MPI's Migration Information Source Newsletter

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October 1, 2021

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U.S. Policy Beat
Two Decades after 9/11, National Security Focus Still Dominates U.S. Immigration System
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/two-decades-after-sept-11-immigration-national-security
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 the U.S. immigration system was retooled to have a strong national security focus. This restructuring had dramatic effects on government operations and resource allocations, not to mention on the lives of immigrants and the U.S. born alike. Twenty years on from 9/11, this article examines the changes put in place or accelerated as a result of the attacks.

Feature
Haitian Migration through the Americas: A Decade in the Making
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/haitian-migration-through-americas
The chaotic arrival of thousands of Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border in September was the culmination of a journey through the Americas that began for many a decade ago. This article examines how Brazil became a refuge for many after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, and how Haitians then moved on to Chile and other countries as conditions changed, and then onward again further north.

Spotlight
Inmigrantes centroamericanos en los Estados Unidos
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/inmigrantes-centroamericanos-en-los-estados-unidos
El número de inmigrantes centroamericanos en los Estados Unidos ha crecido dramáticamente. Pero las imágenes recientes de centroamericanos que llegan a la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México no cuentan toda la historia. Más de la mitad de la población llegó en 2000 o antes. Este artículo ofrece datos clave sobre los 3.8 millones de inmigrantes centroamericanos en Estados Unidos.
Read this article in English here: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/central-american-immigrants-united-states


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EDITOR'S NOTE

Over the next three decades, as many as 216 million people could be internally displaced by climate change. Those are the findings of the World Bank's recent Groundswell report, considered one of the most authoritative analyses of the impact of environmental change on internal and international migration.

Predicting future migration is notoriously difficult, particularly regarding climate change, as we have explored in our Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast. But the Groundswell findings are worth digging into beyond the topline number. For instance, the report predicts that the largest internal migration will occur in sub-Saharan Africa and will be driven by slow-onset climate events, with different impacts in different places.

Water availability is expected to be the main driver of internal migration in North Africa, pushing people out of expected hotspots along the northeastern Tunisian and northwestern Algerian coasts, western and southern Morocco, and portions of Egypt's Nile Delta. In Southeast Asia's Lower Mekong, sea level rise and storm surge will push people out of some densely populated low-lying coastal areas.

Notably, the report, which builds on a 2018 publication, found that as much 80 percent of this internal movement could be avoided if countries cut global greenhouse gas emissions and take steps to mitigate the impacts of climate change. That could be a powerful argument at the two-week COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow next month.

The World Bank's findings are about internal migration, but the impact of environmental change on international movement is something we have focused on at the Migration Information Source. We have a special collection of articles analyzing different dimensions of the climate change-migration nexus, and starting this week are back with new episodes of Changing Climate, Changing Migration, available on all the major podcasting platforms.

Alex de Sherbinin, one of the authors of the Groundswell report, wrote a Source article looking at climate impacts as a driver of migration and also spoke with me for the podcast. Andrew Harper, the special adviser on climate action at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also appeared on the podcast, and this week said his agency was preparing for the worst in terms of future climate impacts.

As climate change assumes a larger role in global political discussions, its impacts on migration will continue to be further analyzed. The decade-long movement of Haitian migrants across the Americas, for instance, may have a climate dimension, given the hurricanes and tropical storms that have ravaged Haiti. Whatever happens between now and 2050, climate change is a factor in migration.

Best regards,

Julian Hattem

Editor, Migration Information Source

[email protected]


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NEW FROM MPI

Immigrants' U.S. Labor Market Disadvantage in the COVID-19 Economy: The Role of Geography and Industries of Employment
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrants-covid19-geography-industries
By Randy Capps, Jeanne Batalova and Julia Gelatt

Different Statuses, Different Benefits: Determining Federal Assistance for Afghan Evacuees
www.migrationpolicy.org/news/afghan-evacuees-different-statuses-different-benefits
By Mark Greenberg, Celia Reynolds and Essey Workie

"Diversifying" Social Investment: European Welfare States and Immigrant Integration in the Wake of the COVID-19 Crisis
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/social-investment-european-welfare-states
By Anton Hemerijck and Liam Patuzzi

Healing the Gap: Building Inclusive Public-Health and Migrant Integration Systems in Europe
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/inclusive-public-health-migrant-integration-europe
By Jasmijn Slootjes

Migration Management and Border Security: Lessons Learned
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/migration-management-border-lessons
By Alan D. Bersin


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HAVE YOU READ?

Remain in Mexico Plan Echoes Earlier U.S. Policy to Deter Haitian Migration
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/remain-mexico-plan-echoes-earlier-us-policy-deter-haitian-migration

Climate Impacts as Drivers of Migration
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/climate-impacts-drivers-migration

Stateless and Persecuted: What Next for the Rohingya?
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/stateless-persecuted-rohingya


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MEDIA CORNER

In "Migrant Protection and the City in the Americas," Laurent Faret and Hilary Sanders look at city-level policies towards migrants, including so-called "sanctuary" approaches.
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"Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps," edited by Wenona Giles and Lorrie Miller, reviews a project offering tuition-free university programs in Kenyan refugee camps.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/borderless-higher-education-for-refugees-9781350151246/

Literal and figurative border walls are the topic of analysis in Klaus Dodds's "The New Border Wars: The Conflicts that Will Define Our Future."
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Guy S. Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam are out with the fourth edition of "The Refugee in International Law," including new chapters on nationality and climate change-related displacement.
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Tendayi Bloom and Lindsey N. Kingston are the editors of "Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship," which approaches citizenship as a fundamental challenge.
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"Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir," by Allison Hong Merrill, traces a Taiwanese woman's relationship with different countries and different religions.
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