Immigration Reading, 12/27/19
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. State Department Visa Bulletin - January 2020
2. DHS Office of Immigration Statistics reports
3. ICE enforcement and removal operations report
4. CBP Snapshot on operations
5. USCIS policy alert on nationalization requirement of good moral character
6. CRS reports on DHS appropriations, immigration detainers, homeland security issues in Congress
7. Canada: Population statistics, immigrant integration and achievement
8. Norway: Immigrant integration and public attitudes toward immigration
9. Finland: Population statistics
10. Slovak Rep.: Population statistics
11. E.U.: Statistics on migrant integration and asylum applications
12. Australia: Population statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
13. Two new reports from TRAC
14. New report from the Pew Research Center
15. "Does Deporting Immigrants Lower Crime? Evidence from Secure Communities"
16. New report and feature from the Migration Policy Institute
17. New discussion paper from the Institute for the Study of Labor
18. Seven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
19. Twenty new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
20. U.K.: New working paper from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
BOOKS
21. Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-citizens from Rights Through Extra-territoriality at Home
22. Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of the Second Generation
23. Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality
24. Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities
25. Socially Undocumented: Identity and Imigration Justice
26. Cities and Labour Immigration: Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv
27. The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan: Geopolitics, Identity and Nation-Building
28. Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education, and Islam
JOURNALS
29. Comparative Migration Studies
30. Demograpy
31. International Journal of Refugee Law
32. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
33. Migration Studies
34. The Social Contract
1.
Visa Bulletin For January 2020
Vol. X, No. 37
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Bulletins/visabulletin_january2020.pdf
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New from the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics
Adjustments to Lawful Permanent Residence by Year of Entry: FY 2000-2018
December 19, 2019
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/readingroom/LPR/LPR-adjustment-by-year-of-entry
Lawful Permanent Residents Flow Report: FY 2018
December 19, 2019
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/lawful-permanent-residents
Naturalizations Flow Report: FY 2018
December 19, 2019
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/naturalizations
Refugees and Asylees Flow Report: FY 2018
November 18, 2019
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/refugees-asylees
Nonimmigrant Admissions Flow Report: FY 2018
November 18, 2019
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/nonimmigrant
Legal Immigration and Adjustment of Status Report FY 2019, Q1
December 19, 2019
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement FY 2019 Enforcement and Removal Operations Report
December 2019
https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Document/2019/eroReportFY2019.pdf
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Customs and Border Protection Snapshop, November 2019
A Summary of CBP Facts and Figures
https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2019-Nov/CBP-Snapshot-Nov-2019.pdf
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USCIS Policy Alert, PA-2019-11
Conditional Bar to Good Moral Character for Unlawful Acts
December 13, 2019
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/policymanual/updates/20191213-GMCUnlawfulActs.pdf
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2020
December 11, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R46113.pdf
Trends in the Timing and Size of DHS Appropriations: In Brief
Updated December 6, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R44604.pdf
Immigration Detainers: Background and Recent Legal Developments
CRS Legal Sidebar, December 2, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/LSB10375.pdf
Selected Homeland Security Issues in the 116th Congress
Updated November 26, 2019
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45701.pdf
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Canada's population estimates, third quarter 2019
Statistics Canada, December 19, 2019
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/191219/dq191219c-eng.pdf
Excerpt: Canada's population increased by 208,234 from July 1 to October 1, 2019, driven mainly by an influx of immigrants and non-permanent residents. This was the first time that Canada's population increased by more than 200,000 in a single quarter. This gain represents a quarterly population increase of 0.6%, the largest growth observed since the beginning of the period covered by the current demographic accounting system (July 1971). On October 1, 2019, Canada's population was estimated at 37,797,496.
International migration—both permanent and temporary—accounted for 83.4% of the total Canadian population growth in the third quarter, a share that continues to increase. The rest of the gain (16.6%) was the result of natural increase, or the difference between the number of births and deaths. The contribution of natural increase is expected to continue on a downward trend, as a result of population aging and of fertility levels remaining low.
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Changes in outcomes of immigrants and non-permanent residents, 2017
December 16, 2019
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/191216/dq191216b-eng.pdf
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Study: Immigrant skill utilization: Immigrants with STEM education and trends in over-education
December 13, 2019
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/191213/dq191213d-eng.pdf
Excerpt: Among immigrants with a doctoral degree in a STEM field, the rate of employment in a STEM occupation (62%) was similar to the rate observed among their Canadian-born counterparts (61%). These immigrants earned about 9% less annually than Canadian-born workers with similar socio-demographic characteristics. About two-thirds (63%) of immigrants with a doctoral degree in a STEM field were educated in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, or France. Immigrants educated in these four Western countries had outcomes similar to those of the Canadian-born, while those educated elsewhere did less well.
In comparison, 39% of immigrants with a bachelor's degree in a STEM field worked in a STEM occupation, compared with 47% among Canadian-born workers with the same level of education. Immigrants with a bachelor's degree in a STEM field earned 28% less annually than their Canadian-born counterparts. About one-quarter of immigrants with a bachelor's degree in a STEM field were educated in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, or France.
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Introduction programme for immigrants
Statistics Norway, December 19, 2019
https://www.ssb.no/en/utdanning/statistikker/introinnv/aar-tidligere-deltakere
Summary: 63% of the participants in the introduction programme are working or studying after one year.
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Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration
December 17, 2019
https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvhold/aar
Summary: 56% think that the opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers to obtain a residence permit in Norway should remain the same as today
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Finland's preliminary population figure 5,527,405 at the end of November
Statistics Finland, December 20, 2019
https://www.stat.fi/til/vamuu/2019/11/vamuu_2019_11_2019-12-20_tie_001_en.html
Summary: According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population was 5,527,405 at the end of November. Our country's population increased by 9,486 persons during January-November. The reason for the increase was migration gain from abroad, since immigration exceeded emigration by 16,779. The number of births was 6,946 lower than that of deaths.
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Stock of population in the SR on 30th September 2019
Statistics Slovak Republic, December 16, 2019
https://slovak.statistics.sk/wps/portal/ext/products/informationmessages/inf_sprava_detail/!ut/p/z1/tZHBbsIwDIafhmOw26RJemyR1sIQEkMMmsuUljAyaFqgKmNPvzDtyqYd5ott2fr02z8oWINyurevurON0wffF4q_zMVYpmmQIKZTiuPJ42KWjx7CbBnBMyhQlevabgdFU571jhhHrNsSve8G6IvmVHta7ww5tyfdXwfYn0239zlAVulQxoRrqgnTRhO9wZJsmalCKrkRIb3h28puoGAi5BwDQWKMDWF8G5B4E0oSaY6UisCImMLqN73Kj_FOJAgL4zxDfa2NsiRnYooop1mE4yRfPsVzSjGh3ws_cAqvQ9zVEQhY9dZcYOlu3znA4o9n5ggTULash5eqHuJQSIFUCMlCFvOI0ptv9u14VIk3p3Gdee9g_R_utHUt6ZVM8o90RrJV8gkpg3Qg/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/
Summary: As of September 30, 2019 the Slovak Republic had 5,456,362 inhabitants.
In the third quarter of 2019, there were 15,618 live births and 12,480 deaths in the SR.
The natural increase reached the value of 3,138.
The net foreign migration reached 967 persons (there were 2,069 immigrants and 1,102 emigrants).
The total increase of the population of the Slovak Republic was 4,105 persons.
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Key figures on migrant integration in the EU
Eurostat, December 18, 2019
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20191218-1
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First-time asylum applicants up by 12% in Q3 2019
December 17, 2019
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/DDN-20191217-2
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Australia's population grows by 1.5 per cent
Australian Bureau of Statistics, December 19, 2019
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/CA1999BAEAA1A86ACA25765100098A47?OpenDocument
Summary: Australia's population grew by 1.5 per cent during the year ending 30 June 2019, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
ABS Demography Director Beidar Cho said: "The population at 30 June 2019 was 25.4 million people, following an annual increase of 381,600 people."
Natural increase accounted for 37.5 per cent of annual population growth, while net overseas migration accounted for the remaining 62.5 per cent.
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There were 536,000 overseas migration arrivals and 297,700 departures during the year ending 30 June 2019, resulting in net overseas migration of 238,300 people. Net overseas migration did not change compared to the previous year.
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13.
New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Contrasting Experiences: MPP vs. Non-MPP Immigration Court Cases
December 19, 2019
https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/587/
Excerpt: According to Immigration Court records through the end of November 2019, over 56,000 immigrants have been sent back to Mexico to await their immigration hearings under the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as "Remain in Mexico." In the months after the program was announced last January, the number of immigrants forced to await their hearings in Mexico climbed rapidly. Although arrests by Customs and Border Protection along the southwest border peaked in May, the number of immigrants assigned to the MPP program climbed throughout the summer months until peaking in August.
New Immigration Court Data Released, Even More Records Missing Despite Assurances
December 18, 2019
https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/586/
Excerpt: Despite assurances that the next release of data on Immigration Court proceedings by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) would be reviewed for accuracy, the new data released late last Friday revealed continuing quality issues. In fact, even greater numbers of previously released records were inexplicably missing.
TRAC raised concerns to EOIR leadership after finding significant irregularities in previously published data (report available here), and sent a letter (available here) to the Director McHenry. To illustrate the problem, that letter enclosed a list of 1,507 applications for relief which were present in EOIR's August 2019 release but were missing from EOIR's September 2019 release. The missing cases included many asylum applications, both pending and closed. TRAC asked that Director McHenry resolve these issues, disclose the steps his agency was taking to prevent these issues in the future, and correct counterfactual statements made by his office. TRAC offered its assistance and support so that the agency could in the future provide the public with more accurate and reliable data.
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Even after OIT's review, TRAC found that none of the 1,507 missing applications for relief were restored in EOIR's latest release. To the contrary, more records of all types were now missing from the latest data. For example, TRAC found 3,799 relief applications previously included in EOIR's August 2019 release were now missing from last Friday's release. This included 1,714 applications for asylum that have either been withheld from the public or apparently deleted from the court's files.
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19 striking findings from 2019
By John Gramlich
Pew Research Service Fact Tank, December 13, 2019
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/13/19-striking-findings-from-2019/
3. The U.S. no longer leads the world in admitting refugees.
Summary: Canada resettled more refugees than the U.S. did in 2018, marking the first time the U.S. did not lead the world on this measure since Congress created the nation’s refugee program in 1980. While Canada resettled 28,000 refugees in 2018 – similar to its total in 2017 – the U.S. resettled 23,000, down from 33,000 the year before and far below a recent high of 97,000 in 2016. The U.S. had previously admitted more refugees each year than all other countries combined.
Looking ahead, the number of refugees resettled in the U.S. is likely to decrease further: The Trump administration set a new cap of 18,000 refugees in the 2020 fiscal year.
The foreign-born share of the U.S. population is at its highest point since 1910.
Summary: Nearly 14% of people living in the U.S. in 2017 were born in another country, extending a steady increase over the past few decades. In absolute numbers, more than 44 million immigrants lived in the U.S. – more than in any other country in the world.
11. The number of people living in the U.S. without authorization has decreased over the past decade, driven by a sharp decline in unauthorized immigrants from Mexico.
Summary: As a result, Mexicans no longer account for the majority of unauthorized immigrants in the country. In 2007, there were 12.2 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., including 6.9 million Mexicans. By 2017, there were 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants, including 4.9 million Mexicans.
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15.
Does Deporting Immigrants Lower Crime? Evidence from Secure Communities
By Annie Laurie Hines and Giovanni Peri
EconoFact, December 11, 2019
https://econofact.org/does-deporting-immigrants-lower-crime-evidence-from-secure-communities
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16.
New from the Migration Policy Institute
Integrating Refugees and Asylum Seekers into the German Economy and Society: Empirical Evidence and Policy Objectives
By Herbert Brücker, Philipp Jaschke, and Yuliya Kosyakova
December 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/integrating-refugees-asylum-seekers-germany
USCIS Fee Increase Proposed Rule Could Represent the Latest Step in Reshaping Immigration to United States
By Jessica Bolter and Doris Meissner
December 2019
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/uscis-fee-hike-could-be-latest-step-reshape-immigration
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Effect of Immigration on Depression among Older Natives in Western Europe
By José J. Escarce and Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12829, December 2019
https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12829/effect-of-immigration-on-depression-among-older-natives-in-western-europe
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The Legacy of Historical Emigration: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
By Erminia Florio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Economics and Finance
CEIS Working Paper No. 478
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3503513
https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/rtvceisrp/478.htm
2. Coordinating Community Reintegration Services for ‘Deportable Alien’ Defendants: A Moral and Financial Imperative
ByAmy Kimpel, University of Alabama School of Law
Florida Law Review, Vol. 70, 2018
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3493264
http://www.floridalawreview.com/2019/coordinating-community-reintegration-services-deportable-alien-defendants-moral-financial-imperative/
3. Criminalizing Immigrant Entrepreneurs (and Their Lawyers)
By Eric Amarante, University of Tennessee College of Law
Boston College Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2020
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3498464
4. Immigration in Europe in the Mid-2010s: ‘A Migration Crisis’?
By Gérard-François Dumont, University of Paris 4 Sorbonne
Population & Avenir, No. 744, Septiembre-Octubre 2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3493548
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337533370_L%27immigration_en_Europe_au_milieu_des_annees_2010_une_crise_migratoire_Immigration_in_Europe_in_the_mid-2010s_a_migration_crisis
5. When 'Material' Loses Meaning: Matter of A-C-M- and the Material Support Bar to Asylum
By Tyler Anne Lee, Columbia Human Rights Law Review; Columbia University
Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 51
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3427472
http://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/hrlr/when-material-loses-meaning-matter-of-a-c-m-and-the-material-support-bar-to-asylum/
6. Why the Legal Strategy of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us All
By Jamie R. Abrams, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 14, 2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3496042
7. The Myth of Enforcing Border Security Versus the Reality of Enforcing Dominant Masculinities
By Jamie R. Abrams, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
California Western Law Review, Vol. 56, 2019
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3490823
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. Congress investigating immgrant detainees' medical care
December 27, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/house-subcommittee-investigating-immgrant-detainees-medical-care.html
2. How U.S. Immigration Policy Changed This Year -- in 10 minutes
December 26, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/how-us-immigration-policy-changed-this-year-in-10-minutes.html
3. An Immigrant's Christmas Eve
December 24, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/an-immigrants-christmas-eve.html
4. An Immigrant’s Christmas Eve, 1979
December 24, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/an-immigrants-christmas-eve-1979.html
5. How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
December 24, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/how-ice-uses-social-media-to-surveil-and-arrest-immigrants.html
6. Pete Buttigieg unveils his immigration plan
December 23, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/pete-buttigieg-unveils-his-immigration-plan.html
7. What's next in the privatization of immigration? Privatized visa processing
December 22, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/whats-next-in-the-privatization-of-immigration-privatized-visa-processing.html
8. Surprise, Surprise: Few Asylum-Seekers Winning Cases Under 'Remain In Mexico' Program
December 22, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/surprise-surprise-.html
9. Executive Office for Immigration Review to Swear in 28 Immigration Judges, Bringing Judge Corps to Highest Level in History
December 21, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/executive-office-for-immigration-review-to-swear-in-28-immigration-judges-bringing-judge-corps-to-highest-level-in-history.html
10. Legal challenge to State Department public charge rules
December 20, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/legal-challenge-to-state-department-public-charge-rules.html
11. The Most Disturbing and Most Inspiring Immigration Stories of 2019
December 20, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/year-in-review-significant-and-disturbing-immigration-stories-of-2019.html
12. Lawsuit says immigration courts are deportation machines
December 19, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/lawsuit-says-immigration-courts-are-deportation-machines.html
13. The Beat Goes On! Joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Restrict Certain "Criminal Aliens'" Eligibility for Asylum
December 18, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/the-beat-goes-on-department-of-justice-and-department-of-homeland-security-to-publish-joint-notice-o.html
14. USCIS Expands Guidance Related to Naturalization Requirement of Good Moral Character
December 18, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/uscis-expands-guidance-related-to-naturalization-requirement-of-good-moral-character.html
15. Must Watch TV: 60 Minutes Interview with El Salvador's President
December 17, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/must-watch-tv-60-minutes-interview-with-el-salvadors-president.html
16. From the Bookshelves: A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy
By Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
December 17, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/from-the-bookshelves-a-federal-right-to-education-fundamental-questions-for-our-democracy-by-kimberl.html
17. How Birthright Citizenship Could Threaten the "Samoan Way"
December 17, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/how-birthright-citizenship-could-threaten-the-samoan-way-.html
18. What Will Conservative Win in UK Mean for Immigration?
December 16, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/what-will-conservative-win-in-uk-mean-for-immigration-.html
19. Top 10 Immigration Stories of 2019
December 16, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/top-10-immigration-stories-of-2019.html
20. Judge rules American Samoans are birthright citizens, merit passports
December 13, 2019
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2019/12/judge-rules-american-samoans-are-us-citizens-merit-passports.html
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
The Rohingya refugee crisis: rethinking solutions and accountability
By Brian Gorlick
RSC Working Paper Series 131, December 18, 2019
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/the-rohingya-refugee-crisis-rethinking-solutions-and-accountability
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Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-citizens from Rights Through Extra-territoriality at Home
By Pauline Maillet
Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, ??? pp.
Hardcover, 9004383492, $168.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9004383492/centerforimmigra
Book Description: In Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-citizens from Rights through Extra-territoriality at Home, Pauline Maillet proposes to render visible the mechanisms by which states make their territory disappear to prevent asylum seekers? arrival. Using legal analysis and ethnography, this book traces how several states have created spaces deemed extra-territorial.
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Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of the Second Generation
By Maria G. Rendon
Russell Sage Foundation, 320 pp.
Paperback, 0871547082, $39.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871547082/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1159 KB, ASIN: B07Z2W4JNX, 352 pp., $31.16
Book Description: A quarter of young adults in the U.S. today are the children of immigrants, and Latinos are the largest minority group. In Stagnant Dreamers, sociologist and social policy expert María Rendón follows 42 young men from two high-poverty Los Angeles neighborhoods as they transition into adulthood. Based on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with them and their immigrant parents, Stagnant Dreamers describes the challenges they face coming of age in the inner city and accessing higher education and good jobs, and demonstrates how family-based social ties and community institutions can serve as buffers against neighborhood violence, chronic poverty, incarceration, and other negative outcomes.
Neighborhoods in East and South Central Los Angeles were sites of acute gang violence that peaked in the 1990s, shattering any romantic notions of American life held by the immigrant parents. Yet, Rendón finds that their children are generally optimistic about their life chances and determined to make good on their parents’ sacrifices. Most are strongly oriented towards work. But despite high rates of employment, most earn modest wages and rely on kinship networks for labor market connections. Those who made social connections outside of their family and neighborhood contexts, more often found higher quality jobs. However, a middle-class lifestyle remains elusive for most, even for college graduates.
Rendón debunks fears of downward assimilation among second-generation Latinos, noting that most of her subjects were employed and many had gone on to college. She questions the ability of institutions of higher education to fully integrate low-income students of color. She shares the story of one Ivy League college graduate who finds himself working in the same low-wage jobs as his parents and peers who did not attend college. Ironically, students who leave their neighborhoods to pursue higher education are often the most exposed to racism, discrimination, and classism.
Rendón demonstrates the importance of social supports in helping second-generation immigrant youth succeed. To further the integration of second-generation Latinos, she suggests investing in community organizations, combating criminalization of Latino youth, and fully integrating them into higher education institutions. StaStagnant Dreamers presents a realistic yet hopeful account of how the Latino second generation is attempting to realize its vision of the American dream.
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Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality
By Francis Musoni, Iddah Otieno, and Angene Wilson
University Press of Kentucky, 226 pp.
Hardcover, 0813178606, $46.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813178606/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 5474 KB, ASIN: B07TVW4YMG, 220 pp., $47.50
Book Description: Following historical and theoretical overview of African immigration, the heart of this book is based on oral history interviews with forty-seven of the more than twenty-two thousand Africa-born immigrants in Kentucky. From a former ambassador from Gambia, a pharmacist from South Africa, a restaurant owner from Guinea, to a certified nursing assistant from the Democratic Republic of Congo -- every immigrant has a unique and complex story of their life experiences and the decisions that led them to emigrate to the United States. The compelling narratives reveal why and how the immigrants came to the Bluegrass state -- whether it was coming voluntarily as a student or forced because of war -- and how they connect with and contribute to their home countries as well as to the US. The immigrants describe their challenges -- language, loneliness, cultural differences, credentials for employment, ignorance towards Africa, and racism -- and positive experiences such as education, job opportunities, and helpful people. One chapter focuses on family -- including interviews with the second generations -- and how the immigrants identify themselves.
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Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities
By Seema Shekhawat and Emanuela C. Del Re
I.B. Tauris, 264 pp.
Hardcover, 1784539570, $86.45
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1784539570/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0755601130, $39.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0755601130/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 570 KB, ASIN: B07S3GS85P, $35.95
Book Description: Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact. Those affected may be people living nearby, those attempting to cross them and even those who succeed in doing so. At the border, vulnerable refugee and migrant communities, especially women, are exposed to state-centred boundary practices, paving the way for both their alienation and exploitation. The militarization of borders subjugates the very position of women in these marginalized areas and often subjects them to further victimization, which is facilitated by patriarchal socio-cultural practice. Structural violence is endemic to these regions and gender interlocks with their perimeters to reinforce and shape violence. This book locates gender and violence along geographical edges and critically examines the gendered experiences of women as global border residents and border crossers. Broadly, it explores two questions. First, what are women's experiences of engaging with borders? Second, where are women positioned in the theory and practice of marking, remarking and demarking these margins?
Offering a nuanced and thorough approach, this book suggests that research on borders and violence needs to focus on how bordered violence shapes the embodiment of gender identity and norms and how they are challenged. It examines an array of issues including forced migration, trafficking and cross-border ties to explore how gender and borders intersect.
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Socially Undocumented: Identity and Imigration Justice
By Amy Reed-Sandoval
Oxford University Press, 240 pp.
Hardcover, 0190619805, $99.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0190619805/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0190619813, $35.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0190619813/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1142 KB, ASIN: B082XHBM2Z, $34.99
Book Description: What does it really mean to be "undocumented," particularly in the contemporary United States? Political philosophers, immigration policy makers, and others have tended to define the term "undocumented migrant" legalistically-that is, in terms of lacking legal authorization to live and work in one's current country of residence. In Socially Undocumented, Reed-Sandoval challenges this "legalistic understanding" by arguing that being socially undocumented is to possess a real, visible, and embodied social identity that does not always track one's legal status. She further argues that achieving immigration justice in the U.S. (and elsewhere) requires a philosophical understanding of the racialized, class-based, and gendered components of socially undocumented identity and oppression.
Socially Undocumented offers a new vision of immigration justice by integrating a descriptive and phenomenological account of socially undocumented identity with a normative and political account of how the oppression with which it is associated ought to be dealt with as a matter of social justice. It also addresses concrete ethical challenges such as the question of whether open borders are morally required, the militarization of the Mexico-U.S. border, the perilous journey that many migrants undertake to get to the United States, the difficult experiences of the women who cross U.S. borders seeking prenatal care while pregnant, and more.
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Cities and Labour Immigration: Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv
By Michael Alexander
Routledge, 256 pp.
Hardcover, 0815388055, $140.80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815388055/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 1138262552, 48.49
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1138262552/centerforimmigra
4004 KB, ASIN: B00AFSQTA2, $46.07
Book Description: Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in multi-city, multi-domain empirical findings, the work provides a fuller understanding of the interaction between cities and their migrant populations. Filling a gap in existing literature on migrant policy between national-level theorizing and local-level study, the book will provide an important basis for future research in the area.
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The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan: Geopolitics, Identity and Nation-Building
By Myung Ja Kim
I.B. Tauris, 288 pp.
Hardcover, 1784537675, $59.40
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1784537675/centerforimmigra
Paperback, 0755601033, $39.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0755601033/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1738 KB, ASIN: B07P7T1HXL, $35.95
Book Description: The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan. Unlike the Korean diasporas living in Russia, China or the US, the Zainichi have become sharply divided along political lines as a result. Myung Ja Kim examines Japan's changing national policies towards the Zainichi in order to understand why this group has not been fully integrated into Japan. Through the prism of this ethnically Korean community, the book reveals the dynamics of alliances and alignments in East Asia, including the rise of China as an economic superpower, the security threat posed by North Korea and the diminishing alliance between Japan and the US. Taking a post-war historical perspective, the research reveals why the Zainichi are vital to Japan's state policy revisionist aims to increase its power internationally and how they were used to increase the country's geopolitical leverage.With a focus on International Relations, this book provides an important analysis of the mechanisms that lie behind nation-building policy, showing the conditions controlling a host state's treatment of diasporic groups.
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Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education, and Islam
By Sumanto Al Qurtuby
I.B. Tauris, 256 pp.
Hardcover, 1838602208, $99.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1838602208/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 930 KB, ASIN: B082NL22FL, $103.50
Book Description: What is the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Indonesia? For centuries, Indonesians have travelled to Saudi Arabia and have been deeply involved in education, scholarship and the creation of centres for Islamic learning in the country. Yet the impact of this type of migration has not yet been the focus of scholarly research and little is known about the important intellectual connections that now exist.
This book examines Indonesian educational migrants and intellectual travellers in Saudi Arabia including students, researchers, teachers and scholars to provide a unique portrait of the religious and intellectual linkages between the two countries. Based on in-depth interviews and questionnaires, Sumanto Al Qurtuby identifies the “Indonesian legacy” in Saudi Arabia and examines in turn how the host country's influential Islamic scholars have impacted on Indonesian Muslims. The research sheds light on the dynamic history of Saudi Arabian-Indonesian relations and the intellectual impact of Indonesian migrants in Saudi Arabia.
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 7, No 48, December 17, 2019
http://www.comparativemigrationstudies.com/
Latest Articles:
Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South
By Inka Stock, Aysen Ustubici, and Susanne U. Schultz
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0161-3
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Demography
Vol. 56, No. 6, December 2019
https://link.springer.com/journal/13524/56/6
Selected article:
Immigration and the Wage Distribution in the United States
By Ken-Hou Lin and Inbar Weiss
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-019-00828-9
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International Journal of Refugee Law
Vol. 31, Nos. 2-3, June-October 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ijrl/issue/31/2-3
Articles:
Reconsidering African Refugee Law
By David James Cantor and Farai Chikwanha
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez032
The Supervision (or Not) of the 1969 OAU Refugee Convention
By Marina Sharpe
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez025
Who Is a Refugee in Africa? A Principled Framework for Interpreting and Applying Africa’s Expanded Refugee Definition
By Tamara Wood
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez026
Mauritian Courts and the Protection of the Rights of Asylum Seekers in the Absence of Dedicated Legislation
By Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez036
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 45, No. 17, December 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/45/17
Articles:
Slippery discrimination: a review of the drivers of migrant and minority housing disadvantage
By Sue Lukes, Nigel de Noronha, and Nissa Finney
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1480996
The roles of social housing providers in creating ‘integrated’ communities
By Nissa Finney, Bethan Harries, James Rhodes, and Kitty Lymperopoulou
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1480997
Diversity in place: narrations of diversity in an ethnically mixed, urban area
By Bethan Harries, Bridget Byrne, James Rhodes, and Stephanie Wallace
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1480998
The rise and fall of the ‘inner city’: race, space and urban policy in postwar England
By James Rhodes and Laurence Brown
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1480999
Local deprivation and the labour market integration of new migrants to England
By Ken Clark, Lindsey Garratt, Yaojun Li, Kitty Lymperopoulou, and William Shankley
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1481000
How is the benefit of mixed social networks altered by neighbourhood deprivation for ethnic groups?
By Simon Peters, Nissa Finney, and Dharmi Kapadia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1481002
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Migration Studies
Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2019
https://academic.oup.com/migration/issue/7/4
Articles:
Untold stories: Jamaican transnational mothers in New York City
By Derrace Garfield McCallum
https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny017
Young Somalis’ social identity in Sweden and Britain: The interplay of group dynamics, socio-political environments, and transnational ties in social identification processes
By Sarah Scuzzarello, Benny Carlson
https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny013
Immigration detention: An Anglo model
By Cetta Mainwaring, Maria Lorena Cook
https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny015
Paper integration: The structural constraints and consequences of the US refugee resettlement program
By Molly Fee
https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny016
‘I was professor in India and here I am a taxi driver’: Middle class Indian migrants to New Zealand
By Yasmin Hussain
https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny025
Living the spectre of forced return: negotiating deportability in British immigration detention
By Sarah Turnbull
https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny024
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The Social Contract
Vol. 30, No. 1, Fall 2019
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/index.shtml
Articles:
A Note from the Editor: John Tanton and Thirty Years of The Social Contract
By Wayne Lutton
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-editor.shtml
The End of an Era: John Tanton (1934-2019) and The Social Contract (1990-2019)
By The Editors
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-end-of-an-era.shtml
Visionary, Ecological Prophet, Heretic - R.I.P. John Tanton, M.D.
By Leon Kolankiewicz
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-kolankiewicz.shtml
Tribute to John Tanton
By Fred Elbel
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc_30_1_elbel.shtml
A Visionary, 'Renaissance Man'
By Sharon Barnes
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-barnes.shtml
John's Jades: Recollections at the celebration of the life of John Tanton
By Roy H. Beck
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-beck.shtml
Fond Memories of John Tanton: The ‘Grand Master of Life’
By Denis McCormack
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-mccormack.shtml
Candidate Tanton
By Rick Oltman
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-oltman-candidate-tanton.shtml
Same Hacks Smearing John Tanton Are Shilling for Soros
By James Kirkpatrick
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-kirkpatrick.shtml
Of Conspiracy Theories and Funhouse Mirrors
By The Editors
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-editors-3.shtml
John and Mary Lou Tanton: An Appreciation
By Richard D. Lamm
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-lamm.shtml
The Relationship of Legal to Illegal Immigration
By John H. Tanton, M.D.
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-tanton-1.shtml
John Tanton, Citizen Activist
By Alan Wall
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-wall.shtml
On John Tanton and The Camp of the Saints
By Michelle Malkin
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-malkin.shtml
A Citizen Who Took Up Arms for His Country
By Peter Brimelow
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-brimelow.shtml
Summary Thoughts on Immigration Policy
By John H. Tanton, M.D.
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tscc-30-1-tanton-summary-thoughts.shtml
Fundamentals
By John H. Tanton, M.D.
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-tanton-fundamentals.shtml
Some Concluding Thoughts on John Tanton
By The Editors
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-editors-concluding-thoughts.shtml
Enabling Asylum Fraud - The Strange Case of a Federal Employees Union
By Carl F. Horowitz
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-horowitz.shtml
How Montgomery County, Maryland Protects Illegal Aliens
By Dave Gibson
https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_30_1/tsc-30-1-gibson.shtml
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