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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1.
Senator's memorandum providing timeline of Executive branch's dismantling of immigration enforcement
2. Senate Republican committee staff report on the economic effects of massive immigration
3. House testimony on challenges to modernizing border security IT systems
4. CRS report on immigration inspection at port of entry
5. GAO report on DHS efforts to modernize key enforcement systems
6. U.K.: Statistics on asylum applications, children in detention, immigration, and non-UK born populations
7. Netherlands: Report on asylum applications
8. Germany: Report on immigration from Bulgaria and Romania, and 2013 population estimate
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
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New report from TRAC
10. New report from FAIR: "The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Aliens on Texans"
11. IBD/TIPP Poll: "Focus On Jobs, Not Income Gap Or Immigration"
12. Two new reports from the Pew Center
13. "How mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party"
14. Nat'l Conf. of State Legislatures 2013 Immigration Report
15. Five new working papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
16. Seven new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
17. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
18. Twelve new papers from the Social Science Research Network
19. Two new reports from the International Organization for Migration
20. Two new papers from the World Bank
21. Australia: "Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration"
22. "Danish and Swedish immigrants’ cultural policies between 1960 and 2006: toleration and the celebration of difference"
BOOKS
23.
Migrant Marginality: A Transnational Perspective
24. Stand Together or Fall Apart: Professionals Working with Immigrant Families
25. The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants
26. Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan
27. Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives
28. Migrants or Expatriates?: Americans in Europe
JOURNALS
29.
CSEM Newsletter
30. Ethnic and Racial Studies
31. International Migration
32. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
33. Migration Studies
1.
Timeline: How The Obama Administration Bypassed Congress To Dismantle Immigration Enforcement
Office of Senator Jeff Sessions, February 2014
http://c9.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/enforcement_action.pdf
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The Economic Effects Of Massive Immigration, A Chart Book
Senate Budget Committee Republican Staff, January 2014
http://c0.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/20140129_economic_effects_massive_immigration.pdf
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency
Wednesday, February 6, 2014
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/examining-challenges-and-wasted-taxpayer-dollars-modernizing-border-security-it-systems
Examining Challenges and Wasted Taxpayer Dollars in Modernizing Border Security IT Systems
Opening Statement:
Rep. Jeff Duncan, Chairman
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/02-06-14-Duncan-Open.pdf
Excerpt: For the CBP officer on the border, TECS is an integral tool to secure the homeland. The system helps officers determine the admissibility of over 900,000 visitors and approximately 465,000 vehicles into the country daily, share critical information with other federal law enforcement agencies, and alert officers to possible threats entering the U.S. For the ICE agent, TECS is a primary investigative tool used to document and build cases for prosecution. A legacy system in operation since 1987, TECS has become increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain due to the system’s antiquated technology and its inability to support the requirements needed by CBP and ICE personnel in the field.
Despite TECS’s critical importance to our security, CBP and ICE have failed to manage the modernization program effectively. As the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported, the result has been wasted taxpayer dollars, missed deadlines, and delays in fielding enhancements to CBP officers and ICE agents.
For instance, despite some success deploying functional capabilities to secondary inspection locations, GAO reported that CBP has revised its schedule and cost estimates because they were unachievable. CBP expects to complete the project by 2016 for a total cost of about $700 million. GAO further found that CBP did not develop a master schedule that links work activities to the overall project schedule, despite the fact that numerous projects are being developed concurrently. And while CBP contends the remainder of its concurrent program upgrades will be operational by the beginning of 2016, I am concerned that minus a sound master schedule, the project could be further delayed and over budget which could snowball into CBP officers not having the tools they need to do their job.
Witness Testimony:
David Powner, Director
Information Technology Management Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20140206/101720/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-PownerD-20140206.pdf
Charles Armstrong, Assistant Commissioner
Office of Information and Technology
Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20140206/101720/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-ArmstrongC-20140206.pdf
Thomas Michelli, Chief Information Officer
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20140206/101720/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-MichelliT-20140206.pdf
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Border Security: Immigration Inspections at Port of Entry
By Lisa Seghetti
January 9, 2014
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/221268.pdf
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New from the General Accountability Office
DHS's Efforts to Modernize Key Enforcement Systems Could be Strengthened
Government Accountability Office, GAO-14-342T, February 6, 2014
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660706.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-342T
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Monthly asylum application tables
January 30, 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-asylum-application-tables
Children entering detention under Immigration Act powers
January 30, 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/children-entering-detention-under-immigration-act-powers
Immigration statistics, July to September 2013
U.K. Home Office, November 28, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2013
Summary:
Visas issued (Before Entry)
There was a 4% increase (to 526,736) in the number of visas issued (excluding visitors and transit visas).
There was a 15% increase in visitor visas issued (1.9 million), mostly accounted for by Chinese (+80,755 or +40%), Russian (+37,405 or +23%), Kuwaiti (+23,507 or +40%), Indian (+20,749 or +7%) and Saudi Arabian (+18,030 or +24%) nationals.
Work
There was a 5% rise for visas issued for work to 152,139. The increase was largely accounted for by higher numbers of visas issued for skilled workers (Tier 2, up 9,271, of which Intra-Company Transfers increased by 6,192) and for Youth mobility and temporary workers (Tier 5, up 2,771), partly offset by fewer visas issued to high value workers (Tier 1, down 7,179, largely reflecting the closure of the Tier 1 General and Tier 1 Post-Study categories to new applicants).
Asylum
There were 23,765 asylum applications, a rise of 14%, with increases in applications from a number of nationalities, including Syria, Albania, Eritrea, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This remains low relative to the peak of 84,132 in 2002. Correspondingly, the number of applications received since April 2006 pending a decision continued to rise; by 19% to 15,438 main applicants at the end of September 2013.
Non-UK Born Census Populations 1951-2011
Office for National Statistics, December 17, 2013
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/immigration-patterns-and-characteristics-of-non-uk-born-population-groups-in-england-and-wales/non-
uk-born-census-populations-1951---2011---full-infographic.html
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Considerable increase asylum seekers from Syria and Somalia
Statistics Netherlands, February 4, 2014
http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/veiligheid-recht/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2014/2014-4015-wm.htm
Excerpt: The number of requests for asylum lodged in the Netherlands totalled 14.4 thousand in 2013 versus 9.7 thousand in 2012. They were mainly Syrian and Somali nationals. The number of Syrian requests for asylum (2.7 thousand) is almost six times as high as in 2012. The civil war raging in Syria is largely responsible for the dramatic increase. The number of asylum seekers from Iraq and Afghanistan, on the other hand, declined in 2013.
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Immigration from Bulgaria and Romania: high rate of higher education graduates
German Bureau of Statistics, January 24, 2014
https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/Migration/highlight_Immigration.html
Summary: Since 1 January 2014, people from Bulgaria and Romania have full access to the German labour market. Immigration from these two countries has increased markedly after they acceded to the EU in 2007. People from Romania (67,000) and Bulgaria (29,000) were the largest group of immigrants after those from Poland (93,000) in the first half of 2013.
According to the 2012 microcensus, 48% of the people who were 15 years or older and had immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria and Romania between 2009 and 2012 did not have completed vocational education. However, 19% held an academic degree – more, on average, than in the total population of Germany (14%).
Population estimate 2013: number of inhabitants increased to just under 80.8 million
German Bureau of Statistics, January 10, 2014
https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/_Doorpage/HighlightPopulationEstimate.html
Summary: According to the estimate, the migration surplus was higher than in 2011 and 2012. For the first time since 1993, the number of arrivals was by more than 400,000 higher than the number of departures.
As regards the countries of origin, data are available for the first half of 2013. The majority of foreign immigrants came from eastern Europe (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria). As was the case in the first half of 2012, however, the increase in immigration was largest from EU countries that are particularly affected by the financial and debt crisis (Italy, Spain, Portugal).
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Surprising Variability in Immigration Detainer Trends by Gender, Nationality
Differences Also Observed by ICE Office, State and Facility
January 2014
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/340/
Excerpt: The national month-by-month numbers for detainers issued by ICE are shown in Table 1. During FY 2012 an average of 22,832 ICE detainers were issued each month. Since January 2013 the average monthly number fell to 17,691, about a quarter (23%) lower than what it was during FY 2012.
This decline didn't unfold slowly but rather took place over a relatively short period. Despite some month-to-month variation during FY 2012, the monthly average of detainers issued stayed relatively constant, only starting to drop in September 2012. Declines continued through December of that year, and then stabilized again during 2013.
Curiously, the data show that the issuance by ICE of a new detainer guideline on December 20, 2012 did not result in any further decline in detainer activity. Also, as TRAC has reported earlier, there is no evidence that detainers have been better focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security. Together, these findings further underline the challenge of managing such a massive agency with enforcement personnel so widely geographically dispersed.
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The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Aliens on Texans
By Jack Martin
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, January 2014
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/TexasCostStudy_2014.pdf
Summary: After a brief hiatus that coincided with the worst of the economic recession, Texas’s illegal alien population is on the rise again. There are about 1,810,000 illegal aliens residing in Texas — 70,000 more than resided in the state in 2010 when we estimated the fiscal burden at nearly $8.9 billion annually.
In 2013, illegal immigration cost Texas taxpayers about $12.1 billion annually. That amounts to more than $1,197 for every Texas household headed by a native-born or naturalized U.S. citizen. The taxes paid by illegal aliens — estimated at $1.27 billion per year — do not come close to paying for those outlays, but we include an estimate of revenue from sales taxes, property taxes, alcohol taxes, and cigarette taxes.
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Poll: Focus On Jobs, Not Income Gap Or Immigration
Investor's Business Daily, January 31, 2014
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/013114-688416-public-disapproves-obama-focus-on-inequality.htm
America's Priorities v. Washington?
What should be the top priorities of the president and Congress?
Economy and jobs .... 49%
National debt ............. 16%
National security ....... 9%
Health care ................ 8%
Immigration .............. 6%
Income inequality ...... 6%
Gun policy .................. 3%
Other .......................... 1%
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On immigration, Republicans favor path to legal status, but differ over citizenship
By Seth Motel
Pew Hispanic Center, January 28, 2014
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/28/on-immigration-republicans-favor-path-to-legal-status-but-differ-over-citizenship/
Excerpt: While majorities of both parties agreed that legislation should include increased border security, Republicans have clear views that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to apply for legal status only after the borders are secured.
A majority of Republicans (56%) said that effective border control should be established before immigrants could apply for legal status and 38% said it should not. Democrats had nearly opposite views, with just a third (35%) saying that applications should wait for effective border control to occur, and six-in-ten (60%) saying undocumented immigrants should be allowed to apply while border improvements were being made.
Changing Patterns of Global Migration and Remittances
More Migrants in U.S. and Other Wealthy Countries; More Money to Middle-Income Countries
By Phillip Connor, D’Vera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera
Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends, December 17, 2013
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/12/17/changing-patterns-of-global-migration-and-remittances/
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How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party
Eagle Forum, January 2014
http://www.eagleforum.org/immigration.html
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2013 Immigration Report
National Conference of State Legislatures, January 20, 2014
http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/2013-immigration-report.aspx
Summary: State immigration legislation in 2013 seemed to shift in response to two federal actions in 2012, changing from a focus on immigration law enforcement measures to some expanded state benefits for immigrants. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. United States struck down several provisions related to law enforcement, and new policy from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offered young, unauthorized immigrants a temporary respite from deportation along with permission to work.
The number of state immigration-related laws rebounded in 2013 after a dropoff in 2012, with 184 laws enacted and 253 resolutions adopted, for a total of 437. This is a 64 percent increase from the 267 laws and resolutions enacted in 2012. Looking only at laws and not resolutions, enacted legislation increased 18 percent in 2013 compared to the same timeframe in 2012, with 184 laws compared to 156.
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15.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
By Indraneel Dasgupta and Diganta Mukherjee
Discussion Paper No. 7924, January 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7924
2. The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
By Massimiliano Bratti and Chiara Conti
Discussion Paper No. 7922, January 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7922
3. Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
By Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John P. Martin, and Patrick A. Puhani
Discussion Paper No. 7921, January 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7921
4. From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
By Pieter Bevelander and Mikael Spång
Discussion Paper No. 7920, January 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7920
5. Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?
By Arthur Sweetman and Jan C. van Ours
Discussion Paper No. 7919, January 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7919
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Human Smuggling and Trafficking into Europe: A Comparative Perspective
By Louise Shelley
February 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Human-Smuggling.pdf
2. “Donkey Flights”: Illegal Immigration from the Punjab to the United Kingdom
By Nicola Smith
February 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Punjabi-Migration-UK.pdf
3. Trade-Offs in Immigration Enforcement
By Elizabeth Collett and Will Somerville
January 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Migration-EnforcementTradeoffs.pdf
4. IRCA in Retrospect: Guideposts for Today’s Immigration Reform
By Muzaffar Chishti and Charles Kamasaki
MPI Issue Brief, January 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-IRCALessons.pdf
5. A Strategic Framework for Creating Legality and Order in Immigration
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Will Somerville
January 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Migration-StrategicFramework.pdf
6. Valuing Citizenship: A Commodity or an Identity?
By Elizabeth Collett
January 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/2014_01_27.pdf
7. Refugees and Asylees in the United States
By Lara Burt and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source, February 2014
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=986
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries
By John F. Helliwell, Shun Wang, Jinwen Xu
NBER Working Paper No. 19855, January 2014
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19855
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The Deportation Conundrum
By Elina Treyger, George Mason University School of Law
Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 44, pp. 109-166, Forthcoming 2014
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 14-03
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2387134
2. What Is to Be Done for Migrant Domestic Workers?
By Virginia Mantouvalou, University College London Faculty of Law
Labour Migration in Hard Times, B Ryan (ed), Institute of Employment Rights, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2386947
3. The U.S. Criminal-Immigration Convergence and Its Possible Undoing
By Allegra M. McLeod, Georgetown University Law Center
49 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 105-178 (2012)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2385232
4. Immigrants in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area Labor Market
By Sonia Sousa and Xiaochu Hu
George Mason University School of Public Policy
George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis Working Paper No. 2012-02
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384982
5. Future Flows and Worker Rights in S. 744: A Guide to How the Senate Immigration Bill Would Modify Current Law
By Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute
EPI Report and Legislative Guide, November 12, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2385393
6. A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Effects of Immigration on Labor Market Outcomes
By Andri Chassamboulli, University of Cyprus and Theodore Palivos, University of Macedonia
International Economic Review, Vol. 55, Issue 1, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384229
7. Ripples Against the Other Shore: The Impact of Trauma Exposure on the Immigration Process Through Adjudicators
By Kate Aschenbrenner, Barry University School of Law
Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Vol. 19, No. 53, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383985
8. Undocumented Workers, Tax Evasion and Document Fraud: A Case Study
By Tom Ealey, Alma College
Posted January 23, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384176
9. Waves of Immigration from the Middle East to the United States
By Hisham S. Foad, San Diego State University Department of Economics
Posted December 20, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383505
10. Intergenerational Mobility of Second Generation Migrants from the Middle East to the United States
By Hisham S. Foad, San Diego State University Department of Economics
Posted January 22, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383499
11. Understanding of the Immigration Flow and Stock in Washington DC Metropolitan Area: Observations from Panel Data
By Xiaochu Hu, George Mason University School of Public Policy
Posted December 21, 2013
George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis Working Paper 2013-10
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2382987
12. Temporary Migration and the Flow of Savings to the Source Country
By Slobodan Djajic, The Graduate Institute
Review of Development Economics, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383626
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New from the International Organization for Migration
The State of Environmental Migration 2013 – A review of 2012
Edited by François Gemenne, Pauline Brucker, and Dina Ionesco
Published 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/State_Environmental_Migration_2013.pdf
Migration Policy Practice
Vol. III, No. 6, December 2013–January 2014
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/MigrationPolicyPracticeJournal14_30Jan2014.pdf
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New from the World Bank
Does Migration Foster Exports? Evidence From Africa
By Helene Ehrhart, Maelan Le Goff, Emmanuel Rocher, and Raju Jan Singh
Policy Research Working Paper, January 2014
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20140106132715
Summary: This paper aims at assessing the impact of migration on export performance and more particularly the effect of African migrants on African trade. Relying on a new data set on international bilateral migration recently released by the World Bank spanning from 1980 to 2010, the authors estimate a gravity model that deals satisfactorily with endogeneity. The results first indicate that the pro-trade effect of migration is higher for African countries, a finding that can be partly explained by the substitution between migrants and institutions (the existence of migrant networks compensating for weak contract enforcement, for instance). This positive association is particularly important for the exports of differentiated products, suggesting that migrants also play an important role in reducing information costs. Moreover, focusing on intra-African trade, the pro-trade effect of African migrants is larger when migrants are established in a more geographically and ethnically distant country. All these findings highlight the ability of African migrants to help overcome some of the main barriers to African trade: the weakness of institutions, information costs, cultural differences, and lack of trust.
Migration, Remittances, and Poverty: Case studies from West Africa
World Bank Working Paper No. 78, January 2014
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780821366271
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Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration
Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No. 468
By Kelly Richards and Samantha Lyneham
Australian Institute of Criminology, February 2014
http://aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/tandi_pdf/tandi468.pdf
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Danish and Swedish immigrants' cultural policies between 1960 and 2006: toleration and the celebration of difference
By Mahama Tawat
International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2, March 2014
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gcul/2014/00000020/00000002/art00006
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Migrant Marginality: A Transnational Perspective
By Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, and Glenn Jacobs
Routledge, 374 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415893178, $104.18
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415893178/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1107 KB, ASIN: B00EKN8VBI, $98.97
Book Description: This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and migration. The book includes case studies from Western and Eastern Europe, North America and the Caribbean. It is organized into thematic sections that illustrate how different aspects of migrant marginality have unfolded across several national contexts.
The first section of the book examines the limitations of multicultural policies that have been used to incorporate migrants into the host society. The second section examines anti-immigrant discourses and get-tough enforcement practices that are geared toward excluding and removing criminalized “aliens”. The third section examines some of the gendered dimensions of migrant marginality. The fourth section examines the way that racially marginalized populations have engaged the politics of immigration, constructing themselves as either migrants or natives.
The book offers researchers, policy makers and students an appreciation for the various policy concerns, ethical dilemmas and political and cultural antagonisms that must be engaged in order to properly understand the problem of migrant marginality.
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Stand Together or Fall Apart: Professionals Working with Immigrant Families
By Judith K. Bernhard
Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd., 128 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1552665259, $15.12
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1552665259/centerforimmigra
Book Description: An exploration of one of the most important topics debated across Western countries, this analysis challenges traditional attitudes toward immigration and integration. The conventional strategy employed by social workers, teachers, and other social service practitioners is decidedly Euro-centric and treats immigrants as if they have little cultural- or community-based means of integrating of their own. The strategies outlined in this book are built on the argument that immigrants have deep cultural, familial and communal resources to aid their integration and that these resources need to be tapped by social workers, teachers, counselors, settlement workers, early childhood educators, and child and youth care workers alike. Providing several alternative, integrated, research-based programs that combine cultural resources, traditions, and family dynamics, this accessible, concise book will help practitioners to better understand the struggles of immigrants and thus be better able to assist them as they adjust to life in a new country.
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The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants
By John Park and Shannon Gleeson
Routledge, 312 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415658896, $145.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415658896/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 041565890X, $47.45
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/041565890X/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1905 KB, ASIN: B00I7TZLFK, $39.96
Book Description: With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge. Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural discrimination, and the ways in which "race" has formally disappeared in the law and yet remains one of the most powerful, underlying, unacknowledged, and often unspoken aspects of debates about citizenship, about membership and national belonging, within immigration politics and policy. This collection of original essays also emphasizes the need for race scholars to be more attentive to the processes and consequences of migration across multiple boundaries, as surely there is no place that can stay fixed—racially or otherwise—when so many people have been moving. This book is ideal as required reading in courses, as well as a vital new resource for researchers throughout the social sciences.
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Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan
By Wolfgang Herbert
Routledge, 400 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 0415847729, $44.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415847729/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This is a detailed study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of "crimes" committed by foreigners. It shows that a general mood in which foreign workers are viewed as potential danger to Japanese society "protects" the criminalization of foreign "illegal" migrant workers.
The work begins by tracing the upsurge of "illegal" foreign workers in Japan. It builds a social profile of these "illegals" showing that because of fear of expulsion, lack of knowledge of the law and over-dependence on employer and workplace, their ability to avail themselves off the protection of the law is neglible, and they are always at risk of becoming victims to multiple exploitation.
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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives
By John Percival
Policy Press, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1447301226, $104.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1447301226/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Little research has been done on expatriates who return to their countries of origin in later life—an important issue in a time of aging populations and increasing mobility. Bringing together studies of older adults’ migration patterns in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, and Australia, this collection offers the first comprehensive explanation of how and why they return to their homelands. In the process, it addresses such key factors as the strength of family ties; the quality and cost of health and welfare provisions; and psychological adjustment, belonging, and attachment to place.
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Migrants or Expatriates?: Americans in Europe
By Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels
Palgrave Macmillan, 352 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0230296963, $96.49
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230296963/centerforimmigra
Book Description: While overseas Americans are often seen as short-term corporate transferees or backpackers, there are many other Americans – estimates range from 2 to 7 million – living overseas. Migrants or Expatriates? Americans in Europe examines the migration, integration and transnational engagement of Americans living in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. What has led them to leave the United States? How does their integration in Europe proceed? This book explores both of these questions, while also examining the case of overseas American political engagement in the United States. Drawing on almost 900 survey responses and over 100 in-depth interviews carried out with Americans in Berlin, Paris and London, Migrants or Expatriates? challenges assumptions about who overseas Americans are, and, more broadly, who migrants are.
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CSEM Newsletter
February 2014
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
SUPER BOWL AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Numerous media reports have indicated that beyond the theatrics of the halftime show and the fanfare in the bleachers, there lurks a dark side to the Super Bowl: human trafficking.
But with an uptick in awareness surrounding trafficking -- in this case, transporting people for the purposes of forced labor or sex -- experts are increasingly decrying the link between the two as a myth. Nonprofits and some officials are calling into question the idea that the Super Bowl this Sunday in New Jersey will bring about more incidences of trafficking, saying the statistics simply aren't there to back it up.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2170-super-bowl-and-human-trafficking-what-you-need-to-know
HAITI MIGRANT BOAT SINKS OFF FLORIDA: US OFFICIALS
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US Customs and Border Control agents arrested eight of the migrants -- four of them women -- as they reached the Fort Lauderdale beach north of Miami, and were searching for the rest.
"The search is still on. We're still looking for survivors," US Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney said.
Fort Lauderdale Police spokeswoman DeAnna Greenlaw said officers plucked three people from the water, confirming one of them later died. Police estimate that there were between 18 to 20 people on the rickety boat.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2172-haiti-migrant-boat-sinks-off-florida-us-officials
WOMEN SLAVES IN AUSTRALIA SILENT AND ISOLATED, ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY STUDY
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has examined the plight of women who have been trafficked and trapped into servitude through the partner migration process.
That includes women who meet Australian partners overseas and later migrate to Australia.
The research included in-depth interviews with eight migrant women who escaped from situations where they found themselves in sexual and domestic servitude or doing forced labour.
The report finds that fear of retribution, lack of trust in authorities and lack of knowledge about support services are among the barriers preventing women in slavery-like situations from seeking help.
Social isolation and limited understanding of Australian culture and laws are also identified as reasons for women remaining in slavery.
AIC research analyst Samantha Lyneham says servitude cases are commonly identified as domestic violence, and authorities and social service providers must increase their awareness.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2176-women-slaves-in-australia-silent-and-isolated-according-to-australian-institute-of-criminology-study
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January 2014
SYRIAN REFUGEE WOMEN, GIRLS FACE SERIOUS PROBLEMS, SAYS TTB
The Turkish Doctors Union (TTB) released a report which revealed that the number of Syrian child brides increased greatly in the eastern provinces of Turkey.
According to the report, which was carried out between the months May and November in 2013, Turkish men who already one or two spouses married with Syrian women in return for low amounts of bride price; TL 5,000. An official from the TBB Dr. Mehmet Zencir told Cihan news agency that Syrian women face serious problems both in the container cities and other parts of the cities the live. The number of the child brides is also significant, which deteriorates social structure. “Women are trapped at their homes or tents. They cannot go out and they are isolated from the society. They cannot receive family planning education. The women are forced to marry with men and they face uncontrolled pregnancies,” added Zencir.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2152-syrian-refugee-women-girls-face-serious-problems-says-ttb
THAI POLICE RESCUE HUNDREDS OF ROHINGYA IN RAID ON SUSPECTED TRAFFICKERS' CAMP
Thai police have rescued hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from a remote camp in a raid prompted by a Reuters investigation into human trafficking, police officials said on Monday.
Police detained 531 men, women and children in Sunday's raid at a camp near the town of Sadao in the southern province of Songkhla, on a well-established route for human smugglers near Thailand's border with Malaysia. It was the first raid on illegal Rohingya smuggling camps since January 9, 2013.
The police said they were following up on a December 5 Reuters report that Rohingya were held hostage in camps hidden near the border with Malaysia until relatives pay ransoms to release them. Some were beaten and killed.
The Rohingya are mostly stateless Muslims from Myanmar, also known as Burma. Deadly clashes between Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists erupted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar last year, making 140,000 people homeless, most of them Rohingya.
Since then, tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled from Myanmar by boat and many arrive off southwest Thailand.
The United Nations and the United States called for an investigation into the Reuters report, based on a two months of research in three countries, that revealed a clandestine policy to remove Rohingya refugees from Thai immigration detention centers and deliver them to human traffickers waiting at sea.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2149-thai-police-rescue-hundreds-of-rohingya-in-raid-on-suspected-traffickers-camp
FROM REFUGEE TO LEADER: AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN SHOWS THE WAY IN KENYA
On the outskirts of Nairobi, Alemnish Tefera Abebe sits in her living room, curtains drawn to block out the invasive midday heat. The cool darkness contrasts with bright yellow cushion covers that adorn her sofa and chairs. "I sell them for a living," she says, to support herself and her 13-year old daughter, Gloria.
Alem is one of 500 refugees from Ethiopia who have settled in Ruiru, a dormitory town just three kilometres outside the Kenyan capital. It is at once a bustling industrial area and home to lush green coffee plantations. Just off a major highway, swarms of people kick up dust from red dirt roads. Stalls and shops are alive with colour, as men push carts, selling chickens trapped in cages.
In Ruiru, Alem is a well-known and beloved figure. "She has the trust of the whole community," says Ojuni Ojulu, who serves with her on the Ethiopian refugee community council. "When mothers give birth, she's always there, making sure they get to the hospital. She's also a leader at the church she attends."
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2124-from-refugee-to-leader-an-ethiopian-woman-shows-the-way-in-kenya
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 37, No. 3, February 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/37/3#.UurqivuzIeA
Selected articles:
Segmented political assimilation: perceptions of racialized opportunities and Latino immigrants' partisan identification
By Frank Samson
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.783222#.Uur2SPuzIeA
Defining immigrant newcomers in new destinations: symbolic boundaries in Williamsburg, Virginia
By Deenesh Sohoni and Jennifer Bickham Mendez
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.716521#.Uur2LvuzIeA
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International Migration
Vol. 52, No. 1, February 2014
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.2014.52.issue-1/issuetoc;jsessionid=59E55AA099C5C033CE7AA0F3B68FBCAB.f03t03
Special Issue: POLISH MIGRATION AFTER THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN
Articles:
Polish Migration after the Fall of the Iron Curtain
By Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12146/abstract
Polish Contemporary Migration: From Co-migrants to Project ME
By Jakub Isanski, Agata Mleczko, and Renata Seredynska-Abou Eid
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12076/abstract
Labour Market Behaviours of Back-and-Forth Migrants From Poland
By Agnieszka Fihel and Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12128/abstract
“Economic Migrants” or “Middling Transnationals”? East European Migrants’ Experiences of Work in the UK
By Violetta Parutis
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00677.x/abstract
The Experience of Labour Emigration in the Life of Married Women: The Case of Podlasie, Poland
By Barbara Cieslinska
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00772.x/abstract
Successful Earners and Failing Others: Transnational Orientation as Biographical Resource in the Context of Labor Migration
By Magdalena Nowicka
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12144/abstract
“Aiding Defeated Migrants”: Institutional Strategies to Assist Polish Returned Migrants
By Izabela Czerniejewska and Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12145/abstract
Homo Sovieticus Revisited – Anti-Institutionalism, Alcohol and Resistance Among Polish Homeless Men in London
By Michal P. Garapich
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12041/abstract
Homelessness Abroad: “Place Utility” in the Narratives of the Polish Homeless in Brussels
By Magdalena Mostowska
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00782.x/abstract
High Mobility of Polish Women: The Ethnographic Inquiry of Barcelona
By Izabella Main
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12119/abstract
Polish Immigration in Barcelona: The Sagrada Familia Neighbourhood as an Arena for Interaction
By Dawid Wladyka and Ricard Moren-Alegret
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12101/abstract
Fatherhood and Transmission in the Context of Migration: An Irish and a Polish Case
By Julia Brannen, Ann Mooney, Valerie Wigfall, and Violetta Parutis
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12067/abstract
Migrant Men's Fathering Narratives, Practices and Projects in National and Transnational Spaces: Recent Polish Male Migrants to London
By Majella Kilkey, Ania Plomien, and Diane Perrons
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12046/abstract
Polish Young Peoples' Narratives: Impacts of Living and Studying in the UK
By Jacqui Akhurst, Michal Janik, Margaret Szewczyk, Magdalena Mucha, Helen Westmancoat, Viv Lever, and Andreas Walmsley
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12025/abstract
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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2014
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001
Articles:
Inequalities in Perinatal Mortality Rates Among Immigrant and Native Population in Spain, 2005–2008
By Carmen Barona-Vilar, Aurora Lopez-Maside, Susana Bosch-Sanchez, Jordi Perez-Panades, Inmaculada Melchor-Alos, Rosa Mas-Pons, and Oscar Zurriaga
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009730
Migration Status, Work Conditions and Health Utilization of Female Sex Workers in Three South African Cities
By Marlise Richter, Matthew Chersich, Jo Vearey, Benn Sartorius, Marleen Temmerman, and Stanley Luchters
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009758
Comparison of Stroke Mortality in Finnish-Born Migrants Living in Sweden 1970–1999 and in Swedish-Born Individuals
By Bjorn Albin, Katarina Hjelm, and Solve Elmstahl
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009780
Acculturation and Nutritional Health of Immigrants in Canada: A Scoping Review
By Dia Sanou, Erin O’Reilly, Ismael Ngnie-Teta, Malek Batal, Nathalie Mondain, Caroline Andrew, Bruce Newbold, and Ivy Bourgeault
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009823
Immigrants’ Mortality Patterns in the Short- and Long-Term Point Toward Origin-Related Diversities: The Israeli Experience
By Uri Gabbay, Yuri Leshukovits, and Siegal Sadetzki
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009858
Factors Affecting Adequate Prenatal Care and the Prenatal Care Visits of Immigrant Women to Taiwan
By Yia-Wun Liang, Hua-Pin Chang, Yu-Hsiu Lin, Long-Yau Lin, and Wen-Yi Chen
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009734
Migrants Suffering Violence While in Transit Through Mexico: Factors Associated with the Decision to Continue or Turn Back
By Edson Servan-Mori, Rene Leyva-Flores, Cesar Xibille, Pilar Torres-Pereda, and Rodrigo Garcia-Cerde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009759
What We Know and Don't Know About Mental Health Problems Among Immigrants in Norway
By Dawit Abebe, Lars Lien, and Karin Hjelde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009745
Acculturation Factors and Metabolic Syndrome Among Japanese-Brazilian Men in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
By Marie Tashiro, Junko Yasuoka, Krishna Poudel, Hiroshi Noto, Miho Masuo, and Masamine Jimba
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009797
Mental Health of Intermarried Immigrant Women and Their Children in South Korea
By Sun Lee, Yong Park, Jaeuk Hwang, Jooyeon Im, and Donghyun Ahn
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009747
Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Amongst Recently Arrived Sudanese Refugees in Queensland, Australia
By A. Renzaho, P. Bilal, and G. Marks
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009791
The Oral Health Status of Recent Immigrants and Refugees in Nova Scotia, Canada
By Edmond Ghiabi, Debora Matthews, and Martha Brillant
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009785
An Application of Cultural Model to Assess and Compare Malaria Prevention Among Afghani Migrant and Baluchi Resident in the Endemic Area, Southeastern Iran
By Kh. Shahandeh, H. Basseri, and Y. Sharifzadeh
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009850
Ethnicity and Self-Perceived Oral Health in Colombia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
By Andres Agudelo-Suarez, Eliana Martinez-Herrera, Adriana Posada-Lopez, Danilo Sanchez-Patino, and Yomaira Vinas-Sarmiento
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009844
Sending-Country Violence and Receiving-Country Discrimination: Effects on the Health of Colombian Refugees in Ecuador
By Michele Shedlin, Carlos Decena, Hugo Noboa, and Oscar Betancourt
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009777
Changes in the ‘Healthy Migrant Effect’ in Canada: Are Recent Immigrants Healthier than They were a Decade Ago?
By Alden Blair and Amy Schneeberg
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009813
What are the Health Needs, Familial and Social Problems of Thai Migrants in a Local Community in Australia? A Focus Group Study
By Pasitpon Vatcharavongvan, Julie Hepworth, Joanne Lim, and John Marley
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009725
“Judging a Body by Its Cover”: Young Lebanese-Canadian Women’s Discursive Constructions of the “Healthy” Body and “Health” Practices
By Zeina Abou-Rizk and Genevieve Rail
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009757
A Comparison of Health Access Between Permanent Residents, Undocumented Immigrants and Refugee Claimants in Toronto, Canada
By Ruth Campbell, A. Klei, Brian Hodges, David Fisman, and Simon Kitto
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009740
Erratum to: Migrants Suffering Violence While in Transit Through Mexico: Factors Associated with the Decision to Continue or Turn Back
By Edson Servan-Mori, Rene Leyva-Flores, Cesar Xibille, Pilar Torres-Pereda, and Rodrigo Garcia-Cerde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009860
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Migration Studies
Vol. 1, No. 3, November 2013
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
Articles:
The migration industry in the United States, 1882–1924
By Ivan Light
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/258.full
Eliciting illegal migration rates through list randomization
By David McKenzie and Melissa Siegel
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/276.full
Subject to deportation: IRCA, ‘criminal aliens’, and the policing of immigration
By Jonathan Xavier Inda
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/292.full
What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level
By Yvonni Markaki and Simonetta Longhi
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/311.full
Moving toward reform? Mobility, health, and development in the context of neoliberalism
By Peggy Levitt and N. Rajaram
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/338.full
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