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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. DHS OIG report on CBP strategy for countering border tunnels
2. CRS report on illegal aliens' access to federal benefits
3. GAO reports on the CNMI foreign worker permit program and the H-2A visa program
4. Latest issue of DOJ EOIR Immigration Law Advisor
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
5. Five new papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
6. Eight new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
7. Seven new papers from the Social Science Research Network
8. Four new reports from the International Organization for Migration
9. "Los Angeles Traffic: Addressing safety issues"
10. "Globalization, Brain Drain, and Development"
11. Canada: "Shaping the future: Canada’s rapidly changing immigration policies"
12. "Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America"
13. "International Migration, Politics and Culture: the Case for Greater Labour Mobility"
14. Australia: "Doctors disciplined for professional misconduct in Australia and New Zealand, 2000–2009"
15. Australia: "Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants:"
BOOKS
16. The Passport in America: The History of a Document
17. Migration and Economic Growth
18. The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
19. Killing the American Dream: How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation
20. Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
21. Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice
22. Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
23. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy
24. Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East
25. Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900
JOURNALS
26. Child Development
27. Ethnic and Racial Studies
28. Human Mobility
29. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
30. Latino Studies
1.
CBP’s Strategy to Address Illicit Cross Border Tunnels
DHS Office of Inspector General, OIG-12-132, September 2012
http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2012/OIG_12-132_Sep12.pdf
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New report from the Congressional Research Service
Unauthorized Aliens’ Access to Federal Benefits: Policy and Issues
By Ruth Ellen Wasem
CRS Report for Congress, September 17, 2012
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/198824.pdf
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New report from the General Accountability Office
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Additional DHS Actions Needed on Foreign Worker Permit Program
Government Accountability Office, GAO-12-975, September 27, 2012
Report - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-975
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/assets/650/648908.pdf
H-2A Visa Program - Modernization and Improved Guidance Could Reduce Employer Application Burden
Government Accountability Office, GAO-12-706, September 12, 2012
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/650/648175.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-706
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What To Do When the Constable Blunders? Egregious Violations of the Fourth Amendment in Removal Proceedings
By Kate Mahoney
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 6 No. 8, September, 2012
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202012/vol6no8.pdf
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
By Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur
Discussion Paper No. 6924, October 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
2. Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
By Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
Discussion Paper No. 6921, October 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
3. The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
By Jennifer Hunt
Discussion Paper No. 6904, October 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
4. Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing
By Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca
Discussion Paper No. 6878, September 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
5. Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
By Steven Stillman, John Gibson, David McKenzie, and Halahingano Rohorua
Discussion Paper No. 6871, September 2012
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id…
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. New Approaches to Migration Management in Mexico and Central America
By Francisco Alba and Manuel Ángel Castillo
October 2012
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/RMSG-MexCentAm-Migration.pdf
2. Same-Sex Partners Slowly but Surely Gain Recognition in Immigration Benefits
By Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron
Migration Information Source, October 16, 2012
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=910
3. Immigration Federalism: Which Policy Prevails?
By Monica Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, Doris Marie Provine, and Scott Decker
Migration Information Source, October 9, 2012
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=909
4. Disentangling Immigration and International Development in the United States
By Aaron Terrazas
Migration Information Source, October 2012
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=908
5. Thailand at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Leveraging Migration for Development
By Jerry Huguet, Aphichat Chamratrithirong, and Claudia Natali
Issue in Brief, October 2012
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/LeveragingMigration.pdf
6. Black Immigrant Mothers in Palm Beach County, Florida, and their Children's Readiness for School
By Lauren Rich, Julie Spielberger, and Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo
October 2012
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CBI-PalmBeachCounty.pdf
7. Patterns and Predictors of School Readiness and Early Childhood Success among Young Children in Black Immigrant Families
By Danielle A. Crosby and Angel S. Dunbar
October 2012
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CBI-school-readiness.pdf
8. Strengthening Pre-Departure Orientation Programmes in Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines
By Maruja M.B. Asis and Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias
September 2012
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/PredepartureOrientation.pdf
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. The Partisan Fallout from Arizona's Immigration Battle: Applying Lessons from California
By Gregory Robinson, Jonathan S. Krasno, Joshua Zingher, and Michael A. Allen
Binghamton University, September 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2160760
2. The Obama Administration, the Dream Act and the Take Care Clause
By John Yoo, University of California at Berkeley School of Law and Robert J. Delahunty, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)
Texas Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2013
U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-27
UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2144031
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144031
3. Fixation: An Obsession or Unhealthy Preoccupation or Attachment. [The m]igration Issue Needs Sense, Not a Big Fence
By Katherine L. Vaughns, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
27 Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development (2013)
U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-63
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2154200
4. The Plea Bargain Crisis for Noncitizens in Misdemeanor Court
By Jason Alexis Cade, NYU School of Law
Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 34, 2013 (Forthcoming)
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2154920
5. Stateless in the United States: Current Reality and a Future Prediction
By Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2154470
6. The Trade Effects of Skilled Versus Unskilled Migration
By Peter Egger, ETH Zurich; Douglas Nelson, Tulane University Department of Economics; Maximilian Von Ehrlich, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich Center for Economic Studies (CES)
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9053
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2153504
7. International Cooperation on Migration: Theory and Practice
By Alan O. Sykes, Stanford University Law School
University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming
NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-32
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2152069
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8.
New from International Organization for Migration
Migration in Jamaica: A Country Profile 2010
By Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, Pauline Knight, and Claudel Noel
Added October 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Migration_in_Jamaica_Profile…
Humanitarian Response to the Libyan Crisis (February – December 2011 Report)
Added October, 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&…
Assessment of Health Needs and Living Conditions of Migrants in Jordan 2011–2012
Added October, 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Health_Assessment_Jordan.pdf
Expansion of Advanced Border Control and Management Techniques in Armenia
Added September 2012
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/GalstyanNarinyanExpansionofA…
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Los Angeles Traffic: Addressing safety issues
By Don Rosenberg
October 2012
http://cbsla.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/los-angeles-traffic-whitepaper…
Excerpt:
UNLICENSED DRIVERS
It may seem logical that in order to drive in the state of California, or any state for that matter, one must be a legal citizen of the United States or legally residing or visiting the United States, seeing as how driving itself is a privilege, not a right. Additionally, driving without a license is a punishable offense under California Vehicle Code 12500 (a), officially making it a crime to be an unlicensed driver. However, these facts and laws have been and continue to be ignored in order to make way for undeserving and motorist-endangering unlicensed drivers. “There are over 1 million drivers operating automobiles in California having never been issued a license (Legislative Findings, 1994).” Through legislators’ disregard for these facts and laws, in order to make unlicensed and/or undocumented immigrant drivers feel accepted, California has permitted immense fatalities to occur. “Overall, in the years 2007-2009, 18.2% of fatal crashes involved a driver who was unlicensed or invalidly licensed; these crashes resulted in the deaths of 21,049 people in the United States.”
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Additionally, the AAA study has shown that traffic fatalities have been decreasing over the past 10 years except in the category of unlicensed drivers. There are currently three lawsuits against the City of Los Angeles, the Police Commission and Chief Beck over their new “policy”. In light of the statistics, in light of the facts regardless of who wins the lawsuit why would anyone want to make driving without a license easier? It is not irresponsible, it is criminal. It is criminal negligence of the highest order to knowingly allow, no, in the case of undocumented immigrants actually encourage and empower, unlicensed drivers to drive. In fact since the main reason the powers to be have decided to ignore these laws is so these people can “get to work” it is actually a federal offense.
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Licensing undocumented immigrants is fraught with political peril. Licensing bills were passed twice in the past ten years only to be vetoed by Governors Davis and Schwarzenegger. A recent survey (Sept 6-18, 2012) in California conducted by the Institute for Governmental Studies at UC Berkley and The Field Poll showed that 56% of all respondents are against allowing illegal immigrants drivers licenses. White non-Hispanic were 34% in favor and 63% opposed. Hispanic respondents were 60% in favor and 35% opposed.
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10.
Globalization, Brain Drain, and Development
By Frederic Docquier and Hillel Rapoport
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 50, No. 3, September 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aea/jel/2012/00000050/00000003/ar…
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Shaping the future: Canada’s rapidly changing immigration policies
by N. Alboim and K. Cohl
The Maytree Foundation, October 2012
http://maytree.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shaping-the-future.pdf
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Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America
By Jessica Jones and Jennifer Podkul
Women’s Refugee Commission, October 2012
http://wrc.ms/WuG8lM
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International Migration, Politics and Culture: the Case for Greater Labour Mobility
By Sharun Mukand
Chatham House, October 2012
http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/cis.org/files/public/Research/Interna…
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14.
Doctors disciplined for professional misconduct in Australia and New Zealand, 2000–2009
By Katie J Elkin, Matthew J Spittal, David J Elkin, and David M Studdert
The Medical Journal of Australia, 2011
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2011/194/9/doctors-disciplined-professio…
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Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: some evidence from Australia
By Wei Ping Kostenko, Mark Harris, and Xueyan Zhao
Applied Economics, Vol. 44, No. 31, November 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/raef/2012/00000044/00000…
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16.
The Passport in America: The History of a Document
By Craig Robertson
Oxford University Press, USA, 352 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0199733422, $26.97
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199733422/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 019992757X, $21.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019992757X/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B003Y3BF2C, 1770 KB, $12.59
Book Description: In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become an indispensable document. But how and why did this form of identification take on such a crucial role?
In the first history of the passport in the United States, Craig Robertson offers an illuminating account of how this document, above all others, came to be considered a reliable answer to the question: who are you? Historically, the passport originated as an official letter of introduction addressed to foreign governments on behalf of American travelers, but as Robertson shows, it became entangled in contemporary negotiations over citizenship and other forms of identity documentation. Prior to World War I, passports were not required to cross American borders, and while some people struggled to understand how a passport could accurately identify a person, others took advantage of this new document to advance claims for citizenship. From the strategic use of passport applications by freed slaves and a campaign to allow married women to get passports in their maiden names, to the "passport nuisance" of the 1920s and the contested addition of photographs and other identification technologies on the passport, Robertson sheds new light on issues of individual and national identity in modern U.S. history.
In this age of heightened security, especially at international borders, Robertson's The Passport in America provides anyone interested in questions of identification and surveillance with a richly detailed, and often surprising, history of this uniquely important document.
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Migration and Economic Growth
By Mathias Czaika and Carlos Varga-Silva
Edward Elgar Pub., 876 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 178100353X, $465.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/178100353X/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This book comprehensively examines the role of economic growth (or lack of) as a driver of migration, as well as the impact of migration on economic growth in receiving and sending countries. Seminal papers have been selected which cover both, direct and indirect effects, as well as theoretical and empirical contributions. This important collection, along with an original introduction by the editors, provides a combination of the classical works and topics with the latest contributions and discussions. It is a comprehensive introduction for those interested in learning about the topic and an excellent source of reference for experts.
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The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
Wharton Digital Press, 106 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1613630212, $10.87
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1613630212/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B0098P9HKC, 208 KB, $5.79
Book Description: Many of the United States’ most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of workers, and helping establish the United States as the most entrepreneurial, technologically advanced society on earth.
Now, Vivek Wadhwa, an immigrant tech entrepreneur turned academic with appointments at Duke, Stanford, Emory, and Singularity Universities, draws on his new Kauffman Foundation research to show that the United States is in the midst of an unprecedented halt in high-growth, immigrant-founded start-ups. He argues that increased competition from countries like China and India and US immigration policies are leaving some of the most educated and talented entrepreneurial immigrants with no choice but to take their innovation elsewhere. The consequences to our economy are dire; our multi-trillion dollar loss will be the gain of our global competitors.
With his signature fearlessness and clarity, Wadhwa offers a concise framework for understanding the Immigrant Exodus and offers a recipe for reversal and rapid recovery.
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Killing the American Dream: How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation
By Pilar Marrero
Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0230341756, $16.93
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230341756/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B0089MQ0CS, 361 KB, $12.99
Book Description: As the US deports record numbers of illegal immigrants and local and state governments scramble to pass laws resembling dystopian police states where anyone can be questioned and neighbors are encouraged to report on one another, violent anti-immigration rhetoric is growing across the nation. Against this tide of hysteria, Pilar Marrero reveals how damaging this rise in malice toward immigrants is not only to the individuals, but to our country as a whole. Marrero explores the rise in hate groups and violence targeting the foreign-born from the 1986 Immigration Act to the increasing legislative madness of laws like Arizona’s SB1070 which allows law officers to demand documentation from any individual with “reasonable suspicion” of citizenship, essentially encouraging states and municipalities to form their own self-contained nation-states devoid of immigrants. Assessing the current status quo of immigration, Marrero reveals the economic drain these ardent anti-immigration policies have as they deplete the nation of an educated work force, undermine efforts to stabilize tax bases and social security, and turn the American Dream from a time honored hallmark of the nation into an unattainable fantasy for all immigrants of the present and future.
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Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
By Jeremy Harding
Verso, 176 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1781680639, $11.16
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1781680639/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B007LCY5E2, 329 KB, $9.99
Book Description: Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States has been to raise the drawbridge: immigrant workers are needed, but no longer welcome. So migrants die in trucks or drown en route; they are murdered in smuggling operations or ruthlessly exploited in illegal businesses that make it impossible for the abused to seek police help. More than 15,000 people have died in the last twenty years trying to circumvent European entry restrictions.
In this beautifully written book, Jeremy Harding draws haunting portraits of the migrants – and anti-immigrant zealots – he encountered in his investigations in Europe and on the US–Mexico border. Harding’s painstaking research and global perspective identify the common characteristics of immigration policy across the rich world and raise pressing questions about the future of national boundaries and universal values.
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Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice
By Charis E. Kubrin, Marjorie S. Zatz, and Ramiro Martínez
NYU Press, 276 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 081474902X, $75.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081474902X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0814749038, $24.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814749038/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B0095VEZAQ, 758 KB, $9.99
Book Description: Arizona’s controversial new immigration bill is just the latest of many steps in the new criminalization of immigrants. While many cite the presumed criminality of illegal aliens as an excuse for ever-harsher immigration policies, it has in fact been well-established that immigrants commit less crime, and in particular less violent crime, than the native-born and that their presence in communities is not associated with higher crime rates. Punishing Immigrants moves beyond debunking the presumed crime and immigration linkage, broadening the focus to encompass issues relevant to law and society, immigration and refugee policy, and victimization, as well as crime. The original essays in this volume uncover and identify the unanticipated and hidden consequences of immigration policies and practices here and abroad at a time when immigration to the U.S. is near an all-time high. Ultimately, Punishing Immigrants illuminates the nuanced and layered realities of immigrants’ lives, describing the varying complexities surrounding immigration, crime, law, and victimization.
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
By Diane Sainsbury
Oxford University Press, USA, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0199654778, $102.03
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199654778/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0199654786, $40.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199654786/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the impact of welfare states on immigrants' social rights, economic well-being and social inclusion, and it offers the first systematic comparison of immigrants' social rights across welfare states. To study immigrants' social rights the author develops an analytical framework that focuses on the interplay between 1) the type of welfare state regime, 2) forms of entry, or entry categories, and 3) the incorporation regime regulating the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants. The book maps out the development of immigrants' social rights from the early postwar period until around 2010 in six countries representing different welfare state regimes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark. Part I addresses three major issues. The first is how inclusive or exclusionary welfare state policies are in relation to immigrants, and especially how the type of welfare state and incorporation regime affect their social rights. The second issue concerns changes in immigrant rights and the direction of the change: rights extension versus rights contraction. The third issue is how immigrants' social rights compare to those of citizens. Part II shifts from policies affecting immigrant rights to the politics of the policies. It examines the politics of inclusion and exclusion in the six countries, focusing on social rights extension and contraction and changes in the policy dimensions of the incorporation regime that impinge on immigrant rights.
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Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy
By Miguel Antonio Levario
Texas A&M University Press, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 160344758X, $38.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/160344758X/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: B008PX1XJQ, 1329 KB, $31.16
Book Description: As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy, focusing on El Paso and its environs, examines the history of the relationship among law enforcement, military, civil, and political institutions, and local communities. In the years between 1895 and 1940, West Texas experienced intense militarization efforts by local, state, and federal authorities responding to both local and international circumstances. El Paso’s “Mexicanization” in the early decades of the twentieth century contributed to strong racial tensions between the region’s Anglo population and newly arrived Mexicans. Anglos and Mexicans alike turned to violence in order to deal with a racial situation rapidly spinning out of control.Highlighting a binational focus that sheds light on other US-Mexico border zones in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Militarizing the Border establishes historical precedent for current border issues such as undocumented immigration, violence, and racial antagonism on both sides of the boundary line. This important evaluation of early US border militarization and its effect on racial and social relations among Anglos, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans will afford scholars, policymakers, and community leaders a better understanding of current policy . . . and its potential failure.
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Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East
By Dawn Chatty
Berghahn Books, 284 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 184545653X, $84.13
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184545653X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 085745806X, $34.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/085745806X/centerforimmigra
Book Description: The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development. This book compares and contrasts both the stereotypes and Western-based models of humanitarian assistance among Sahrawi youth with the lack of programming and near total self-sufficiency of Afghan refugee youth in Iran. Both extremes offer an important opportunity to further explore the impact which forced migration and prolonged conflict have had, and continue to have, on the lives of these refugee youth and their families. This study examines refugee communities closely linked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and a host of other UN agencies in the case of the Sahrawi and near total lack of humanitarian aid in the case of Afghan refugees in Iran.
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Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900
By Julia A. Clancy-Smith
University of California Press, 468 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0520259238, $49.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520259238/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0520274431, $34.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520274431/centerforimmigra
Kindle, ASIN: 0520274431, 2254 KB, $19.22
Book Description: Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. In a vibrant examination of people in motion, Julia A. Clancy-Smith tells the story of countless migrants, travelers, and adventurers who traversed the Mediterranean, changing it forever. Who were they? Why did they leave home? What awaited them in North Africa? And most importantly, how did an Arab-Muslim state and society make room for the newcomers? Combining fleeting facts, tales of success and failure, and vivid cameos, the book gives a groundbreaking view of one of the principal ways that the Mediterranean became modern.
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Child Development
Vol. 83, No. 5, September 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005
Selected articles:
Children From Immigrant Families: Introduction to the Special Section
By Robert Crosnoe and Andrew J. Fuligni
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Academic Outcomes of Mexican Immigrant Children: The Importance of School Context
By Christia Spears Brown and Hui Chu
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Tridimensional Acculturation and Adaptation Among Jamaican Adolescent-Mother Dyads in the United States
By Gail M. Ferguson, Marc H. Bornstein, and Audrey M. Pottinger
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Health and Medical Care among the Children of Immigrants
By Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest and Ariel Kalil
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Immigrant-Native Differences in Child Health: Does Maternal Education Narrow or Widen the Gap?
By Margot I. Jackson, Kathleen Kiernan, and Sara McLanahan
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Family Functioning and Early Learning Practices in Immigrant Homes
By Sunyoung Jung, Bruce Fuller, and Claudia Galindo
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Migration Timing and Parenting Practices: Contributions to Social Development in Preschoolers With Foreign-Born and Native-Born Mothers
By Jennifer E. Glick, Laura D. Hanish, Scott T. Yabiku, and Robert H. Bradley
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Academic Achievement of Legal Immigrants' Children: The Roles of Parents' Pre- and Postmigration Characteristics in Origin-Group Differences
By Suet-ling Pong and Nancy S. Landale
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Educational Achievement of Immigrant Adolescents in Spain: Do Gender and Region of Origin Matter?
By Elizabeth Vaquera and Grace Kao
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Multiple Identities and Religious Transmission: A Study Among Moroccan-Dutch Muslim Adolescents and Their Parents
By Maykel Verkuyten, Jochem Thijs, and Gonneke Stevens
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
The Development of Young Children of Immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States
By Elizabeth Washbrook, Jane Waldfogel, Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, and Ali A. Ghanghro
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
By Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Distinct Trajectories in the Transition to Adulthood: Are Children of Immigrants Advantaged?
By Lingxin Hao and Han S. Woo
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Acculturation or Development? Autonomy Expectations Among Ethnic German Immigrant Adolescents and Their Native German Age-Mates
By Peter F. Titzmann and Rainer K. Silbereisen
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
Mexican-Origin Youth's Cultural Orientations and Adjustment: Changes From Early to Late Adolescence
By Kimberly A. Updegraff, Adriana J.Umana-Taylor, Susan M. McHale, Lorey A. Wheeler, and Norma J. Perez-Brena
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cdev/2012/00000083/00000005/a…
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 35, No. 11, November 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/current
Selected articles:
The transnational politics of the Ethiopian Muslim diaspora
By Dereje Feyissa
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.604130
Culture at work: Polish migrants in the ethnic division of labour on Norwegian construction sites
By Jon Horgen Friberg
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.605456
Ethnic inequalities in education: second-generation Russians in Estonia
By Kristina Lindemann & Ellu Saar
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.611890
Violence and trauma as constitutive elements in Korean American racial identity formation: the 1992 L.A. riots/insurrection/saigu
By Rose M. Kim
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.602090
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Human Mobility
Boletim 89, Ano IX, September 2012
http://www.csem.org.br/images/downloads/boletins/Boletim_Mobilidade_Hum…
English language content:
Latino immigrants as job creators
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/281-latino-immigrants-as-job-creators
In Brazil, opportunity and obstacles for africans flowing in
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/288-in-brazil-opportunity-and-obstacle…
Britons increasingly negative about impact of immigration
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/292-britons-increasingly-negative-abou…
Italy woes sink African migrants' hopes
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/305-italy-woes-sink-african-migrants-h…
Cap reached for immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/09/10/34194/cap-reached-immigrant-victims…
Woman's immigration status puts dreams on hold
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/320-woman-s-immigration-status-puts-dr…
Mexican moms are more nurturing than white ones, study finds
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/335-mexican-moms-are-more-nurturing-th…
Nuns add voices to immigration debate
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/274-nuns-add-voices-to-immigration-deb…
Muslim immigrant parents wrestle with passing on Islamic values to their children
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/321-muslim-immigrant-parents-wrestle-w…
Human trafficking in Ukraine did not spike during Euro 2012, IOM research finds
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/260-human-trafficking-in-ukraine-did-n…
Online trafficking of Syrian women shames all involved
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/326-online-trafficking-of-syrian-women…
President Obama speaks out against human trafficking at Clinton Global Initiative
Obama says trafficking 'must be called by its true name: modern slavery.'
By Jonathan Lemire
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/327-president-obama-speaks-out-against…
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 38, No. 10, December 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/38/10
Articles:
Intergenerational Transfer in Russian-Israeli Immigrant Families: Parental Social Mobility and Children's Integration
By Larissa Remennick
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711040
Truly Transnational: The Political Practices of Middle-Class Migrants
By Marianne van Bochove
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711042
Immigrant Involvement in Voluntary Associations in Europe
By Bogdan Voicu and Monica Serban
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711046
The Stages of Migration. From Going Abroad to Settling Down: Post-Accession Polish Migrant Workers in Norway
By Jon Horgen Friberg
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711055
Living Different Dreams: Aspirations and Social Activities of Irregular Migrants in the Low Countries
By Masja van Meeteren
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711063
Immigration, Rituals and Transitoriness in the Mediterranean Island of Malta
Mark-Anthony Falzon
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711066
How Culturally Significant Imaginings are Translated into Lifestyle Migration
By Michaela Benson
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2012.711067
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Latino Studies
Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003
Selected articles:
The nativist Aztlán: Fantasies and anxieties of whiteness on the border
By Lee Bebout
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
Tracing immigrant identity through the plate and the palate
By Teresa M. Mares
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
Migrant melodrama and Elvira Arellano
By Ana Elena Puga
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
Arizona's SB1070, Latino immigrants and the framing of anti-immigrant policies
By Adalberto Aguirre
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
The task of the translator: An interview with Daniel Alarcón
By Juanita Heredia
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
Blurred borders: Transnational migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States by Jorge Duany
By Aviva Chomsky
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
New immigrants, new land: A study of Brazilians in Massachusetts by Ana Cristina Braga Martes
By Alan P. Marcus
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2012/00000010/00000003/ar…
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