Immigration Reading, 7/25/19

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. State Department Visa Bulletin - August 2019
2. CRS reports on DHS component funding, critical infrastructure, and alternatives to immigration detention
3. GAO reports on the 2020 Census, E-2 visa adjudication, and assessment of DHS border security plan
4. House testimony on oversight of family separation and CBP short-term custody
5. House testimony on the 2020 Census
6. House testimony on oversight of the DHS
7. Senate testimony on Homeland Security Advisory Council recommendations for addressing the southern border crisis
8. Senate testimony on the 2020 Census
9. House testimony on the Administration's child separation policy
10. House testimony on policy and procedures at the USCIS
11. Canada: Immigration data longitudinal report
12. Netherlands: Statistics on asylum seekers and following relatives
13. Germany: Population statistics
14. E.U.: Reports on acquisition of citizenship and immigration law enforcement

REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
15. Morning Consult/Politico poll on public support for ICE enforcement actions
16. TRAC report on ICE failure to target serious criminals in court filings
17. Two new reports from the Pew Research Center
18. Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
19. Two new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
20. Eight new papers from the Social Science Research Network
21. Seventeen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
22. New report from the International Organization for Migration

BOOKS
23. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors of U.S. Immigration Policy: Research from the Mexican
24. The Undeported: The Making of a Floating Population of Exiles in France and Europe
25. Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf: Urban Transformation in the Middle East
26. Refugees, Migration and Global Governance: Negotiating the Global Compacts
27. What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration?
28. Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World

JOURNALS
29. Comparative Migration Studies
30. International Migration
31. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
32. Rural Migration News


1.
State Department Visa Bulletin
Vol. X, No. 32, August 2019
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Bulletins/visabulletin_august2019.pdf

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2.
New from the Congressional Research Service

Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2019: In Brief
updated July 9, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45262.pdf

Critical Infrastructure: Emerging Trends and Policy Considerations for Congress
July 8, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45809.pdf

Immigration: Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Programs
July 8, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45804.pdf

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3.
New from the General Accountability Office

2020 Census: Bureau Needs to Take Additional Actions to Address Key Risks to a Successful Enumeration
Government Accountability Office, GAO-19-685T, July 24, 2019
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/700440.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/700441.pdf

Nonimmigrant Investors: Actions Needed to Improve E-2 Visa Adjudication and Fraud Coordination
Government Accountability Office, GAO-19-547, July 17, 2019
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/700335.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-547

Border Security: Assessment of the Department of Homeland Security's Border Security Improvement Plan
Government Accountability Office, 19-538R, July 16, 2019
Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/700280.pdf
Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-538R

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4.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
House Committee on the Judiciary
https://judiciary.house.gov/legislation/hearings/oversight-family-separation-and-us-customs-and-border-protection-short-term

Oversight of Family Separation and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Short-Term Custody under the Trump Administration

Witness testimony:
Brian S. Hastings
Chief, Law Enforcement Operations
U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190725/109852/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-HastingsB-20190725.pdf

Jonathan H. Hayes
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement
Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190725/109852/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-HayesJ-20190725.pdf

Commander Jonathan White
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190725/109852/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-WhiteJ-20190725.pdf

Joseph B. Edlow
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190725/109852/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-EdlowJ-20190725.pdf

Diana R. Shaw
Assistant Inspector General for Special Reviews and Evaluations
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190725/109852/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-ShawD-20190725.pdf

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5.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
House Committee on Oversight and Reform
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/beyond-the-citizenship-question-repairing-the-damage-and-preparing-to-count-we

Beyond the Citizenship Question: Repairing the Damage and Preparing to Count ‘We the People’ in 2020

Subcommittee Chairman Jamie Raskin Opening Statement
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2155-%20Sharp%20Color%20Copier%40mail.house_.gov_20190724_095831.pdf

Witness testimony:
Steven Dillingham
Director,U.S. Census Bureau
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019.07.24%20Dillingham%20Testimony.pdf

Robert Goldenkoff
Director of Strategic Issues,U.S. Government Accountability Office
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019.07.24%20CRCL-%20GAO%20Statement%20-%20Marinos%20and%20Goldenkoff.pdf

Nicholas Marinos
Director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity,U.S. Government Accountability Office
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019.07.24%20CRCL-%20GAO%20Statement%20-%20Marinos%20and%20Goldenkoff.pdf

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6.
July 18, 2019
House Committee on Oversight and Reform
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/with-the-acting-secretary-of-homeland-security-kevin-k-mcaleenan

Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security

Member statements:
Chairman Elijah Cummings
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/EEC%20Opening%20Statement%20-%20McAleenan%20Hearing%20%28002%29.pdf

Witness testimony:
Kevin K. McAleenan
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190718/109813/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-McAleenanK-20190718.pdf

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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/unprecedented-migration-at-the-us-southern-border-bipartisan-policy-recommendations-from-the-homeland-security-advisory-council

Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border: Bipartisan Policy Recommendations from the Homeland Security Advisory Council

Witness testimony:
Karen Tandy, Chair
Customs and Border Protection Families and Children Care Panel
Homeland Security Advisory Council
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Statement%20for%20Record-Final%20Emergency%20Interim%20Report-2019-04-161.pdf

Jayson Ahern, Vice Chair
Customs and Border Protection Families and Children Care Panel
Homeland Security Advisory Council
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Statement%20for%20Record-Final%20Emergency%20Interim%20Report-2019-04-162.pdf

Sharon W. Cooper, MD FAAP, Member
Customs and Border Protection Families and Children Care Panel
Homeland Security Advisory Council
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Statement%20for%20Record-Final%20Emergency%20Interim%20Report-2019-04-163.pdf

Leon Fresco, Member
Customs and Border Protection Families and Children Care Panel
Homeland Security Advisory Council
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Statement%20for%20Record-Final%20Emergency%20Interim%20Report-2019-04-164.pdf

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8.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Senate Committee on Homeland Security
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/2020-census-conducting-a-secure-and-accurate-count

2020 Census: Conducting a Secure and Accurate Count

Member Statements:

Chairman Ron Johnson
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Opening%20Statement-Johnson-2019-07-16.pdf

Ranking Member Gary C. Peters
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Opening%20Statement-Peters-2019-07-16.pdf

Witness testimony:

Steven Dillingham, Director
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Department of Commerce
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Dillingham-2019-07-16.pdf

Robert Goldenkoff
Director of Strategic Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Goldenkoff%20and%20Marinos-2019-07-16.pdf

Nicholas Marinos
Director of Information Technology & Cybersecurity
U.S. Government Accountability Office
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Goldenkoff%20and%20Marinos-2019-07-161.pdf

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Friday, July 12, 2019
House Committee on Oversight and Reform
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-trump-administration-s-child-separation-policy-substantiated-allegations-of

The Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment

Member statements:
Chairman Elijah Cummings
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2155-%20Sharp%20Color%20Copier%40mail.house_.gov_20190712_091919.pdf

Witness testimony:

Jennifer L. Costello
Acting Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-CostelloJ-20190712.pdf

Thomas D. Homan
Former Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-HomanT-20190712.pdf

Ann Maxwell
Asst.Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-MaxwellA-20190712.pdf

Elora Mukherjee
Director, Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-MukherjeeE-20190712.pdf

Jennifer Nagda
Policy Director, Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-NagdaJ-20190712.pdf

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10.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship
https://judiciary.house.gov/legislation/hearings/policy-changes-and-processing-delays-us-citizenship-and-immigration-services

Policy Changes and Processing Delays at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Witness testimony:

Jill Marie Bussey
Director of Advocacy, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-BusseyJ-20190716.pdf

Eric Cohen
Executive Director, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-CohenE-20190716.pdf

Michael Hoefer
Chief, Office of Performance and Quality, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-HoeferM-20190716.pdf

Marketa Lindt
President, American Immigration Lawyers Association
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-LindtM-20190716.pdf

Donald Neufeld
Associate Director, Service Center Operations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-NeufeldD-20190716.pdf

Michael Valverde
Deputy Associate Director, Field Operations Directorate, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-ValverdeM-20190716.pdf

Jessica Vaughan
Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20190716/109787/HHRG-116-JU01-Wstate-VaughanJ-20190716.pdf

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11.
Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) Technical Report, 2016
Birth area, mobility, and income table
By Rose Evra and Elena Prokopenko
Statistics Canada, July 11, 2019
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-633-x/11-633-x2018019-eng.htm

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12.
Fewer asylum seekers, more following relatives in Q2
Statistics Netherlands, July 24, 2019
https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2019/30/fewer-asylum-seekers-more-following-relatives-in-q2

Summary: In Q2 2019, the Netherlands received 5,205 asylum seekers and 880 following family members. The number of asylum seekers was lower while the number of following relatives was higher than in Q1 2019. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this based on new figures from the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).

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13.
Immigration 2018: Germany grew by 400,000 people
German Federal Statistical Office, July 16, 2019
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2019/07/PE19_271_12411.html

Summary: In 2018, the number of people who immigrated to Germany exceeded the number of those who emigrated by roughly 400,000. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that arrivals from abroad totalled 1,585,000 in 2018, while the number of departures to other countries amounted to 1,185,000. There was a slight decrease in net immigration compared with the previous year (2017: 416,000).

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14.
Acquisition of EU citizenship
Eurostat, July 23, 2019
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/WDN-20190723-1?inheritRedirect=true&redirect=%2Feurostat%2F

Summary: In 2017, 825,000 persons acquired a citizenship of a Member State in the EU. The Member States where most people acquired citizenship in 2017 were Italy (18% of all acquired citizenships in the EU), the United Kingdom (15%), Germany and France (14% each), Sweden and Spain (8% each).

The main beneficiaries of an EU citizenship were people from Morocco (8%), Albania (7%), India and Turkey (4% each). France, Spain and Italy (together 83%) were the main Member States where people from Morocco acquired citizenship, while for those from Albania it was in Greece and Italy (together 97%). The United Kingdom (53%) was the main Member State where the population from India acquired citizenship, while for those from Turkey it was Germany (50%).

Immigration law enforcement in the EU – figures for 2018
July 12, 2019
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/DDN-20190712-1?inheritRedirect=true&redirect=%2Feurostat%2Fnews%2Fwhats-new

Summary: In 2018, 471,000 non-EU citizens were refused entry into the EU. Around 602,000 non-EU citizens were found to be illegally present in one of the EU Member States. The number of non-EU citizens issued with an order to leave an EU Member State reached 478,000 persons. Some 198,000 non-EU citizens, following an order to leave, were returned to another country (including other EU Member States), of these 158,000 were returned outside the EU.

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15.
Morning Consult/Politico
July 15, 2019
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https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016b-fcca-d1de-ab6b-fefb7bad0001

As you may know, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has planned a series of raids to arrest and deport thousands of undocumented immigrants. These immigrants have outstanding court orders to be removed from the U.S. Do you support or oppose these raids by ICE?

Strongly support 638 32%
Somewhat support 386 19%
Somewhat oppose 273 14%
Strongly oppose 425 21%
Don’tknow/No opinion 261 13%

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16.
New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University

ICE Fails to Target Serious Criminals in Immigration Court Filings
July 19, 2019
https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/566/

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Growing share of Republicans say U.S. risks losing its identity if it is too open to foreigners
By Claire Brockway and Carroll Doherty
Pew Research Center Fact Tank, July 17, 2019
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/17/growing-share-of-republicans-say-u-s-risks-losing-its-identity-if-it-is-too-open-to-foreigners/

Measuring illegal immigration: How Pew Research Center counts unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.
By Jeffrey S. Passel
Pew Research Center Fact Tank, July 12, 2019
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/12/how-pew-research-center-counts-unauthorized-immigrants-in-us/

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18.
New from the Migration Policy Institute

Start-Up Visas: A Passport for Innovation and Growth?
By Liam Patuzzi
July 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/start-visas-innovation-growth

Democrats Under Pressure: Political Calendar Exposes Ideological Differences on Immigration
By Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter
MPI Policy Beat, July 25, 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/democrats-under-pressure-political-calendar-exposes-ideological-differences-immigration

Lack of Opportunities and Family Pressures Drive Unaccompanied Minor Migration from Albania to Italy
By Fatma Alakbarova
Migration Information Source Feature, July 18, 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/lack-opportunities-and-family-pressures-drive-unaccompanied-minor-migration-albania-italy

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19.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

Estimating the Determinants of Remittances Originating from U.S. Households using CPS Data
By Nicole B. Simpson and Chad Sparber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12480, July 2019
https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/12480/estimating-the-determinants-of-remittances-originating-from-us-households-using-cps-data

Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
By Yue Huang and Michael Kvasnicka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12469, July 2019
https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/12469/immigration-and-crimes-against-natives-the-2015-refugee-crisis-in-germany

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20.
New from the Social Science Research Network

1. Child Migrants and America’s Evolving Immigration Mission
By Shani King, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3424481

2. Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants: Evidence from France
By Isaure Delaporte, University of Kent School of Economics
CESifo Working Paper No. 7651
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3422232

3. Criminalization and the Politics of Migration in Brazil
Jayesh Rathod, American University - Washington College of Law
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2018
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3422920

4. Who Wants to Talk About Refugees and Why? Foreign Interventions in German Elections
By Ashrakat Elshehawy, University of Oxford; Nikolay Marinov, University of Houston Department of Political Science; Federico Nanni, Data and Web Science Group; and Harald Schoen,
University of Mannheim Department of Political Science
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3420248

5. Mexican Migration to the United States: Selection, Assignment, and Welfare
By Michal Burzynski, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and Pawel Gola, BI Norwegian Business School
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) Working Paper Series 2019-10
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3422742

6. The Shifting Categorization of Immigration Law
By Tally Kritzman-Amir, Harvard Law School
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2020
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3420851

7. Abolish ICE ... And Then What?
By Peter L. Markowitz, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Yeshiva University
Yale Law Journal Forum, Forthcoming
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3420771

8. Non-Discrimination in Refugee and Asylum Law (Against Travel Ban 1.0 and 2.0)
By Eunice Lee, Yale University Law School
Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 459, (2017-2018)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3417069

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21.
Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog

1. Due Process, Immigration Judges, and Immigration Officers
By Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
July 24, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/immigration-article-of-the-day-due-process-immigration-judges-and-immigration-officers-by-richard-j-.html

2. Penn Law Dean Responds to Professor's Comments on Immigration
July 24, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/penn-law-dean-responds-to-professors-comments-on-immigration.html

3. Trump Administration Expands Expedited Removal
July 23, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/trump-administration-expands-expedited-removal.html

4. Study: Immigrants and their children founded 45% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies
July 22, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/study-immigrants-and-their-children-founded-45-of-us-fortune-500-companies.html

5. Defining Detention: The Intervention of the European Court of Human Rights in the Detention of Involuntary Migrants
By Anita Sinha
July 22, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/immigration-article-of-the-day-defining-detention-the-intervention-of-the-european-court-of-human-ri.html

6. The Trump administration's abandonment of the US refugee protection program
July 20, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/the-trump-administrations-abandonment-of-the-us-refugee-protection-program.html

7. Immigration Article of the Day: Unconventional Actors
By Kaci Bishop
July 20, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/unconventional-actors-north-carolina-journal-of-international-law-and-commercial-regulation-vol-44-2019-kaci-bishop-univ.html

8. "National Conservatism" & Immigration
July 19, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/national-conservatism-immigration.html

9. Is the real purpose of the ICE raids to encourage self-deportation?
July 19, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/is-the-real-purpose-of-the-ice-raids-to-encourage-self-deportation.html

10. Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand on Immigration
July 19, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/where-do-presidential-candidates-stand-on-immigration.html

11. Joaquin Castro introduces bill to remove ‘illegal’ and ‘alien’ from federal immigration law
July 18, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/joaquin-castro-introduces-bill-to-remove-illegal-and-alien-from-federal-immigration-law.html

12. Ken Cucinelli's expanding influence in Trump's immigration policy blurs USCIS-ICE functions
July 18, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/ken-cucinellis-expanding-influence-in-trumps-immigration-policy-blurs-uscis-ice-functions.html

13. 1. Immigration Article of the Day: A Step Too Far: Matter of A-B-, 'Particular Social Group,' and Chevron
By Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer & Hillary Rich
July 18, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/immigrtaion-article-of-the-day-a-step-too-far-matter-of-a-b-particular-social-group-and-chevron-by-j.html

14. Are California Cops Providing Private Information to ICE?
July 17, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/are-california-cops-providing-private-information-to-ice.html

15. Nation Mourns Passing of Justice Stevens, Liberal Icon, Author of Important Immigration Opinions
July 17, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/nation-mourns-passing-of-justice-stevens-liberal-icon-author-of-important-immigration-opinions.html

16. Spike in Unaccompanied Child Arrivals at U.S.-Mexico Border Proves Enduring Challenge; Citizenship Question on 2020 Census in Doubt
July 16, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/spike-in-unaccompanied-child-arrivals-at-us-mexico-border-proves-enduring-challenge-citizenship-question-on-2020-census-in.html

17. Trump Administration Issues New Rule: Asylum seekers who pass through third country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border
July 15, 2019
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/07/trump-administration-issues-new-rule-asylum-seekers-who-pass-through-third-country-first-will-be-ine.html

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New from the International Organization for Migration

Fatal Journeys Volume 4: Missing Migrant Children
Edited by Frank Laczko, Julia Black, and Ann Singleton
July 2019
http://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/fatal_journeys_4.pdf

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23.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors of U.S. Immigration Policy: Research from the Mexican
By Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey

SAGE Publications, Inc., xxx pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1544389736, $48.42
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1544389736/centerforimmigra

Paperback, ISBN: 1544389728, $35.43
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1544389728/centerforimmigra

Book Description: This volume of The ANNALS draws on official statistics and MMP data to address the gap between public perceptions of U.S.–Mexico migration and the ramifications of these perceptions for U.S. policy. Framing Mexican migration to the United States as a social and economic process, this volume endeavors to dispel the many myths and misperceptions surrounding Mexican immigrants to the United States and offers insight to better inform immigration policymaking moving forward.

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The Undeported: The Making of a Floating Population of Exiles in France and Europe
By Carolina Sanchez Boe

Rowman & Littlefield International, 240 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1786604922, $114.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1786604922/centerforimmigra

Paperback, ISBN: 1786604930, 256 pp., $39.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1786604930/centerforimmigra

Book Description: What are the consequences of short-term political decisions for migrants and receiving countries at large? Through ethnographic fieldwork and sociological enquiry, this analysis focuses on a so far unexamined dimension of the current border crisis. The constitution of a population of ‘undeported’ exiles in France and Europe during the past decades shows to what extent current migration policies – which are increasingly repressive - are not only inhumane from the perspective of migrants, activists, and also many street level bureaucrats, but how they are also irrational and counterproductive from a political, social and economical perspective.

Sanchez Boe argues that the immense budgets used for repression (walls, prisons, detention centres, policing, and camps) which are only sound from the perspective of very short-term election policy, could be used to treat migrants and refugees in a humane way, which would also be a politically sound investment in the future of all.

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Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf: Urban Transformation in the Middle East
By Florian Wiedmann and Ashraf M. Salama

I.B. Tauris, 264 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1788310683, $120.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1788310683/centerforimmigra

Kindle, 7392 KB, ASIN: B07V8RGDR3, $103.50

Book Description: Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate work forces and foreigners arriving from various places. Recent migration patterns in the Gulf have led to emerging 'airport societies' on unprecedented scales. Most guest workers, both labourers and mid to high-income groups, perceive their stay as a temporary opportunity to earn suitable income or gain experience. This timely book analyses the essential characteristics of this unique urban phenomenon substantiated by concrete examples and empirical research. Both authors have lived and worked in the Gulf including Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates during various periods between 2006 and 2014. They explore Gulf cities from macro and interconnected perspectives rather than focusing solely on singular aspects within the built environment. As academic architects specialised in urbanism and the complex dynamics between people and places the authors build new bridges for understanding demographic and social changes impacting urban transformations in the Gulf.

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Refugees, Migration and Global Governance: Negotiating the Global Compacts
By Elizabeth G. Ferris and Katharine M. Donato

Routledge, 232 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 0815387962, $131.57
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815387962/centerforimmigra

Paperback, ISBN: 0815388012, $31.92
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815388012/centerforimmigra

Kindle, 1983 KB, ASIN: B07TTV4YFL, $34.95

Book Description: As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how migration is being approached at the highest levels of international governance.

Whereas refugees have long been protected by international law, migrants have been treated differently, with no international consensus definition and no one international migration system. This all changed in September 2016, when the 193 members of the United Nations unanimously adopted the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, laying the groundwork for the creation of governance frameworks for migrants and refugees worldwide. This book provides a fly on the wall analysis of the opportunities and challenges of the two new Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration as governments, international NGOs, multilateral institutions and other actors develop and negotiate them.

Looking beyond the compacts, the book considers migration governance over time, and asks the bigger questions of what the international community can do on the one hand to affirm and strengthen safe, orderly and regular migration to help drive economic growth and prosperity, whilst on the other hand responding to the problems caused by increasing numbers of refugees and irregular migrants. This highly engaging and informative account will be of interest to policy-makers, academics and students concerned with global migration and refugee governance.

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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, $53.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1526464411/centerforimmigra

Paperback, ISBN: 152646442X, 102 pp., $12.35
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/152646442X/centerforimmigra

Kindle, 611 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?
* What has the impact of free movement of people been, both in the UK and the rest of the EU?

The author concludes by suggesting ‘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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Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World
By Khalid Arar, Jeffrey S. Brooks, and Ira Bogotch

Emerald Publishing Ltd, 328 pp.

Hardcover, ISBN: 1787560457, $81.90
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1787560457/centerforimmigra

Kindle, 876 KB, ASIN: B07N6DYFMQ, $79.64

Book Description: Global Migration has changed the practice of educational leaders, policy makers, students, teachers and community members. This book traces this worldwide shift through research-based chapters that touch on both local idiosyncrasies and dynamics common across many contexts. Education, Immigration and Migration identifies issues educational leaders face as they seek to lead schools and school systems experiencing immigration and better understand their current strategies for improvement. The chapters shed light on the poorly understood relationship between educational leadership and refugee populations by giving a deeper appreciation of the scope and nature of issues at local, national and transnational levels. Each chapter offers new ways in which practitioners, policy-makers and scholars can think about complex dilemmas such as the implementation of equitable and democratic values, and difficulties involved in adapting organization and culture. Given its cross-national interdisciplinary approach, this book will prove invaluable for educational leaders, scholars and policymakers alike.

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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 7, Nos. 28-30, July 22-24, 2019
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/

Latest Articles:

Accessing Sub-Saharan African migrant group for public health interventions, promotion, and research: the 5-wave-approach
By Adekunle Adedeji
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0134-6

The relational dimension of externalizing border control: selective visa policies in migration and border diplomacy
By Lena Laube
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0130-x

Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe
By Claudia Koehler and Jens Schneider
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0129-3

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International Migration
Vol. 57, No. 4, July 2019
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682435/current

Articles:

MIGRATION, ITS DRIVERS, ITS RISKS, ITS REWARDS

Understanding Undocumented Migration from Honduras
By José Alejandro Quijada and José David Sierra
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12429

Invisible Development? Remittances for Housing and Transnational Reproduction Strategies among Migrant Households in Colombia
By Gisela P. Zapata
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12474

The statistical properties of the networks of emigrants: the Ecuadorian case
By Alexandra M. Espinosa, Luís Horna, Rodrigo Mendieta Muñoz, and Nicola Pontarollo
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12547

Are You A Terrorist? Comparing Security Screening for Iraqi Asylum Seekers in the United States and Sweden
By Nicholas R. Micinski
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12448

Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam
By Ngoc Thi Minh Tran, Michael P. Cameron, and Jacques Poot
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12451

Return Schemes from European Countries: Assessing the Challenges
By Giulia Scalettaris and Flore Gubert
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12467

Talking across Borders: Successful Re-entry in Different Strands of Re-entry Literature
By Ine Lietaert and Lore Van Gorp
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12544

The Migration Industry and the H-2 Visa in the United States: Employers, Labour Intermediaries, and the State
By Joseph Trawicki Anderson
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12552

Competition Between Labour-Sending States and the Branding of National Workforces
By Geraldina Polanco
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12553

Do Migrant Remittances Cause Dutch Disease in Nigeria?
By Nathaniel E. Urama, Henry C. Edeh, and Edith C. Urama
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12572

The Political Influence of Return: From Diaspora to Libyan Transit Returnees
By Franzisca Zanker and Judith Altrogge
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12578

Failed Securitisation Moves during the 2015 ‘Migration Crisis’
By Helen Hintjens
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12588

SPECIAL SECTION: RE-THINKING TRANSNATIONALISM IN THE GLOBAL WORLD: CONTESTED STATE, SOCIETY, BOARDER, AND THE PEOPLE IN-BETWEEN GUEST EDITORS: LARA MOMESSO AND ISABELLE CHENG

Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border, and the People in between
By Isabelle Cheng and Lara Momesso
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12594

Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan
By Isabelle Cheng, Lara Momesso, and Dafydd Fell
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12534

Nation, Migration, Identity: Learning from the Cross-Strait Context
By Lara Momesso and Chun-yi Lee
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12576

Gendered Transnational Ties and Multipolar Economies: Chinese Migrant Women's WeChat Commerce in Taiwan
By Beatrice Zani
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12526

SPECIAL SECTION: MIGRATION GOVERNANCE AND POLICY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH GUEST EDITORS: RACHEL GISSELQUIST AND FINN TARP

Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South: Introduction and Overview
By Rachel M. Gisselquist and Finn Tarp
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12623

How Unpopular Policies are Made: Examples from South Africa, Singapore and Bangladesh
By Ingrid Palmary, Thea de Gruchy, ASM Ali Ashraf, Chiu Yee Koh, Kellynn Wee, Charmian Goh, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12505

Fiscal Pressure of Migration and Horizontal Fiscal Inequality: Evidence from Indian Experience
By Pinaki Chakraborty, Shatakshi Garg
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12536

Is the Education of Local Children Influenced by Living near a Refugee Camp? Evidence from Host Communities in Rwanda
By Özge Bilgili, Craig Loschmann, Sonja Fransen, and Melissa Siegel
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12541

South-South Irregular Migration: The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in Ghana
By Gabriel Botchwey, Gordon Crawford, Nicholas Loubere, and Jixia Lu
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12518

Social Accountability in Diaspora Organizations Aiding Syrian Migrants
By Mounah Abdel-Samad and Shawn Teresa Flanigan
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12494

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 45, No. 11, September 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/45/11

Selected articles:

Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards refugees
By Liza G. Steele and Lamis Abdelaaty
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1513785

Hiding within racial hierarchies: how undocumented immigrants make residential decisions in an American city
By Asad L. Asad and Eva Rosen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1532787

The fertility integration of Mexican-Americans across generations: confronting the problem of the ‘third’ generation
By Christopher D. Smith and Susan K. Brown
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1435263

Ethnic minorities in British politics: candidate selection and clan politics in the Labour Party
By Parveen Akhtar and Timothy Peace
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1443804

The new ‘twice migrants’: motivations, experiences and disillusionments of Italian-Bangladeshis relocating to London
By Francesco Della Puppa and Russell King
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1438251

New neighbours in a time of change: local pragmatics and the perception of asylum centres in rural Denmark
By Zachary Whyte, Birgitte Romme Larsen, and Karen Fog Olwig
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1482741

Migrants’ class and parenting: the role of cultural capital in Migrants’ inequalities in education
By Karolina Barglowski
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1476130

Enabling sexual self-fashioning: embracing, rejecting and transgressing modernity among the Iranian Dutch?
By Rahil Roodsaz and Willy Jansen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1435993

Sacred remittances: money, migration and the moral economy of development in a transnational African church
By David Garbin
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1433528

Living as a non-Christian in a Christian community: experiences of religious marginalisation amongst young Korean Americans
By Jane Yeonjae Lee
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1427565

Ethnic origin and identity in the Jewish population of Israel
By Noah Lewin-Epstein & Yinon Cohen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1492370

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Rural Migration News
Vol. 25, No. 3, July 2019
https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/

IMMIGRATION

Central Americans, Politics
Over 144,000 migrants were apprehended just inside the Mexico-US border in May 2019, including 58,000 Central American parents with children and 8,900 children traveling alone. Another 109,000 migrants were apprehended in April 2019. Some 107,212 families were arrested just inside the Mexico-US border during the 12 months of FY18.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2315

DHS: CBP, ICE, USCIS
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned in April 2019. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan became acting DHS secretary; he can serve in an acting capacity for 210 days. DHS includes 22 agencies and 240,000 employees and has an annual budget of $40 billion.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2316

H-2A; H-2B
The House Appropriations Committee in June 2019 approved an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would allow farm employers to hire H-2A guest workers in year-round jobs. Most H-2A workers are currently limited to 10 months in the US. Dairy farmers have been requesting the change so that they can hire H-2A workers.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2317

Canada, Mexico
Canada. Canada added 321,000 immigrants in 2018, the most since 1913, when 401,000 were admitted. Canada's population rose by 528,000 in 2018.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2318

Europe, Asia
The EU continues to struggle with migrants who reach Greece, Italy and Spain by boat and apply for asylum. The European Commission in summer 2016 proposed that the Dublin agreement, which makes the first EU country reached by an asylum seeker the country that decides whether the person is a refugee, should be retained. When "too many" migrants arrive in front-line states in Greece, Italy and Spain, the EU Parliament ordered that some migrants be redistributed by quota to other EU countries.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2319

Population, Golden Visas
The UN released new population projections in June 2019 that project the world's population rising from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 9.7 billion in 2050, and peaking at 11 billion in 2100. The world added a billion people between 2007 and 2019.
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https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2320


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