MPI's Migration Information Source Newsletter

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June 15, 2022

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U.S. Policy Beat
At Its 10th Anniversary, DACA Faces a Tenuous Future Despite Societal Benefits
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/daca-10th-anniversary
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program reached its 10th anniversary on June 15, 2022. This article reviews the evidence on DACA's impacts for Dreamers and the broader society, looks at the increased reliance on similar limited legal statuses to help segments of the unauthorized immigrant population, and examines the legal challenges the program has and is continuing to face.

Feature
COVID-19 Pandemic Ushered in Unprecedented Slowdown of Asylum Claims
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/pandemic-unprecedented-slowdown-asylum-claims
Beyond slowing global mobility dramatically, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a major drop in asylum claims around the world, with the 1.1 million people seeking asylum in 2020 representing a 45 percent decline from the year before. This article examines the challenges to asylum processing during the pandemic, particularly for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.


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EDITOR'S NOTE

One perhaps unexpected consequence of the global trend towards externalizing borders has been the growth of increasingly international cities at the doorsteps to Europe, the United States, and other top regions of destination.

Take, for instance, Tangier, Morocco, just 20 miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain and often the final stop for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere looking to reach Europe. The city is also 40 miles west of Ceuta, one of the Spanish enclaves in North Africa, and for many has become not just a waypoint but their final destination. In decades past the city was home to foreign-born writers such as William S. Burroughs, but these days many poor migrants end up on the streets or sleeping in the nearby forest, and have been hounded by authorities. Tens of thousands of migrants have also obtained residency permits in Morocco during legalization campaigns over the last decade. Meanwhile, a separate group of wealthier migrants, often from Europe, has come to seek warm weather and a cheaper cost of living.

Across the Atlantic, the increasingly cosmopolitan nature of Tijuana, Mexico, hardly needs further promotion. The border town abutting San Diego has recently added a growing community of Russians and Ukrainians to its populations of Central Americans, Haitians, and others. But farther south, the Mexican city of Tapachula has also become unexpectedly cosmopolitan. As Mexico has restricted migrants from passing through its territory, this city near the Guatemalan border has become home to groups of Africans, Central Americans, and others stuck in extended limbo. Farther south, is Necoclí, a small Colombian town that has swelled with tens of thousands of migrants passing through on their way to cross the Gulf of Urabá into Panama and destinations father north.

Along another migration route, northern Chile's Tarapacá region has become home to tens of thousands of people from Venezuela and elsewhere. In recent months these new arrivals have been confronted with protest and, at times, violence.

New migrant and diaspora communities have taken a range of forms. Some exist in ramshackle tents on the outskirts of town, while others are more formalized and established. Often, migrants are trapped in limbo in these places, but over time their communities develop roots, whether intentionally or by simple happenstance. As wealthy countries push out their borders to complicate irregular migration and access to asylum, the waystation border towns of today might turn into the global cities of tomorrow.

Best regards,

Julian Hattem

Editor, Migration Information Source

[email protected]

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NEW FROM MPI

Temporary Worker Programs in Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica: Promising Pathways for Managing Central American Migration?
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/temporary-worker-programs-canada-mexico-costa-rica
By Cristobal Ramón, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, María Jesús Mora and Ana Martín Gil

Programas de trabajadores temporales en Canadá, México y Costa Rica: ¿Son vías prometedoras para gestionar la migración centroamericana?
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/programas-trabajadores-temporales-canada-mexico-costa-rica
By Cristobal Ramón, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, María Jesús Mora and Ana Martín Gil

The Los Angeles Declaration Could Represent a Big Step for Real Migration Cooperation across the Americas
www.migrationpolicy.org/news/los-angeles-declaration-migration-cooperation
By Andrew Selee

COVID-19's Effects on U.S. Immigration and Immigrant Communities, Two Years On
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/covid19-effects-us-immigration
By Julia Gelatt and Muzaffar Chishti


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HAVE YOU READ?

On the Move in a War Zone: Mixed Migration Flows to and through Yemen
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/mixed-migration-flows-yemen-war-zone

Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states

Ally or Exploiter? The Smuggler-Migrant Relationship Is a Complex One
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/ally-or-exploiter-smuggler-migrant-relationship-complex-one


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MEDIA CORNER

Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner offer a sweeping narrative of arrivals to the United States since the colonial era in Immigration: An American History.
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In The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou explore how surveillance technology, social media, and other digital tools impact migrants' experiences.
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Can food be a symbol of anti-immigrant sentiment? Fabio Parasecoli examines the political dynamics of eating in Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics.
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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings, edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca, offers dozens of essays, poems, and artworks reflecting on being an immigrant in the United States.
www.harpercollins.com/products/somewhere-we-are-human-reyna-grandesonia-guinansaca?variant=39741029679138

Laura Bisaillon explains what happens when HIV-positive migrants come to Canada in Screening Out: HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience.
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Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond, by Ana Muñiz, tracks the growth of surveillance-related systems since the 1980s.
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379497/borderland-circuitry



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