MPI's Migration Information Source Newsletter

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June 30, 2022

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Spotlight
Ukrainian Immigrants in the United States
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/ukrainian-immigrants-united-states
Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 displaced millions, the United States was home to nearly 355,000 Ukrainians. While most displaced Ukrainians have remained in neighboring countries, small numbers have come to the United States. This article examines the pre-invasion Ukrainian immigrant population in the United States-its history, sociodemographic characteristics, modes of arrival, and more.

Feature
Growing State and Local Role in U.S. Immigration Policy Affects Sense of Belonging for Newcomers and Natives Alike
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigration-policy-sense-belonging
The adoption of immigration measures by state and local governments can affect the sense of belonging not just for immigrants but also for the U.S. born, with impacts on individuals' wellbeing, their engagement with others, and political participation. As the number of subfederal immigration measures has proliferated in recent years, research suggests this growth could have wider-ranging repercussions than commonly understood.


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EDITOR'S NOTE

Might we be in the midst of an era in which governments feel empowered to strip citizens of their nationality? There has been an uptick of this activity in response to the war in Ukraine, as countries reconsider so-called "golden passport" schemes allowing foreign-born investors -- including those from Russia -- to buy citizenship abroad. Latvia's parliament in April approved a law allowing the government to revoke citizenship for people who commit war crimes, with a clear eye on Russian oligarchs. And Cyprus has revoked the citizenship of at least eight people originally from Russia who had been placed under sanctions for their links to the Kremlin.

Similar moves are afoot elsewhere, for other reasons. The United Kingdom's Nationality and Borders Act expanded the Home Office's denaturalization powers by allowing it to strip individuals of their citizenship without notifying them. The government has said the measure, which was one of many attacked by critics, would be used rarely for individuals who cannot be contacted, such as those in a war zone or hiding from UK authorities. In recent years, hundreds of people have reportedly had their UK citizenship revoked, either for national security reasons or because they became naturalized via fraud.

Meanwhile Myanmar this year stripped the citizenship of at least 33 people, including diplomats, political opponents, and others opposed to the military-led government that took power in a 2021 coup.

Yet in other places, the government's power to strip citizenship has been curtailed. Earlier this month, Australia's High Court restored the citizenship of a suspected Islamic State fighter and placed curbs on future denaturalization efforts. And in Ireland, the Supreme Court overturned the revocation of citizenship for a child born there to an Afghan father who gave false information on a refugee application.

In the two decades since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, denaturalization efforts have become more common. Many countries considered the tactic in response to nationals moving to the so-called caliphate built by the Islamic State before its eventual dissolution. A recent report from the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and the Global Citizenship Observatory found that 79 percent of countries have laws allowing citizens to be stripped of their nationality for disloyalty, military or other service to a foreign country, or other reasons, in what the authors describe as the use of denaturalization as a counterterrorism tool.

Yet as a counterextremism measure, it is unclear whether these strategies are effective. My MPI colleagues Meghan Benton and Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan previously evaluated denationalization policies in the Migration Information Source, finding that they do not necessarily prevent radicalization but allow governments to avoid intervening on behalf of suspected terrorists and others.

Whatever the impacts, efforts in recent months have made clear that governments are increasingly willing to consider citizenship revokable.

Best regards,

Julian Hattem

Editor, Migration Information Source

[email protected]

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NEW FROM MPI

The COVID-19 Catalyst: Learning from Pandemic-Driven Innovations in Immigrant Integration Policy
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/pandemic-innovations-integration
By Jasmijn Slootjes

Embedding Reintegration Assistance for Returning Migrants in the Local Context: The Role of Referrals
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/reintegration-local-context
By Ravenna Sohst and Camille Le Coz

The Future of Remote Work: Digital Nomads and the Implications for Immigration Systems
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/remote-work-immigration
By Kate Hooper and Meghan Benton

How State Assessments Became and Remain a Driver for Equity for English Learners
www.migrationpolicy.org/news/state-assessments-driver-equity-english-learners
By Melissa Lazarin

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HAVE YOU READ?

Migrants'? 'Refugees'? Terminology Is Contested, Powerful, and Evolving
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/terminology-migrants-refugees-illegal-undocumented-evolving

Court-Ordered Relaunch of Remain in Mexico Policy Tweaks Predecessor Program, but Faces Similar Challenges
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/court-order-relaunch-remain-in-mexico

Criminalization of Search-and-Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean Has Been Accompanied by Rising Migrant Death Rate
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/criminalization-rescue-operations-mediterranean-rising-deaths


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MEDIA CORNER

In Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948, Nadim Bawalsa documents migration from Palestine to Latin America in the early 20th century.
www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33098

The U.S. Border Patrol's broad authority and long history are the topic of Reece Jones's Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States.
www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/nobody-is-protected/

Roberta Piazza examines Irish travelers, squatters, and people going through homelessness in The Discursive Construction of Identity and Space Among Mobile People.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/discursive-construction-of-identity-and-space-among-mobile-people-9781350195455/

What options exist for migrants who are victims of intimate partner violence but who depend on their spouse for legal status? Marion Uhle explores in Marriage Migrants' Way out of Intimate Partner Violence: The Tense Relationship Between the Private and the Public Sphere.
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In Embedded Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater, Israel Reyes examines the contradictions of transcultural capital, its potential to establish networks of support in diasporic enclaves, and the risks it poses for reproducing inequities of power and privilege.
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/embodied-economies/9781978827851

Panama in Black, by Kaysha Corinealdi, traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century.
www.dukeupress.edu/panama-in-black


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