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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
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House testimony on border crossing cards and B1/B2 visas
2. House testimony on implementation of an entry-exit system
3. Department of State IG report on inspection of embassy, Kyiv, Ukraine
4. Latest issues of DOJ EOIR Immigration Law Advisor
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
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New report from TRAC
6. Three new working papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
7. Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
8. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
9. Nine new papers from the Social Science Research Network
10. "At Least Let Them Work: The Denial of Work Authorization and Assistance for Asylum Seekers in the United States"
11. "Tortured & Detained: Survivor Stories of U.S. Immigration Detention"
12. "Rights that trump: Surveillance-based migration governance and a substantial right to mobility"
13. U.K.: "The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK"
14. U.K.: "Migration and productivity: employers’ practices, public attitudes and statistical evidence"
BOOKS
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Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison
16. The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe
17. Foreigners, Minorities and Integration: The Muslim Immigration Experience in Britain and Germany
18. Alien Rule
19. Migration, Citizenship, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States
20. Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment
21. Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
JOURNALS
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Citizenship Studies
23. CSEM Newsletter
24. The Social Contract
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/border-security-oversight-part-iii-border-crossing-cards-b1b2-visas/
Border Security Oversight, Part III: Border Crossing Cards and B1/B2 Visas
Witness testimony:
Juan Osuna
Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, on behalf of U.S. Department of Justice
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DOJ-Juan-Osuna-Testimony.pdf
Edward J. Ramotowski
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, on behalf of U.S. Department of State
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ramotowski-Testimony.pdf
John Wagner
Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, on behalf of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CBP-John-Wagner-Testimony.pdf
John P. Woods
Assistant Director, National Security Investigations Division, on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/John-Woods-Testimony.pdf
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
House Committee on the Judiciary
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_11132013.html
Implementation of an Entry-Exit System: Still Waiting After All These Years
Statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte:
http://judiciary.house.gov/news/2013/11132013_2.html
Witness testimony:
Janice Kephart
Former Special Counsel at U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Former Counsel to the 9/11 Commission
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/11132013/Kephart%20Testimony.pdf
James Albers
Senior Vice President, Washington Operations
MorphoTrust USA
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/11132013/Albers%20Testimony.pdf
Julie Myers Wood
President for Compliance, Federal Practice and Software Solutions
Guidepost Solutions LLC
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/11132013/Wood%20Testimony.pdf
David Heyman
Assistant Secretary for Policy
Department of Homeland Security
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/11132013/Heyman%20Testimony.pdf
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Inspection of Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine
U.S. Department of State, Office of Inspector General
ISP-I-13-45A, September 2013
http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/216083.pdf
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Running Away From the Regulatory Departure Bar, One Circuit at a Time, in Opposite Directions
By Josh Lunsford and Sarah Byrd
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 8, September-October 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no8.pdf
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
New Mexico Immigration Prosecutions Jumped 46% in FY 2013
November 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/335/
Excerpt: The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first eleven months of FY 2013 New Mexico had the fastest growth in criminal immigration prosecutions — a 45.7 percent jump — among the nation's 94 judicial districts. Second highest was the Western District of Texas with a 32.0 percent increase, followed closely by the Southern District of Texas where prosecutions were up by 24.0 percent.
In a curious contrast, immigration prosecutions declined in the two other districts along the southwest border with Mexico. The fall was sharpest for Arizona which had 21.6 fewer prosecutions last year than during FY 2012, while in the Southern District of California prosecutions fell by 13.3 percent.
Neither the office of Steven C. Yarborough, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico nor Stephen P. McCue, the Federal Public Defender in that district, responded to a preliminary query about possible explanations for the enforcement surge.
The comparisons of the number of defendants charged with immigration-related offenses are based on case-by-case information obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico
By Manuela Angelucci
Discussion Paper No. 7726, November 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7726
2. Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education
By Eleni Kalfa and Matloob Piracha
Discussion Paper No. 7721, November 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7721
3. Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach
By Asako Ohinata and Jan C. van Ours
Discussion Paper No. 7720, November 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7720
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. The Immigrant Workforce in Germany: Formal and Informal Barriers to Addressing Skills Deficits
By Stefan Speckesser
November 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Skills-Germany.pdf
2. Building New Skills: Immigration and Workforce Development in Canada
By Karen Myers and Natalie Conte
November 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Skills-Canada.pdf
3. Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Conversation with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
By Lindsey Phillips
Migration Information Source, November 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=971
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice
By Tara Watson
NBER Working Paper No. 19626, November 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19626
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. United States v. Windsor and the Future of Civil Unions and Other Marriage Alternatives
By John G. Culhane, Widener University - Delaware Campus
Villanova Law Review Online: Tolle Lege v. 59, 2013
Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-37
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2352948
2. Second-Hand Emotion? Exploring the Contagion and Impact of Trauma and Distress in the Asylum Law Context
By Helen Baillot, Independent; Sharon Cowan, University of Edinburgh School of Law; and Vanessa E. Munro, University of Nottingham
Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 40, Issue 4, pp. 509-540, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2353138
3. Rendition Resistance
By Christopher N. Lasch, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
92 N.C. L. Rev. 101 (2013, Forthcoming)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2352429
4. Immigration, Growth, and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
By Ekrame Boubtane, University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC); Dramane Coulibaly, Université Paris X Nanterre; and Christophe Rault, University of Orleans
LABOUR, Vol. 27, Issue 4, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2351063
5. Does Blurring the Concept of Refugee Create Bogus Refugees and so Security Problems for Host Countries?
By Georgios Zekos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Posted November 6, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2350617
6. The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe: A State-of-The-Art of the Academic Literature and Research
By Joanna Parkin, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Liberty and Security in Europe Papers No. 61
Posted October 25, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2350119
7. Why Come Here If I Can Go There? Assessing the ‘Attractiveness’ of the EU's Blue Card Directive for ‘Highly Qualified’ Immigrants
By Katharina Eisele, Independent
Liberty and Security in Europe Papers No. 60
Posted October 14, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2350132
8. What African Immigration Says About Racialization, Assimilation, and the Politics of Solidarity
By Ayobami Laniyonu
Posted November 3, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2349458
9. Disparity in Temporary Protected Status Implementation
By Ollie Christina Milligan
Posted November 1, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348767
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At Least Let Them Work: The Denial of Work Authorization and Assistance for Asylum Seekers in the United States
Human Rights watch, November, 2013
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us1113_asylum_forUPload.pdf
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Tortured & Detained: Survivor Stories of U.S. Immigration Detention
The Center for Victims of Torture, November 2013
http://www.cvt.org/sites/cvt.org/files/Report_TorturedAndDetained_Nov2013.pdf
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Rights that trump: Surveillance-based migration governance and a substantial right to mobility
By Elin Palm
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/jices/2013/00000011/00000004/art00001
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The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK
By Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, November 2013
http://www.cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/CDP_22_13.pdf
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Migration and productivity: employers’ practices, public attitudes and statistical evidence
By Heather Rolfe, Cinzia Rienzo, Mumtaz Lalani, and Jonathan Portes
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, November 2013
http://niesr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Migration%20productivity%20report.pdf
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Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison
By Rodney Benson
Cambridge University Press, 293 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0521887674, $85.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521887674/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 4547 KB, ASIN: B00E99YIWO, 296 pp., $60.80
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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The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe
By Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway
NYU Press, 350 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0814760945, $71.10
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814760945/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0814760252, $24.30
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814760252/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2069 KB, ASIN: B00FOM2LMO, 336 pp., $12.49
Book Description: The Children of Immigrants at School explores the 21st-century consequences of immigration through an examination of how the so-called second generation is faring educationally in six countries: France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States. In this insightful volume, Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway bring together a team of renowned social science researchers from around the globe to compare the educational achievements of children from low-status immigrant groups to those of mainstream populations in these countries, asking what we can learn from one system that can be usefully applied in another.
Working from the results of a five-year, multi-national study, the contributors to The Children of Immigrants at School ultimately conclude that educational processes do, in fact, play a part in creating unequal status for immigrant groups in these societies. In most countries, the youth coming from the most numerous immigrant populations lag substantially behind their mainstream peers, implying that they will not be able to integrate economically and civically as traditional mainstream populations shrink. Despite this fact, the comparisons highlight features of each system that hinder the educational advance of immigrant-origin children, allowing the contributors to identify a number of policy solutions to help fix the problem. A comprehensive look at a growing global issue, The Children of Immigrants at School represents a major achievement in the fields of education and immigration studies.
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Foreigners, Minorities and Integration: The Muslim Immigration Experience in Britain and Germany
By Sarah Hackett
Manchester University Press, 272 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0719083176, $93.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0719083176/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This book explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case studies of Newcastle upon Tyne and Bremen. It traces Newcastle's South Asian Muslims and Bremen's Turkish Muslims from their initial settlement through to the end of the twentieth century, and investigates their behaviour and performance in the areas of employment, housing and education. At a time at which Islam is seen as a barrier to integration and harmony in Europe, this study demonstrates that this need not be the case.
In what is the first comparison of Muslim ethnic minorities in Britain and Germany at a local level, this book reveals that instances of integration have been frequent. It is essential reading for both academics and students with an interest in migration studies, modern Britain and Germany, and the place of Islam in contemporary Europe.
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Alien Rule
By Michael Hechter
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 216 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1107042542, $76.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1107042542/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1107617146, $25.07
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1107617146/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1488 KB, ASIN: B00E99YMRU, 225 pp., $9.99
Book Description: This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice. These twin conditions help account for the legitimation of alien rulers in organizations of markedly different scale. The book applies these principles to the legitimation of alien rulers in states (the Republic of Genoa, nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, and modern Iraq), colonies (Taiwan and Korea under Japanese rule), and occupation regimes, as well as in less encompassing organizations such as universities (academic receivership), corporations (mergers and acquisitions), and stepfamilies. Finally, it speculates about the possibility of an international market in governance services.
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Migration, Citizenship, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States
Oxford University Press, 432 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0198084986, $55.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198084986/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Migration, Citizenship, and Development examines the effects of country-of-origin citizenship on the Indian diaspora in the United States and return migrants in India. It explores how the Overseas Citizenship of India affects remittances, investment, philanthropy, return migration and political lobbying. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, the book combines political concepts of state power and governance, sociological categorizations of behavior and identity, and economic scholarship on remittances and development. The author examines how a legal status shapes national and transnational belonging and how citizenship in the country of origin influences naturalization and attachment to the country of residence. He does this both through new conceptualizations as well as original empirical evidence about the causes and effects of diasporic activities.
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Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment
By Penelope Mathew
Routledge, 232 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 041558079X, $115.03
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/041558079X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0415741467, 220 pp., $39.55
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415741467/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and some foundational cases from national courts in order to make the case that the practise of restricting refugees and asylum-seekers access to the labour market is illegal. In so doing, the author examines some intricate legal questions, such as the interpretation of the Refugee Convention’s provisions restricting rights to refugees ‘lawfully staying’, the application of racial discrimination to citizenship distinctions, and the ways in which limitations on human rights are applicable in this context. The book also looks at some broader philosophical questions such as the meaning of equality and human dignity, and the legitimacy of the right to work. The book goes on to explore broader debates concerning migration and ‘open borders’ in order to unpack the fears that drive many countries’ restrictive measures. Readers are invited to consider whether the world would be a better place with more freedom of movement. It is a unique stand-alone treatment of the subject and includes the Michigan Guidelines on the Right to Work.
Reworking the Relationship between Asylum-Seekers and Employment is written in an accessible style that will appeal to academics, policy-makers, practitioners and students. It combines a strong black-letter approach with a law in context approach that explains why the law takes its current shape and questions current orthodoxy.
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Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
By Susan Kneebone and Julie Debeljak
Routledge, 296 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415594251, $112.45
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415594251/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0415741459, 282 pp., $42.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415741459/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2159 KB, ASIN: B0081YW6C2, $19.75
Book Description: Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The book analyses the international and national legal policy frameworks and the role of governments, international and national non-governmental institutions, and regional processes in responding to trafficking issues in the GMS. The book is based on the findings of a three year study conducted in the region, involving interviews with more than 60 individuals from relevant organizations and agencies, and examines the social, political and historical factors, including gender and age, labour exploitation and migration which form the background to human trafficking in the GMS. The authors consider issues of competing mandates, and gaps in strategies for protection and conclude with a discussion of broader lessons to be learned from the GMS situation and suggestions for future governance strategies in the fight against trafficking.
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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 17, No. 6-7, November 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/current#.UnKdblOzIeB
Selected article:
Historicising ‘asylum’ and responsibility
By Prem Kumar Rajaram
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834122#.UoVxjiezIeA
What's the big deal? Naturalisation and the politics of desire
By Anne-Marie Fortier
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780761#.UoVxdiezIeA
Gay fathers, gay citizenship: on the power of reproductive futurism and assimilation
By Darren Langdridge
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834127#.UoVxXyezIeA
The Mujahideen in Bosnia: the foreign fighter as cosmopolitan citizen and/or terrorist
By Jennifer Mustapha
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2012.751718#.UoVxNSezIeA
Disconnection and resistance: anti-terrorism and citizenship in the UK
By Michael Lister & Lee Jarvis
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834129#.UoVxEyezIeA
Between hearts and pockets: locating the outcomes of transnational homemaking practices among Mexican women in Canada's temporary migration programmes
By Kerry Preibisch & Evelyn Encalada Grez
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834131#.UoVw_CezIeA
Citizenship practices of non-citizens in Slovenia: ‘you cannot fight the system alone’
By Jelka Zorn
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834132#.UoVw4yezIeA
Citizenship, minorities and the struggle for a right to the city in Istanbul
By Gulçin Erdi Lelandais
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834134#.UoVwxSezIeA
Governing diversity: Dutch political parties' preferences on the role of the state in civic integration policies
By Saskia Bonjour
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834136#.UoVwrSezIeA'
Policy framing and denizen enfranchisement in Portugal: why some migrant voters are more equal than others
By Luicy Pedroza
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834140#.UoVwmCezIeA
Borders of emptiness: gender, migration and belonging
By Laura Brace
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.834143#.UoVwgSezIeA
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CSEM Newsletter
November, 2013
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
ILLEGAL MIGRANTS' CHILDREN DENIED ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND HOUSING - REPORT
Report published by the Coram Children's Legal Centre finds tougher immigration stance is denying children basic rights
By Daniel Boffey
The children of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are having their lives made a misery by the government in an effort to put others off coming to the UK, according to a damning new report backed by former minister Sarah Teather.
They are being denied access to their basic rights and assistance to attain legal status in the UK, it is claimed. A proposed immigration bill, the report adds, will introduce further restrictions to these children's options by asking schools, GPs and landlords to monitor the immigration status of people they come into contact with.
The government is accused by the report's authors of trying to create a hostile environment for the children of what they describe as undocumented migrants, as well as the parents, as a way of encouraging more to leave and dissuade others from coming.
The report, Growing Up in a Hostile Environment: The Rights of Undocumented Migrant Children in the UK, published by the Coram Children's Legal Centre, finds that this tougher stance is having a "significant and damaging impact" on children in the UK.
Undocumented migrant children are not entitled to a post-16 education; their families are not allowed social housing; they are often forced into the hands of rogue landlords and exploitative relationships. Financial support has been withdrawn from such families following the government's local authority spending cuts; and, despite often having strong claims, leave to remain application fees of up to £1,000 and a lack of legal representation under the legal aid reforms condemn such children to live in the shadows.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1892-illegal-migrants-children-denied-access-to-education-and-housing-report
US: CATCH 22 FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS
Arbitrary Ban on Working Causes Extreme Hardship and Should be Lifted
The US government stands alone among developed countries in denying asylum seekers both employment authorization and governmental assistance, Human Rights Watch and the Seton Hall University School of Law’s Center for Social Justice said in a report released today.
The 56-page report, “At Least Let Them Work: The Denial of Work Authorization and Assistance for Asylum Seekers in the United States” documents the hardships faced by asylum seekers, many of whom suffered egregious abuses in their home countries, as a consequence of being denied work authorization. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) should be amended to remove the bar to employment for asylum seekers with non-frivolous claims, the groups said.
“The US government leaves many asylum seekers little choice other than begging or working illegally to survive,” said Bill Frelick, director of the refugee program at Human Rights Watch. “The work and aid restrictions imposed on asylum seekers, apparently to discourage frivolous applications, harm and degrade the very people who most need support and protection.”
US immigration law prohibits asylum seekers from working legally for 150 days after filing their applications – plus an additional 30 days to process the application – unless they are granted asylum before that time is up. The clock that counts those days is stopped any time the government determines that the applicant has delayed the proceedings. In practice, though, it is unclear precisely what stops and restarts the clock.
The problem has affected almost all asylum seekers. In 2011, the clock had stopped at some point for 262,025 people – 92 percent of all pending cases – according to the federal Executive Office of Immigration Review. Once the clock stops, so does the opportunity to apply for work authorization, leaving too many asylum seekers without any means to sustain themselves for many months or years.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1895-us-catch-22-for-asylum-seekers
5.2 MILLION LEGAL IMMIGRANTS LIVE IN ITALY
Itay's immigrant population grows 30% in six years
There are 5.2 million legal immigrants in Italy, or roughly 8.7% of Italy's population of 60 million, revealed the Statistical Dossier on Immigration 2013 presented on Wednesday in Rome by Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge.
The immigrant count greatly exceeds the government statistical agency Istat's figure of 4.4 million, and marks the first time the dossier is not signed by two Catholic charities, Fondazione Migrantes (Migrants Foundation) and Caritas Italiana (Italian Caritas). Instead the dossier was furnished through a coordinated effort of the government's Anti-racial Discrimination Office (Unar), under the Premier's Office, and the research firm Idos, which has analyzed the data for the report in the past.
The reason for the difference between Istat's numbers and Unar's is that Istat counts only immigrants on official registries. Italy's painful economic squeeze since the global financial crisis has slowed but not stopped immigration.
From 2007 to 2012, the number of immigrants in Italy grew 30% from under four million. The increase is due not only to foreigners seeking work, but also to family reunification and births to immigrants in Italy. Italy does not grant citizenship on the basis of birth or length of residency on Italian territory, but blood and marriage relationships to Italians.
In 2012, nearly 80,000 children were born to immigrant couples, and roughly 27,000 were born to mixed Italian-foreigner couples. The total population of immigrant minors in Italy is more than 900,000 for non-EU citizens, and 250,000 for EU citizens. Immigrant population growth was far smaller in 2012 than in previous years, up 8.2% for EU citizens and up 3.5% for non-EU citizens. At the same time, return flows to countries of origin are rising, more out of necessity and lack of employment in Italy than choice, the study found.
The countries of origin for Italy's immigrant population are 50.3% European, 22.2% African, 19.4% Asian, 8% from the Americas, and 0.1% from Oceania. The single largest immigrant group is Romanians, who number about one million in Italy.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1898-5-2-million-legal-immigrants-live-in-italy
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24.
The Social Contract
Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall 2013
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/index.shtml
Articles:
Illegal Alien Crime and Violence - We’re all victims
By Peter B. Gemma
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_gemma.shtml
Can Baseline Thinking Prevent Immigration Chaos?
By James H. Walsh
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_walsh.shtml
Diversity Inflicts a Huge Psychological Cost
By John Vinson
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_vinson.shtml
Borderless America Collides With the Ultimate Savagery
By Duana Hull
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_hull.shtml
Will There Ever Be a Tipping Point?
By Dave Gibson
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_gibson_1.shtml
San Francisco’s Naked Illegal Alien: Why Wasn't He Deported?
By Brenda Walker
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_walker_1.shtml
Obama Has Turned North Carolina Into a Border State
By Dave Gibson
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_gibson_2.shtml
Why Won’t Obama Talk About This Black Teenager?
By Dave Gibson
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_gibson_3.shtml
Drunk-Driving Illegal Alien Mexican Kills Texas Nursing Student
By Brenda Walker
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_walker_2.shtml
The Remembrance Project - Memorializing the Americans killed by illegal aliens
By Wayne Lutton
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_lutton_2.shtml
Remembering Dr. Al Bartlett - Physicist, professor, population activist, workhorse, and straight shooter
By Leon Kolankiewicz
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_kolankiewicz.shtml
A Tribute to Al Bartlett (1923-2013)
By Fred Elbel
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_elbel.shtml
Remembering American Patriot Barbara Coe
By Evelyn Miller
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_miller.shtml
Thoughts on Immigration Into the United States
By Albert A. Bartlett
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_bartlett.shtml
The Neglected Threat of Overpopulation
By William B. Dickinson
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_1/tsc_24_1_dickinson.shtml
