronha
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1585559
Muslim refugee and the terror suspect: responses to the Syrian refugee “crisis” in Brexit Britain
By Madeline-Sophie Abbas
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1588339
Care and cruelty in Chios: the “refugee crisis” and the limits of Europe
By Malcolm James
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1617425
“I feel English as fuck”: translocality and the performance of alternative identities through rap
By Richard Bramwell and James Butterworth
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1623411
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Latino Studies
Vol. 17, No. 3, September 2019
https://link.springer.com/journal/41276/17/3
Selected articles:
Soy de aquí, soy de allá: DACAmented homecomings and implications for identity and belonging
By Alissa Ruth, Emir Estrada, Stefanie Martinez-Fuentes, and Armando Vazquez-Ramos
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41276-019-00197-9
Literal allegories: Queering the family-nation in contemporary Dominican diaspora fiction
By Virginia Arreola
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41276-019-00193-z
The rise of urban diasporic identity and consciousness in Guatemalan American literature
By William Ramírez
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41276-019-00192-0
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