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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. Senate testimony on combating human trafficking
2. House testimony on implementing biometric exit
3. CRS report on homeland security policy issues in the current Congress
4. GAO reports on biometric air exit system and border and maritime research/development
5. Canada: Population estimates for the year
6. U.K.: Quarterly immigration statistics
7. E.U.: Report on foreign language study and knowledge of
8. Australia: Yearly demographics statistical report
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
9. New report from TRAC
10. Two new reports from FAIR
11. Two new reports from the Pew Hispanic Center
12. New working paper from the Institute for the Study of Labor
13. Eight new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
14. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
15. Fifteen new papers from the Social Science Research Network
16. Five new reports from the International Organization for Migration
17. "Transatlantic Trends 2013"
18. "Is Legalization Possible? Trends and Political Mapping of Immigration in the House of Representatives"
19. Canada: "Making It in Canada: Immigration Outcomes and Policies"
BOOKS
20. Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics
21. Sanctuary?: Remembering Postwar Immigration
22. Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies
23. The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope Hardcover
24. The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration
25. Reforming the Common European Asylum System - Legislative Developments and Judicial Activism of the European Courts
JOURNALS
26. CSEM Newsletter
27. Ethnic and Racial Studies
28. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
1.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Monday, September 23, 2013
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/combating-human-trafficking-federal-state-and-local-perspectives
Combating Human Trafficking: Federal, State, and Local Perspectives
Member Statements
Chairman Thomas R. Carper
Senator Jeff Chiesa
Senator Heidi Heitkamp
Witness Testimony:
Panel I
Alice C. Hill, Chair
Blue Campaign, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
James A. Dinkins, Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Anne Gannon, National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
Office of the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Joseph S. Campbell, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice
Panel II
John J. Farmer, Jr., Senior Vice President and University Counsel
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Suzanne Koepplinger, Executive Director
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center
Lisa Brunner, Program Specialist
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center
Daniel Papa, Director
Project Stay Gold
[Access Member statements and witness testimony at link above]
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security
10:30 a.m., Thursday, September 26, 2013
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-fulfilling-key-911-commission-recommendation-implementing-biometric?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=b194047601-Immigration_Events_9_5_139_5_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-b194047601-44166121
Fulfilling A Key 9/11 Commission Recommendation: Implementing Biometric Exit
Statement by Chairman Candice Miller:
At link
Witness Testimony:
John Wagner, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner
Office of Field Operations
Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM11/20130926/101264/HHRG-113-HM11-Wstate-WagnerJ-20130926.pdf
John Woods, Assistant Director
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM11/20130926/101264/HHRG-113-HM11-Wstate-WoodsJ-20130926.pdf
Rebecca Gambler, Director
Homeland Security and Justice Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office<
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM11/20130926/101264/HHRG-113-HM11-Wstate-GamblerR-20130926.pdf
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New report from the Congressional Research Service
Issues in Homeland Security Policy for the 113th Congress
By William L. Painter
September 23, 2013
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/214941.pdf
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New report from the General Accountability Office
Additional Actions Needed to Improve Planning for a Biometric Air Exit System
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-853T, Sepember 26, 2013
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/658185.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-853T
Opportunities Exist to Better Evaluate and Coordinate Border and Maritime Research and Development
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-732, Sepember 25, 2013
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/658112.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-732
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Canada's total population estimates, 2013
Statistics Canada, September 26, 2013
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/130926/dq130926a-eng.htm
Excerpt: Between 2006 and 2011, Canada's population growth rate (+5.3%) was the highest among the G8 countries. Population growth for other G8countries ranged from a 0.8% decline in Germany to a 3.4% gain in the United States and the United Kingdom. Among industrialized countries, Canada's population growth fell below the estimated rates for countries such as Luxembourg (+8.7%), Ireland (+7.8%) and Australia (+7.6%).
Since 1993/1994, net international migration has been the main source of population growth for Canada. From July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2013, it was responsible for two-thirds of the country's population growth.
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Immigration statistics, April to June 2013
U.K. Home Office, October 8, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2013/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2013
Summary:
Work: There was a 2% fall for work visas issued to 144,554, accounted for by lower numbers for (Tier 1) high value individuals following the closure of the Tier 1 General and Tier 1 Post Study categories to new applicants, partially offset by an increase for skilled workers (Tier 2). However, work visas issued were slightly (2%) higher than in the year ending March 2013 (141,772), due to increases for skilled workers and for youth mobility and temporary workers.
By contrast there was a 9% increase in work-related extensions to 145,855, largely explained by higher numbers of grants for skilled workers (Tier 2), offset partly by lower numbers in the high value workers’ route (Tier 1).
Study: There were 5% fewer study visas issued (to 204,469 including dependants), mainly explained by smaller numbers of Pakistani and Indian students, although there were increases for other nationals, including Chinese and Libyans. Over the same period there were 2% fewer sponsored study visa applications (206,871, main applicants), of which there was a 4% increase for the university sector, compared with falls for the further education sector (-25%), English language schools (-16%), and independent schools (-3%).
Family: There was a fall of 24% for family-related visas issued (to 34,201), while grants of permission to stay permanently (60,079) increased by 24%. A rise of 89% in family-related extensions of stay (to 30,899) was mainly due to 10,256 extensions recorded under the new Family life (10 year) route that would previously have been recorded as discretionary leave under the “other” published category so figures are not directly comparable.
EEA: For Bulgarian and Romanian nationals, approvals under the Sector Based Scheme fell by 22% (to 496) and approvals under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme fell by 5% (to 19,392). In 2012 there were falls in approvals for these nationals of 32% for accession worker cards (to 1,803) and 7% for registration certificates (to 22,353), compared with 2011. However figures for these schemes do not provide a full picture; in particular they exclude the self-employed.
Asylum: There were 23,499 asylum applications, a rise of 18%, with increases in applications from a range of nationalities, including Syria, Pakistan and Albania. This remains low relative to the peak in 2002 (84,132), and similar to levels seen since 2006. Correspondingly, the number of applications received since April 2006 pending a decision continues to rise, by 23% to 14,589 main applicants at the end of June 2013.
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Two-thirds of working age adults in the EU28 in 2011 state they know a foreign language
English studied as a foreign language by 94% of upper secondary pupils
Eurostat, September 26, 2013
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-26092013-AP/EN/3-26092013-AP-EN.PDF
Excerpt: The importance of English as a foreign language in the EU is also confirmed amongst working age adults. In the EU28, English was declared to be the best-known foreign language in 2011 amongst the population aged 25 to 64. Among those stating English to be their best-known foreign language, 20% responded that they spoke it at a proficient2 level, 35% at a good2 level and 45% at a fair2 level. Considering all languages, two-thirds of the total population aged 25-64 stated they knew at least one foreign language.
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Australian Demographic Statistics, March 2013
Australian Bureau of Statistics, September 26, 2013
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ProductsbyReleaseDate/BCDDE4F49C8A3D1ECA257B8F00126F77?OpenDocument
Excerpt:
ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION
* The preliminary estimated resident population (ERP) of Australia at 31 March 2013 was 23,032,700 people. This reflects an increase of 397,400 people since 31 March 2012 and 114,800 people since 31 December 2012.
* The preliminary estimates of natural increase recorded for the year ended 31 March 2013 (159,100 people) was 0.8%, or 1,200 people, higher than the natural increase recorded for the year ended 31 March 2012 (157,900 people).
* The preliminary estimates of net overseas migration (NOM) recorded for the year ended 31 March 2013 (238,300 people) was 10.5%, or 22,600 people, higher than the net overseas migration recorded for the year ended 31 March 2012 (215,700 people).
POPULATION GROWTH RATES
* Australia's population grew by 1.8% during the year ended 31 March 2013.
* Natural increase and net overseas migration contributed 40% and 60% respectively to total population growth for the year ended 31 March 2013.
* All states and territories recorded positive population growth in the year ended 31 March 2013. Western Australia continued to record the fastest growth rate of all states and territories at 3.4%. Tasmania recorded the slowest growth rate at 0.1%.
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
1. New ICE Detainer Guidelines Have Little Impact
October 1, 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/333/
Excerpt: Despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) setting new, stricter detainer guidelines last December, very recent government data reveal that six months later fewer than one in nine (10.8 percent) of the ICE detainers met the agency's stated goal of targeting individuals who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security.
Further, only slightly more than a third (38 percent) of the individuals against whom detainers were issued had any record of a criminal conviction, including minor traffic violations. If traffic violations (including DWI) and marijuana possession violations are excluded, then only one-quarter (26 percent) of the individuals against whom detainers were issued had any conviction. See Figure 1 and compare with a similar chart showing patterns before the guidelines went into effect.
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Birth Rates, Population Growth and the Economy
By Jack Martin
September 2013
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/BirthsPopandEcon_2013.pdf
Real Immigration Enforcement: S.744 Doesn’t Do the Job
By Jack Martin
September 2013
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/RealEnforcement2013.pdf.
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Latinos’ Views of Illegal Immigration’s Impact on Their Community Improve
By Mark Hugo Lopez and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera
Pew Research, Hispanic Trends Project, October 3, 2013
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/10/03/latinos-views-of-illegal-immigrations-impact-on-their-community-improves/
Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed
New Estimate: 11.7 million in 2012
Pew Research, Hispanic Trends Project, September 23, 2013
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/09/23/population-decline-of-unauthorized-immigrants-stalls-may-have-reversed/
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12.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession
By Jakub Cerveny and Jan C. van Ours
Discussion Paper No. 7598, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7598
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. What We Know About Migration and Development
By Kathleen Newland
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Migration-Development-WhatWeKnow.pdf
2. The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
By Dilip Ratha
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Remittances-PovertyReduction.pdf
3. What We Know About Circular Migration and Enhanced Mobility
By Graeme Hugo
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Circular-Migration.pdf
4. What We Know: Regulating the Recruitment of Migrant Workers
By Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/LaborMigration-Recruitment.pdf
5. Newcomers to the Aloha State: Challenges and Prospects for Mexicans in Hawai`i
By Jeanne Batalova, Monisha Das Gupta, and Sue Patricia Haglund
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MexicansinHawaii.pdf
6. What We Know About Diasporas and Economic Development
By Kathleen Newland and Sonia Plaza
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Diasporas-EconomicDevelopment.pdf
7. Mapping West Africa's Migration and Land-Management Crisis
By Alessandra Ghisalberti
Migration Information Source, October 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=967
8. Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States
By Gregory Auclair and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source, September 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=966
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14.
New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Migration to the US and Marital Mobility
By Rebekka Christopoulou and Dean R. Lillard
NBER Working Paper No. 19495, October 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19495
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Marketisation of Immigrant Skills Assessment in Australia
By Anna Katherine Boucher, The University of Sydney
Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy, Gabrielle Meagher and Sue Goodwin, eds., University of Sydney Press, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2336808
2. Open Trade, Closed Borders: Immigration Policy in the Era of Globalization
By Margaret E. Peters, Yale University Department of Political Science
Added September 24, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2335074
3. Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship: The Case of Latin-American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona
By Olivia Salcido, and Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University
Law & Society Review 46 (2), 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2333013
4. The (Dwindling) Rights and Obligations of Citizenship
By Peter J. Spiro, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 21, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2333823
5. Immigration: Choosing an Adaptation Strategy
By Konstantin Moshe Yanovskiy, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy and Sergey Shulgin, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Added September 23, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329549
6. The NLRA Rock and the IRCA Hard Place: The NLRB's Entry into Immigration Issues
Douglas A. Hass, Ashford University and Amy J. Zdravecky, Franczek Radelet PC
Added September 27, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2332168
7. Banished for Life: Deportation of Juvenile Offenders as Cruel and Unusual Punishment
By Beth Caldwell, Southwestern Law School
Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 6, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2331066
8. Refugee Burden-Sharing: A Modest Proposal, Fifteen Years Later
By Peter H. Schuck, Yale University Law School
July 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2330380
9. The Growing Role of Immigration Law in Universal Higher Education: Case Studies of the United States and the EU
By Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center
Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies [OxCHEPS], Occasional Paper No. 48, 2013
U. of Houston Law Center No. 2013-A-13
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2330322
10. Risk Analysis on Migration and Asylum
By Dan Victor Cavaropol
Journal of Crime Investigation Year VI, No 1/2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329598
11. Justifying Power: Federalism, Immigration, and 'Foreign Affairs'
By Erin F. Delaney, Northwestern University School of Law
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2326186
12. Shattering the One-Way Mirror: Discovery in Immigration Court
By Geoffrey Heeren, Valparaiso University Law School
Brooklyn Law Review , Vol. 79, No. 4, 2014 Forthcoming
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329326
13. Does Immigration Crowd Natives Into or Out of Higher Education?
By Osborne Jackson, Northeastern University - Department of Economics
Added September 22, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329298
14. Safe Harbours, Closed Borders? New Zealand Legal and Policy Responses to Climate Displacement in the South Pacific
By Vernon John Charles Rive, Auckland University of Technology
Added September 20, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2328593
15. Migration Challenge for PAYG
By Gurgen Aslanyan, Charles University in Prague
FIW Working Paper No. 101, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2324784
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New from International Organization for Migration
1. MRS No. 46 - Migration and development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
Added October, 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/MRS46_1Oct2013.pdf
2. Global Eye on Human Trafficking
Issue 13, September 2013
Corporate Social Responsibility in Action: An Interview with FSI CEO Tristan Forster
By Jennifer Agis
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Global_Eye_issue13_7Oct2013.pdf
3. Migration Health – Annual Review 2012
Added September, 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/MHD_AR_2012_11Sept2013.pdf
4. Migration Policy Practice "Special Issue on HLD"
Vol. III, No. 4, August-September 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Migration_Policy_Practice_Journal12_FINAL.pdf
5. International Migration and Development: Contributions and Recommendations of the International System
Added September 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/CEB_GMG_web.pdf
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Transatlantic Trends 2013
German Marshall Fund of the United States, September 2013
http://trends.gmfus.org/transatlantic-trends/
Excerpt:
Section Four: Mobility, Migration, and Integration
As societies on both sides of the Atlantic continue to grapple with the challenges and the opportunities that mobility and immigration offer, a host of related issues have risen higher on policymakers’ agendas. More often than not, they are connected with issues of foreign, security, and economic policy in multiple ways.
The United States continues to debate immigration reform, while within Europe, the economic crisis has had a visible impact on mobility flows, most notably to Germany but also to countries in the global South. Regardless of the number of actual migrants, the topic of migration continues to raise concerns about the social and economic impacts of migration in many countries.
German politicians have framed increased immigration as a mostly positive development that offsets demographic decline and fills labor shortages. Indeed, the German government — in a policy turnaround — introduced several measures last year to recruit immigrants from within and beyond the EU; this now places Germany, together with Sweden, among the OECD countries with the most open migration policies.
AMERICANS, EUROPEANS SPLIT ON WHETHER IMMIGRATION IS PROBLEM OR OPPORTUNITY
A good way to assess the general perception of immigration is to ask whether respondents consider immigration to be more of a problem or an opportunity for their country. On this question, Americans were evenly split (more of a problem: 47%, but down six percentage points from 2011; more of an opportunity: 46%). Similarly, 44% of Europeans saw immigration as more of a problem, with 41% seeing it as more of an opportunity. In Europe, the view that immigration is more of a problem was most common in the United Kingdom (64%), Slovakia (52%), and France (50%). Respondents in Sweden (68%) and Germany (62%) were most likely to see immigration as more of an opportunity, the latter showing a clear trend towards greater optimism about immigration.
In Turkey, 54% of respondents saw immigration as more of a problem, whereas only 18% saw it as more of an opportunity. Twelve percent thought it was both.
Noticeably, countries in the survey with a relatively low share of immigrants (Poland, Romania, and Slovakia) show a higher number of respondents who see immigration as neither a problem nor an opportunity (13%, 21%, and 19% respectively) (see Chart 20).
LARGE TRANSATLANTIC MAJORITIES ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT LEGAL IMMIGRATION…
Designing legal immigration schemes and controlling illegal immigration are major policy challenges on both sides of the Atlantic. When asked if they were worried about legal immigration, majorities in America (73%, down from 82% in 2011) and Europe (69%) agreed that they were not. In Europe, agreement was highest in Sweden (78%), Romania (77%), Spain (75%), Portugal (74%), Italy (72%), and Germany (69%) (see Chart 21).
However, a quarter of Americans (25%, up seven percentage points since 2011) stated that they were worried about legal immigration; 29% of Europeans shared this view. Concern was highest in the United Kingdom (41%, up six percentage points since 2008), Slovakia (35%), the Netherlands and France (both 32%, up 11 percentage points in the latter since 2008).
In contrast, a two-thirds majority of Turks (60%) answered that they were worried about legal immigration; only 33% disagreed.
… BUT TWO-THIRDS IN UNITED STATES AND EUROPE WORRY ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
When asked whether they worried about illegal immigration, 61% of Americans said that they did, joined by 71% of Europeans. Concern was highest in Portugal (88%), Italy (86%), the United Kingdom (80%, up eleven percentage points since 2008), Spain (74%), Germany (72%, up six percentage points since 2008), and France (71%, up nine percentage points since 2008).
Only 37% of Americans said they were not worried, with 27% of Europeans agreeing (Poland and Romania: 48%; Sweden: 39%; Slovakia: 38%).
Turkish concern about illegal immigration (69%) was in line with feelings in Europe; only 23% of Turkish respondents said they were not worried about illegal immigration.
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18.
Is Legalization Possible? Trends and Political Mapping of Immigration in the House of Representatives
By Manuel Orozco and Julia Yansura
Inter-American Dialogue, September 2013
http://thedialogue.org/uploads/mig.pdf
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Making It in Canada: Immigration Outcomes and Policies
By Garnett Picot and Arthur Sweetman
Institute for Research on Public Policy, April 4, 2012
http://www.irpp.org/assets/research/diversity-immigration-and-integration/making-it-in-canada/IRPP-Study-no29.pdf
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Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics
By Michael Barone
Crown Forum, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0307461513, $18.19
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307461513/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2669 KB, ASIN: B00BVJG45Y, 258 pp., $11.76
Book Description: It is often said that America has become culturally diverse only in the past quarter century. But from the country’s beginning, cultural variety and conflict have been a centrifugal force in American politics and a crucial reason for our rise to power.
The peopling of the United States is one of the most important stories of the last five hundred years, and in Shaping our Nation, bestselling author and demographics expert Michael Barone illuminates a new angle on America’s rise, using a vast array of political and social data to show America is the product of a series large, unexpected mass movements—both internal and external—which typically lasted only one or two generations but in that time reshaped the nation, and created lasting tensions that were difficult to resolve.
Barone highlights the surprising trends and connections between the America of today and its migrant past, such as how the areas of major Scots-Irish settlement in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War are the same areas where John McCain performed better in the 2008 election than George W. Bush did in 2004, and how in the years following the Civil War, migration across the Mason-Dixon line all but ceased until the annealing effect that the shared struggle of World War II produced. Barone also takes us all the way up to present day, showing what the surge of Hispanic migration between 1970 and 2010 means for the elections and political decisions to be made in the coming decades.
Barone shows how, from the Scots-Irish influxes of the 18th century, to the Ellis Island migrations of the early 20th and the Hispanic and Asian ones of the last four decades, people have moved to America in part in order to make a better living—but more importantly, to create new communities in which they could thrive and live as they wanted. And the founders’ formula of limited government, civic equality, and tolerance of religious and cultural diversity has provided a ready and useful template for not only to coping with these new cultural influences, but for prospering as a nation with cultural variety.
Sweeping, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful, Shaping Our Nation is an unprecedented addition to our understanding of America’s cultural past, with deep implications for the immigration, economic, and social policies of the future.
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Sanctuary?: Remembering Postwar Immigration
By Catherine Panich
Routledge, 218 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415525330, $130.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415525330/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0415528305, $38.66
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415528305/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 3207 KB, ASIN: B009C699QE, $34.36
Book Description: In the ten years immediately following the Second World War, some 170,000 immigrants from Europe and Britain arrived in Australia. First published in 1988, this unique book recreates the experiences of those who fled a ravaged Europe to seek a new life in far-distant Australia. Their stories are told in the words of the people themselves, supplemented with photographs, documents, press reports and memorabilia.
These stories of over 100 Australians, New and Old, stories sometimes humorous and often very moving, provide a fascinating insight into a significant moment in Australian history. As the first definitive examination of life in the migrant camps, it documents a part of Australian history in danger of vanishing without trace.
Never before has there been such a collection of intensely personal accounts of what it was like to pass through the immigration centres and workers’ hostels on the way to building new lives – and to shaping present-day Australia.
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Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies
By Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, and Jane Vincent
Routledge, 290 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415887097, $124.53
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415887097/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0415719712, $40.37
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415719712/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1136 KB, ASIN: B007NYFMZ4, $38.35
Book Description: Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep connected with their communities of origin. Furthermore, the book analyses the different ways in which migrants contribute, along with natives, in co-constructing contemporary societies – a process in which the cultures of both groups are considered. Drawing on contributions from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology and linguistics, it offers a more profound understanding of one of the most significant phenomena of contemporary international societies – the migration of nearly a billion people worldwide - and the relationship between technology and society.
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The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope
By Claudia Kolker
Free Press, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1416586822, $18.44
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416586822/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1416586830, $12.98
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416586830/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1027 KB, ASIN: B004IK98CO, 258 pp., $10.67
Book Description: Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother’s, right to your front door after work? Do you know people you’d trust enough to give several hundred dollars a month to, with no receipt, on the simple promise that the accumulated wealth will come back to you a year later?
Not many of us can answer “yes” to these questions. But as award-winning journalist Claudia Kolker has discovered, each of these is one of a wide variety of cherished customs brought to the United States by immigrant groups, often adapted to American life by the second generation in a distinctive blending of old and new. Taken together, these extraordinary traditions may well contribute to what’s known as “the immigrant paradox,” the growing evidence that immigrants, even those from poor or violence-wracked countries, tend to be both physically and mentally healthier than most native-born Americans.
These customs are unfamiliar to most Americans, but they shouldn’t be. Honed over centuries, they provide ingenious solutions to daily challenges most of us face and provide both social support and comfort. They range from Vietnamese money clubs that help people save and Mexican cuarentenas—a forty-day period of rest for new mothers—to Korean afterschools that offer highly effective tutoring at low cost and Jamaican multigenerational households that help younger family members pay for college and, eventually, their own homes.
Fascinated by the success of immigrant friends, Claudia Kolker embarked on a journey to uncover how these customs are being carried on and adapted by the second and third generations, and how they can enrich all of our lives. In a beautifully written narrative, she takes readers into the living rooms, kitchens, and restaurants of immigrant families and neighborhoods all across the country, exploring the sociable street life of Chicago’s “Little Village,” a Mexican enclave with extraordinarily low rates of asthma and heart disease; the focused quiet of Korean afterschool tutoring centers; and the loving, controlled chaos of a Jamaican extended-family home. She chronicles the quests of young Indian Americans to find spouses with the close guidance of their parents, revealing the benefits of “assisted marriage,” an American adaptation of arranged marriage. And she dives with gusto into some of the customs herself, experimenting to see how we might all fit them into our lives. She shows us the joy, and excitement, of savoring Vietnamese “monthly rice” meals delivered to her front door, hiring a tutor for her two young girls, and finding a powerful sense of community in a money-lending club she started with friends.
The Immigrant Advantage is an adventurous exploration of little-known traditional wisdom, and how in this nation of immigrants our lives can be enriched by the gifts of our newest arrivals.
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The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration
By Martin Ruhs
Princeton University Press, 272 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0691132917, $27.89
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691132917/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2298 KB, ASIN: B00EFVIUY8, 260 pp., $19.25
Book Description: Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.
Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries.
The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.
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Reforming the Common European Asylum System - Legislative developments and judicial activism of the European Courts
By Samantha Velluti
Springer, 125 pp.
Kindle, 629 KB, ASIN: B00FJUFZ5G, $43.99
Book Description: In June 2013, after lengthy and complex negotiations the EU adopted the recast “asylum package” which represents a significant step forward in the future development of CEAS.
In this timely study Velluti provides fresh insights into recent legislative and judicial developments in asylum and through the “lens” of sovereignty she looks at some of the contemporary challenges faced by the EU protection regime, with a particular focus on asylum-seekers’ rights.
The volume assesses whether the EU provides an adequate framework for protecting those seeking international protection from the opposing perspectives of effectiveness and fairness. It shows that, despite the newly adopted “second-generation” legislative acts which include changes aimed at ensuring a stronger level of protection for asylum-seekers, the reform process at European level does not adequately ensure an equal standard of protection across all Member States.
Through a comparative analysis of selected ECtHR and ECJ asylum cases the book also examines the constitutional relationship between the two European Courts and how it impacts on the human rights of asylum-seekers and on the future of EU asylum law.
Ultimately, the book shows that real progress in the development of the human rights dimension of CEAS will be achieved largely through the European and domestic courts.
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CSEM Newsletter
September-October, 2013
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
BACKLASH AGAINST MALAWIAN MIGRANTS IN TANZANIA
An official crackdown on undocumented migrants in Tanzania has sparked a wave of attacks against Malawians living there, causing many to flee for home. In recent weeks, hundreds of returnees, some still recovering from the beatings they received, have been stranded near Malawi's northern border with Tanzania without funds to continue their journey home.
In July, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete gave irregular migrants until 11 August to leave the country or face deportation. Since the expiration of the deadline, thousands of mainly Burundian and Rwandan migrants have been forcibly expelled.
According to Tanzanian authorities quoted in an online report by the local Daily News over 1,000 Malawians have also been arrested since the start of the operation, code-named "Kimbunga" (Whirlwind).
Some returning Malawians whom IRIN spoke to said they left Tanzania after attacks by locals who, they claim, have been taking advantage of the police crackdown.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1741-backlash-against-malawian-migrants-in-tanzania
ANTI-IMMIGRANT PARTY GAINS POWER AFTER NORWAY DRIFTS TO THE RIGHT
Progress Party in government for first time since 1973 in Conservative coalition
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Norway’s next Prime Minister has formed a right-wing coalition government with the populist Progress Party, despite fears that some of their policies could inflame anti-immigrant sentiment in a nation still healing from the attacks by neo-Nazi extremist Anders Breivik two years ago.
Erna Solberg, whose Conservative Party last month ousted Labour after two terms in government, has negotiated a minority coalition with the Progress Party, which since its founding in 1973 has been frozen out of power because of its radical views on immigration, tax and spending.
While Progress Party politicians have repeatedly denied that they are xenophobic, tightening the laws on asylum seekers and immigrants in Norway was a central plank of their campaign and a condition for their participation in the Conservative-led coalition government.
“We can’t hide the fact that we are very pleased with the immigration issues here, we have got a fairly strong tightening,” the Progress Party leader, Siv Jensen, said after signing a cooperation agreement on Monday night to become part of Norway’s most right-wing postwar government.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1744-anti-immigrant-party-gains-power-after-norway-drifts-to-the-right
WOMEN, CHILDREN MOST VULNERABLE TO REFUGEE HEALTH CUTS
A new study examines the impact of the federal cuts, including a case where a sexual assault victim was denied care for her pregnancy.
By Nicholas Keung
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In one case, a refugee claimant 36 weeks pregnant was told by her obstetrician that the government would no longer provide coverage for delivery and to bring in $3,000 for her next appointment. Later, officials said they made a mistake and the woman was eligible.
In another instance, a child with a potentially contagious rash was turned away from a clinic because her coverage, although valid, was not accepted.
A spokesperson for Immigration Minister Chris Alexander called the report another attempt by special interest groups to make Canadian taxpayers pay for “gold-plated health care coverage” for illegal migrants and failed refugee claimants.
In an email, Alexis Pavlich said “the majority of asylum claims made in Canada are unfounded,” and that 70 per cent of Canadians questioned in a Nanos poll were in favour of the cuts.
The report urges Ottawa to respond to the cases reported by health professionals and convene a roundtable to review the impact of the cuts.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1755-women-children-most-vulnerable-to-refugee-health-cuts
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DOMINICAN RULING STRIPPING CITIZENSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF HAITIAN MIGRANTS CAUSES CRISIS, EXPERTS WARN
Stateless, facing deportation and discriminated. Experts warned that this is what faces tens of thousands of children of Haitian migrants after the Dominican government stripped them of their citizenship.
Officials promised to create a path to Dominican citizenship, but gave no details about how it would work or who would be covered.
The ruling by the Constitutional Court is final and gives the electoral commission one year to produce a list of people to be excluded from citizenship.
The decision applies to those born after 1929 — a category that overwhelmingly includes descendants of Haitians brought in to work on farms. It appears to affect even their grandchildren, said Wade McMullen, a New York-based attorney at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.
A U.N.-backed study released this year estimated that there are nearly 210,000 Dominican-born people of Haitian descent and roughly another 34,000 born to parents of another nationality.
Many of those "are now effectively stateless," McMullen said. "We really don't know what's going to happen to those people ... Based on what the Dominican government is saying, these people are not Dominican citizens and will have to leave and effectively go to Haiti, where they are also not citizens. It creates an extremely complicated situation."
The majority of them don't have Haitian citizenship, have little or no ties to Haiti and likely don't speak Creole, he said. Getting Haitian citizenship can be complicated too because it is difficult to comply with requirements to prove descent from a Haitian national.
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csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1737-dominican-ruling-stripping-citizenship-for-children-of-haitian-migrants-causes-crisis-experts-warn
REVEALED: QATAR'S WORLD CUP 'SLAVES'
Exclusive: Abuse and exploitation of migrant workers preparing emirate for 2022
By Pete Pattisson
Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar's preparations to host the 2022 World Cup.
This summer, Nepalese workers died at a rate of almost one a day in Qatar, many of them young men who had sudden heart attacks. The investigation found evidence to suggest that thousands of Nepalese, who make up the single largest group of labourers in Qatar, face exploitation and abuses that amount to modern-day slavery, as defined by the International Labour Organisation, during a building binge paving the way for 2022.
According to documents obtained from the Nepalese embassy in Doha, at least 44 workers died between 4 June and 8 August. More than half died of heart attacks, heart failure or workplace accidents.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1729-revealed-qatar-s-world-cup-slaves
NORWEGIANS MORE SCEPTICAL TO FOREIGN WOMEN WITH HIJABS
Muslim women not wearing the Hijab were not viewed any differently than women from other immigrant backgrounds, a study of Norwegians’ attitudes towards immigrants demonstrates. This changed when it was worn, however.
“The Hijab seems to have been an important symbol of ‘foreignness’. It would be interesting to know exactly what negative connotations the Hijab awakens in the majority population,” Zan Strabac, an associate professor at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST/TØH), told Klassekampen
The results suggest that it is not the woman's religion that causes scepticism amongst Norwegians but the religious headgear itself, which covers her hair.
Mr Strabac was one of several who collaborated on the project, an experimental study researching Norwegians’ attitudes to immigrants.
Marco Valenta, a professor at Trondheim’s University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Social Work and Health Science, thinks women should certainly not stop wearing the hijab, as the poll’s results are “just something we observe objectively.”
Amongst his previous research results is having found different languages and cultures can lead to workplace fractionalisation and social isolation.
He says of the study that “the cost of wearing the Hijab is quite high. But attitudes towards Muslim women were not more negative than attitudes toward other women with immigrant backgrounds when they did not wear it.”
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1703-norwegians-more-sceptical-to-foreign-women-with-hijabs
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 36, No. 11, November 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/36/11#.UldEUVOJoeA
Articles:
Religion and the organizational context of immigrant civic engagement: Mexican Catholicism in the USA
By G. Cristina Mora
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.664279#.UldFJVOJoeA
Religion, ethnicity and identity: former Soviet Christian immigrants in Israel
By Rebeca Raijmanand Yael Pinsky
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.669486#.UldGkFOJoeA
Social ties at work: Roma migrants and the community dynamics
By Maria-Carmen Pantea
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.664282#.UldGeFOJoeA
What factors account for black–white differences in anti-Muslim sentiment in the contemporary USA?
By Hakim Zainiddinov
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.664280#.UldGYlOJoeA
Immigrants and the Basque nation: diversity as a new marker of identity
By Sanjay Jeram
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.664281#.UldGR1OJoeA
‘Have you got the Britísh?’: narratives of migration and settlement among Albanian-origin immigrants in London
By Zana Vathiand Russell King
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.692799#.UldGMFOJoeA
Return to sender? A comparative analysis of immigrant communities in ‘attrition through enforcement’ destinations
By Angela S. García
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.692801#.UldGF1OJoeA
The uses of racism: whitewashing new Europeans in the UK
By Jon E. Fox
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.692802#.UldF8lOJoeA
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 39, No. 10, December 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/current#.UldCalOJoeA
Selected articles:
Language Boundaries and the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrants in Europe
By Harald Beier and Clemens Kroneberg
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833685#.UldC-1OJoeA
Post-Multicultural Cities: A Comparison of Minority Politics in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 1970–2010
By Walter Nicholls and Justus Uitermark
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833686#.UldDDVOJoeA
Integration Discourses and the Generational Trajectories of Civic Engagement in Multi-Nation States: A Comparison of the Canadian Provinces of Quebec and Ontario
By Emily Laxer
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815432#.UldDH1OJoeA
The Attachments of New York City Caribbean Indian Immigrants to Indian Culture, Indian Immigrants and India
By Pyong Gap Min
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833688#.UldDMVOJoeA
The Selective Integration of Muslim Immigrant Women in the United States: Explaining Islam's Paradoxical Impact
By Saba Senses Ozyurt
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833691#.UldDQlOJoeA
How Do Husbands Affect the Labour Market Participation of Majority and Immigrant Women?
By Idunn Brekke
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833693#.UldDU1OJoeA
Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults
By Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833694#.UldDblOJoeA
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