MPI's Migration Information Source Newsletter

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April 15, 2021

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Feature
Movement after Migration: Immigrants' Disproportionate Reliance on Public Transportation
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/movement-migration-immigrants-public-transportation
Across North America and Europe, immigrants rely on public transit at higher rates than the native born. This article explores why migrants are disproportionately more likely to use public transportation, the role these systems play in immigrant integration, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commuter trips, budgets, and services.

Feature
The EU-Turkey Deal, Five Years On: A Frayed and Controversial but Enduring Blueprint
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/eu-turkey-deal-five-years-on
The European Union's landmark 2016 migration deal with Turkey offered aid and other benefits in exchange for Turkey's assistance in helping reduce arrivals of asylum seekers and other migrants. At its fifth anniversary, the EU-Turkey deal remains one criticized by human-rights advocates and has met frustration from Turkey, but in many ways created a blueprint for other externalization arrangements, as this article outlines.


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EDITOR'S NOTE

New tension over deportations has been brewing between Australia and New Zealand.

The bilateral trans-Tasman relationship is one of the closest in the world, but the two nations have been at odds in recent weeks over a 15-year-old boy with New Zealand citizenship who was determined to have a "substantial criminal record" and deported from Australia. The teenager, who reportedly requested to be removed from the country, is believed to be the first minor to be deported by Australia as part of a controversial policy of deporting criminal offenders, even those who have lived there for most of their lives.

"Where we take issue is that we've had a large proportion-about a third of those who have been deported have not been in New Zealand for the last 10 years," New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said last week. "In some cases, they've never even been to New Zealand. They don't have family ties here. They don't have connections here."

The row stems from changes to Australian immigration law that apply a character test and allow immigrants' visas to be canceled and for them to be deported if they are assessed to be a security risk. Since new rules were issued in 2014, approximately 6,300 visas have been canceled, often for drug offenses. The controversy has been heightened by comments from Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who compared the removal policy to "taking the trash out."

While the details of the trans-Tasman situation are unique, many elements will be familiar to readers in other parts of the world. The question of how to treat noncitizens who have spent most of their lives in their destination countries has been a vexing one, particularly when those migrants run afoul of the law. Often there are undercurrents of race and ethnicity that complicate the matter further. As the situation Down Under shows, these types of challenges can put pressure on even the closest of relationships.

Best regards,

Julian Hattem

Editor, Migration Information Source

[email protected]


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NEW FROM MPI

Laying the Foundation for Regional Cooperation: Migration Policy & Institutional Capacity in Mexico and Central America
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/regional-cooperation-migration-capacity-mexico-central-america
By Andrew Selee, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Andrea Tanco, Luis Argueta and Jessica Bolter

Sentando las bases para una cooperación regional: Política migratoria y capacidad institucional en México y Centroamérica
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/cooperacion-regional-migratoria-capacidad-institucional-mexico-centroamerica
By Andrew Selee, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Andrea Tanco, Luis Argueta and Jessica Bolter

COVID-19 and the State of Global Mobility in 2020
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/covid-19-state-global-mobility-2020#.YHdb2D8pDQw
By Meghan Benton, Jeanne Batalova, Samuel Davidoff-Gore and Timo Schmid


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HAVE YOU READ?

A Tightening Grip Abroad: Authoritarian Regimes Target Their Emigrant and Diaspora Communities
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/authoritarian-regimes-target-their-emigrant-and-diaspora-communities

Australia: A Welcoming Destination for Some
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/australia-welcoming-destination-some

Lack of Opportunities and Family Pressures Drive Unaccompanied Minor Migration from Albania to Italy
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/lack-opportunities-and-family-pressures-drive-unaccompanied-minor-migration-albania-italy


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MEDIA CORNER

MPI's podcast "Changing Climate, Changing Migration" asks human geographer Harald Sterly about the upsides of migration amid climatic change in its most recent episode.
www.mpichangingclimatechangingmigration.podbean.com/e/the-benefits-of-climate-migration/

Former U.S. President George W. Bush has painted 43 portraits of U.S. immigrants to accompany their stories in "Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants."
www.bushcenter.org/exhibits-and-events/exhibits/2021/out-of-many-one.html

Appropriate for the world of COVID-19, "Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine since 1800," edited by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, and Paul Weindling, features interdisciplinary perspectives on use of health security at borders.
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526154668/

Historian and travel writer Turtle Bunbury tells the story of 1,400 years of migration from Ireland in "The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism."
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-irish-diaspora-tales-of-emigration-exile-and-imperialism-hardcover

The possibility of a borderless planet is envisioned in journalist Todd Miller's "Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders."
www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100678920&fa=description

In "After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000," Amanda C. Demmer looks at the connections between the United Stated and Vietnam after 1975.
www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/american-history-after-1945/after-saigons-fall-refugees-and-us-vietnamese-relations-19752000

Onur Yamaner examines women from Syria and their Turkish hosts in "Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey: Intersectional Marginalization."
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"We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire," by Ian Sanjay Patel, provides a history of recent hostility to immigrants in the United Kingdom.
www.versobooks.com/books/3700-we-re-here-because-you-were-there


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