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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1.
Executive Office of the President report on fixing the immigration system
2. DHS estimates of the legal permanent resident population in 2012
3. Latest ICE Cornerstone Report
4. Latest issue of CBP Frontline magazine
5. Netherlands: Population and migration statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
6.
Gallup poll on immigrants and the importance of learning English
7. Pew Research Center report on how many illegal aliens aspire for U.S. citizenship
8. Four new working papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
9. Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
10. Four new working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research
11. Seventeen new papers from the Social Science Research Network
12. Recent working paper from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
13. Two new reports from the International Organization for Migration
14. New World Bank policy research working paper
15. U.K.: "Immigration and Public Debt – Comment on the OBR’s Sustainability Report 2013"
16. "Cohesion without participation: immigration and migrants' associations in Italy"
17. "Welcome Home? Challenges and Chances of Return Migration"
BOOKS
18.
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
19. The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
20. Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison
21. Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall
22. The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe
23. Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
24. Migration, Security, and Citizenship in the Middle East: New Perspectives
JOURNALS
25. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
26. Comparative European Politics
27. CSEM Newsletter
28. Resenha
29. The Social Contract
1.
Fixing Our Broken Immigration System: The Economic Benefits of Providing a Path to Earned Citizenship
The Executive Office of the President, August 2013
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/our-broken-immigration-system-august-2013.pdf
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Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2012
By Nancy Rytina
Population Estimates
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics, July 2013
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_lpr_pe_2012.pdf
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The Cornerstone Report
Vol. 10, No. 1, August 2013
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/reports/cornerstone/cornerstone10-1.pdf
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Frontline
Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2013
http://nemo.cbp.gov/opa/2013/frontline_vol6issue2.pdf
Contents:
Cartel Kingpins
CBP’s Arizona Joint Field Command plays a key role in identifying Sinaloa Cartel leadership along the U.S.-Mexico drug trafficking corridor.
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Population growth rate continues to slow down
Statistics Netherlands, August 8, 2013
http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/33C1C5E0-B840-4DED-80DB-BA16A333AE40/0/pb13e049.pdf
* Population growth 13 thousand in first six months
* Higher mortality, fewer births
* Immigration up, emigration down
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Most in U.S. Say It's Essential That Immigrants Learn English
One in five say it is essential that Americans learn a second language
By Jeffrey M. Jones
Gallup.com, August 9, 2013
Excerpt:
These data are from Gallup's annual Minority Rights and Relations poll. Although it is not uncommon to hear people speak languages other than English in the U.S., or to see signs and storefronts in languages other than English, Americans still believe it is critical that immigrants learn English. In fact, one of the requirements for U.S. citizenship is the ability to speak and write English. And one of the proposed requirements in legislation to create "a path to citizenship" for immigrants here illegally is to learn English.
Americans in the major U.S. racial and ethnic groups believe immigrants should learn English, though Hispanics are a bit less likely to say this than blacks and especially whites.
Implications:
Although one in three Americans know a second language, the public generally does not think it is essential that Americans learn to speak a second language. Rather, it is probably viewed as more of a desirable skill than an essential one for those living in the United States.
However, the public does think that those who immigrate to the U.S. should learn to speak English. It is not clear if that view is due to a desire to see immigrants assimilate into traditional U.S. customs and norms, or, more practically, in terms of their being able to function effectively in U.S. society.
Regardless of the reason, government leaders appear to agree that immigrants should learn to speak English, given the immigration-reform legislation proposal to require it of illegal immigrants seeking to gain legal status in the U.S.
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If they could, how many unauthorized immigrants would become U.S. citizens?
By Mark Hugo Lopez and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera
Pew Hispanic Center, June 27, 2013
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/27/if-they-could-how-many-unauthorized-immigrants-would-become-u-s-citizens/
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8.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement
By Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti, and Mariacristina Rossi
Discussion Paper No. 7549, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7549
2. Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
By Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal, and Hillel Rapoport
Discussion Paper No. 7548, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7548
3. Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants
By Ahmed Elsayed and Andries de Grip
Discussion Paper No. 7530, July 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7530
4. Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal
By Jean-Louis Arcand and Linguère Mously Mbaye
Discussion Paper No. 7517, July 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7517
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals at the One-Year Mark: A Profile of Currently Eligible Youth and Applicants
By Jeanne Batalova, Sarah Hooker, and Randy Capps with James D. Bachmeier, and Erin Cox
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-DACAatOneYear.pdf
2. Side-by-Side Comparison of 2013 Senate Immigration Bill with Individual 2013 House Bills
Issue Brief No. 7, August 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-2013House-SenateBills-Side-by-Side.pdf
3. Indian Immigrants in the United States
By Monica Whatley and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source, August 22, 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=962
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
1. Migration into the Welfare State: Tax and Migration Competition
By Assaf Razin
NBER Working Paper No. 19346, August 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19346
2. Immigrants and Native Workers: New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
By Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri
NBER Working Paper No. 19315, August 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19315
3. One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
By Richard B. Freeman
NBER Working Paper No. 19301, August 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19301
4. Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
By Brian C. Cadena and Brian K. Kovak
NBER Working Paper No. 19272, August 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19272
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Racialization and the Unauthorized Immigration Debate
By Ron Schmidt Sr., California State University, Long Beach
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2300825
2. Victims or Criminals? Discretion, Sorting, and Bureaucratic Culture in the US Immigration System
By Nina Rabin, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 13-38
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2310125
3. 'Conditional Admission' and Other Mysteries: Setting the Record Straight on the 'Admission' Status of Refugees and Asylees
By Laura M. Murray-Tjan, Boston College Law School
New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2309095
4. The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in France: A Generational Accounting Approach
By Xavier Chojnicki, University Lille 2
The World Economy, Vol. 36, Issue 8, pp., 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2309224
5. Patterns of Welfare Dependence Before and after a Reform: Evidence from First Generation Immigrants and Natives in Germany
By Regina T. Riphahn, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Department of Economics and Christoph Wunder, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Department of Economics
Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 59, Issue 3, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2306455
6. Immigration and Production Technology
By Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College Department of Economics
Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 5, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2306882
7. The Politics of Exclusion: Explaining Anti-Immigration Attitudes in Africa
By Beth Whitaker, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Jason Giersch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2299432
8. Women's Immigration Detention in Greece: Gender, Control, and Capacity
Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law; Sharon Pickering, University of Oxford; Monash University Faculty of Law; and Andriani Fili, University of Oxford; Monash University Faculty of Law
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 81/2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2297440
9. Our Illegal Founders
By Victor C. Romero, Penn State Law
Harvard Latino Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2013
Penn State Law Research Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2307108
10. In the Footsteps of John Marshall: European Courts and the Expansion of Protection of Forced Migrants
By Maryellen Fullerton, Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 350
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2307517
11. What's the Constitution Got to Do with It? Federal Immigration Policy Before the Civil War
By Anna O. Law, CUNY Brooklyn College
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2301603
12. Detention of Irregular Migrants and the European Public Order
By Nicholas Hatzis, University of Oxford Faculty of Law
European Law Review 259 (2013, Forthcoming)
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 74/2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2297435
13. Migrant Smuggling: Canada's Response to a Global Criminal Enterprise
By Benjamin Perrin, University of British Columbia
1:2 International Journal of Social Science Studies, pp.139-153, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2292097
14. A Foreigner Who Doesn’t Steal My Job: The Role of Unemployment Risk and Values in Attitudes towards Foreigners
By Marco Pecoraro, University of Neuchatel and Didier Ruedin, University of Neuchâtel
FORS Working Paper Series, 2013-5
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2292959
15. The Effect of Immigration on Entrepreneurship
By Yaron Zelekha, Ono Academic College
Kyklos, Vol. 66, Issue 3, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293282
16. Immigration and Political Instability
By Tesfaye A. Gebremedhin, University of Canberra and Astghik Mavisakalyan, Southern Cross University
Kyklos, Vol. 66, Issue 3, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293275
17. Immigration & Language Diversity in the United States
By Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine Department of Sociology and Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University Department of Sociology
Daedalus 142, 3 (July 2013)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293262
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12.
New from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Open doors (for almost all): visa policies and ethnic selectivity in Ecuador
By Luisa Feline Freier
Working Paper No. 188, May 2013
http://ccis.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Freier_CCIS_Open-Doors_FINAL.pdf
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New from International Organization for Migration
Focus on Migration: Voluntary Return and Reintegration
No. 3, 18th Edition - December 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Focus_on_Migration.pdf
Evaluation of the effectiveness of measures for the integration of trafficked persons
By Pr Joanne Van Selm
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/FIIT_study_ENG.pdf
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14.
Criss-crossing migration
By Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6539, July 2013
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2013/07/23/000158349_20130723132215/Rendered/PDF/WPS6539.pdf
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Immigration and Public Debt – Comment on the OBR’s Sustainability Report 2013
MigrationWatch UK Briefing Paper 1.36, August 14, 2013
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/pdfs/BP1_36.pdf
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Cohesion without participation: immigration and migrants' associations in Italy
By Claudia Mantovan
Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 47, No. 3, July 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/pop/2013/00000047/00000003/art00004
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Welcome Home? Challenges and Chances of Return Migration
German Marshall Fund, January 2013
By Hanna-Maija Kuhn, Isabell Zwania-Robler, Karen Kruger, Karoline Popp, Magdalena Lesinska, Pawel Kaczmarczyk, and Vanya Ivanova
http://www.gmfus.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files_mf/1358538301tfmireturnmigration.pdf
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18.
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
By Paul Collier
Oxford University Press, USA, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0195398653, $20.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195398653/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 646 KB, ASIN: B00DY3FFM8, $9.99
Book Description: More than ever before, those in the poorest countries-the bottom billion-feel the lure of greater opportunities beyond their borders. Indeed, the scale of migration driven by international inequality is so massive that it could make nations as we know them obsolete.
In Exodus, world-renowned economist and bestselling author Paul Collier lays out the effects of encouraging or restricting migration in the interests of both sending and receiving societies. Drawing on original research and numerous case studies, Collier explores this volatile issue from three unique perspectives: the migrants themselves, the people they leave behind, and the host societies where they relocate. As Collier shows, those who migrate from the poorest countries, primarily though not exclusive the young, tend to be the best educated and most energetic in their cultures. And while migrants often benefit economically, the larger impacts of mass migrations remain unsettling. The danger is that both host countries and sending societies may lose their national identities-- an outcome that Collier suggests would be disastrous as national identity is a powerful force for equity. Collier asserts that migration must be restricted to ensure that it helps those who remain in sending countries and also benefits host societies that make the investment on which migrant gains rely.
Sharply written and brilliantly clarifying, Exodus offers a provocative analysis on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
By Michael Jackson
University of California Press, 272 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 05202767014, $67.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520276701/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0520276728, $31.46
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520276728/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 557 KB, ASIN: 0520276701, 273 pp., $19.49
Book Description: The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston – in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south. Michael Jackson offers the first biographically based phenomenological account of migration and mobility, providing new insights into the various motives, tactics, dilemmas, dreams, and disappointments that characterize contemporary migration. It is argued that the quandaries of African or Mexican migrants are not unique to people moving between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ worlds. While more intensely felt by the young, seeking to find a way out of a world of limited opportunity and circumscribed values, the experiences of transition are familiar to us all, whatever our age, gender, ethnicity or social status – namely, the impossibility of calculating what one may lose in leaving a settled life or home place; what one may gain by risking oneself in an alien environment; the difficulty of striking a balance between personal fulfillment and the moral claims of kinship; and the struggle to know the difference between ‘concrete’ and ‘abstract’ utopias (the first reasonable and worth pursuing; the second hopelessly unattainable).
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Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison
By Rodney Benson
Communication, Society and Politics, 296 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0521887674, $85.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521887674/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. Yet even in an era of global hypercommercialism, Benson also finds enduring French-American differences related to the distinctive societal positions, professional logics, and internal structures of their journalistic fields. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective, and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers, and concerned citizens.
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Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall
By Margaret Walton-Roberts and Jenna Hennebry
International Perspectives on Migration, 180 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9400767447, $122.55
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9400767447/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1065 KB, ASIN: B00EL3H8D4, 273 pp., $103.20
Book Description: This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars around an important question: how has migration changed in Europe as the European Union has enlarged, and what are the consequences for countries (and for migrants themselves) inside and outside of these redrawn jurisdictional and territorial borders? By addressing this question the book contributes to three current debates with respect to EU migration management: 1) that recent developments in EU migration management represent a profound spatial and organizational reconfiguration of the regional governance of migration, 2) the trend towards the externalization or subcontracting of migration control and, 3) how the implications of Europe’s changing immigration policy are increasingly felt across the European neighborhood and beyond. Based on new empirical research, the authors in this collection explore these three processes and their consequences for both member and non-member EU states, for migrants themselves, and for migration systems in the region. The collection indicates that despite the rhetoric of social and spatial integration across the EU region, as one wall has come down, new walls have gone up as novel migration and security policy frameworks have been erected – making European immigration more complex, and potentially more influential beyond the EU zone, than ever.
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The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe
By Umut Korkut, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Aidan McGarry, Jonas Hinnfors, and Helen Drake
Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1137310898, $85.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137310898/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools. Thematically, this volume focuses on how discourse and politics operate in issue areas as varied as immigrant integration and multilevel governance, Roma immigration and their respective securitization, the uses of language in determination of asylum applications, gendered immigrants in informal economy, perceptions of integration by the migrants, economic interests and economic nationalism stimulating immigration choices, ideology and entry policies, and asylum processes and the institutional evolution of immigration systems. These issues are analyzed with empirical evidence investigating the discursive formulation of immigration systems in political contexts such as the Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, Scandinavian states, and Finland.
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Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
By Remus Gabriel Anghel
Lexington Books, 218 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0739178881, $60.51
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739178881/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 720 KB, ASIN: B00DK5NU36, $37.99
Book Description: In recent years, Romanians have become the second largest migrant group in Western Europe. Following the liberalization of border controls and the massive economic and political changes in Eastern Europe, human mobility has increased and is becoming a permanent feature of post-Cold War Europe. The arrival of many Eastern Europeans, with Romanians being the largest migrant group, has produced public concerns on immigration in some West European countries. This is particularly the case in Italy, where Romanian irregular migrants are often stigmatized as poor troublemakers by authorities and the mass media. This book challenges such commonly-held assumptions that artificially divide migrants into categories of wished and unwished immigrants— winners and losers of international migration.
This book compares two migrant groups. The first is composed of ethnic Germans who migrated legally from Timisoara, Romania, to Nuremberg, Germany. The second is made up of those who migrated irregularly from Borsa, Romania, to Milan, Italy. The analysis highlights a paradoxical situation. Irregular Romanian migrants in Milan had fewer rights and opportunities, yet through migration they gained prestige and came to enjoy a sense of success. Alternately, the Germans who had migrated to Nuremberg, who received more rights and opportunities, perceived that they had suffered a loss of social prestige. The focus on migrants’ social status employed in the book seeks to clarify this puzzle and provide an analytical framework for researching the linkages between the migration and incorporation of Romanians—who are today European citizens—and European states’ migration policies and migrant transnationalism.
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24.
Migration, Security, and Citizenship in the Middle East: New Perspectives
By Peter Seeberg and Zaid Eyadat
Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1137345403, $85.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137345403/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This volume examines the implications of migration into and from the Middle East with a particular focus on the significance of migration movements, policy reactions, and questions concerning human rights, governance, and citizenship in relation to policy making processes. The contributors cover different yet interrelated fields of migration research, presenting new perspectives on migration and security in the Middle East and showing the ways in which recent developments challenge our traditional interpretations of migration. They also discuss how migratory movements in the Middle East raise new questions related to human rights, governance, and citizenship, which demonstrate that lack of representation and political inclusion – already a systemic problem in the Middle East – is even more relevant with respect to migrant populations.
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African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
Vol. 6, No. 2, July 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002
What if diasporas didn't think about development?: a critical approach of the international discourse on migration and development
By Hugo Breant
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00001
`Saving the Congo': transnational social fields and politics of home in the Congolese diaspora
By David Garbin and Marie Godin
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00002
Immigrants and transnational engagement in the diaspora: Ghanaian associations in Italy and the UK
By Francesco Marini
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00003
Guinea-Bissau immigrant transnationalism in Portugal: a substitute for a failed state?
By Sonia Pires
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00004
Being here and there: migrant communities in Sweden and the conflicts in the Horn of Africa
By Anne Kubai
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00005
From `remittance' to `tax': the shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state
By Samia Tecle and Luin Goldring
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00006
`Voting with their feet': Senegalese youth, clandestine boat migration, and the gendered politics of protest
By Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00008
Affective economies: Eastleigh's metalogistics, urban anxieties and the mapping of diasporic city life
By Lorenzo Rinelli and Sam Okoth Opondo
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/abdij/2013/00000006/00000002/art00009
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Comparative European Politics
Vol. 11, No. 5, September 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005
Articles:
The use and misuse of policy indices in the domain of citizenship and integration
By Marc Helbling and Maarten Peter Vink
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00001
Validating integration and citizenship policy indices
By Marc Helbling
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00002
Is there really a retreat from multiculturalism policies? New evidence from the multiculturalism policy index
By Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00003
Mysterious multiculturalism: The risks of using model-based indices for making meaningful comparisons
By Jan Willem Duyvendak, Rogier van Reekum, Fatiha El-Hajjari, and Christophe Bertossi
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00004
Citizenship configurations: Analysing the multiple purposes of citizenship regimes in Europe
By Maarten Peter Vink and Rainer Bauböck
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00005
The complexities of measuring naturalization rates in advanced industrialized countries
By Thomas Janoski
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00006
Cantonal variations of integration policy and their impact on immigrant educational inequality
By Anita Manatschal and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
Comparative European Politics, Vol. 11, No. 5, September 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00007
Indices of immigrant rights: What have we learned, where should we go?
By Ruud Koopmans
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14724790/2013/00000011/00000005/art00008
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CSEM Newsletter
August 2013
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
ACROSS THE WATER: BRAZIL'S LARGE SYRIAN COMMUNITY ABSORBS REFUGEES
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The Brazilian government has approved 100 per cent of the asylum claims presented so far by Syrian nationals, but many more people may have flown to the country and not bothered to seek asylum.
"We assume that the number of Syrians living in Brazil because of the conflict is much bigger than the figure revealed by the official statistics," said Andrés Ramirez, UNHCR's representative in Brazil. He said that this was because many of the new arrivals were staying with family or friends among the estimated 3 million-strong Syrian community, which is playing a key support role.
Syrian asylum-seekers had started arriving in Brazil from the very beginning of the conflict and officials said this was this was due to the strong historical links between the two countries and the big Syrian community.
Most of the asylum-seekers have presented their claims in Sao Paulo, which hosts the largest Syrian community, but they have also approached the authorities in other cities and states where Syrians are settled, including the Federal District, Southern Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.
But the government and several humanitarian organizations, such as UNHCR implementing partner Caritas Sao Paulo as well as the Syrian Orthodox Church, provide needy refugees and asylum seekers with aid, including psycho-social assistance, emergence financial grants and Portuguese-language classes to ease their integration.
The government provides them with the documentation needed to access public services, such as education and health, and to find employment, rent a place to stay and open a bank account. The most vulnerable cases receive extra support.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1551-hands-across-the-water-brazil-s-large-syrian-community-absorbs-refugees
'RAMADAN' MIGRANTS RESCUED FROM STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR IN INFLATABLE BOATS
Spanish and Moroccan coastguards have rescued 64 illegal migrants who were trying to reach the southern coast of Spain on inflatable boats.
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That brings to around 300 the number of migrants who have been plucked to safety from such craft since Friday as they tried to cross the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco.
A spokesman for the Spanish Maritime Rescue told AFP that a ship "rescued this morning 32 people in four boats in the Strait", while "the Moroccan authorities reported 32 people gathered on four boats that were transferred to Morocco".
Spanish interior ministry officials say the rise in the number of migrants trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar is partly due to the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on Thursday.
The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain and Morocco by only 15km - a ferry ride between the two continents takes roughly 35 minutes - making it one of the key smuggling routes for illegal immigrants crossing into Europe.
Thousands of illegal migrants from Africa regularly attempt to cross from Morocco into Spain on makeshift boats each year.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1572-ramadan-migrants-rescued-from-strait-of-gibraltar-in-inflatable-boats
AFRICAN MIGRANTS ASPIRE TO A BETTER LIFE IN ASIA
Over 70,000 Africans migrated to Malaysia in 2012. While many have found a better life, some continue to live rough in one of Southeast Asia's biggest cities, Kuala Lumpur.
Robert Adesina takes the train to work in central Kuala Lumpur every morning. He enters a carriage and almost everyone stops and stares.
"It's like this everyday. They think I am some sort of alien," he tells DW.
The Nigerian national sits next to a woman, who then abruptly puts her hand on her mouth, shielding herself from a perceived stench.
"It's actually quite interesting. You would think children would react this way to people they have never seen before. But grown men and women do this all the time.
The ignorance towards Africans in this country is astounding," Adesina said.
According to Malaysia's immigration department, 79,352 Africans entered the country in 2012, and 25,467 student visas were issued to Africans to pursue studies at public or private institutions.
Whether working or studying, African immigrants aspire for the same thing - a chance for a better quality of life in Malaysia.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1577-african-migrants-aspire-to-a-better-life-in-asia
MEXICANS MIGRANTS NOT DETERRED BY THREAT OF ARREST IMMIGRATION STUDY SHOWS
1,600 men – 9% of whom intended to cross the US border illegally – participated in American Sociological Review's study
By Amanda Holpuch
Mexicans intending to cross the border illegally into the US are not significantly deterred by threats of arrest or the severity of possible punishment – the primary method for dealing with illegal immigration in the US – according to a new study of potential migrants.
Concerns about punishment and arrest are typically less influential in the decision to cross the border than other economic and non-economic factors, said a study published Thursday in the August issue of the American Sociological Review.
Those factors that had a greater influence on whether someone would consider crossing the border illegally include: the prevalence of undocumented migrants in a community, perceptions of US legal authority and the perception of job availability in Mexico.
"This study offers insights into how unauthorized migrants justify their violation of US immigration law, and how such justifications might make noncompliance with this particular law possible among otherwise law-abiding individuals," study author Emily Ryo said. "People generally see themselves as moral beings who want to do the right thing as they perceive it."
Ryo, a research fellow at Stanford Law School's Program in Law and Society and an assistant professor of law at the University of Southern California, found that while 78% of people surveyed said they did not think it is acceptable to violate a law because one disagrees with it, 55% said that violating a law is sometimes justified.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1521-mexicans-migrants-not-deterred-by-threat-of-arrest-immigration-study-shows
AUDIT OF SYRIA REFUGEES FINDS ORGANISED CRIME AND CHILD SOLDIERS
Many Syrians who have escaped their country are now desperate to escape from U.N.-run refugee camps, where women are not safe and teenage boys are recruited as soldiers to fight in the conflict, according to an internal U.N. report.
By Tom Miles
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR is trying to cope with a massive humanitarian crisis, as 1.9 million Syrians have sought refuge abroad, mainly in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
The report, an self-evaluation of UNHCR's work in Syria entitled "From slow boil to breaking point", admits the United Nations could have done much better and "a far more substantial and coherent strategy is needed".
Organised crime networks are operating in the biggest refugee camp, Za'atari in Jordan, which is home to 130,000, it said. The camp is "lawless is many ways", with resources that are "constantly stolen or vandalised".
Preparations for a new camp needed to learn the lessons from Za'atari, including to "ensure the safety of women and girls".
Refugees can live outside the camp if they are "sponsored" by a Jordanian citizen, but many refugees are paying up to $500 to middlemen to get out, the report said.
In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Domiz camp is critically overcrowded and living standards are "unacceptable" in many parts of the camp.
"There is currently no agreed strategy in place to deal with the existing refugee population in Northern Iraq or any future influxes into the territory," the report said, adding that UNHCR and NGOs held "directly opposing views" about work to help refugees living outside the camps.
Although UNHCR is planning to crack down on crime in Za'atari, partly by strengthening the role of the Jordanian police, "opposition to the plan, possibly of a violent nature, can be anticipated," the report said.
"Given the harsh physical conditions to be found in Za'atri, coupled with the high level of criminality in the camp, it is not surprising to hear refugees speaking of their desire to 'escape.'"
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1533-audit-of-syria-refugees-finds-organised-crime-and-child-soldiers
RUSSIA: 83 NEW DETENTION CENTERS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS PLANNED
The Federal Migration Service has drafted a bill to set up 83 new detention centers for illegal immigrants across the country as Moscow's three holding facilities ran out of space following a week of raids on the city's markets.
The drive to fight illegal migration was triggered by a brawl at the Matveyevsky market on July 27 between the police and the relatives of rape suspect Magomed Magomedov. One police officer was hospitalized with a fractured skull as a result of the fight.
Last Monday police began combing Moscow's markets for illegal immigrants, even though the people who attacked the police officer had Russian citizenship.
The shortage of detention facilities forced Moscow police to open a temporary tented camp for several hundred detained immigrants, most of whom are Vietnamese, although nationals of Egypt, Syria and Afghanistan are also present.
The camp held over 500 people on Sunday afternoon, the police said, but rights activists said buses with more detainees had been arriving all day. Diplomats have also weighed in with their objections to the camp, in which conditions are said to be cramped and dirty.
"Putting 40 people in a 50-meter-tent — these are simply inhumane conditions," the head of the Vietnamese consulate in Russia said.
Questions about the camp's legality have also been raised.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1547-russia-83-new-detention-centers-for-illegal-immigrants-planned
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Resenha
Ano 24, No. 91, June 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/resenhas/Resenha_n__91_-_Junho_2013.pdf
English language content:
Tackling demand key to combating global human trafficking, UN rights expert stresses
The global scourge of human trafficking is being fuelled by demand for sexual exploitation, cheap labour, human organs, illegal adoption and forced marriages, says a new report by an independent United Nations human rights expert.
However, the demand side should not be understood merely as the demand for [the] services of victims of trafficking, but rather more broadly, as an act that fosters any form of exploitation that, in turn, leads to trafficking,? UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, said in her report to the UN Human Rights Council.
Measures taken by States to discourage demand have often focused exclusively on demand for commercial sexual exploitation, particularly of women and girls, and neglected other forms of demand, such as demand for exploitative labour and sale of organs,? Ms. Ngozi Ezeilo noted.
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry that has trapped millions of people into forced labour and domestic servitude, sexual work and child soldiering, among other ills.
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http://www.csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1252-tackling-demand-key-to-combating-global-human-trafficking-un-rights-expert-stresses
UK is warned it is losing fight against modern slavery
In many cases, victims of trafficking–rather than the criminal bosses–are prosecuted
By Emily Dugan
Britain risks ?losing the fight? against human trafficking unless the criminal justice system urgently improves its response to the crime, a major study will warn.
The report, seen by The Independent, comes at a time when the number of trafficking victims identified is soaring and criminal convictions for the offence have plummeted. It is published by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG), a coalition of organisations established to scrutinise the government‘s progress in tackling modern slavery.
The group is calling for a unified law on the crime to make it easier to prosecute-something the Government is understood to be considering.
It found ?widespread? evidence that many trafficked people are prosecuted for crimes they are forced to commit, while the criminal bosses who enslave them go unpunished. Despite legal protection for victims, the ATMG says the practice of unlawfully punishing them is common.
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http://www.csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1307-exclusive-uk-is-warned-it-is-losing-fight-against-modern-slavery
Modern Slavery Rears its Ugly Head in Chile
By Marianela Jarroud
In recent years, Chile has become a source, transit, and destination hub for human trafficking victims, experts say. According to judicial authorities, forced labour and sexual exploitation are the crimes most frequently associated with this ?modern form of slavery.
Although human trafficking appears to be a considerably common phenomenon in Chile, the number of criminal investigations does not match the perception that there is a greater number of cases, Mauricio Fernández, head of the Economic Crimes, Money Laundering and Organised Crime Unit of the National Prosecutor‘s Office, told IPS.
Actual figures must be much higher, with many unreported cases or ignored reports, he added. According to statistics made available by the under-secretary of the interior, from 2007 to 2011 only 22 people were identified as victims of human trafficking, most of them women and children. In that same period, 63 individuals were arrested in connection with this crime, and only 10 of them convicted.
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http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/modern-slavery-rears-its-ugly-head-in-chile/
Trafficking in human beings: more victims in the EU but Member states are slow to respond
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EU rights of victims of trafficking in human beings Today the European Commission is also presenting an overview of the rights of the victims of trafficking in human being to provide clear, user-friendly information on the labour, social, residence and compensation rights individuals are entitled to under EU law. Such an overview will be used by victims, and practitioners (NGOs, the police, immigration authorities, labour inspectors, border guards, health and social workers) working in the field of trafficking in human beings. It will contribute to the effective realisation of these rights by helping authorities in EU Member States to deliver the assistance and protection that victims need and deserve.
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http://www.csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1045-trafficking-in-human-beings-more-victims-in-the-eu-but-member-states-are-slow-to-respond
How to... use the media to help combat human trafficking
Spreading the word is essential to stopping slavery. These tips–from providing footage to showing causes to building hope – will help anti-trafficking groups to get their messages heard
By Terry FitzPatrick
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Tips for media engagement
Create your own visuals
Every journalist wants to go on a rescue. They want interviews, photos and video of people currently in some form of enslavement or forced labour. Get them what they want, but think about doing it for them with your own cameras. As mentioned above, bringing a news crew into a situation where there are vulnerable, terrified and exploited people can be extremely traumatic and potentially dangerous for everyone involved. Cameras are now small and cheap. Train your frontline staff to use them. Create a library of visuals for media use and ensure that your staff are also trained in how to interview potential case studies in an appropriate and sensitive way.
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http://www.csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1261-how-to-use-the-media-to-help-combat-human-trafficking
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The Social Contract
Volume 23, No. 3, Spring 2013
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/index.shtml
Articles:
Promoting a Big Canada: The Scientific Arguments
By Madeline Weld, Timothy Murray, and David Schindler
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_weld_murray_schindler.shtml
New Term Introduced at First Conference on Environmental Future
By John R. Vallentyne and H. L. Tracy
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_vallentyne_tracy.shtml
Responsible Statehood - The need for a population policy
By John R. Vallentyne
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_vallentyne_1.shtml
Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow - The 1977 presidential address to the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae Theoreticae et Applicatae
By John R. Vallentyne
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_vallentyne_2.shtml
Population Growth in the United States and Canada: A Role for Scientists
By Peter Salonius
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_salonius.shtml
Human Numbers — The Alpha Factor Affecting the Future of Wild Salmon
By Gordon F. Hartman, Thomas G. Northcote, and C. Jeff Cederholm
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_hartman.shtml
Human Population Increase, Economic Growth, and Fish Conservation - Collision course or savvy stewardship?
By Karin E. Limburg, Robert M. Hughes, Donald C. Jackson, and Brian Czeck
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_limburg.shtml
The Ecological Rights of Humans
By David W. Schindler
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_schindler.shtml
Immigration and Scarcity: Canada as a Battleground For Natural Resources
By J. Anthonly Cassils
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3.shtml
The Cold Hard Truth about Canada for Dummies
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_1.shtml
Canada Is Not a Big Empty Flophouse - The big little country up north
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_2.shtml
The Myth of Canada’s Underpopulation: Lay it to rest
By Madeline Weld
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_weld_1.shtml
Feeding the Raging Monster - How Canada promotes population growth at home and abroad
By Madeline Weld
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_weld_2.shtml
Smart Growth: The Worst Kind of Sprawl?
By Rick Shea
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/ts_23_3_shea.shtml
Citizens Bark While The Growth Caravan Moves On - Meanwhile Politicians And Media Clap and Environmentalists Remain Silent
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_3.shtml
Growth is a choice, not Vancouver’s destiny - Vancouver can lead the way by bending the population curve
By Gordon Gibson
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_gibson.shtml
Mass Immigration or the Alberta Tar Sands Project - Which disaster will have the greater impact on GHG emissions?
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_4.shtml
Mass Immigration Is Christmas Every Day for Grow-Forever Lobby
By John Meyer
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_meyer.shtml
Immigration Levels Are Already Too High
By Martin Collacott
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_collacott.shtml
How Many Immigrants Does Canada Need?
By Herbert Grubel
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_grubel_1.shtml
Immigration Trends—By the Numbers
By Salim Mansur
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_mansur.shtml
How Much Bigger Should This Country Really Get?
By Herbert Grubel
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_grubel_2.shtml
The Untold Tale About Income Inequality
By Herbert Grubel
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc-23_3_grubel_3.shtml
First Canadians Say Canadians First
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_5.shtml
Triad of Ecological Ruin - The Royal Bank of Canada, the Nature Conservancy, and the Multicultural Industry
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_6.shtml
Our Quisling CBC—Three more examples CBC Biased Again, Again, and Again
By Dan Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_dan_murray.shtml
Canada’s Demographic Auction - The public voice is unheard in the great rush to grow
By Tim Murray
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_murray_7.shtml
Immigrant Integration, National Security, and Public Safety
By David B. Harris
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_3/tsc_23_3_harris.shtml
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