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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. (#1) EOIR adjudication statistics
2. (#2) Senate testimony on year in review of migration at the SW border
3. (#3) Senate testimony on threats to the homeland
4. (#4) House testimony on impact and aftermath of Mississippi immigration raids
5. (#5) U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in DHS v. Regents of the University of California and Hernandez v. Mesa
6. (#6) Canada: Study on trends in citizen rates among new immigrants
7. (#7) Finland: Statistics on unemployment among immigrants
8. (#8) Norway: Statistics on educational attainment among persons with foreign backgrounds
9. (#9) Belgium: Statistics on naturalizations
10. (#10) Switzerland: Report on reasons for migration and conditions upon arrival
11. (#11) N.Z.: Statistics on international migration

REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
12. (#12) SCOTUSblog analysis of DHS v. Regents of the University of California and Hernandez v. Mesa
13. (#13) Two new reports from the Pew Research Center
14. (#14) "Border Breakdown: The U.S. Immigration Crisis Continues to Confound"
15. (#15) "Early Warning Signals: Winners and Losers in the Global Race for Talent"
16. (#16) "How many undocumented immigrants are in the United States and who are they?"
17. (#17) "The Long-Term Impact of DACA: Forging Futures Despite DACA’s Uncertainty Findings from the National UnDACAmented Research Project"
18. (#18) Two new features from the Migration Policy Institute
19. (#19) Two new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
20. (#20) Twelve new papers from the Social Science Research Network
21. (#21) Eight new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
22. (#22) "Human rights aspects of immigrant and refugee integration policies (2019)"
23. (#23) "Desperate Journeys - January-September 2019"

BOOKS
24. (#24) What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration?
25. (#25) Refugees From Revolution: U.S. Policy And Third World Migration
26. (#26) Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights
27. (#27) Debating and Defining Borders: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives
28. (#28) The Making of the Conservative Party’s Immigration Policy
29. (#29) The Atlas of Migration in Europe: A Critical Geography of Migration Policies
30. (#30) European Citizenship and Identity Outside of the European Union: Europe Outside Europe?
31. (#31) Transnational Immigrants: Redefining Identity and Citizenship
32. (#32) Extending Protection to Migrant Populations in Europe: Old and New Minorities

JOURNALS
33. (#33) Citizenship Studies
34. (#34) Forced Migration Review
35. (#35) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
36. (#36) Latino Studies

Executive Office for Immigration Review Adjudication Statistics

Immigration Judge (IJ) Hiring
October 2019
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Immigration Judge Complaints
October 2019
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Pending Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) Cases
October 23, 2019
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Credible Fear Review and Reasonable Fear Review Decisions
October 2019
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Total Asylum Applications
October 23, 2019
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Senate Committee on Homeland Security
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Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border: The Year in Review

Member Statements:

Chairman Ron Johnson
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Ranking Member Gary C. Peters
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Witness testimony:

Mark A. Morgan, Acting Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, Acting Director
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Derek N. Benner, Acting Deputy Director
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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James McHenry, Director
Excecutive Office for Immigration Review
U.S. Department of Justice
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
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Threats to the Homeland

Chairman Ron Johnson
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Ranking Member Gary C. Peters
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Witness testimony:

David J. Glawe
Under Secretary Office of Intelligence and Analysis
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Christopher A. Wray, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Russell Travers, Acting Director
National Counterterrorism Center
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
House Committee on Homeland Security
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Immigration Raids: Impacts and Aftermath on Mississippi Communities

Chairman Bennie Thompson Opening Statement
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Witness testimony:

Panel I
Cliff Johnson, Director, MacArthur Justice Center, University of Mississippi School of Law
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Father Odel Medina, Pastor, St. Anne Catholic Church, Carthage, Mississippi
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Constance Slaughter-Harvey, President of the Board, Legacy Education and Empowerment Foundation
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Lorena Quiroz-Lewis, Lead Organizer, Working Together Mississippi, Mississippi Immigrant Coalition
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Panel II
Jere Miles, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Mike Lee, Sheriff, Scott County, Mississippi
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William Truly, Mayor, Canton, Mississippi
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Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California
In the Supreme Court of the United States, No. 18-587
Argued: November 12, 2019
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Issues: (1) Whether the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy is judicially reviewable; and (2) whether DHS’s decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.

Hernandez v. Mesa
In the Supreme Court of the United States, No. 17-1678
Argued: November 12, 2019
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Issues: Whether, when the plaintiffs plausibly allege that a rogue federal law-enforcement officer violated clearly established Fourth and Fifth amendment rights for which there is no alternative legal remedy, the federal courts can and should recognize a damages claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

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Study: Trends in the citizenship rate among new immigrants to Canada
Statistics Canada, November13,2019
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Registered unemployed among immigrants
5.5% of immigrants are registered as unemployed Q3 2019
Statistics Norway, November 13, 2019
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At least one-fourth of persons with foreign background had completed tertiary level qualifications
Statistics Finland, November 5, 2019
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Summary: By the end of 2018, altogether 3,399,532 persons, or 73 per cent of the population aged 15 or over had completed a post-comprehensive level qualification. The share of persons with an educational qualification grew by one percentage point from the year before. Seventy-six per cent of the population with Finnish background had completed post-comprehensive level qualifications, while the corresponding share for persons with foreign background was 51 per cent.

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2,539 naturalisations in August
Statistics Belgium, November 7, 2019
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Summary: In August 2019, 2,539 persons obtained the Belgian nationality. The main countries of origin of naturalised Belgians in August are Morocco, Romania, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Reasons for migration and conditions upon arrival: differences by nationality groups
Swiss Federal Statistical Office, November 5, 2019
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International migration: September 2019
Statistics New Zealand, November 11, 2019
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Summary:

Annual
Year ended September 2019 (compared with year ended September 2018) provisional estimates:

migrant arrivals – 150,000 (± 1,500), up 6 percent
migrant departures – 95,300 (± 1,300), up 3 percent
annual net migration gain – 54,600 (± 1,800), up from 49,500 (± 200).

For migrant arrivals in the September 2019 year, New Zealand citizens were the largest group with 34,700 (± 500) arrivals. The next largest groups were citizens of:

China – 17,300 (± 300)
India – 12,400 (± 200)
South Africa – 10,500 (± 200)
Australia – 9,400 (± 500)
Philippines – 8,400 (± 200).

For migrant departures in the September 2019 year, New Zealand citizens were the largest group with 47,900 (± 900) departures. The next largest groups were citizens of:

China – 8,000 (± 200)
United Kingdom – 5,800 (± 200)
Australia – 4,100 (± 200)
India – 4,200 (± 100).

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Argument analysis: Justices torn, hard to read in challenge to decision to end DACA
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSblog, November 12, 2019
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Argument analysis: Justices divided in cross-border shooting case
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSblog, November 12, 2019
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Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off
New estimates find half live in Germany and the United Kingdom
By Phillip Connor and Jeffrey S. Passel
Pew Research Center, November 13, 2019
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What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 5 charts
By John Gramlich and Luis Noe-Bustamante
Fact Tank, November 1, 2019
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Border Breakdown: The U.S. Immigration Crisis Continues to Confound
What’s causing the record influx of immigrants at the southern border, where are they coming from, and how will a recent change in asylum laws affect the flow?
By Jeh Johnson, Andrew Selee, and Julia Preston
Carnegie Reporter, November 6, 2019
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Early Warning Signals: Winners and Losers in the Global Race for Talent
Graduate Management Admissions Council, November 2019
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How many undocumented immigrants are in the United States and who are they?
By Elaine Kamarck and Christine Stenglein
Brookings Institution Policy 2020, November 12, 2019
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The Long-Term Impact of DACA: Forging Futures Despite DACA’s Uncertainty Findings from the National UnDACAmented Research Project (NURP)
By Roberto G. Gonzales, Sayil Camacho, Kristina Brant, and Carlos Aguilar
Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Special Report No. 1, November 2019
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New from the Migration Policy Institute

Dependent on Remittances, Tajikistan’s Long-Term Prospects for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Remain Dim
By Edward Lemon
Migration Information Source Feature, November 14, 2019
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Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in the United States
By Carlos Echeverria-Estrada and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source Spotlight, November 6, 2019
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12721, October 2019
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Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
By Bryan Stuart and Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709, October 2019
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New from the Social Science Research Network

1. Questioning Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Lessons from Developmental Science on Forensic Interviewing
Jodi Quas, University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society and Thomas D. Lyon, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
SRCD Child Evidence Brief, No. 6, October 2019
USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 19-33
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2. Reframing Taxigration
By Jacqueline Lainez Flanagan, American University Washington College of Law
Posted: November 14, 2019
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3. 287(g) Agreements in the Trump Era
By Huyen Pham, Texas A&M University School of Law
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 3, 2018
Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
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4. The Trauma of Trump's Family Separation and Child Detention Actions: A Children's Rights Perspective
By Jonathan Todres, Georgia State University College of Law and Daniela Villamizar Fink, Sonoda Law Firm
Washington Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, 2020
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5. Trump’s ‘Immployment’ Law Agenda: Intensifying Employment-Based Enforcement and Un-Authorizing the Authorized
By Kati L. Griffith and Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Posted: November 11, 2019
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6. Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences
By Emily Ryo, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 15, pp. 97-115, 2019
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7. What Matter of Soram Got Wrong: 'Child Abuse' Crimes that May Trigger Deportation Are Constantly Evolving and Even Target Good Parents
By Kari E. Hong, Boston College - Law School and Philip Torrey, Harvard Law School
Amicus Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Oct 15 2019
Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 515
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8. Rodrigo's Rebuke: Originary Violence and U.S. Border Policy
By Richard Delgado, University of Alabama - School of Law
53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. Online 33 (2019)
U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3481320
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9. What Are We Missing? Explaining Immigrant-Origin Voter Turnout with Standard and Immigrant-Specific Theories
By Dennis Spies, University of Cologne; Sabrina Mayer, University of Duisburg-Essen - Institute of Political Science; and Achim Goerres, University of Duisburg-Essen - Institute of Political Scien
Forthcoming in Electoral Studies
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10. Citizenship Delayed: Civil Rights and Voting Rights Implications of the Backlog in Citizenship and Naturalization Applications
By Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado Law School; Center for the Study of Law & Society; University of Colorado, Boulder - Political Science
Colorado State Advisory Committee
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
University of Colorado Law Review Forum, Vol. 91, 2019
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11. Chevron and the Attorney General's Certification Power
By Jonathan Riedel, New York University (NYU), School of Law, Students
Posted: November 4, 2019
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12. Empirical Evidence on Labor Profile Competencies of Mexican Immigrants to the United States of America
By Azucena Leticia Herrera Aguado, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and Jorge González, The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Global Journal of Business Research, v. 13 (2) p. 61-79, 2019
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog

1. An asylum officer blows the whistle on remain in Mexico
November 14, 2019
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2. Chad Wolf sworn in as Acting DHS Secretary, Cucinelli tapped as Deputy
November 14, 2019
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3. The Most Immigrant Friendly City? The Winner is ... Chicago
November 14, 2019
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4. The Implications of the DACA Cases in the Supreme Court
November 11, 2019
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5. The Trump Administration Is Proposing To Become One Of Just Four Countries In The World To Charge A Fee For Asylum
November 9, 2019
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6. Garrett Epps: The Fragility of Immigrants’ Constitutional Protections
November 9, 2019
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7. Hard to Call the Outcome in Barr v. Barton
November 5, 2019
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8. Guest Post: The Full Extremity of the Government’s Position in Barton v. Barr
By Nancy Morawetz
November 4, 2019
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Human rights aspects of immigrant and refugee integration policies (2019)
A comparative assessment in selected Council of Europe member states
Council of Europe, October 2019
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Desperate Journeys - January-September 2019
Refugee and Migrant Children arriving in Europe and how to Strengthen their Protection
UNHCR, October 13, 2019
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What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration?
By Jonathan Portes

SAGE Publications Ltd, 104 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1526464411, $44.99
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Paperback, ISBN: 152646442X, 102 pp., $11.98
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Kindle, 608 KB, ASIN: B07NQNC9LR, $8.00

Book Description: What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration? Is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misrepresented or simplified in the mainstream media. In this book, Professor Jonathan Portes examines the subject of immigration, providing readers with a short history of immigration in the UK, followed by a detailed discussion of ‘What We Know’ about the economic and social impact of immigration.

Portes addresses commonly asked questions such as: does immigration reduce job opportunities for those born in the UK, or push down wages? What is the impact of immigration on the public finances and public services? and, what has the impact of free movement of people been, both in the UK and the rest of the EU?

The author then proposes ‘What We Should Do" about immigration, investigating what a post-Brexit immigration system should look like, and what, if anything, do we need to promote integration?

Intended for anyone seeking a quick and authoritative understanding of immigration in the UK.

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Refugees From Revolution: U.S. Policy And Third World Migration
By Peter Koehn

Routledge, 463 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 036728541X, $108.25
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Paperback, ISBN: 0813377196, $19.99
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Kindle, 5523 KB, ASIN: B07TMGVPCD, 479 pp., $49.95

Book Description: This book relates social constraints and opportunities to micro-level exile decision making. It focuses on Cuban, Indo-Chinese, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Iranian exile communities in the United States. The book analyzes the origins of these large groups of exiles and their treatment under US policy.

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Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights
By Jonathan Darling and Harald Bauder

Manchester University Press, 288 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1526134918, $93.41
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Book Description: Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles makes the first sustained intervention into exploring how cities are challenging the primacy of the nation-state as the key guarantor of rights and entitlements. It brings together cutting-edge scholars of political geography, urban geography, citizenship studies, socio-legal studies and refugee studies to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of belonging and rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration. By offering a collection of empirical cases and conceptualisations that move beyond 'seeing like a state', Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles proposes not a singular alternative but rather a set of interlocking sites and scales of political imagination and practice. In an era when migrant rights are under attack and nationalism is on the rise, the topic of how citizenship, rights and mobility can be recast at the urban scale is more relevant than ever.

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Debating and Defining Borders: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives
By Anthony Cooper and Søren Tinning

Routledge, 284 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 0815357176, $122.06
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Book Description: This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved fundamental to the outcomes. However, borders are also becoming ever more multifaceted and complex, representing intersections of political, economical, social, and cultural interests.

For some, borders are tangible, situated in time and place; for others, the nature of borders can be abstracted and discussed in general terms. By discussing borders philosophically and theoretically, this edited collection tackles head on the most defi ning and challenging questions within the fi eld of border studies regarding the defi nition of its very object of study. Part 1 of the book consists of theoretical contributions from border scholars, Part 2 takes a philosophical approach, and Part 3 brings together chapters where philosophy and border studies are directly related.

Borders intersect with the key issues of our time, from migration, climate change vulnerability, terror, globalization, inequality, and nationalism, to intertwining questions of culture, identity, ideology, and religion. This book will be of interest to those studying in these fields, and most especially to researchers of border studies and philosophy.

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The Making of the Conservative Party’s Immigration Policy
By Rebecca Partos

Routledge, 199 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1138541567, $99.94
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Book Description: This book explains the development of the Conservative Party’s immigration policy during the seven decades since 1945, up to today. By bringing together existing theories from the fields of political science and migration studies, this book offers a new model of party policy-making, which could be modified and tested in other contexts.

Grounded in rigorous scholarship, but of interest to general readers as well as specialists and students, this book provides a thoughtful and engaging account of the making of modern Britain. The book draws on 30 interviews with figures who were at the heart of policy-making, from Kenneth Clarke and Douglas Hurd, to Damian Green and Gavin Barwell, to reveal that the ‘national mood’ often has more impact on policy-making than the empirics of the situation.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and readers interested in British politics; immigration and migration studies; Conservative Party politics; and, more broadly, public policy, political parties and European and comparative politics.

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The Atlas of Migration in Europe: A Critical Geography of Migration Policies
By Migreurop

Routledge, 180 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1138392847, $108.28
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Book Description: This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe. Over the past 25 years, almost 40,000 migrants have been reported missing or died due to drowning or exhaustion on the borders of Europe. 6,000 migrants died in 2016 alone, making it the deadliest year on record.

Growing numbers of arrivals since 2015 have caused a wave of panic to sweep across the countries of the European Union, which has responded with an increasingly entrenched policy – the only one it considers appropriate – of fortifying its external borders. As a result, numerous walls and fences have sprung up to "regulate the flows", new camps have been opened and reception centres have been set up beyond the frontiers of Europe, all accompanied by the steady militarisation of surveillance and repression. The EU has thus been just as active in precipitating this "migrant crisis" as it has been in prolonging its effects. Indeed, this crisis calls into question the entire European system for border management and policies on immigration and reception.

Deconstructing preconceptions, changing the way we see others, probing borders and mapping the nexus of control and detention, the collection of articles, maps, photographs and illustrations in this Atlas provide an important critical geography of migration policies. Perfect for journalists, activists, students of geopolitics at school or university, this Atlas seeks, above all, to give migrants a voice.

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European Citizenship and Identity Outside of the European Union: Europe Outside Europe?
By Agnieszka Weinar

Routledge, 154 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1138543632, $100.98
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Book Description: This book critically engages with the concept of European identity and citizenship, and the role of the European Union in diaspora, membership and emigration policies.

It presents original research on European governance of emigration and citizenship and considers European integration in a global context. It questions whether there can be a European diaspora outside the European Union, if European governance of emigration is possible, and whether the EU can or should govern its diasporas in the global era. By engaging with concepts of European citizenship, diaspora and identity, the author examines the weak meaning of Europe for EU nationals living abroad and finds that European public spaces, present and sustained within the European Union territory, are largely not exported outside of it. Equal treatment and equal rights become empty concepts for Europeans leaving the European Union as they lose their European citizenship.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European studies, migration studies, American and Canadian studies, and the sociology of migration.

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Transnational Immigrants: Redefining Identity and Citizenship
By Uma Sarmistha

Springer, 127 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 9811385416, $70.01
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Book Description: This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian ‘high-tech’ workers living in the United States. It describes the complexities and challenges of adapting to a new culture while clinging to tradition. Asian-Indians represent a significant part of the professional and ‘high-tech’ workforce in the United States, and the majority are temporary workers, working on contractual jobs (H1-B and L1 work visa category). Further, it is not unusual for Indian immigrant workers to marry and have children while working in the U.S. Gradually, they learn to negotiate the U.S. cultural terrain in both their place of work and at home in the U.S. As such there is the potential that they will become transnational, developing new identities and engaging in cultural and social practices from two different nations: India and the U.S. Against this background, the book describes the nature and extent of transnational practices adopted by high-tech Indian
workers employed in the United States on temporary work visas.

The study reveals that the temporary stay of these professionals and their families in the U.S. necessitates day-to-day balancing of two cultures in terms of food, clothing, recreation, and daily activities, creating a transnational lifestyle for these young professionals. Transnational activities at the workplace, which are forced by the work culture of the MNCs that employ them, can be considered as ‘transnationalism from above.’ Simultaneously, being bi-lingual at home, cooking and eating Indian and Western food, socializing with Indian and American friends outside work, and all the cultural activities they perform on a day-to-day basis, indicates ‘transnationalism from below’. The book is of interest to researchers and academics working on issues relating to culture, social change, migration and development.

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Extending Protection to Migrant Populations in Europe: Old and New Minorities
By Roberta Medda-Windischer, Caitlin Boulter, and Tove H. Malloy

Routledge, 192 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 113859072X, $100.98
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Book Description: This comprehensive and innovative volume focuses on the usefulness and relevance of extending the scope of protections already in place for national minorities ('old minorities') to migrant populations ('new minorities') in Europe.

Delving into a highly relevant but under-researched issue, the book examines the feasibility of expanding the system of protection for national minorities to migrant groups, as well as considering issues of diversity, security, socio-economic concerns and identity. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, and combining insights from political science, law, sociology and anthropology, it asks the central question of how far the extension of policies and rights currently specific to national minorities is conceptually meaningful and beneficial to the integration of ‘new’ minorities. In doing so, it questions the feasibility and appropriateness of extending the scope of the protections already in place for national minorities to other categories of population.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of European Union politics, migration studies, minority studies and more broadly of sociology, international law and human rights.

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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 23, No. 8, November 2019
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Selected articles:

Claiming rights in exile: women’s insurgent citizenship practices in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands
By Elisabeth Olivius
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Immigrant meanings of citizenship: mobility, stability, and recognition
By Simon Roland Birkvad
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Deliberative citizenship: a critical reappraisal
By William Smith
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The emergence of ‘citizenship’ in popular discourse: the case of Scotland
By Mairin Hennebry-Leung and Florence Bonacina-Pugh
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Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)
By Agustín Goenaga
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Forced Migration Review
October 2019
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Articles:

Preventing displacement, addressing root causes and the promise of the Global Compact on Refugees
By Volker Türk
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Shifting power and changing practice to support locally led peace building
By Alex Shoebridge
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Land and conflict: taking steps towards peace
By Oumar Sylla, Ombretta Tempra, Filiep Decorte, Clarissa Augustinus, and Ismael Frioud
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Community-level conflict prevention and peace building in DRC and Somalia
By Wale Osofisan and Shuna Keen
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Gang violence, GBV and hate crime in Central America: State response versus State responsibility
By Vickie Knox
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The Palestinian refugee question: root causes and breaking the impasse
By Francesca P Albanese and Damian Lilly
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Resilience spaces: rethinking protection
By Pablo Cortés Ferrández
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 45, No. 16, December 2019
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Special Issue: Transnational Families in Global Migration: Navigating Economic Development and Life Cycles Across Blurred and Brittle Borders

Articles:

Transnational families negotiating migration and care life cycles across nation-state borders
By Deborah Fahy Bryceson
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Beyond breadwinning: Ghanaian transnational fathering in the Netherlands
By Miranda Poeze
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Parental migration and disruptions in everyday life: reactions of left-behind children in Southeast Asia
By Theodora Lam and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
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Here or there? Gendered return migration to Bolivia from Spain during economic crisis and fluctuating migration policies
By Raquel Martínez-Buján
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Transnational migration and the involuntary return of undocumented migrants across the Cambodian–Thai border
By Robert Nurick and Sochanny Hak
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Tourist brides and migrant grooms: Cuban–Danish couples and family reunification policies
By Nadine T. Fernandez
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Transnational mobility and cross-border family life cycles: A century of Welsh-Italian migration
By Emanuela Bianchera, Robin Mann, and Sarah Harper
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Vol. 45, No. 15, December 2019
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Selected articles:

Migration and queer mobilisations: how migration facilitates cross-border LGBTQ activism
By Phillip M. Ayoub and Lauren Bauman
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Evaluating the effects of immigrant integration policies in Western Europe using a difference-in-differences approach
By Michael Neureiter
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Perceived discrimination as a major factor behind return migration? The return of Turkish qualified migrants from the USA and Germany
By Meltem Yilmaz Sener
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A division of labour? Labour market segmentation by region of origin: the case of intra-EU migrants in the UK, Germany and Denmark
By Jonas Felbo-Kolding, Janine Leschke, and Thees F. Spreckelsen
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Does selective acculturation work? Cultural orientations, educational aspirations and school effort among children of immigrants in Norway
By Jon Horgen Friberg
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The impact of school tracking on school misconduct: variations by migration background in England, The Netherlands, and Sweden
By Sara Geven
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From irregular migration to radicalisation? Fragile borders, securitised development and the government of Moroccan youth
By Lorena Gazzotti
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New patterns of ethnic diversity: exploring the residential geographies of mixed-ethnicity individuals in Sydney, Australia
By Alexander Tindale
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The hope of a better life? Exploring the challenges faced by migrant Roma families in Ireland in relation to children’s education
By Patricia Kennedy and Karen Smith
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Rhythms of ‘Free’ movement: migrants' bodies and time under South Korean visa regime
By June Hee Kwon
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Latino Studies
Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2019
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Selected articles:

The adaptation path of transnational students in Mexico: Linguistic and identity challenges in Mexican schools
By Colette Despagne and Mónica Jacobo Suárez
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Vulnerability, precarity and the people in debates over immigration in local newspapers
By Jolanta A. Drzewiecka, Gian-Louis Hernandez, and Somava Pande
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Transiciones e Incertidumbres: Migration from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
By Denise N. Obinna
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The cost of citizenship: Assimilation and survival in Cristela
By Doug P. Bush
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Fleeing home: Notes on the Central American caravan in its transit to reach the US–Mexico border
By Veronica Montes
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Mobilization beyond deportation: An interview with Yolanda Varona, founder of DREAMers Moms USA/Tijuana AC
By Guadalupe Chavez
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