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** Immigration Reading, 1/23/20
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. (#1) State Department Visa Bulletin - February 2020
2. (#2) USCIS report on active DACA recipients
3. (#3) Congressional Budget Office report on the economic impact of the foreign-born population
4. (#4) CRS reports on border barrier construction, DHS component funding, power to exclude aliens, other
5. (#5) GAO report on DHS employee morale survey
6. (#6) House testimony on DHS efforts to prevent child deaths in custody
7. (#7) House testimony on low employee morale at the DHS
8. (#8) House testimony on strengthening security and the rule of law in Mexico
9. (#9) Canada: Studies on the conditions of immigrants and non-permanent residents
10. (#10) Finland: Population statistics
11. (#11) Germany: Population statistics
12. (#12) N.Z.: Migration statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
13. (#13) SCOTUSblog report on the government's appeal for relief on immigration rule
14. (#14) Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration indices
15. (#15) Analysis of FY2018 legal immigration statistics
16. (#16) TRAC reports on immigration court backlog and variances in asylum case decisions
17. (#17) Two new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
18. (#18) Four new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
19. (#19) Eight new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
20. (#20) Seven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
21. (#21) Eighteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
22. (#22) CATO report on immigrant and native consumption of means‐tested welfare and entitlement benefits
23. (#23) "Ethical considerations in providing psychological services to unaccompanied immigrant children"
24. (#24) "How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement"
25. (#25) U.K.: Three new reports from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
26. (#26) "Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances?"
27. (#27) "How migration policies moderate the diffusion of terrorism"
28. (#28) Journal report on integrating the immigrant population into the city of Madrid
29. (#29) World Bank reports on migration in Libya and migration and remittances in the former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus
BOOKS
30. (#30) Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
31. (#31) Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance
32. (#32) Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
33. (#33) Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center
34. (#34) The Age of Migration, Sixth Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World
35. (#35) Documenting Americans: A Political History of National ID Card Proposals in the United States
36. (#36) Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People
37. (#37) Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration
JOURNALS
38. (#38) Comparative Migration Studies
39. (#39) Rural Migration News
40. (#40) The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS)
Visa Bulletin For February 2020
Vol. X, No. 38
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Approximate Active DACA Recipients - September 30, 2019
U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service, January 14, 2019
Contains the number of people with a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) expiration date on or after Sepember 30, 2019, by the month and year that their current DACA status expires. The report also contains the number of pending DACA renewal applications for DACA recipients by the month/year that their current DACA expires. People who have obtained Lawful Permanent Resident status or U.S. citizenship are excluded. Contains information on requests for Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) through Sep. 30, 2019. The cumulative number of requests accepted for processing, biometrics appointments scheduled, requests ready for review and requests completed to-date are displayed.
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The Foreign-Born Population and Its Effects on the U.S. Economy and the Federal Budget — An Overview
Congressional Budget Office, January 9, 2020
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Funding U.S.-Mexico Border Barrier Construction: Current Issues
Updated January 3, 2020
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Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2020: In Brief
Updated January 3, 2020
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The Power of Congress and the Executive to Exclude Aliens: Constitutional Principles
December 30, 2019
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Legal Authority to Repurpose Funds for Border Barrier Construction
Updated December 30, 2019
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Do Warrantless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Violate the Fourth Amendment?
CRS Legal Sidebar, December 20, 2019
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Immigration Enforcement & the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: Recent Litigation on State Information-Sharing Restrictions
CRS Legal Sidebar, December 18, 2019
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New from the General Accountability Office
Department of Homeland Security: Employee Morale Survey Scores Highlight Progress and Continued Challenges
Statement of Christopher P Currie, Director, Homeland Security & Justice, Homeland Security and Justice
GAO-20-349T, January 14, 2020
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, & Operations
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Assessing the Adequacy of DHS Efforts to Prevent Child Deaths in Custody
Opening Statements:
Subcommittee Chairwoman Kathleen Rice
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Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
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Witness testimony:
Brian Hastings, Chief, Law Enforcement Operations, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Alex Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS, FAEMS, Senior Medical Officer - Operations, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, & Accountability
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Seventeen Years Later: Why is Morale at DHS Still Low
Opening Statements:
Subcommittee Chairwoman Xochitl Torres Small
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Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
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Witness testimony:
Angela Bailey, Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Chris Currie, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office
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Max Stier, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade
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Strengthening Security and the Rule of Law in Mexico
Witness testimony: [See video of hearing]
David Shirk, Professor of Political Science, University of San Diego
Maureen Meyer, Director for Mexico and Migrant Rights, Washington Office on Latin America
Richard G. Miles, Senior Associate (Non-resident), Americas Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
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Update of the Longitudinal Immigration Database coverage
Statistics Canada, January 21, 2020
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Changes in outcomes of immigrants and non-permanent residents, subprovincial results
January 13, 2020
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Preliminary population statistics
Decrease in birth rate still continues
Statistics Finland, January 23, 2020
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Summary: According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population at the end of the year was 5,527,573. During 2019 Finland's population increased by 7,568 persons. The reason for thepopulationincreasewasmigrationgainfromabroad:thenumberofimmigrantswas17,903 higher than that of emigrants. The number of births was 7,962 lower than that of deaths. The preliminary total fertility rate was the lowest in the measuring history, 1.35.
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Altogether 32,428 persons immigrated to Finland from abroad and 14,525 persons emigrated from Finland during 2018. The number of immigrants was 1,322 higher and the number of emigrants 4,616 lower than in the previousyear. In all, 8,564 of the immigrants and 9,865 of the emigrants were Finnish citizens.
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Population growth in 2019 expected to be lowest since 2012
Number of inhabitants in Germany increased by roughly 200,000 compared with 2018
Statistics Germany, January 17, 2020
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Summary: According to first estimates of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), approximately 200,000 more people were living in Germany at the end of 2019 than a year earlier. Standing at 83.2 million, the country’s population reached another record high. However, the population growth was much smaller than in the years 2013 to 2018. A similarly weak growth was last recorded in 2012. Since the time Germany was reunited nearly three decades ago, the country’s population has mainly been growing; exceptions were the years 1998 and 2003 to 2010. This population growth has exclusively been due to net immigration. Without the migration surplus, the population would have fallen since 1972 because more people died than were born in each year ever since.
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Net migration high but down from peak
Statistics New Zealand, January 22, 2020
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Summary: Today’s release of updated migration estimates indicates New Zealand’s annual net migration for the year ended May 2019 was 46,100 (± 800), Stats NZ said today. This is down 9,400 from the estimate released in December 2019 due to improved linking.
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Fewer migrant arrivals for year ended May 2019 in latest estimates
In the year ended May 2019, there were provisionally 135,600 migrant arrivals, down 6,100 from the year ended May 2018 and down 10,900 from the year ended July 2016 peak (146,600).
Migrant departures were 89,500, up 2,700 from the previous year and up 6,800 from the year ended July 2016.
Migrant arrivals and departures include the flows of New Zealand citizens as well as the flows of non-New Zealand citizens as both affect the population living in New Zealand.
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Government comes to court for relief on immigration rule
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSblog, January 13, 2020
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
January 21, 2020
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Excerpt: In an effort to control illegal immigration, 67% believe the government should mandate that all employers use the federal electronic E-Verify system to help ensure that they hire only legal workers for U.S. jobs. Only 21% disagree, but 12% are are not sure.
Sixty percent (60%) of voters favor giving lifetime work permits to most of the approximately two million illegal residents who came to this country when they were minors, with 35% who Strongly Favor it. Thirty-three percent (33%) oppose lifetime work permits for these illegal immigrants, but that includes just 17% who are Strongly Opposed.
Voters are closely divided, however, when it comes to the estimated 12 million illegal residents of all ages who currently reside in the United States. Forty-six percent (46%) favor giving lifetime work permits to most of these illegal immigrants, including 21% who Strongly Favor such action. Forty-seven percent (47%) are opposed with 28% who are Strongly Opposed.
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
January 14, 2020
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Excerpt: When it comes to legal immigration, 46% say the government should be adding no more than 750,000 new immigrants each year, with 32% who say it should be fewer than 500,000. Thirty-eight percent (38%) favor adding one million or more legal newcomers per year, including 11% who say the figure should be higher than 1.5 million. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters favor allowing legal immigrants to bring only their spouse and minor children with them. Just 30% support allowing them to eventually bring other adult relatives in a process that can include extended family and their spouses’ families. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.
Only 26% of voters think Congress should increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs. Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe instead that the country already has enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.
The Census Bureau projects that current immigration policies are responsible for most U.S. population growth and will add 75 million people over the next 40 years. In terms of the effect on the overall quality of life in the United States, just 33% of voters want to continue immigration-driven population growth at the current levels. Forty-two percent (42%) favor slowing down immigration-driven population growth, while 13% want to have no such population growth at all.
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Analysis of FY2018 Legal Immigration Statistics
National Foundation for American Policy Brief, January 2020
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans Increase in Immigration Court Backlog
January 21, 2020
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Still Not Enough Judges
Despite the many actions by the Trump Administration designed to stem the growth in the Immigration Court backlog, the court's backlog continues to climb. In just the three-month period from October through December 2019 the backlog has grown by 65,929 new cases. The court ended December 2019 with 1,089,696[1] in its active backlog[2]. Three months earlier at the end of FY 2019 (September 2019) the active backlog stood at 1,023,767.
During the first three months of FY 2020 (October 2019 - December 2019), the pace of court case completions is up compared to the same period from the previous year (October 2018 - December 2018). This should not be surprising. The court hired 92 new judges during FY 2019 and, unlike last year at this time, the court isn't stymied by the partial government shutdown. But the flow of new cases continues to outpace completions.
Asylum Decisions Vary Widely Across Judges and Courts - Latest Results
January 13, 2020
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Excerpt:Twelve immigration courts accumulated denial rates above 90%. This included Jena, a small court with two judges, where 99 percent of 397 asylum applications - and 100 percent of Judge Crooks' 226 cases - were denied. It also included larger courts: Atlanta denied over 97 percent of over 2,000 asylum applications, Las Vegas denied 93 percent of its 2,000 applications, and Conroe denied 92 percent of just over 850 applications. In contrast, only seven immigration courts deny less than 50 percent of cases: Newark (49%), Phoenix (48%), Chicago (47%), Boston (42%), Honolulu (31%), San Francisco (30%), and New York (26%).
These top five busiest courts discussed above include 166 Immigration Judges - roughly a third of all judges - working at an average pace of about 86 asylum cases per year[2]. Of the 27 judges with over 1,000 completed cases, 20 work in one of these five courts. Houston and New York are home to the three judges with more than 2,000 decisions - Judges Endelman, Bhagat, and Laforest - who collectively decided nearly 7,100 cases during this six year period, as many as the 61 judges with the least decisions on record combined. In contrast to judges in the busiest five courts, the remaining two-thirds of judges completed an average of 54 asylum cases per year. Outliers such as Judge Parchert in Seattle and Judge Williams in Baltimore, who completed, on average, 284 and 245 cases per year respectively, buck this trend.
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
States Taking the Reins? Employment Verification Requirements and Local Labor Market Outcomes
By Shalise Ayromloo, Benjamin Feigenberg, and Darren Lubotsky
NBER Working Paper No. 26676, January 2020
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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
By Gordon B. Dahl, Cristina Felfe, Paul Frijters, and Helmut Rainer
NBER Working Paper No. 26674, January 2020
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
Rebuilding Community after Crisis: Striking a New Social Contract for Diverse Societies
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Meghan Benton
January 2020
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Global Demand for Medical Professionals Drives Indians Abroad Despite Acute Domestic Health-Care Worker Shortages
By Margaret Walton-Roberts and S. Irudaya Rajan
Migration Information Source Feature, January 23, 2020
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Chinese Immigrants in the United States
By Carlos Echeverria-Estrada and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source Spotlight, January 15, 2020
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Welcome Wears Thin for Colombians in Ecuador as Venezuelans Become More Visible
By Jeffrey D. Pugh, Luis F. Jiménez, and Bettina Latuff
Migration Information Source Feature, January 9, 2020
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany
By Felix Stips and Krisztina Kis-Katos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12903, January 2020
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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
By Bjorn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, and Torun Osterberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12880, January 2020
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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, and Chunbei Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12876, January 2020
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Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
By Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, and Joost Bollens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12875, January 2020
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Can Sanctuary Polices Reduce Domestic Violence?
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Monica Deza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12868, January 2020
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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
By Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, and Pierre-Louis Vézina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12860, January 2020
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Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
By Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, and Jackline Wahba
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858, January 2020
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Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12854, January 2020
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Immigration and Wage Dynamics in Germany
By Sabine Klinger, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, Institute for Employment Research (IAB); Anvar Musayev, International Monetary Fund (IMF); Jean-Marc Natal, Swiss National Bank; and Enzo Weber, University of Regensburg
IMF Working Paper No. 19/301
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2. Legal Status and Local Spending: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA
By Navid Sabet, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Faculty of Economics and Christoph Winter, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
CESifo Working Paper No. 7611
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3. The Image of Immigration in American Media Discourse (the Case of Internet Memes)
By Svetlana Kanashina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
Posted: January 20, 2020
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4. Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
By Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Department of Economics and Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University Department of Economics
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14254
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5. Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
By Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Department of Economics; Elie Murard, IZA; and Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics (PSE)
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14211
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6. Hong Kong’s Strict Immigration Control: The Family As the Unit of Non-protection and Deprivation of Human Rights Protection
By P.Y. Lo, The University of Hong Kong
Posted: January 10, 2020
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7. Against the Wind—Sustainability, Migration, Presidential Discretion
By Steven Ferrey, Suffolk University Law School
Columbia Journal of Environmental Law Vol. 44, No. 341
Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 19-13
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. Pregnancy ban to take effect this week
January 23, 2020
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2. Democratic Member of Congress Facing Denaturalization and More?
January 23, 2020
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3. Climate Refugees: UN Says People Fleeing Climate Crisis Cannot Be Forced To Return Home
January 21, 2020
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4. Trump Confirms Intent to Expand Muslim Ban
January 21, 2020
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5. Government immigration policies are harming trafficking survivors
January 21, 2020
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6. Expanding Criminal Bars to Asylum Nonsensical
January 20, 2020
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7. Birthright tourism moves birthright citizenship debate... abroad
January 19, 2020
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8. Library of Congress: Birthright Citizenship Around the World
January 18, 2020
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9. Comments Needed! 3 Days to Repsond to CFR Proposal on Criminal Asylum Bars
January 17, 2020
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10. I’m a "Liberal" Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted. Hmmmmmmm
January 17, 2020
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11. Immigration Article of the Day: Sanctuary States
By Rose Cuison Villazor and Alma Godinez-Navarro
January 16, 2020
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12. Trump administration Asks Supreme Court to Stay "Public Charge" Injunction
January 14, 2020
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13. Immigration Article of the Day: Why the Legal Strategy of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us All
By Jamie R. Abrams
January 14, 2020
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14. Michael Kagan's grading of the top candidates' immigration platforms
January 13, 2020
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15. Identifying the Bodies of Migrants
January 13, 2020
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16. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's New Roles Could Impact Meghan's Immigration Status—and Their Taxes
January 12, 2020
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17. California court of appeal: Orange County Beach City Cannot Opt Out of California Sanctuary State Law
January 11, 2020
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18. Two Parents Sue Over Family Separation Policy
January 10, 2020
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Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means‐Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2016: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
By Tu Le and Alex Nowrasteh
Immigration Research and Policy Brief No. 15, January 14, 2020
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Ethical considerations in providing psychological services to unaccompanied immigrant children
By Genevieve F. Dash
Ethics & Behavior, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2020
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How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement
By Tom K. Wong, S. Deborah Kang, Carolina Valdivia, and Josefina Espino
Perspectives on Politics, Cambridge University Press, January 14, 2020
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
Overcoming refugee containment and crisis
By Cathryn Costello
Cambridge University Press, January 14, 2020
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The ‘host’ label: forming and transforming a community identity at the Kakuma Refugee Camp
By Cory Rodgers
Journal of Refugee Studies, January 13, 2020
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The Rohingya refugee crisis: rethinking solutions and accountability
By Brian Gorlick
RSC Working Paper Series 131, December 18, 2019
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
By Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Miaomiao Zou
Journal of Developmental Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 2020
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How migration policies moderate the diffusion of terrorism
By Tobias Bohmelt and Vincenzo Bove
European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 59, No. 1, February 2020
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Integrating the immigrant population into the city of Madrid (Spain): preliminary data about the sociolinguistic attitudes of the host community
By Maria Sancho-Pascual
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 41, Nos. 1, 2, January 2020
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Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis
By Michele Di Maio Valerio, Leone Sciabolazza, and Vasco Molini
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9110, January 2020
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Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus: What Are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences?
By Martin Brownbridge and Sudharshan Canagarajah
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9111, January 2020
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Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
By Margaret E. Franz and Kumarini Silva
Routledge, 200 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1138602906, $155.00
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Book Description: This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how these boundaries are made and sustained, examining how belonging is mediated by material relations of power, capital, and circuits of communication technology on the one side and representations of identity, nation, and homeland on the other. The authors’ diverse methodologies, ranging from archival research, oral histories, literary criticism, and ethnography attend to these contradictions by studying how the practices of migration and identification, procured and produced through global exchanges of bodies and goods that cross borders, foreclose those borders to (re)produce, and (re)imagine the homeland and its boundaries.
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Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance
By Simon Behrman
Routledge, 298 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1138304174, $155.00
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Book Description: In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental aspects of asylum as practised in the past and in present day social movements, namely its concern with defining space rather than people and its role as a space of resistance or otherness to sovereign law, this book demonstrates that asylum has historically been antagonistic to law and vice versa. In contrast, twentieth-century refugee law was constructed precisely to ensure the effective management and control over the movements of forced migrants. To illustrate the complex ways in which these two paradigms – asylum and refugee law – interact with one another, this book examines their historical development and concludes with in-depth studies of the Sanctuary Movement in
the United States and the Sans-Papiers of France.
The book will appeal to researchers and students of refugee law and refugee studies; legal and political philosophy; ancient, medieval and modern legal history; and sociology of political movements.
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Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
By Anna Lise Purkey
Routledge, 218 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0367349531, $153.60
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Book Description: This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approach to address fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps.
Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the opportunity structure available to the individual. Thus, by helping to increase the capability of refugees to participate actively in the decisions that most affect their core rights and interests, participatory approaches to legal empowerment can also assist in securing other capabilities, ultimately ensuring that refugees are able to live dignified lives while in protracted exile.
Ultimately, the book demonstrates that legal empowerment of refugees can bring lasting benefits in establishing trust between refugees, the state, and local communities. It will be of interest to researchers within the fields of refugee studies, international law, development studies, and political science, as well as to policy-makers and practitioners working in the fields of refugee assistance and humanitarian intervention.
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Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center
By Tyler O'Neil
Bombardier Books, 240 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1642934399, $16.99
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Book Description: The Southern Poverty Law Center started with noble intentions and has done much good over the years, but a pernicious corruption has undermined the organization’s original mission and contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views. The SPLC’s false accusations have done concrete harm, costing the organization millions in lawsuits. A deranged man even attempted to commit mass murder, having been inspired by the SPLC’s rhetoric.
How did a civil rights group dedicated to saving the innocent from the death penalty become a pernicious threat to America’s free speech culture? How did an organization dedicated to fighting poverty wind up with millions in the Cayman Islands? How did a civil rights stalwart find itself accused of racism and sexism?
Making Hate Pay tells the inside story of how the SPLC yielded to many forms of corruption, and what it means for free speech in America today. It also explains why Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC’s disingenuous tactics at face value, and the serious damage they cause by trusting this corrupt organization.
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The Age of Migration, Sixth Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World
By Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, et al.
The Guilford Press, 443 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1462542891, $45.00
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Book Description: Migration is a central dynamic in globalization that is recasting contemporary states and societies in distinctive, powerful ways. Now with more balanced coverage of Western and non-Western regions, this leading text has been revised and updated with the latest theories, policy information, and interdisciplinary research. The book explores the causes, dynamics, and consequences of international population movements, as well as the experiences of migrants themselves. Chapters examine migration trends and patterns in all major world regions, how migration transforms both destination and origin societies, and the effects of migration and increasing ethnic diversity on national identity and politics. Useful pedagogical features include boxed case studies; extensive tables, graphs, and maps; end-of-chapter Guides to Further Reading; and a companion website with additional case studies, PowerPoint slides, and other resources for students and instructors.
New to This Edition:
*A wealth of new data, increased attention to non-Western regions and perspectives, and stronger analysis of long-term trends.
*Chapter critically evaluating different categories used to describe migrants and analyze migration, including a myth-busting discussion of "climate refugees."
*Chapter on the evolution and effectiveness of migration policies.
*Chapter on how migration affects origin countries.
*Expanded coverage of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
*Analyses of timely topics, including anti-immigrant politics and Islamophobia; migration policies under Trump; large-scale refugee movements; the growth of new types of mobility for such purposes as education, marriage or retirement; and the tools governments use to control migration (the "Migration Policy Toolbox").
*Glossary of key terms, which are highlighted throughout the text.
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Documenting Americans: A Political History of National ID Card Proposals in the United States
By Magdalena Krajewska
Cambridge University Press, 296 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781316510100, $79.78
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Book Description: This is the first and only comprehensive, book-length political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. The book focuses on the period from 1915 to 2016, including the post-9/11 debates and policy decisions regarding the introduction of technologically-advanced identification documents. Putting the United States in comparative perspective and connecting the vital issues of immigration and homeland security, Magdalena Krajewska shows how national ID card proposals have been woven into political conflict across a variety of policy fields. Findings contradict conventional wisdom, debunking two common myths: that Americans are opposed to national ID cards and that American policymakers never propose national ID cards. Dr Krajewska draws on extensive archival research; high-level interviews with politicians, policymakers, and ID card technology experts in Washington, DC and London; and public opinion polls.
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Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People
By Alex Sager
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 146 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1786606275, $90.00
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Book Description: This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a global economy where the mobility of goods and capital is combined with severe restrictions on the movement of most of the world’s poor. Alex Sager argues that immigration restrictions violate human rights and sustain unjust global inequalities, and that we should reject these dogmas that deprive hundreds of millions of people of opportunities solely because of their place of birth. Opening borders would promote human freedom, foster economic prosperity, and mitigate global inequalities. Sager contends that studies of migration from economics, history, political science, and other disciplines reveal that open borders are a feasible goal for political action, and that citizens around the world have a
moral obligation to work toward open borders.
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Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration
By Ramona Mielusel and Simona Emilia Pruteanu
Palgrave Macmillan, 260 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 3030301575, $109.99
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Book Description: The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes. Although The West has wished to revisit internal and international politics concerning migration policies, refugee status, integration, secularism, and the dismantling of communitarianism, events like the Syrian refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks in France in 2015-2016, and the economic crisis of 2008 have resurrected concepts such as national identity, integration, citizenship and re-shaping state policies in many developed countries. In France and Canada, more recent public elections have brought complex democratic political figures like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau to the public eye. Both leaders were elected based on their promising political agendas that aimed at bringing their countries into the new millennium; Trudeau promotes multiculturalism, while Macron touts the diverse nation and the inclusion of diverse ethnic communities to the national model. This edited collection
aims to establish a dialogue between these two countries and across disciplines in search of such discursive illustrations and opposing discourses. Analyzing the cultural and political tensions between minority groups and the state in light of political events that question ideas of citizenship and belonging to a multicultural nation, the chapters in this volume serve as a testimonial to the multiple views on the political and public perception of multicultural practices and their national and international applicability to our current geopolitical context.
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, No. 1-2, January 13, 16, 2020
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Latest Articles:
Framing migration in the southern Mediterranean: how do civil society actors evaluate EU migration policies? The case of Tunisia
By Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman
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Rural Migration News
Vol. 26, No. 1, January 2020
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IMMIGRATION
Immigration, Politics
As President Trump reaches three years in office, what are his major effects on immigration? Trump issued executive orders to implement three campaign promises soon after taking office in January 2017: building a wall on the Mexico-US border, increasing deportations, and reducing refugee admissions overall and barring visitors from particular countries, the so-called Muslim ban.
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DHS: CBP, ICE, USCIS
The Department of Homeland Security's acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan, resigned after six months in October 2019. Under McAleenan, the US signed agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras that require non-citizens passing through these countries to seek asylum there rather than in the US.
For example, Salvadorans and Hondurans who pass through Guatemala and Mexico en route to the US to apply for asylum could be returned to Guatemala to seek asylum there. In January 2020, DHS was reportedly considering sending Mexican asylum seekers to Guatemala.
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H-2A; H-2B: AEWR, FWMA
DOL certified 257,666 jobs to be filled with H-2A workers in FY19, up 11 percent from FY18. The top five H-2A states, Florida, Georgia, Washington, California, and North Carolina, accounted for over half of the H-2A jobs certified. Two-thirds of H-2A job requests are made between January and June.
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Canada, Mexico
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was poised to be ratified by all three countries after Democrats in December 2019 won additions to ensure that Mexico enforces its labor laws in ways that should raise Mexican labor costs.
Trump promised that the USMCA would return auto jobs to the US, since the North American content requirement was raised from 62.5 to 75 percent, and 40 to 45 percent of auto components must be made by workers earning at least $16 an hour to trade freely. A fourth of the new vehicles sold in the US are assembled in Canada or Mexico.
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Europe, Asia
Almost nine million foreigners applied for asylum in the major EU countries between 2003 and 2017, including 1.2 million in 2015-16. About 30 percent were recognized as in need of protection during their first adjuration, and half of these or a sixth were recognized as refugees (the others received some form of temporary protected status). An additional 10 percent received refugee status or TPS after appeals of negative first decisions.
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Global Trends
The IOM's World Migration Report 2020 surveyed trends in international migration, noting that UN's DESA estimated there were 272 million international migrants in 2019, up from 221 million in 2010. The number of international migrants has tripled since 1970, and the migrant share of the world's population rose from 2.3 percent to 3.5 percent of the world's 7.7 billion people in 2019.
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The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS)
Winter 2020
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Self-employment and reason for migration: are those who migrate for asylum different from other migrants?
By Zovanga L. Kone, Isabel Ruiz, and Carlos Vargas-Silva
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. (#1) State Department Visa Bulletin - February 2020
2. (#2) USCIS report on active DACA recipients
3. (#3) Congressional Budget Office report on the economic impact of the foreign-born population
4. (#4) CRS reports on border barrier construction, DHS component funding, power to exclude aliens, other
5. (#5) GAO report on DHS employee morale survey
6. (#6) House testimony on DHS efforts to prevent child deaths in custody
7. (#7) House testimony on low employee morale at the DHS
8. (#8) House testimony on strengthening security and the rule of law in Mexico
9. (#9) Canada: Studies on the conditions of immigrants and non-permanent residents
10. (#10) Finland: Population statistics
11. (#11) Germany: Population statistics
12. (#12) N.Z.: Migration statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
13. (#13) SCOTUSblog report on the government's appeal for relief on immigration rule
14. (#14) Rasmussen Reports weekly immigration indices
15. (#15) Analysis of FY2018 legal immigration statistics
16. (#16) TRAC reports on immigration court backlog and variances in asylum case decisions
17. (#17) Two new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
18. (#18) Four new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
19. (#19) Eight new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
20. (#20) Seven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
21. (#21) Eighteen new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
22. (#22) CATO report on immigrant and native consumption of means‐tested welfare and entitlement benefits
23. (#23) "Ethical considerations in providing psychological services to unaccompanied immigrant children"
24. (#24) "How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement"
25. (#25) U.K.: Three new reports from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
26. (#26) "Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances?"
27. (#27) "How migration policies moderate the diffusion of terrorism"
28. (#28) Journal report on integrating the immigrant population into the city of Madrid
29. (#29) World Bank reports on migration in Libya and migration and remittances in the former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus
BOOKS
30. (#30) Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
31. (#31) Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance
32. (#32) Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
33. (#33) Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center
34. (#34) The Age of Migration, Sixth Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World
35. (#35) Documenting Americans: A Political History of National ID Card Proposals in the United States
36. (#36) Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People
37. (#37) Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration
JOURNALS
38. (#38) Comparative Migration Studies
39. (#39) Rural Migration News
40. (#40) The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS)
Visa Bulletin For February 2020
Vol. X, No. 38
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Approximate Active DACA Recipients - September 30, 2019
U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service, January 14, 2019
Contains the number of people with a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) expiration date on or after Sepember 30, 2019, by the month and year that their current DACA status expires. The report also contains the number of pending DACA renewal applications for DACA recipients by the month/year that their current DACA expires. People who have obtained Lawful Permanent Resident status or U.S. citizenship are excluded. Contains information on requests for Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) through Sep. 30, 2019. The cumulative number of requests accepted for processing, biometrics appointments scheduled, requests ready for review and requests completed to-date are displayed.
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The Foreign-Born Population and Its Effects on the U.S. Economy and the Federal Budget — An Overview
Congressional Budget Office, January 9, 2020
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Funding U.S.-Mexico Border Barrier Construction: Current Issues
Updated January 3, 2020
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Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2020: In Brief
Updated January 3, 2020
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The Power of Congress and the Executive to Exclude Aliens: Constitutional Principles
December 30, 2019
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Legal Authority to Repurpose Funds for Border Barrier Construction
Updated December 30, 2019
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Do Warrantless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Violate the Fourth Amendment?
CRS Legal Sidebar, December 20, 2019
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Immigration Enforcement & the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: Recent Litigation on State Information-Sharing Restrictions
CRS Legal Sidebar, December 18, 2019
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Department of Homeland Security: Employee Morale Survey Scores Highlight Progress and Continued Challenges
Statement of Christopher P Currie, Director, Homeland Security & Justice, Homeland Security and Justice
GAO-20-349T, January 14, 2020
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, & Operations
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Assessing the Adequacy of DHS Efforts to Prevent Child Deaths in Custody
Opening Statements:
Subcommittee Chairwoman Kathleen Rice
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Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
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Witness testimony:
Brian Hastings, Chief, Law Enforcement Operations, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Alex Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS, FAEMS, Senior Medical Officer - Operations, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, & Accountability
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Seventeen Years Later: Why is Morale at DHS Still Low
Opening Statements:
Subcommittee Chairwoman Xochitl Torres Small
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Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
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Witness testimony:
Angela Bailey, Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Chris Currie, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office
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Max Stier, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade
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Strengthening Security and the Rule of Law in Mexico
Witness testimony: [See video of hearing]
David Shirk, Professor of Political Science, University of San Diego
Maureen Meyer, Director for Mexico and Migrant Rights, Washington Office on Latin America
Richard G. Miles, Senior Associate (Non-resident), Americas Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
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Update of the Longitudinal Immigration Database coverage
Statistics Canada, January 21, 2020
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Changes in outcomes of immigrants and non-permanent residents, subprovincial results
January 13, 2020
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Preliminary population statistics
Decrease in birth rate still continues
Statistics Finland, January 23, 2020
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Summary: According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population at the end of the year was 5,527,573. During 2019 Finland's population increased by 7,568 persons. The reason for thepopulationincreasewasmigrationgainfromabroad:thenumberofimmigrantswas17,903 higher than that of emigrants. The number of births was 7,962 lower than that of deaths. The preliminary total fertility rate was the lowest in the measuring history, 1.35.
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Altogether 32,428 persons immigrated to Finland from abroad and 14,525 persons emigrated from Finland during 2018. The number of immigrants was 1,322 higher and the number of emigrants 4,616 lower than in the previousyear. In all, 8,564 of the immigrants and 9,865 of the emigrants were Finnish citizens.
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Population growth in 2019 expected to be lowest since 2012
Number of inhabitants in Germany increased by roughly 200,000 compared with 2018
Statistics Germany, January 17, 2020
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Summary: According to first estimates of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), approximately 200,000 more people were living in Germany at the end of 2019 than a year earlier. Standing at 83.2 million, the country’s population reached another record high. However, the population growth was much smaller than in the years 2013 to 2018. A similarly weak growth was last recorded in 2012. Since the time Germany was reunited nearly three decades ago, the country’s population has mainly been growing; exceptions were the years 1998 and 2003 to 2010. This population growth has exclusively been due to net immigration. Without the migration surplus, the population would have fallen since 1972 because more people died than were born in each year ever since.
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Net migration high but down from peak
Statistics New Zealand, January 22, 2020
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Summary: Today’s release of updated migration estimates indicates New Zealand’s annual net migration for the year ended May 2019 was 46,100 (± 800), Stats NZ said today. This is down 9,400 from the estimate released in December 2019 due to improved linking.
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Fewer migrant arrivals for year ended May 2019 in latest estimates
In the year ended May 2019, there were provisionally 135,600 migrant arrivals, down 6,100 from the year ended May 2018 and down 10,900 from the year ended July 2016 peak (146,600).
Migrant departures were 89,500, up 2,700 from the previous year and up 6,800 from the year ended July 2016.
Migrant arrivals and departures include the flows of New Zealand citizens as well as the flows of non-New Zealand citizens as both affect the population living in New Zealand.
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Government comes to court for relief on immigration rule
By Amy Howe
SCOTUSblog, January 13, 2020
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
January 21, 2020
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Excerpt: In an effort to control illegal immigration, 67% believe the government should mandate that all employers use the federal electronic E-Verify system to help ensure that they hire only legal workers for U.S. jobs. Only 21% disagree, but 12% are are not sure.
Sixty percent (60%) of voters favor giving lifetime work permits to most of the approximately two million illegal residents who came to this country when they were minors, with 35% who Strongly Favor it. Thirty-three percent (33%) oppose lifetime work permits for these illegal immigrants, but that includes just 17% who are Strongly Opposed.
Voters are closely divided, however, when it comes to the estimated 12 million illegal residents of all ages who currently reside in the United States. Forty-six percent (46%) favor giving lifetime work permits to most of these illegal immigrants, including 21% who Strongly Favor such action. Forty-seven percent (47%) are opposed with 28% who are Strongly Opposed.
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Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index
January 14, 2020
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Excerpt: When it comes to legal immigration, 46% say the government should be adding no more than 750,000 new immigrants each year, with 32% who say it should be fewer than 500,000. Thirty-eight percent (38%) favor adding one million or more legal newcomers per year, including 11% who say the figure should be higher than 1.5 million. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters favor allowing legal immigrants to bring only their spouse and minor children with them. Just 30% support allowing them to eventually bring other adult relatives in a process that can include extended family and their spouses’ families. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.
Only 26% of voters think Congress should increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs. Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe instead that the country already has enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.
The Census Bureau projects that current immigration policies are responsible for most U.S. population growth and will add 75 million people over the next 40 years. In terms of the effect on the overall quality of life in the United States, just 33% of voters want to continue immigration-driven population growth at the current levels. Forty-two percent (42%) favor slowing down immigration-driven population growth, while 13% want to have no such population growth at all.
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Analysis of FY2018 Legal Immigration Statistics
National Foundation for American Policy Brief, January 2020
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans Increase in Immigration Court Backlog
January 21, 2020
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Still Not Enough Judges
Despite the many actions by the Trump Administration designed to stem the growth in the Immigration Court backlog, the court's backlog continues to climb. In just the three-month period from October through December 2019 the backlog has grown by 65,929 new cases. The court ended December 2019 with 1,089,696[1] in its active backlog[2]. Three months earlier at the end of FY 2019 (September 2019) the active backlog stood at 1,023,767.
During the first three months of FY 2020 (October 2019 - December 2019), the pace of court case completions is up compared to the same period from the previous year (October 2018 - December 2018). This should not be surprising. The court hired 92 new judges during FY 2019 and, unlike last year at this time, the court isn't stymied by the partial government shutdown. But the flow of new cases continues to outpace completions.
Asylum Decisions Vary Widely Across Judges and Courts - Latest Results
January 13, 2020
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Excerpt:Twelve immigration courts accumulated denial rates above 90%. This included Jena, a small court with two judges, where 99 percent of 397 asylum applications - and 100 percent of Judge Crooks' 226 cases - were denied. It also included larger courts: Atlanta denied over 97 percent of over 2,000 asylum applications, Las Vegas denied 93 percent of its 2,000 applications, and Conroe denied 92 percent of just over 850 applications. In contrast, only seven immigration courts deny less than 50 percent of cases: Newark (49%), Phoenix (48%), Chicago (47%), Boston (42%), Honolulu (31%), San Francisco (30%), and New York (26%).
These top five busiest courts discussed above include 166 Immigration Judges - roughly a third of all judges - working at an average pace of about 86 asylum cases per year[2]. Of the 27 judges with over 1,000 completed cases, 20 work in one of these five courts. Houston and New York are home to the three judges with more than 2,000 decisions - Judges Endelman, Bhagat, and Laforest - who collectively decided nearly 7,100 cases during this six year period, as many as the 61 judges with the least decisions on record combined. In contrast to judges in the busiest five courts, the remaining two-thirds of judges completed an average of 54 asylum cases per year. Outliers such as Judge Parchert in Seattle and Judge Williams in Baltimore, who completed, on average, 284 and 245 cases per year respectively, buck this trend.
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
States Taking the Reins? Employment Verification Requirements and Local Labor Market Outcomes
By Shalise Ayromloo, Benjamin Feigenberg, and Darren Lubotsky
NBER Working Paper No. 26676, January 2020
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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
By Gordon B. Dahl, Cristina Felfe, Paul Frijters, and Helmut Rainer
NBER Working Paper No. 26674, January 2020
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Rebuilding Community after Crisis: Striking a New Social Contract for Diverse Societies
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Meghan Benton
January 2020
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Global Demand for Medical Professionals Drives Indians Abroad Despite Acute Domestic Health-Care Worker Shortages
By Margaret Walton-Roberts and S. Irudaya Rajan
Migration Information Source Feature, January 23, 2020
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Chinese Immigrants in the United States
By Carlos Echeverria-Estrada and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source Spotlight, January 15, 2020
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Welcome Wears Thin for Colombians in Ecuador as Venezuelans Become More Visible
By Jeffrey D. Pugh, Luis F. Jiménez, and Bettina Latuff
Migration Information Source Feature, January 9, 2020
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Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany
By Felix Stips and Krisztina Kis-Katos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12903, January 2020
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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
By Bjorn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, and Torun Osterberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12880, January 2020
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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, and Chunbei Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12876, January 2020
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Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
By Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, and Joost Bollens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12875, January 2020
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Can Sanctuary Polices Reduce Domestic Violence?
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Monica Deza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12868, January 2020
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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
By Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, and Pierre-Louis Vézina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12860, January 2020
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Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
By Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, and Jackline Wahba
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858, January 2020
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Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12854, January 2020
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Immigration and Wage Dynamics in Germany
By Sabine Klinger, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, Institute for Employment Research (IAB); Anvar Musayev, International Monetary Fund (IMF); Jean-Marc Natal, Swiss National Bank; and Enzo Weber, University of Regensburg
IMF Working Paper No. 19/301
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2. Legal Status and Local Spending: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA
By Navid Sabet, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Faculty of Economics and Christoph Winter, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
CESifo Working Paper No. 7611
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3. The Image of Immigration in American Media Discourse (the Case of Internet Memes)
By Svetlana Kanashina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
Posted: January 20, 2020
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4. Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
By Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Department of Economics and Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University Department of Economics
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14254
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5. Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
By Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Department of Economics; Elie Murard, IZA; and Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics (PSE)
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14211
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6. Hong Kong’s Strict Immigration Control: The Family As the Unit of Non-protection and Deprivation of Human Rights Protection
By P.Y. Lo, The University of Hong Kong
Posted: January 10, 2020
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7. Against the Wind—Sustainability, Migration, Presidential Discretion
By Steven Ferrey, Suffolk University Law School
Columbia Journal of Environmental Law Vol. 44, No. 341
Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 19-13
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Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog
1. Pregnancy ban to take effect this week
January 23, 2020
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2. Democratic Member of Congress Facing Denaturalization and More?
January 23, 2020
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3. Climate Refugees: UN Says People Fleeing Climate Crisis Cannot Be Forced To Return Home
January 21, 2020
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4. Trump Confirms Intent to Expand Muslim Ban
January 21, 2020
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5. Government immigration policies are harming trafficking survivors
January 21, 2020
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6. Expanding Criminal Bars to Asylum Nonsensical
January 20, 2020
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7. Birthright tourism moves birthright citizenship debate... abroad
January 19, 2020
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8. Library of Congress: Birthright Citizenship Around the World
January 18, 2020
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9. Comments Needed! 3 Days to Repsond to CFR Proposal on Criminal Asylum Bars
January 17, 2020
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10. I’m a "Liberal" Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted. Hmmmmmmm
January 17, 2020
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11. Immigration Article of the Day: Sanctuary States
By Rose Cuison Villazor and Alma Godinez-Navarro
January 16, 2020
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12. Trump administration Asks Supreme Court to Stay "Public Charge" Injunction
January 14, 2020
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13. Immigration Article of the Day: Why the Legal Strategy of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us All
By Jamie R. Abrams
January 14, 2020
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14. Michael Kagan's grading of the top candidates' immigration platforms
January 13, 2020
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15. Identifying the Bodies of Migrants
January 13, 2020
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16. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's New Roles Could Impact Meghan's Immigration Status—and Their Taxes
January 12, 2020
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17. California court of appeal: Orange County Beach City Cannot Opt Out of California Sanctuary State Law
January 11, 2020
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18. Two Parents Sue Over Family Separation Policy
January 10, 2020
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Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means‐Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2016: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
By Tu Le and Alex Nowrasteh
Immigration Research and Policy Brief No. 15, January 14, 2020
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Ethical considerations in providing psychological services to unaccompanied immigrant children
By Genevieve F. Dash
Ethics & Behavior, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2020
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How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement
By Tom K. Wong, S. Deborah Kang, Carolina Valdivia, and Josefina Espino
Perspectives on Politics, Cambridge University Press, January 14, 2020
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New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
Overcoming refugee containment and crisis
By Cathryn Costello
Cambridge University Press, January 14, 2020
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The ‘host’ label: forming and transforming a community identity at the Kakuma Refugee Camp
By Cory Rodgers
Journal of Refugee Studies, January 13, 2020
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The Rohingya refugee crisis: rethinking solutions and accountability
By Brian Gorlick
RSC Working Paper Series 131, December 18, 2019
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
By Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Miaomiao Zou
Journal of Developmental Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 2020
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How migration policies moderate the diffusion of terrorism
By Tobias Bohmelt and Vincenzo Bove
European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 59, No. 1, February 2020
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Integrating the immigrant population into the city of Madrid (Spain): preliminary data about the sociolinguistic attitudes of the host community
By Maria Sancho-Pascual
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 41, Nos. 1, 2, January 2020
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Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis
By Michele Di Maio Valerio, Leone Sciabolazza, and Vasco Molini
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9110, January 2020
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Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus: What Are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences?
By Martin Brownbridge and Sudharshan Canagarajah
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9111, January 2020
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Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
By Margaret E. Franz and Kumarini Silva
Routledge, 200 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1138602906, $155.00
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Book Description: This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how these boundaries are made and sustained, examining how belonging is mediated by material relations of power, capital, and circuits of communication technology on the one side and representations of identity, nation, and homeland on the other. The authors’ diverse methodologies, ranging from archival research, oral histories, literary criticism, and ethnography attend to these contradictions by studying how the practices of migration and identification, procured and produced through global exchanges of bodies and goods that cross borders, foreclose those borders to (re)produce, and (re)imagine the homeland and its boundaries.
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Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance
By Simon Behrman
Routledge, 298 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1138304174, $155.00
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Book Description: In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental aspects of asylum as practised in the past and in present day social movements, namely its concern with defining space rather than people and its role as a space of resistance or otherness to sovereign law, this book demonstrates that asylum has historically been antagonistic to law and vice versa. In contrast, twentieth-century refugee law was constructed precisely to ensure the effective management and control over the movements of forced migrants. To illustrate the complex ways in which these two paradigms – asylum and refugee law – interact with one another, this book examines their historical development and concludes with in-depth studies of the Sanctuary Movement in
the United States and the Sans-Papiers of France.
The book will appeal to researchers and students of refugee law and refugee studies; legal and political philosophy; ancient, medieval and modern legal history; and sociology of political movements.
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Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
By Anna Lise Purkey
Routledge, 218 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0367349531, $153.60
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Book Description: This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approach to address fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps.
Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the opportunity structure available to the individual. Thus, by helping to increase the capability of refugees to participate actively in the decisions that most affect their core rights and interests, participatory approaches to legal empowerment can also assist in securing other capabilities, ultimately ensuring that refugees are able to live dignified lives while in protracted exile.
Ultimately, the book demonstrates that legal empowerment of refugees can bring lasting benefits in establishing trust between refugees, the state, and local communities. It will be of interest to researchers within the fields of refugee studies, international law, development studies, and political science, as well as to policy-makers and practitioners working in the fields of refugee assistance and humanitarian intervention.
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Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center
By Tyler O'Neil
Bombardier Books, 240 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1642934399, $16.99
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Book Description: The Southern Poverty Law Center started with noble intentions and has done much good over the years, but a pernicious corruption has undermined the organization’s original mission and contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views. The SPLC’s false accusations have done concrete harm, costing the organization millions in lawsuits. A deranged man even attempted to commit mass murder, having been inspired by the SPLC’s rhetoric.
How did a civil rights group dedicated to saving the innocent from the death penalty become a pernicious threat to America’s free speech culture? How did an organization dedicated to fighting poverty wind up with millions in the Cayman Islands? How did a civil rights stalwart find itself accused of racism and sexism?
Making Hate Pay tells the inside story of how the SPLC yielded to many forms of corruption, and what it means for free speech in America today. It also explains why Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC’s disingenuous tactics at face value, and the serious damage they cause by trusting this corrupt organization.
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The Age of Migration, Sixth Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World
By Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, et al.
The Guilford Press, 443 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1462542891, $45.00
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Book Description: Migration is a central dynamic in globalization that is recasting contemporary states and societies in distinctive, powerful ways. Now with more balanced coverage of Western and non-Western regions, this leading text has been revised and updated with the latest theories, policy information, and interdisciplinary research. The book explores the causes, dynamics, and consequences of international population movements, as well as the experiences of migrants themselves. Chapters examine migration trends and patterns in all major world regions, how migration transforms both destination and origin societies, and the effects of migration and increasing ethnic diversity on national identity and politics. Useful pedagogical features include boxed case studies; extensive tables, graphs, and maps; end-of-chapter Guides to Further Reading; and a companion website with additional case studies, PowerPoint slides, and other resources for students and instructors.
New to This Edition:
*A wealth of new data, increased attention to non-Western regions and perspectives, and stronger analysis of long-term trends.
*Chapter critically evaluating different categories used to describe migrants and analyze migration, including a myth-busting discussion of "climate refugees."
*Chapter on the evolution and effectiveness of migration policies.
*Chapter on how migration affects origin countries.
*Expanded coverage of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
*Analyses of timely topics, including anti-immigrant politics and Islamophobia; migration policies under Trump; large-scale refugee movements; the growth of new types of mobility for such purposes as education, marriage or retirement; and the tools governments use to control migration (the "Migration Policy Toolbox").
*Glossary of key terms, which are highlighted throughout the text.
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Documenting Americans: A Political History of National ID Card Proposals in the United States
By Magdalena Krajewska
Cambridge University Press, 296 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781316510100, $79.78
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Book Description: This is the first and only comprehensive, book-length political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. The book focuses on the period from 1915 to 2016, including the post-9/11 debates and policy decisions regarding the introduction of technologically-advanced identification documents. Putting the United States in comparative perspective and connecting the vital issues of immigration and homeland security, Magdalena Krajewska shows how national ID card proposals have been woven into political conflict across a variety of policy fields. Findings contradict conventional wisdom, debunking two common myths: that Americans are opposed to national ID cards and that American policymakers never propose national ID cards. Dr Krajewska draws on extensive archival research; high-level interviews with politicians, policymakers, and ID card technology experts in Washington, DC and London; and public opinion polls.
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Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People
By Alex Sager
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 146 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1786606275, $90.00
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Book Description: This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a global economy where the mobility of goods and capital is combined with severe restrictions on the movement of most of the world’s poor. Alex Sager argues that immigration restrictions violate human rights and sustain unjust global inequalities, and that we should reject these dogmas that deprive hundreds of millions of people of opportunities solely because of their place of birth. Opening borders would promote human freedom, foster economic prosperity, and mitigate global inequalities. Sager contends that studies of migration from economics, history, political science, and other disciplines reveal that open borders are a feasible goal for political action, and that citizens around the world have a
moral obligation to work toward open borders.
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Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration
By Ramona Mielusel and Simona Emilia Pruteanu
Palgrave Macmillan, 260 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 3030301575, $109.99
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Book Description: The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes. Although The West has wished to revisit internal and international politics concerning migration policies, refugee status, integration, secularism, and the dismantling of communitarianism, events like the Syrian refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks in France in 2015-2016, and the economic crisis of 2008 have resurrected concepts such as national identity, integration, citizenship and re-shaping state policies in many developed countries. In France and Canada, more recent public elections have brought complex democratic political figures like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau to the public eye. Both leaders were elected based on their promising political agendas that aimed at bringing their countries into the new millennium; Trudeau promotes multiculturalism, while Macron touts the diverse nation and the inclusion of diverse ethnic communities to the national model. This edited collection
aims to establish a dialogue between these two countries and across disciplines in search of such discursive illustrations and opposing discourses. Analyzing the cultural and political tensions between minority groups and the state in light of political events that question ideas of citizenship and belonging to a multicultural nation, the chapters in this volume serve as a testimonial to the multiple views on the political and public perception of multicultural practices and their national and international applicability to our current geopolitical context.
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Comparative Migration Studies
Vol. 8, No. 1-2, January 13, 16, 2020
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Framing migration in the southern Mediterranean: how do civil society actors evaluate EU migration policies? The case of Tunisia
By Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman
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Atypical citizenship regimes: comparing legal and political conceptualizations
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Rural Migration News
Vol. 26, No. 1, January 2020
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IMMIGRATION
Immigration, Politics
As President Trump reaches three years in office, what are his major effects on immigration? Trump issued executive orders to implement three campaign promises soon after taking office in January 2017: building a wall on the Mexico-US border, increasing deportations, and reducing refugee admissions overall and barring visitors from particular countries, the so-called Muslim ban.
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DHS: CBP, ICE, USCIS
The Department of Homeland Security's acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan, resigned after six months in October 2019. Under McAleenan, the US signed agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras that require non-citizens passing through these countries to seek asylum there rather than in the US.
For example, Salvadorans and Hondurans who pass through Guatemala and Mexico en route to the US to apply for asylum could be returned to Guatemala to seek asylum there. In January 2020, DHS was reportedly considering sending Mexican asylum seekers to Guatemala.
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H-2A; H-2B: AEWR, FWMA
DOL certified 257,666 jobs to be filled with H-2A workers in FY19, up 11 percent from FY18. The top five H-2A states, Florida, Georgia, Washington, California, and North Carolina, accounted for over half of the H-2A jobs certified. Two-thirds of H-2A job requests are made between January and June.
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Canada, Mexico
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was poised to be ratified by all three countries after Democrats in December 2019 won additions to ensure that Mexico enforces its labor laws in ways that should raise Mexican labor costs.
Trump promised that the USMCA would return auto jobs to the US, since the North American content requirement was raised from 62.5 to 75 percent, and 40 to 45 percent of auto components must be made by workers earning at least $16 an hour to trade freely. A fourth of the new vehicles sold in the US are assembled in Canada or Mexico.
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Europe, Asia
Almost nine million foreigners applied for asylum in the major EU countries between 2003 and 2017, including 1.2 million in 2015-16. About 30 percent were recognized as in need of protection during their first adjuration, and half of these or a sixth were recognized as refugees (the others received some form of temporary protected status). An additional 10 percent received refugee status or TPS after appeals of negative first decisions.
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Global Trends
The IOM's World Migration Report 2020 surveyed trends in international migration, noting that UN's DESA estimated there were 272 million international migrants in 2019, up from 221 million in 2010. The number of international migrants has tripled since 1970, and the migrant share of the world's population rose from 2.3 percent to 3.5 percent of the world's 7.7 billion people in 2019.
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The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS)
Winter 2020
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Self-employment and reason for migration: are those who migrate for asylum different from other migrants?
By Zovanga L. Kone, Isabel Ruiz, and Carlos Vargas-Silva
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