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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. Senate testimony on the future of homeland security (two hearings)
2. House testimony on DHS partnerships with state and local gov't entities
3. DHS report on nonimmigrant admissions to the U.S.
4. DHS OIG report on CBP information technology management
5. CRS report on Mexican migration to the U.S.
6. U.S. Supreme Court decision: Arizona et al. v. United States
7. E.U.: Statistics on the foreign populations of E.U. member states
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
8. New report from TRAC
9. Gallup report: "Hispanic Voters Put Other Issues Before Immigration"
10. Seven new papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
11. New report from the Migration Policy Institute
12. Eight new papers from the Social Science Research Network
13. Five new reports from the International Organization for Migration
14. New report from the World Bank
15. New report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
16. "Patent Pending: How Immigrants Are Reinventing The American Economy"
17. "The Legal Side of Mexican Immigration"
18. "Linking Development & Migration: A Binational U.S.-Mexico Dialogue"
19. "Children in Immigrant Families: Essential to America’s Future"
20. "Retirement intentions of older migrant workers: does health matter?"
21. "A comparative study of framing immigration policy after 11 September 2001"
22. "The mathematics of Mexico–US migration and US immigration policy"
BOOKS
23. Fiscal Impacts of Foreign-Born Residents in the U.S.
24. Our God Is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice
25. Immigration, Integration, and Inclusion in Ontario Cities
26. Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant's Integration in Europe:
27. Migration and Organized Civil Society: Rethinking National Policy
JOURNALS
29. Human Mobility
30. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
31. Migration News
32. REMHU
33. Rural Migration News
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-future-of-homeland-security-ev…
"The Future of Homeland Security: Evolving and Emerging Threats"
Member Statements
Chair Joseph I. Lieberman
Vice-Chair Susan M. Collins
Witness Testimony:
Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Retired
Principal, Chertoff Group
Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Adviser to the President, RAND Corporation
Frank J. Cilluffo, Director
Homeland Security Policy Institute
George Washington University
Stephen E. Flynn, Founding Co-Director
George J. Kostos Research Institute for Homeland Security
Northeastern University
Member statements and testimonies available at link (PDF)
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Thursday, July 12, 2012
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-future-of-homeland-security-th…
"The Future of Homeland Security: The Evolution of the Homeland Security Department's Roles and Missions
Member Statements
Sen. Susan M. Collins
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=79d96f34-7657-4cdc-b336-525639…
Sen. Thomas R. Carper
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=01383836-6c98-4f68-b40e-55bff1…
Witness Testimony:
Jane Harman, Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=9ee91296-7c56-47d9-90d0-437040…
Adm. Thad W. Allen, USCG, Retired
Senior Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=d22c173c-c09e-450c-9c2d-8eb1ea…
Richard L. Skinner, Chief Executive Officer
Richard Skinner Consulting
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id-d2b52194-1c71-42d6-968d-6e22e3…
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-building-one-dhs…
"Building a Secure Community: How Can DHS Better Leverage State and Local Partnerships?"
Statement by Chairman Candice Miller
At link above
Witness Testimony:
John Morton, Director
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony-Mort…
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Nonimmigrant Admissions to the United States: 2011
By Randall Monger
DHS Annual Flow Report, July 2012
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ni_fr_2011.p…
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CBP Information Technology Management: Strengths and Challenges (Redacted)
DHS Office of Inspector General, OIG-12-95, June 2012
http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2012/OIG_12-95_Jun12.pdf
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Mexican Migration to the United States: Policy and Trends
By Marc R. Rosenblum, William A. Kandel, Clare Ribando Seelke, and Ruth Ellen Wasem
CRS Report for Congress, June 7, 2012
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/193697.pdf
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Arizona et al. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States, June 25, 2012
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf
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EU citizens living in another Member State accounted for 2.5% of the EU population in 2011
Non EU citizens made up 4.1% of the EU population
EuroStat, July 11, 2012
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-11072012-AP/EN/3-11…
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
ICE Prosecutorial Discretion by Location, as of May 31, 2012
June 19, 2012
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/284/
Excerpt: As of May 31, 2012 a total of 4,585 cases were closed under a special Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program announced last August. The program aims to reduce the massive backlog of pending matters in the Immigration Courts by identifying those that could be dismissed or put on hold through the exercise of prosecutorial discretion (PD). The number of PD closures was up from 2,609 closed as of the end of March, but still amounted to only 1.5 percent of the 298,173 cases pending before the Immigration Courts as of the end of last September.
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Hispanic Voters Put Other Issues Before Immigration
Healthcare, unemployment are tops among six issues tested
By Lydia Saad
Gallup, June 25, 2012
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155327/Hispanic-Voters-Put-Issues-Immigratio…
Excerpt: Hispanics are as supportive of Obama at this point in the 2012 presidential election as they were in 2008, making them a key segment of Obama's 2012 coalition. Thus, whether to encourage Hispanic turnout (in the case of Obama) or to make inroads with Hispanics in electoral support (in the case of Romney), both candidates are making obvious overtures to the Hispanic community with pro-immigration policies. However, the current poll suggests immigration may not be the issue on which most Hispanics are focused. Rather, the economy -- specifically, unemployment and economic growth -- is of greatest concern to nearly four in 10 Hispanic voters, while another 21% are most concerned about healthcare.
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
By Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, and Mark Regets
Discussion Paper No. 6677, June 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
2. Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kusum Mundra
Discussion Paper No. 6676, June 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
3. Migration, Redistribution and the Universal Welfare Model
By Torben M Andersen
Discussion Paper No. 6665, June 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
4. The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania: Evidence and Long-Run Implications
By J. William Ambrosini, Karin Mayr, Giovanni Peri, and Dragos Radu
Discussion Paper No. 6664, June 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
5. The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
By Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri
Discussion Paper No. 6655, June 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
6. Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data
By Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Discussion Paper No. 6649, June 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
7. Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers
By Sarah Bohn and Magnus Lofstrom
Discussion Paper No. 6598, May 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Foreign-Born Health Care Workers in the United States
Migration Information Source, June 2012
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USFocus/display.cfm?ID=898
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Separate and Together: Considering the Intersections and Tensions between Labor and Immigration Laws in the Search for Effective Remedies
By Rita B. Trivedi, Columbia University Law School
Posted July 2, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2098023
2. 'Mommy, Where is Home?': Imputing Parental Immigration Status and Residency for Undocumented Immigrant Children
By Johanna K. P. Dennis, Southern University Law Center
Posted June 30, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2097071
3. The Sovereign Charter: Security, Territory and the Boundaries of Constitutional Rights
By Irina Ceric, York University Osgoode Hall Law School
Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2096351
4. Making the United States Immigration Policy and the Startup Visa Act Proposal Effective: An Exploratory Study of High-Growth Indian American Immigrant Entrepreneurs
By Suresh Kumar, Green Earth and Norris F. Krueger Jr., Entrepreneurship Northwest; Max Planck Institute for Economics
Posted June 15, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2096426
5. Chinese Immigration Law and Policy: A Case of 'Change Your Direction or End Up Where You are Heading'?
By Guobin Zhu, City University of Hong Kong and Rohan Price, University of Tasmania Faculty of Law ; Dalian Maritime University Law School
Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Forthcoming
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2088683
6. Is India a 'Safe Third Country' for a Bhutanese Citizen Seeking Asylum in the United States?
By Bhairav Acharya
February 12, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2088783
7. Patchwork Immigration Laws and Federal Enforcement Priorities
By Lauren Gilbert, St. Thomas University School of Law
June 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2093486
8. European Migration Policies: The Effect of Uncertainty
By Michele Moretto, University of Padua Department of Economics and Sergio Vergalli, University of Brescia Department of Economics
Review of Environment, Energy and Economics (Re3), Forthcoming
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2089380
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New from International Organization for Migration
1. Review of Migration Management in the Republic of Armenia - Assessment Mission Report
By Pier Rossi-Longhi, Therése Lindström, and Kristina Galstyan
Assessment Mission Report, 2008
Released July 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Review_MigrationManagmentRep…
2. Migration and Employment: Working Life in Central Antalya
Released July 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Migration_and_Employment_Ant…
3. IOM's International Migration Law Unit
Released July 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/IMLInfosheet2012_26June2012…
4. Data and research on human trafficking: A global survey
Released June 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&…
5. Global Migration Issues, Vol. 1 - Global Perspectives on Migration and Development (GFMD Puerto Vallarta and Beyond)
Released June 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&…
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New from the World Bank
Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond
Edited by Ibrahim Sirkeci, Jeffrey H. Cohen, and Dilip Ratha
Published May 31, 2012
http://publications.worldbank.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPat…
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New from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
International Migration Outlook 2012
June 2012
http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,3746,en_2649_37415_50649481_1_1_1_3741…
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Patent Pending: How Immigrants Are Reinventing The American Economy
The Partnership for a New American Economy, June 2012
http://www.renewoureconomy.org/sites/all/themes/pnae/patent-pending.pdf
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The Legal Side of Mexican Immigration
By David R. Ayon
Woodrow Wilson Center, Mexico Institute, June 2012
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/cis.org/files/Legal_Side_Immigration_…
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Linking Development & Migration: A Binational U.S.-Mexico Dialogue
By David R. Ayon
Woodrow Wilson Center, Mexico Institute, May 2012
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/cis.org/files/Linking%20Development%2…
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Children in Immigrant Families: Essential to America’s Future
By Donald J. Hernandez and Jeffrey S. Napierala
Foundation for Child Development Policy Brief, June 2012
http://fcd-us.org/sites/cis.org/files/FINAL%20Children%20in%20Immigrant…
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Retirement intentions of older migrant workers: does health matter?
By Nicolas Gerard Vaillant and Francois-Charles Wolff
International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/016/2012/00000033/00000004/ar…
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A comparative study of framing immigration policy after 11 September 2001
By Lauretta Conklin Frederking
Policy Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, July 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cpos/2012/00000033/00000…
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The mathematics of Mexico–US migration and US immigration policy
By Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Miriam Rojas-Arenaza
Policy Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, July 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cpos/2012/00000033/00000…
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Fiscal Impacts of Foreign-Born Residents in the U.S.
By Jake F. Wong and Andrea E. Love
Nova Science Pub Inc.,
Hardcover, ISBN: 1620810476, $125.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1620810476/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This book examines estimates of fiscal impacts to the federal, state, and local governments of the foreign born who reside in the United States. It examines the academic and policy literature on fiscal impacts of two populations: all U.S. foreign born and unauthorised aliens. Computing such fiscal impacts involves numerous methodological and conceptual challenges, and resulting estimates vary considerably according to the assumptions used, including those about the time frame considered, the treatment of U.S.-born children, the unit of analysis used, and which costs and revenues are included.
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Our God Is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice
By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell
Orbis Books, 240 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1570759561, $15.83
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570759561/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 423 KB, ASIN: B008H54VO6, $9.99
Book Description: The principle of hospitality and the commandment to welcome the stranger are among the most consistent themes of the Bible. How does that apply to the question of undocumented immigrants in our own country? In recent years the question of immigration has become a target of heated political controversy, one that reaches into nearly every community in the country. How does our biblical faith address this issue? And how should people of faith respond? In alternating chapters the authors of this book address these questions, examining the biblical dimensions of hospitality, sanctuary, and immigration, while also relating the actual stories of immigrants why they come, what they seek, what they endure as well as the stories of those who help them.
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Immigration, Integration, and Inclusion in Ontario Cities
By Caroline Andrew, John Biles, and Meyer Burstein
Mcgill Queens Univ. Press, 250 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1553392922, $32.09
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1553392922/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Ontario receives the majority of newcomers to Canada and its cities are a locus of diversity. Recognizing that the building and sustenance of "welcoming communities" is as much a local project as a national and provincial one, this volume explores the activities of municipal governments in Ontario as well as those of a number of other important "social forces" situated at the local level. Twelve city case studies are guided by a common template to facilitate comparisons and allow for an overall mapping of the players and a better estimation of the investments -- human and financial - that are required for the successful integration and inclusion of newcomers and minorities in Ontario cities. The conclusion provides a sense of the relative success (or failure) that Ontario cities have had in the creation of welcoming and inclusive communities.
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Measuring and Monitoring Immigrant's Integration in Europe:
Comparing integration policies and monitoring systems for the integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities in 17 European countries
By Rob Bijl and Arjen Verweij
Netherlands Institute for Social Research, 300 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9037705693, $49.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9037705693/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Europe is trying to streamline its policy on the integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities. The information available on integration in the different countries is still very variable in its extent and quality. In this report, authors from sixteen European countries describe how integration is approached in their country, what the integration objectives of their government are, where the problems lie, and what the implications of this are for monitoring the process of integration over time in their country.
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Migration and Organized Civil Society: Rethinking National Policy
By Dirk Halm and Zeynep Sezgin
Routledge, 248 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415691982, $125.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415691982/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Migrant organizations are of vital importance for countries of residence and countries of origin, but the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the cross-border character of migrant organizations remains incomplete.
It is clear that migrant transnationalism challenges the governance of nation-states on the local and national levels. This book, the outcome of an ECPR joint session, systematically and empirically analyzes the differing roles that transnational migrant organizations play in their countries of residence and origin. Drawing on research conducted in Belgium, England, Germany, Holland, Poland and Portugal, it focuses on the relations between migrant organizations and the state. Offering an opportunity for comparative analysis, it also examines why migrants and their organizations engage in different forms of border crossing activities, and how various political systems influence, and are influenced by these forms of engagement.
Migration and Organized Civil Society will be of strong interest to students and researchers of political science, political sociology, migration studies, transnationalism, and Diaspora studies.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 35, No. 8, 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/current
Book Reviews:
Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility
By Linda McDowell
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2012.679667
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective
By Loretta Baldassar
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2012.687755
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Human Mobility
Boletim 86, Ano IX, June 2012
http://www.csem.org.br/images/downloads/2012/boletins/Boletim_Mobilidad…
Selected articles:
EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18519395
Migrant population in some parts of England double previous estimate
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9359352/Migrant-popu…
US president ends deportation of young illegal immigrants
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16030490,00.html
Immigrants Change Australia's Cultural Identity
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/06/26/2012062601226.h…
Immigrant women more likely to own businesses in U.S. than women born in the country, new study reveals
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159395/Immigrant-women-likely-…
Migrant women face growing anti-foreigner barriers to Israel
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/06/14/Migrant-women-face-growing-an…
Refugee changes pressure religious groups in Canada
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2012/06/23/refugee-changes-pressure-relig…
Amsterdam’s newcomers thrive even as immigration gets tougher
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1215127--amsterdam-s-newcomer…
EU agency fears human trafficking during Euro 2012
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/ap/crime/eu-agency-fears-human-trafficking-d…
Trafficking In Persons Report Overview
http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/Trafficking-In-Persons-Report-…
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 38, No. 7, August 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/38/7
Articles:
Determinants of Ethnic Minority Confidence in the Police
By Maarten Van Craen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681447
From Tolerance to Respect in Inter-Ethnic Contexts
By Werner Schirmer, Linda Weidenstedt, and Wendelin Reich
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681448
Framing Non-Whites and Producing Second-Class Citizens in France and Portugal
By Bernd Reiter
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681449
‘It Is My Turn To Give’: Migrants' Perceptions of Gift Exchange and the Maintenance of Transnational Identity
By Georgina Taylor, Jane Wangaruro, and Irena Papadopoulos
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681450
Going on a Class Journey: The Inclusion and Exclusion of Iraqi Refugees in Denmark
By Marianne Holm Pedersen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681453
Gender, Conflict and Subordination within the Household: Turkish Migrant Marriage and Divorce in Denmark
By Anika Liversage
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681455
International Marriage Brokers, Cross-Border Marriages and the US Anti-Trafficking Campaign
By Nicole Constable
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681457
Family Separation and Reunification as a Factor in the Educational Success of Immigrant Children
By T.H. Gindling and Sara Poggio
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2012.681458
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Migration News
Volume 19 No. 2, July 2012
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/
THE AMERICAS
SB 1070, DREAM, Elections
The US Supreme Court in June 2012 accepted one and rejected three parts of Arizona's SB 1070, a law enacted in April 2010 aimed at pushing unauthorized foreigners out of the state. Federal courts had blocked four of SB 1070's key provisions: those requiring police to verify the immigration status of everyone they encounter whom they reasonably suspect may be unauthorized; allowing police to arrest foreigners they believe to have committed deportable offenses; making it a state crime for foreigners to fail to carry registration documents; and making it a state crime for illegal immigrants to seek or perform work.
DHS: Border, Interior, USCIS
Border. The Border Patrol ran ads in spring 2012 in Mexico, Central America and US cities with high shares of migrants warning of the dangers of trying to enter the US illegally in summer via the deserts on the Mexico-US border. Fewer than 340,000 foreigners were apprehended just inside the Mexico-US border in FY11, down from over 1.6 million in FY00.
Labor, Shortages, Foreign-born, H-1B
The US unemployment rate was 8.2 percent in May 2012; the rate is kept low in part because fewer Americans are in the labor force. The share of men 16 and older in the labor force fell to 70 percent, the lowest male labor force participation rate in half a century. The US in 2012 was producing goods and services with about the same value as the economy produced in 2007, but with five million fewer employed workers.
Mexico: Migration, Canada: Migrants
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that the number of unauthorized Mexicans in the US peaked at seven million in 2007 and fell to 6.1 million in 2011. Mexicans were 58 percent of the 11.2 million unauthorized foreigners in 2011.
Latin America
A million Haitians live in the Dominican Republic, which has 10 million residents. The Dominican Republic announced that, beginning June 1, 2012, Haitians must obtain work permits at a cost of up to $500; most Haitians earn about $250 a month in the Dominican Republic. After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, the Dominican Republic halted deportations of Haitians. In 2012, the Dominican Republic government began to crack down on Haitians living in the country, demanding residency permits from children seeking to attend Dominican Republic schools.
EUROPE
EU: Greece, Spain
EU leaders continue to urge member states to open themselves to more migrants. Peter Sutherland, the UN special representative to the Global Forum on Migration and Development, told the British House of Lords in July 2012 that migration was a "crucial dynamic for economic growth" and that national government leaders should open their borders "however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states."
UK: Reducing Migration
The current coalition government elected in 2012 pledged to reduce net migration from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands by 2015. However, n the year ending in September 2011, net migration was 252,000, down by only 3,000 from the year before.
France, Germany, Benelux
France. Socialist challenger Francios Hollande defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of elections on May 6, 2012. The vote was interpreted as a rejection of Sarkozy's austerity policies and his efforts to win votes from the far right by promising to tighten border controls, reduce immigration to less than 100,000 a year, and fight crime.
Over 18 percent of French voters supported the National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen in first-round presidential balloting April 22, 2012. Observers said that the National Front had turned anti-immigrant sentiment into "republicanism" with calls to reinforce secular values to counter fundamentalist Islam.
Greece, Spain
Greece. The number of registered foreigners fell by 25 percent between 2009 and 2011, to about 450,000. There are believed to be another 400,000 to 700,000 unauthorized or quasi-authorized foreigners in Greece, including many who arrived via Greece's 126-mile long land border with Turkey. Most of the foreigners who entered Greece illegally and are detected are given forms that instruct them to leave Greece within 30 days.
In 2011, about 55,000 foreigners were detected entering Greece from Turkey over the land border; over 100,000 are expected in 2012.
ASIA
China: Migrants
The National Bureau of Statistics (www.stats.gov.cn) reported in April 2012 that 159 million migrant workers earned an average 2,049 yuan ($325) a month in 2011. Chinese migrant workers worked an average 25 days a month and 8.8 hours a day, earning $1.50 an hour. For the first time, 53 percent of China's internal migrant workers were employed away from their village at least six months, but these internal migrants were in their home province rather than another province.
OTHER
Australia: Migrants, Asylum
Australia's 2011 census reported that a fourth of the 21.5 million residents were born outside the country. Asians are more than half of the foreigners now arriving in the country, and Mandarin has become the most popular language other than English spoken at home, displacing Italian.
Africa: South Africa, Libya
There are about 1.1 billion Africans in 54 countries; the continent's population growth rate is 2.4 percent or about 240 million a year. Economic growth has been relatively rapid, with African economies expanding by an average six percent between 2000 and 2010. Employment has been increasing by about three percent annually, which is more than the population growth rate but not enough to absorb new job seekers and farmers making the transition to urban jobs.
Global: Remittances, Polls, Population
Remittances. Remittances to developing countries, which reached $372 billion in 2011, more than official development aid and foreign direct investment, are expected to rise more in 2012. Remittances rose fourfold between 2000 and 2011, and are poised to continue increasing at double digit rates.
OECD: Migration Outlook 2012
The OECD released its 36th annual report on international migration in June 2012. The report reviewed trends in international migration since the end of the 2008-09 recession, the status of migrants in the labor markets of host countries, and migration data and policy developments in the 34 OECD countries and several non-member countries. Two special sections covered the role of migration in dealing with aging work forces in industrial countries and the role of Asia in international migration.
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REMHU
Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana
Ano XX – No. 38, January-July, 2012
http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/issue/current
Selected articles:
Hospitality in the Benedictine Monastic Tradition
By Brother Aaron Raverty
http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/article/view/310
Blessed are the Peace Makers: Guidelines for Inter-Religious Living
By John Martin Sahajananda
http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/article/view/311
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Rural Migration News
Volume 18 No. 1, January 2012
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/
IMMIGRATION
ICE, USCIS
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has 26 offices around the US and is stepping up I-9 audits, checking the forms completed by newly hired workers and their employers. Since Obama took office in January 2009, over 7,500 employers have undergone I-9 audits that resulted in ICE ordering employers to fire thousands of workers; ICE also levied $100 million in administrative fines. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that the increasing number of I-9 audits will "decimate our farms and farm-dependent jobs."
Mexico-US Migration: Pew, Massey
Pew. The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that the number of unauthorized Mexicans in the US peaked at seven million in 2007 and fell to 6.1 million in 2011. Mexicans were 58 percent of the 11.2 million unauthorized foreigners in 2011.
Canada, ANZ
Canada accepts more immigrants on a per capita basis than the US, 280,000 in 2010, equivalent to 0.85 percent of Canada's population. If the US had the same immigration rate, it would be accepting 2.6 million rather than 1.1 million immigrants a year. Canada traditionally accepted immigrants rather than guest workers but, at the behest of employers, the government expanded guest worker admissions in the past decade to over 200,000 admissions a year.
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