Immigration Reading List, 12/17/14

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President Obama's Executive Overreach on Immigration

Statement of Chairman Bob Goodlatte


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Open Borders: The Impact of Presidential Amnesty on Border Security

Statement of Chairman Michael McCaul


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Witness testimony





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New from the Congressional Research Service

Executive Discretion as to Immigration: Legal Overview




Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 113th Congress
By Andorra Bruno, Jerome P. Bjelopera, Michael John Garcia, William A. Kandel, Margaret Mikyung Lee, Alison Siskin, and Ruth Ellen Wasem



Border Security: Immigration Inspections at Port of Entry




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New from the General Accountability Office

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Could Better Manage Its Process to Enforce Exclusion Orders




Oversight of Contractors' Use of Foreign Workers in High-Risk Environments Needs to Be Strengthened




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EU28 Member States granted citizenship to almost 820,000 persons in 2012




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Highest number of citizenships granted per 1000 inhabitants in Luxembourg




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Immigration statistics, July to September 2014



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Work


Asylum


Removals and Voluntary Departures





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Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration, 2014




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Population and population changes, Q3 2014



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Large net migration by Polish, Lithuanian and Syrian citizens





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Equal share of highly educated persons among foreign born and Swedish born persons



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Executive Amnesty Will Give Illegal Aliens Taxpayer Funded Benefits



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Unauthorized Immigrant Totals Rise in 7 States, Fall in 14





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Only Democrats support Obama's executive order on immigration




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What America Thinks: Illegal Immigrants and Citizenship



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Can Congress Use Spending Bills to Address President Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration?



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The EB-5 Visa Program for Immigrant Investors




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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

1.Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam




2.Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants: A U.S.-Canada Comparison




3.The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms




4.Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy




5.New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants




6.Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006




7.Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark




8.Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data




9.Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices




10.Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration




11.Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives




12.Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework




13.Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions




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New from the Migration Policy Institute

1.As Many as 3.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrants Could Get Relief from Deportation under Anticipated New Deferred Action Program




2.Aiming Higher: Policies to Get Immigrants into Middle-Skilled Work in Europe




3.Developing School Capacity for Diversity




4.Language Support for Youth with a Migrant Background: Policies that Effectively Promote Inclusion




5.Korean Immigrants in the United States




6.Ecuador: From Mass Emigration to Return Migration?




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New from the Social Science Research Network

1.Which Factors Drive the Skill-Mix of Migrants in the Long-Run?




2.Multiple Nationality and Refugees




3.Racial Profiling in the 'War on Drugs' Meets the Immigration Removal Process: The Case of Moncrieffe v. Holder





4.Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy




5.Making Civil Immigration Detention 'Civil,' and Examining the Emerging U.S. Civil Detention Paradigm




6.Policing Wage Theft in the Day Labor Market





7.Buying the American Dream: Using Immigration Law to Bolster the Housing Market




8.On the Effectiveness of SB1070 in Arizona




9.Human Rights, Immigration, and Border Walls




10.Over the Borderline: A Critical Inquiry into the Geography of Territorial Excision and the Securitisation of the Australian Border




11.The Morality of Law: The Case Against Deportation of Settled Immigrants




12.Rethinking the Attractiveness of EU Labour Immigration Policies: Comparative Perspectives on the EU, the US, Canada and Beyond




13.The Little India Riot: Domestic and International Law Perspectives




14.The Protection of Irregular Immigrants’ Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Developments and Challenges




15.Immigration Policy: Special Immigrant Visas




16.Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Resource Booms and Immigration Policy in the Era of Trade Liberalization




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Gender Violence in the European Union Member States: Evolving Protections for Migrant Victims





18.Domestic Violence and the Plight of the Unauthorized Migrant




19.Comment on 'The Economics of U.S. Immigration Reform'




20.The Economics of U.S. Immigration Reform




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New from the International Organization for Migration

1.IOM Outlook on Migration, Environment and Climate Change



2.Migration Initiatives 2015: Regional Strategies



3.Migration Notebook No. 6 - Haitian Migration to Brazil: Characteristics, Opportunities and Challenges



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New from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

International Migration Outlook 2014



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Admission policies and immigrant skills




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The impact of immigration on population growth



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Open Immigration: Yea & Nay









Book DescriptionOpen Immigration: Nay by Mark Krikorian





Open Immigration: Yea by Alex Nowrasteh





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Migration and Diversity







Book Description Migration and Diversity

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Migration States and Welfare States: Why is America Different from Europe?









Book DescriptionMigration States and Welfare States

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Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community












Book Description Latino Homicide

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Return to Sender: The Moral Economy of Peru's Migrant Remittances










Book DescriptionReturn to Sender: The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances



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Scotland No More?: Emigration from Scotland in the Twentieth Century







Book DescriptionScotland No More?

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Second Generations on the Move in Italy: Children of Immigrants Coming of Age







Book Description Second Generations on the Move in Italy: Children of Immigrants Coming of Age

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A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies









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Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America: Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality







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Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe: Transnational Migration in Its Multiplicity







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Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf












Book Description



Transit States

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Citizenship Studies



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Introduction: theorizing different forms of belonging in a cosmopolitan Malaysia



Arabs in the urban social landscapes of Malaysia: historical connections and belonging



Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia



Urban refugees in a graduated sovereignty: the experiences of the stateless Rohingya in the Klang Valley



African international students in Klang Valley: colonial legacies, postcolonial racialization, and sub-citizenship



Place-making: Chin refugees, citizenship and the state in Malaysia



Intimate encounters: the ambiguities of belonging in the transnational migration of Indonesian domestic workers to Malaysia



Jom Bersih! Global Bersih and the enactment of Malaysian citizenship in Melbourne



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CSEM Newsletter



English language content

MIGRANTS, MOSTLY FROM AFRICA, CONTINUE DEADLY MEDITERRANEAN CROSSINGS











DISPLACED POPULATION IN IRAQ SURPASSES TWO MILLION













OECD: ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND MIGRANTS INCREASING IN GERMANY
Migration to Germany has increased for the fourth consecutive year, according to the latest OECD figures. The country also receives the largest number of applications from new asylum-seekers.







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November 2014


IOM ORGANIZES ANTI-TRAFFICKING TRAINING IN BRAZIL’S PERNAMBUCO STATE









SURVIVAL AND LOSS: A YOUNG SYRIAN WOMAN'S DEADLY VOYAGE TO EUROPE















SOUTH AFRICA: REFUGEE DIES AFTER SA HOSPITAL DENIES TREATMENT, CITING HEALTH ACT











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CANADA NEEDS A PLAN TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE WOMEN















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Ethnic and Racial Studies



Selected articles

Land, history or modernization? Explaining ethnic fractionalization



Temporary and transnational: gender and emotion in the lives of Mexican guest worker fathers



Global South cosmopolitans: the opening and closing of the USA–Mexico border for Mexican tourists



Small acts, Big Society: sewa and Hindu (nationalist) identity in Britain



Return migration as a win-win-win scenario? Visions of return among Senegalese migrants, the state of origin and receiving countries



Earning their support: feelings towards Canada among recent immigrants



Impossible presence: race, nation and the cultural politics of ‘being Norwegian’



Growing old in a transnational social field: belonging, mobility and identity among Italian migrants



Whitening a diverse Dutch classroom: white cultural discourses in an Amsterdam primary school



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International Migration



Articles

Return Migration and Transnationalism: How Are the Two Connected?



Return Migration Intentions in the Integration–Transnationalism Matrix



The Emergence of Lifestyle Reasoning in Return Considerations among British Pakistanis



Post-Return Transnationalism and the Iraqi Displacement in Syria and Jordan



Split Return: Transnational Household Strategies in Afghan Repatriation



Double Return Migration: Failed Returns to Poland Leading to Settlement Abroad and New Transnational Strategies



Second-Generation “Return” to Greece: New Dynamics of Transnationalism and Integration



The Rise and Fall of Diasporic Bonds in Japanese-Peruvian “Return” Migration



MIGRATION TO SPAIN

Migration at a Time of Global Economic Crisis: The Situation in Spain



Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia



The Wage Gap between Foreign and Spanish Nationals in Spain: an Analysis Using Matched Employer–Employee Data



Fiscal Sustainability and Immigration in the Madrid Region



Framing Immigration News in Spanish Regional Press



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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies



Selected articles

Religious Fundamentalism and Hostility against Out-groups: A Comparison of Muslims and Christians in Western Europe



Migration and Economic Prospects



A Longitudinal Study of Interethnic Contacts in Germany: Estimates from a Multilevel Growth Curve Model



Ethnic Boundaries in Core Discussion Networks: A Multilevel Social Network Study of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands



Asian American Attitudes towards a US Citizenship Path for Illegal Immigrants: Immigration Reform as Racialised Politics



The Impact of Corporations on the Settlement of Migrant Workers: Koreans in Alabama, USA



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Journal of Intercultural Studies



Selected article

Can a Mestiça be a Haafu? Japanese-Brazilian Female Migrants and the Celebration of Racial Mixing in Contemporary Japan



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Mobilities



Selected article

The Finnish and Swedish Migration Dynamics and Transnational Social Spaces



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Refugee Survey Quarterly



Articles

The Multiple Geographies of Internal Displacement: The Case of Georgia



Employment of Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Opportunities and Hurdles



Refugees’ Transnational Mobility: A Study of Asylum Seeking in Hong Kong and Urban Thailand



Protection Closer to Home? A Legal Case for Claiming Asylum at Embassies and Consulates



Filling in the Gap: Refugee Returnees Deploy Higher Education Skills to Peacebuilding



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Resenha



English language content

UK: Fix Bill to Protect Migrant Domestic Workers


A forced bride: 'We survive for each day'
Kachin women who venture into China for work are vulnerable to falling prey to abductors looking for marriage.



Indian Trailing Spouses-In love and out of work
They are educated, qualified and experienced. But many trailing spouses from India find it difficult embarking on a new work life in Switzerland.



A Boon for the women of Ecuador



For Central America’s migrant women, life can change in a second



Braving Dust storms, Women Plant Seeds of Hope


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