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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1.
House testimony on the impact of asylum abuse
2. House testimony on DHS vacancies and their impact on mission and morale
3. DHS OIG report on the EB-5 Regional Center Program
4. DHS statistical report on lawful permanent residents who naturalize
5. Latest issue of DOJ EOIR Immigration Law Advisor
6. E.U.: Reports on 2013 third quarter asylum applicants and workers' remittances in the EU27 in 2012
7. Norway: Report on public attitudes toward immigrants and immigration
8. Australia: Report on population born overseas in Western Australia
9. N.Z.: Report on international migration to and from Southland region
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
10.
Five new reports from TRAC
11. Rasmussen report: "60% Think U.S. Not Aggressive Enough In Deporting Illegal Immigrants"
12. Ten new working papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
13. New report from the Migration Policy Institute
14. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
15. Fourteen new papers from the Social Science Research Network
16. "Legal Migration and Free Trade in the NAFTA Era: Beyond Migration Rhetoric"
17. "The Other Immigrants: The United States is luring many of Mexico’s best and brightest northward"
18. "At the Edge of US Immigration’s 'Halt of Folly:' ..."
19. "The Criminal Alien Removal Initiative in New Orleans"
20. "Family Sponsorship and Late-Age Immigration in Aging America:..."
21. U.K.: "Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England"
22. "The Human Trafficking Cycle: Sinai and Beyond"
BOOKS
23.
Migrants and the Courts
24. Between Islam and the American Dream: An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America
25. Crossing Heaven's Border
26. Keeping the Faith: Syriac Christian Diasporas
27. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
28. Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996
29. Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges
30. Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity
31. China in the World: Migration, Settlement, Diaspora Formations and Transnational Linkages
JOURNALS
32.
CSEM Newsletter
33. Ethnic and Racial Studies
34. Human Mobility
35. International Journal of Refugee Law
36. Journal of American Ethnic History
37. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
38. Journal of Intercultural Studies
39. Refugee Survey Quarterly
1.
House Committee on the Judiciary
Thursday, December 12, 2013
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_12122013.html
Asylum Abuse: Is it Overwhelming our Borders?
Opening Statement:
Chairman Bob Goodlatte
http://judiciary.house.gov/news/2013/12122013.html
Excerpt:
Not only is the rise in credible fear claims concerning, the Administration is contributing to undermining our asylum system by failing to follow current law as it pertains to the asylum process. Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, arriving aliens are subject to mandatory detention whether they are found to have credible fear or not until it is determined whether they have legitimate asylum claims. This crucial requirement is designed to prevent aliens from being released into our communities and then disappearing into the shadows.
The detention standard was enacted precisely because large numbers of arriving aliens were absconding after claiming asylum and being released. Under the statute and corresponding regulations, under limited circumstances “parole” from detention is available to meet a medical emergency or if it is necessary for a legitimate law enforcement objective.
However, these standards have been watered down by the current Administration via executive fiat. A December 8, 2009, policy directive issued by former ICE Director Morton provides that any arriving alien who has been found to have a credible fear and can establish identity and argue that they are not a flight risk or a danger to the community, should be released by ICE. This is inconsistent with the statute that requires detention except in very limited circumstances.
And not surprisingly, the timing of this memo appears to correlate with the uptick of credible fear claims in recent years. As a result of these lax detention standards and ease of being found to have a credible fear, claims have increased dramatically in recent years.
The stellar efforts of our Border Patrol agents are in vain if the aliens they apprehend are simply released into our communities. Once released, many of these aliens, particularly those with meager or invented claims of asylum, simply melt into the population. Critics allege that the purpose is not to obtain asylum, but rather to game the system by getting a free pass into the U.S. and a court date for which they do not plan to show up. Accounts indicate that aliens are being coached in the asylum process and are being taught to use certain terms to ensure that they are found to have a credible fear. According to critics many of these claims are often an orchestrated sham.
Witness Testimony:
Lori Scialabba
Deputy Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/12122013/Combined%20DHS%20Testimony.pdf
Daniel H. Ragsdale
Deputy Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Michael J. Fisher
Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Customs and Border Patrol
Ruth Wasem
Specialist in Immigration Policy, Congressional Research Service
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Thursday, December 12, 2013
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/hearing-help-wanted-dhs-implications-leadership-vacancies-mission-and-morale
Help Wanted at DHS: Implications of Leadership Vacancies on the Mission and Morale
Opening Statement:
Chairman Michael McCaul
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/12-12-13-McCaul-Open.pdf
Excerpt:
Over 40% of the Department’s senior leadership positions are either vacant or have an “acting” placeholder. This means nearly half of the top positions at the third-largest Department in the U.S. government are not filled. This is an issue of accountability, or put more simply, who is in charge? Additionally, in my judgment, this sends a signal that homeland security is not a priority for this Administration.
As we all know, large organizations cannot be managed if they do not have managers. While DHS has thousands of dedicated career employees, it is suffering from a void of leadership because this Administration has failed to appoint qualified individuals to advance DHS’ many important responsibilities. From border security to internal investigations, top positions have remained vacant not for months, but years.
As I wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial last month, the vacancy problem has snowballed as the Obama administration has failed to fill open spots. Customs and Border Protection—the DHS agency responsible for securing the border, regulating international trade and immigration—has not had a Senate-confirmed commissioner during the entire Obama presidency and is now on their fourth acting leader in almost five years. Just this fall the Senate received the first CBP nomination in three years.
Witness Testimony:
Tom Ridge, Former Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/12-12-13-Testimony-Ridge.pdf
David C. Maurer, Director
Homeland Security and Justice Issues
Government Accountability Office
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM00/20131212/101587/HHRG-113-HM00-Wstate-MaurerD-20131212.pdf
Max Stier, President and CEO
Partnership for Public Service
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM00/20131212/101587/HHRG-113-HM00-Wstate-StierM-20131212.pdf
Colleen M. Kelley, National President
The National Treasury Employees Union
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM00/20131212/101587/HHRG-113-HM00-TTF-KelleyC-20131212.pdf
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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Employment-Based Fifth Preference (EB-5) Regional Center Program
DHS Office of Inspector General, OIG-14-19 December 2013
http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2014/OIG_14-19_Dec13.pdf
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Interstate Migration of Lawful Permanent Residents Who Naturalize
By James Yankay
DHS Office of Information Statistics, Fact Sheet, November 2013
http://www.dhs.gov/publication/interstate-migration-lawful-permanent-residents-who-naturalize
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Lets Talk "TRIG": Litigation in the Federal Courts on the Terrorism-related Inadmissability Grounds
By Patricia Allen
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 9, November-December 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no9.pdf
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Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: third quarter 2013
Asylum applicants reached 120,000 in the EU-28 in Q3 2013, an increase of 30 percent compared to Q3 2012
By Alexandros Bitoulas
Eurostat, December 20, 2013
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-QA-13-016/EN/KS-QA-13-016-EN.PDF
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Workers' remittances in the EU27
Transfers by migrants to their country of origin remained stable at nearly 39 bn euro in 2012
Eurostat, December 10, 2013
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/2-10122013-AP/EN/2-10122013-AP-EN.PDF
Excerpt:
In 2012 in the EU271, flows of money sent by migrants to their country of origin, usually referred to as workers' remittances2, including both extra-EU27 and intra-EU27 flows, amounted to 38.8 billion euro. Almost three quarters of this total went outside the EU, with extra-EU27 flows of 28.4 bn and intra-EU27 flows of 10.3 bn. Over the last four years, workers' remittances have been stable at around 28 bn for extra-EU27 flows and 10 bn for intra-EU27 flows.
Among the Member States, the outflow of workers' remittances in 2012 was highest in France (8.8 bn euro, of which 69% were extra-EU flows), Italy (6.8 bn, 84% extra-EU), Spain (6.6 bn), the United Kingdom (6.3 bn) and Germany (3.1 bn, 63% extra-EU). These five Member States accounted for more than 80% of total worker’s remittances of the EU27.
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Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration, 2013
Less trust in the benefits of immigrant labour efforts
Statistics Norway, December 19, 2013
http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvhold
Summary: National opinion had less trust in the benefits of immigrant labour efforts in 2012 than the year before. The proportion agreeing that "Immigrants make an important contribution to Norwegian working life" decreased by 8 percentage points from 2012 to 2013.
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One-third of WA born overseas
Australian Bureau of Statistics, December 18, 2013
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/mediareleasesbyReleaseDate/35A203AB6DD3CA0BCA257600002314F7?OpenDocument
Excerpt:
"In June 2013, Australia’s population included 6.4 million migrants (28 per cent of the population). Over the past decade the number of people born overseas who are now living in Australia has increased by 1.7 million people,” said Mr Jarvis.
People born in the United Kingdom remained the largest group of migrants with over 1.2 million calling Australia home, followed by those from New Zealand (608,800), China (427,600) and India (369,700).
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International migration to and from Southland region: 1996–2013
Statistics New Zealand, December 17, 2013
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/Migration/international-travel-and-migration-articles/international-migration-to-from-southland.aspx
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Immigration Prosecutions for September 2013
December 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/immigration/monthlysep13/fil/
Nature of Charge in New Filings Seeking Removal Orders through November 2013
December 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/apprep_newfiling_charge.php
Backlog of Pending Cases in Immigration Courts as of November 2013
December 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/apprep_backlog.php
U.S. Deportation Proceedings in Immigration Courts
By Nationality, Geographic Location, Year and Type of Charge
December 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/deport_filing_charge.php
Immigration Court Cases Closed Based on Prosecutorial Discretion
By Immigration Court and Hearing Location, as of November 30, 2013
December 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/prosdiscretion/
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60% Think U.S. Not Aggressive Enough In Deporting Illegal Immigrants
Rasmussen Reports, December 10, 2013
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/december_2013/60_think_u_s_not_aggressive_enough_in_deporting_illegal_immigrants
Excerpt:
Only 29% of Likely U.S. Voters think the government should stop deporting illegal immigrants until Congress passes an immigration reform plan. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% oppose a halt to deportations. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Sixty percent (60%) believe the U.S. government is not aggressive enough now in deporting illegal immigrants. Fourteen percent (14%) say it is too aggressive, while 16% think the number of deportations is about right.
But then most voters have said in surveys for years that the policies and practices of the federal government encourage rather than discourage illegal immigration.
It’s this distrust of the federal government that complicates the efforts of immigration reformers. Most voters, for example, still favor a plan that puts those here illegally on a path to citizenship as long as the border is secured first to prevent future illegal immigration. But fewer voters than ever (25%) think it is even somewhat likely that the federal government will actually secure the border if that plan becomes law, with only five percent (5%) who believe the feds are Very Likely to secure the border.
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration
By Maryam Naghsh Nejad
Discussion Paper No. 7864, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7864
2. Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation
By Benjamin Elsner, Gaia Narciso, and Jacco J.J. Thijssen
Discussion Paper No. 7863, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7863
3. Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
By Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Klaus F. Zimmermann
Discussion Paper No. 7862, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7862
4. Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges
By Costanza Biavaschi and Klaus F. Zimmermann
Discussion Paper No. 7861, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7861
5. Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance
By Timothy M. Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Discussion Paper No. 7856, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7856
6. Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
By Mariano Bosch and Lidia Farre
Discussion Paper No. 7843, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7843
7. U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
By Sarah Bohn and Todd Pugatch
Discussion Paper No. 7842, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7842
8. The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
By Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu
Discussion Paper No. 7841, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7841
9. New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
By Lidia Farre
Discussion Paper No. 7840, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7840
10. Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By Catia Batista and Gaia Narciso Migrant
Discussion Paper No. 7839, December 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7839
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13.
New from the Migration Policy Institute
Skilled Immigrants in the Global Economy: Prospects for International Cooperation on Recognition of Foreign Qualifications
By Madeleine Sumption, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Sarah Flamm
December 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/credentialing-mutualrecognition.pdf
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14.
New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
The Roles of Assimilation and Ethnic Enclave Residence in Immigrant Smoking
By Johanna Catherine Maclean, Douglas Webber, and Jody L. Sindelar
NBER Working Paper No. 19753, December 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19753
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Brain Circulation and the Role of the Diaspora in the Balkans - Albania, Kosova and Macedonia
By Hristina Cipusheva, Sokol Havolli, Fatmir Memaj, Abdul-Ghaffar Mughal, Abdulmenaf Sejdini, Esmeralda Shehaj, Bardha Qirezi, Artane Rizvanolli, and Luljeta Sadiku
May 16, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2368417
2. Because She Never Let Them in: Irish Immigration a Century Ago and Today
By Cormac O'Grada, University College Dublin
Posted December 17, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2368774
3. Interacting Labor and Product Market Regulation and the Impact of Immigration on Native Wages
By Susanne Prantl and Alexandra Spitz-Oener
December 2013
MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2013/22
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2373058
4. The 'Not So Supreme' Court: State Law Dictates Supreme Court Decision in Chaidez
By Robert Joseph Uzdavines
September 7, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2372418
5. Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
By Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz; Harry A. Krashinsky, University of Toronto; Julie M. Zissimopoulos, The RAND Corporation; and Krishna B. Kumar, University of Southern California
December 23, 2013
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4510
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2371246
6. Juggling Citizenships for Transnational Familyhood: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Canada and Their 'Return' Migration to China
By Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, National University of Singapore (NUS)
November 22, 2013
Onati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2358580
7. Mandatory Immigration Detention for U.S. Crimes: The Noncitizen Presumption of Dangerousness
By Mark L. Noferi, Center for Migration Studies
Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights, Springer, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2370062
8. Irish Attitudes to Immigration During and after the Boom
By Kevin Denny, University College Dublin (UCD) Department of Economics and Cormac O'Grada, University College Dublin (UCD)
December 17, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2368871
9. Work and Family Orientations Among Natives and Migrants: Deep Cultural Orientations or Flexible Adaption?
By Karen Nielsen Breidahl, Aalborg University and Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University Department of Political Science
October 15, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364297
10. The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency: Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States
By Marek Hlavac, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
December 2, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2362581
11. A History of Exclusion: U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882
By Prerna Lal
November 28, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2360963
12. The Beginning of the End: The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Emergence of Modern U.S./Mexico Border Enforcement
By Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis School of Law
Immigration & Nationality Review (Forthcoming), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 360
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2362478
13. Effects of Population Aging on Economic Growth: A Panel Analysis
By Hyun-Hoon Lee, Kangwon National University; Hyeon-Seung Huh, Yonsei University; Young-Youn Lee, Kangwon National University; and Jae-Young Lim, Korea University
Seoul Journal of Economics 26 (No. 4 2013): 401-432
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364194
14. Work and Family Orientations Among Natives and Migrants: Deep Cultural Orientations or Flexible Adaption?
By Karen Nielsen Breidahl, Aalborg University and Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University
Posted October 15, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364297
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Legal Migration and Free Trade in the NAFTA Era: Beyond Migration Rhetoric
By Miguel Angel Jiménez
Wilson Center Mexico Institute, December 2013
http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Legal_Migration_Miguel_Angel_Jimenez1.pdf
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The Other Immigrants
The United States is luring many of Mexico’s best and brightest northward.
By Jesus Velasco
The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2013
http://wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/66_Velasco_Autumn13.pdf
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At the Edge of US Immigration’s “Halt of Folly:” Data, Information, and Research Needs in the Event of Legalization
By Fernando Riosmena
Journal on Migration and Human Security, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2013
http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs
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The Criminal Alien Removal Initiative in New Orleans
The Obama Administration’s Brutal New Frontier in Immigration Enforcement
By Saket Soni, Jacinta Gonzalez, Jennifer J. Rosenbaum, and Fernando Lopez
New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, December 2013
http://www.scribd.com/doc/192616975/New-Orleans-Workers%E2%80%99-Center-for-Racial-Justice-report
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Family Sponsorship and Late-Age Immigration in Aging America: Revised and Expanded Estimates of Chained Migration
By Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda
Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 32, No. 6, December 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/popu/2013/00000032/00000006/00009300
Abstract: We use the Immigrants Admitted to the United States (microdata) supplemented with special tabulations from the Department of Homeland Security to examine how family reunification impacts the age composition of new immigrant cohorts since 1980. We develop a family migration multiplier measure for the period 1981–2009 that improves on prior studies by including immigrants granted legal status under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act and relaxing unrealistic assumptions required by synthetic cohort measures. Results show that every 100 initiating immigrants admitted between 1981 and 1985 sponsored an average of 260 family members; the comparable figure for initiating immigrants for the 1996–2000 cohort is 345 family members. Furthermore, the number of family migrants ages 50 and over rose from 44 to 74 per 100 initiating migrants. The discussion considers the health and welfare implications of late-age immigration in a climate of growing fiscal restraint and an aging native population.
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Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England
By Liam Delaney and Alan Fernihough, Geary Institute and School of Economics, University College Dublin; and James P. Smith, Rand Corporation
July 2011
http://www.ucd.ie/geary/static/publications/workingpapers/gearywp201114.pdf
Abstract: The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent birth-cohorts living in England and born in Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for cohorts born between 1920 and 1960. This paper attempts to understand the processes that generated this migrant health pattern. Our results suggest a strong role for early childhood conditions and economic selection in driving the dynamics of health differences between the Irish-born migrants and White English populations.
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The Human Trafficking Cycle: Sinai and Beyond
By Mirjam van Reisen, Meron Estefanos, and Conny Rijken
European External Policy Advisors, November 28, 2013
http://www.eepa.be/wcm/dmdocuments/Small_HumanTrafficking-Sinai2-web-3.pdf
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23.
Migrants and the Courts
By Geoffrey Care
Ashgate, 332 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1409451968, $128.20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409451968/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1641 KB, ASIN: B00GQVPCZU, 340 pp., $107.96
Book Description: Written from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with migrants. The chapters reflect on changes in the laws and rules of migration on an international and regional basis and the impact on the parties, administration, public and judiciary. Offering a critical assessment of how the migration tribunal system has evolved over the last century, it includes additional comparative contributions by authors on international jurisdictions. This valuable overview of the evolution and future of the immigration tribunal system is of interest to those involved in human rights, migration, transnational and international law.
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Between Islam and the American Dream: An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America
By Yuting Wang
Routledge, 186 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415711932, $104.12
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415711932/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 902 KB, ASIN: B00GY1GLPM, $98.91
Book Description: Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigrants from diverse backgrounds negotiate multiple identities while seeking to become part of American society in the years following 9/11. The author looks into frictions, conflicts, and schisms within the community to debunk myths and provide a close-up look at the experiences of ordinary immigrant Muslims in the United States. Instead of treating Muslim immigrants as fundamentally different from others, this book views Muslims as multidimensional individuals whose identities are defined by a number of basic social attributes, including gender, race, social class, and religiosity. Each person portrayed in this ethnography is a complex individual, whose hierarchy of identities is shaped by particular events and the larger social environment. By focusing on a single congregation, this study controls variables related to the particularity of place and presents a “thick” description of interactions within small groups. This book argues that the frictions, conflicts and schisms are necessary as much as inevitable in cultivating a “composite culture” within the American Muslim community marked by diversity, leading it onto the path of Americanization.
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25.
Crossing Heaven's Border
By Hark Joon Lee
Asia-Pacific Research Center, 250 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1931368368, $17.11
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931368368/centerforimmigra
Book Description: From 2007 to 2011 South Korean filmmaker and newspaper reporter Hark Joon Lee lived among North Korean defectors in China, filming an award-winning documentary on their struggles. Crossing Heaven's Border is the firsthand account of his experiences there, where he witnessed human trafficking, the smuggling of illicit drugs by North Korean soldiers, and a rare successful escape from North Korea by sea.
As Lee traces the often tragic lives of North Korean defectors who were willing to risk everything for their hopes, he journeys to Siberia in pursuit of hidden North Korean lumber mills; to Vietnam, where defectors make desperate charges into foreign embassies; and along the 10,000-kilometer escape route for defectors stretching from China to Laos and to Thailand.
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Keeping the Faith: Syriac Christian Diasporas
By Heidi Armbruster
Sean Kingston Publishing, 288 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1907774297, $114.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1907774297/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Indigenous Christian communities in Turkey and the Middle East have declined dramatically in recent years, with large numbers emigrating in the face of violence, war and conflict. Keeping the Faith explores the impact of historical persecution and mass migration on the Suryoye, Syriac Orthodox Christians, from Turkey. Victims of genocide in 1915-16, subjugated by state nationalism in the Turkish Republic, part of the Turkish exodus of guest workers to Europe post 1960 and hemmed in by the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in the last decades of the twentieth century, they dispersed globally from eastern Anatolia. Only a few now remain in Turkey. This book argues that these experiences migrated with those who re-settled abroad and became incorporated into their life story. Heidi Armbruster's ethnographic fieldwork both in rural villages and a monastery in their Anatolian homeland, and with migrants and their families in Berlin and Vienna, allows her to investigate a number of contexts in which Syriac Christians create identities for themselves, contested through the potent symbolic resources of the Aramaic language, Christian religion, and Assyrian and Aramean ethnicity. Suryoye personal relationships to a collective history are not accessed through historians' accounts or institutional narratives, but through the intimate social worlds the author sensitively observes, in which experience and memories are formed, and in which individuals articulate their stake in a larger and more collective story. This discourse centres on 'community endangerment' and lies at the heart of negotiations of identity, family and group membership that are key to the spatial and historical processes of migration and diaspora. This account delineates with wonderful clarity how 'keeping the faith', has both imperilled and formed the foundations of continuity and community, for this fascinating group.
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
By Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas, and Mark J. Miller
Palgrave Macmillan, 420 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0230355765, $99.23
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230355765/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1462513115, 401 pp., $42.46
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1462513115/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This leading text in the field provides a comprehensive assessment of the nature, extent and dimensions of international population movements and of their consequences. Thoroughly revised and updated, the 5th edition assesses the impact of the global economic crisis for migration and includes new material on climate change and migration.
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Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996
By Carina Hoang
Beaufort Books, 240 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0825306965, $98.33
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0825306965/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0825306906, $25.67
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0825306906/centerforimmigra
Book Description: The years 1975 to 1996 were witness to the largest mass migration in modern history, when more than a million people left war-torn Vietnam by boat in search of safety.
Thousands perished when their boats fell apart en route, while others succumbed to starvation, dehydration, and cold-blooded attacks by Thai pirates.
Combining autobiographical accounts from survivors with evocative images from the time, Boat People is a moving account of the refugees nicknamed "Boat People." The personal accounts tell of the perilous sea journey, the time spent in refugee camps, and the final journey to new adopted homelands.
Editor Carina Hoang, a survivor of the Exodus at the age of 16, has compiled a book of both stunning photography and rich stories, to memorialize those who lost their lives and to honor those who are still alive today to recount their remarkable experiences.
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Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges
By Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini
Lexington Books, 276 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0739169793, $57.12
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739169793/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0739190717, 302 pp., $36.99
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739190717/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 4161 KB, ASIN: B007IK6MAW, $35.14
Book Description: Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, compiles twelve articles on the migration phenomenon from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States.
The first part of the book provides an overview of three recent surveys, all carried out in Mexico. The surveys consider international migration flows from Mexico to the US, the characteristics of migrants, and some of the causes and effects of migration in Mexico both for national and rural samples. The next section of the book analyzes the factors that explain the relationship between internal migration and human development. Then, the authors look at different issues of migration from Mexico and Latin American countries to the US. The topics include female educational selection in migrants from Mexico to the US, the impact of differences in the US-Mexico labor market outcomes on the migratory flow, the working conditions of Mexican migrants to the US under H2 visas, and the breadth and depth of migrants' connections from Latin American countries to the US. The fourth and final section of the book studies a variety of aspects related to remittances from US to Mexico and Latin American countries, including whether remittances promote growth in Mexico, whether remittances sent to Mexico finance migration of more Mexicans to the US, and whether remittances have positive impacts in the households that receive them.
The contributors to Migration and Remittances from Mexico are specialized migration researchers, trained in a broad variety of fields, including economics, sociology, demography, and political science in both Mexico and the United States. This range of backgrounds provides an essential multidiscipinary perspective from both sides of the border.
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Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity
By Frank van Gemert, Dana Peterson, Inger-Lise Lien, and Malcolm W. Klein
Willan, 304 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1843923971, $113.98
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843923971/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1843923963, $51.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843923963/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 869 KB, ASIN: B00CXQ5WVQ, 305 pp., $41.56
Book Description: This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on local gang formation and development, paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The book also explores the challenges that migration and ethnicity pose for responding effectively to the growth of such gangs, particularly in areas where public discourse on such issues is restricted.
Chapters in the book are concerned to address both situations where there have been longstanding problems with street gangs as well as areas where such issues have just started to emerge. A variety of different research traditions and approaches are represented, including ethnographic methods, self-report surveys and interviews, official records data and victim interviews.
It will be essential reading for anybody interested in the phenomenon of street and youth gangs.
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China in the World: Migration, Settlement, Diaspora Formations and Transnational Linkages
By Loretta Baldassar and Kee Pookong
Queen's Policy Studies, 250 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1553393260, $34.47
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1553393260/centerforimmigra
Book Description: In September 2011, the leading scholars of Chinese migration around the world gathered in Prato, Italy - home of one of the largest Chinese communities in Europe - for an international conference on the movement of people out of China, their return, and the transnational networks that link migrant Chinese peoples to their homeland. The result of that gathering, this book is an in-depth analysis of one of the largest and most important ongoing diasporas in human history. China in the World delivers a complete assessment of both the history and key contemporary debates relating to Chinese migration and settlement around the world. Each of the chapters examines a particular region that has played a significant role in the development of Chinese diasporas. The authors pay particular attention to the process of integration in host countries as well as the nature of continuing transnational ties to the homeland, and include analysis of generational, gender, and class distinctions. In addition to vibrant case studies and engaging accounts of everyday experiences at personal, family, and community levels, the book also considers the involvement of state governments and their relationships to China. A definitive analysis of relocation and settlement patterns, key issues, and current contexts of the Chinese diaspora, China in the World is a major addition to the scholarship on human migration. Contributors include Daniele Cologna (Insubria University), Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University), Emmanuel Ma Mung Kuang (Universite De Poitiers), Lucia Lo (York University), Gabi Dei Ottati (University of Florence), Yoon Yung Park (Rhodes University), Miri Song (University of Kent), Junko Tajima (Hosei University), and Min Zhou (University of California).
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CSEM Newsletter
December, 2013
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
HUMAN TRAFFICKING BECOMES RIFE IN PHILIPPINES AFTER TYPHOON HAIYAN
Chaotic environment after storm's wake drive many to desperation
There is still much chaos and uncertainty one month after Typhoon Haiyan battered the Philippines. The super storm left 1.9 million people homeless and nearly 6,000 dead. An even more insidious problem has risen to the fore and many people there become increasingly desperate: human trafficking.
The mass devastation brought by the typhoon coupled with the resulting "chaotic environment" make potential victims "extremely vulnerable," according to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo. He is the convenor of the Philippines' Interfaith Movement Against Human Trafficking.
There have been scattered reports that foreigners are already starting to recruit women from disaster areas, Raymond Jonathan Lledo, head of the government's National Inter-Agency Task Force Against Trafficking says.
The Philippines has long been identified as a source country for trafficking. Filipinos routinely go overseas for job opportunities only to be trapped in a nightmare of sex trafficking and forced labor.
The 2013 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report noted that human trafficking within the country also "remains a significant problem." Victims are frequently trafficked from rural areas to urban centers.
"Now, more than ever, Filipinos need to rise up and protect those who would be exploited within their borders," Pabillo told reporters.
Various church groups say they will hold a "prayer rally" in Manila this week to raise awareness about human trafficking.
"If they are becoming bold in committing this modern-day slavery, we have to be much bolder in fighting it," a joint statement issued by Catholic and Protestant Churches in the Philippines said.
"As a Church, we cannot just sit idly by while cases of human trafficking are piling up year after year," the statement said.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2021-human-trafficking-becomes-rife-in-philippines-after-typhoon-haiyan
SYRIA'S SEWING CIRCLES
Displaced by war, a group of Syrian refugees have created an innovative work collective to harness their sewing skills and create much-needed jobs.
Marwa Sayd Essa has big plans for the sewing workshop she co-founded and single-handedly manages. It already employs almost 90 displaced Syrian women—indirectly supporting as many families—and ships goods across the globe, but for her this is only a start. In the coming months and years, she intends to provide work for many, many more of Syria’s involuntary expatriates.
It is not a career path that Essa could have predicted. She studied architecture and engineering at university in Syria, but fled to Turkey to escape the violence.
Now she is one of the many exiled Syrians who, as conflict tears apart their homeland, are adjusting to the prospect of a life outside its borders—a life utterly detached from the carefully laid plans of peacetime.
As the Syrian uprising degenerated into bloody civil war with no obvious endpoint, Essa realized that longer-term, sustainable solutions would be required to help provide a livelihood for her compatriots. The idea behind her response came late last year, while discussing these issues with a friend, Fatima, on the balcony of Syrian aid group Watan’s offices in the southern Turkish border town of Reyhanli. “We were sitting there with nothing to do and talking about our thoughts. I felt my revolution needed some work for people. Fatima felt that also,” she says. “Syrian women need jobs and need money and no one was taking care of that.”
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2025-syria-s-sewing-circles
SYRIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN FACE 'CATASTROPHIC' LIFE IN EXILE, UN SAYS
More than a million Syrian children could miss out on education, and child labour is a big problem, warns
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian children already traumatised by war are facing a life of "catastrophe" in exile, without education or normal childhood freedoms, the UN refugee agency has warned.
Child labour is a huge problem across the refugee communities of Jordan and Lebanon, with children as young as seven taking on the role of breadwinner for their fractured families.
More than a million Syrian children are refugees, most of them in neighbouring countries. The report, the Future of Syria: refugee children in crisis, published by the UNHCR on Friday, involved four months of research across Jordan and Lebanon, speaking to children and the international workers supporting them.
Registration workers at refugee camps are used to recognising the signs of acute distress or depression in the children and families they register each day. Sheeraz Mukhaimer, a case manager with the International Medical Corps, described children telling her about seeing family members killed and then having to bury the bodies. Parents report children suffering sleep problems, flashbacks to the war, bedwetting and speech difficulties. Constant crying is common.
Volker Turk, director of international protection at UNHCR, says the scale of the unravelling crisis is what sets it apart from other refugee situations. "In terms of numbers, we are talking about a crisis of major proportions. Over 1 million children, it's the sheer magnitude of it. One striking feature is the impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of children. They are severely traumatised children coping with things adults would find difficult to cope with."
As families fall apart, tens of thousands of Syrian children are living without their fathers. In a female-headed household, a male child is likely to be sent out to work. Child labour is illegal in Lebanon and Jordan, but children are commonly taking menial work for low pay. Their meagre wages are sometimes the family's only source of income.
A previous report by the UN children's agency, Unicef, published in March, estimated that one in 10 Syrian refugee children in the region is engaged in child labour. In Jordan Valley, the agency found that 1,700 out of 3,500 school-aged children (nearly 49%) were working.
An inspector at the Jordanian ministry of labour, Maysoon Al Remawi, told the Guardian that refugee children were directly competing with Jordanian adults.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1953-syrian-refugee-children-face-catastrophic-life-in-exile-un-says
REFUGEE COMMUNITIES DIVERSIFY UPSTATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
By Kate O'Connell
The desire for familiar food, clothing, and other products from home is spurring refugee communities in upstate New York to start their own businesses. In response, a group in Rochester has organized a six week startup business training course to help the Somali refugee community navigate the process.
“They can actually create their own little local economy where they can exchange, similar to what they had in Somalia,” says David Dey, president and CEO of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship.
“So what we want to do is import their ideas, and their needs and their desires, implant them here in the Rochester community, we’re in the north west side of the city. So this is their new economic base and our goal is to build that with them,” he said.
Dey says immigrants have been leaving their mark on upstate communities for decades, introducing new food, music, clothing and culture.
Now the Somali community has the opportunity to do the same in Rochester.
“Maybe there will be people who want to taste the food, understand the culture, the beautiful clothing, the colors that come from that community are going to be here and those are ways that people can get a little taste of Somalia right here in Rochester,” he said.
The six week course will cover everything from marketing and product pricing, to tax codes and business licenses.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1957-refugee-communities-diversify-upstate-business-environment
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THAI PM OFFERS HELP TO INVESTIGATE ROHINGYA TRAFFICKING
The UN and the US called for an investigation into the report that revealed removing Rohingyas from Thai camps and deliver them to human traffickers.
Thailand will help the United Nations and the United States with any investigation into the findings of a Reuters report that Thai immigration officials moved Myanmar refugees into human-trafficking rings, the prime minister said on Saturday.
The United Nations and the United States called on Friday for an investigation into the report, published on Thursday and based on a two-month investigation in three countries, that revealed a clandestine policy to remove Rohingya refugees from Thai immigration detention centres and deliver them to human traffickers waiting at sea.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who chairs a government committee on human trafficking, declined to comment on the findings when asked about her reaction.
"I cannot comment on the Rohingya issue and reaction as this is the responsibility of the Foreign Ministry to handle," she said in a comment to Reuters, delivered through an aide.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1970-eritreans-sign-willful-emigration-dozens-to-be-deported-2
KILLED BEATEN RAPED: MIGRANT WORKERS IN SAUDI ARABIA
Abuse and violence against Indonesian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia.
By Graham Peebles
With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
Slavery is woven into the fabric of the psyche of the kingdom;according to Saudi scholar Ali al-Ahmed, a "culture of slavery pervades the country" [The Guardian[i]], and although banned in 1964 (when it is thought there were 30,000 slaves in the country) the barbaric practice of owning a fellow human being still exists in the form of the internationally condemned kafala sponsorship system. By tying the residency status of migrant workers to their employers, the system grants the latter total control, amounting to ownership.
Under the scheme employers confiscate passports, money and mobile phones of new arrivals; workers who want to change jobs or leave the country must seek their employer’s, consent who universally refuse to give it. A “sub-contracting” scheme is also in operation, with employers selling workers on.
The Dickensian system, which facilitates the abuse suffered by migrant workers, particularly domestic staff, needs to be banned as a matter of urgency; labour laws protecting migrant workers introduced and enforced, and full access to consulate support made available.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1980-killed-beaten-raped-migrant-workers-in-saudi-arabia
EUROPEAN UNION MIGRANT CAP PLAN ILLEGAL, SAYS NICK CLEGG
Nick Clegg has condemned leaked Home Office proposals to cap the number of European Union immigrants at 75,000 a year as "illegal and unworkable".
The deputy prime minister said it would damage the economy and mean reprisals by other member states.
Home Secretary Theresa May said she was "not proposing to introduce such a cap now" but there was a "possibility of reform in the future".
There was growing concern over "abuse" of free movement in the EU, she added.
The report of the leaked Home Office paper in The Sunday Times suggested Mrs May wants to introduce a cap on immigration from the EU, at about 75,000 a year. In the year to June 2013 183,000 people from the European Union moved to the UK.
The changes would mean professionals and highly skilled migrants from wealthy countries such as Germany, Austria or the Netherlands could move to the UK only if they had a job offer, and lower-skilled workers would be allowed to settle only if they were employed in posts where there was an identified shortage.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1987-european-union-migrant-cap-plan-illegal-says-nick-clegg
POPE: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, MUST BE STOPPED
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"This cannot go on," he said, adding that human trafficking "constitutes a serious violation of human rights and is an affront to (victims') dignity as well as a loss for the world community."
"Together we can and we must commit ourselves so they may be freed and this horrible trade can be put to an end," Pope Francis said.
"Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that's become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society," international security and laws, the economy, families and communities, he said.
Pope Francis recognized the many efforts underway around the world to prevent trafficking and protect victims.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2011-pope-human-trafficking-is-crime-against-humanity-must-be-stopped
BY THE NUMBERS: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Toronto – December 14, 2013 – On December 18, on International Migrants Day, the world recognizes and celebrates the rights of migrants. The day annually commemorates the December 8, 1990 adoption of the United Nations International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, which affirms the human rights of all migrants, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, and recognizes that migrants are men, women, children, and families – not just economic commodities.
In 2013, the number of international migrants worldwide reached 232 million, up from 175 million in 2000.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1998-by-the-numbers-international-migration
CHURCH TEACHING ON IMMIGRATION IS A 'HUMANE POSITION'
By Adelaide Mena
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The Church sees “the faces of many who are suffering, and are divided as families” and seeks to reconnect those families with their loved ones, he said. In addition, the Church asks that Catholics reach out to ease the suffering of immigrants, “not because they are citizens but because God created them.”
Archbishop Garcia-Siller lamented that “many people do not understand” the Church's teachings on immigration. Selfish interests, a lack of knowledge, and misinformation about the realities of immigration have led to a poor understanding of both the situation faced by immigrants and “the values that the Gospels present,” he said.
There is also an unfortunate tendency to overlook or forget the history of the United States, the archbishop said.
“Our country was founded with immigrants,” he pointed out. “Immigration is part of the reality of the United States.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that nations have the obligation, as much as they are able, “to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.”
The Church also holds that nations have the right and duty to ensure border security and law enforcement that is both just and humane for the common good.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2001-church-teaching-on-immigration-is-a-humane-position
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 37, No. 2, February 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/37/2#.UsH7dvuzIeA
Selected articles:
‘What part of illegal don't you understand?’: bureaucracy and civil society in the shaping of illegality
By Edwin Ackerman
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.705008#.UsH_XvuzIeA
Moral encounters: drawing boundaries of class, sexuality and migrancy in paid domestic work
By Lena Nare
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.729669#.UsH_OfuzIeA
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Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/37/1#.UsIIy_uzIeA
Selected articles:
Defining difference: the role of immigrant generation and race in American and British immigration studies
By Mary C. Waters
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.808753#.UsIKt_uzIeA
Explaining intergenerational variations in English language acquisition and ethnic language attrition
By Meenakshi Parameshwaran
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.827794#.UsIKmPuzIeA
Is there assimilation in minority groups' national, ethnic and religious identity?
By Lucinda Platt
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.808756#.UsIKf_uzIeA
Generation, ethnic and religious diversity in friendship choice: exploring interethnic close ties in Britain
By Raya Muttarak
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2014.844844#.UsIKaPuzIeA
Immigrant generation, religiosity and civic engagement in Britain
By Siobhan McAndrew and David Voas
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.808755#.UsIKUfuzIeA
The democratic engagement of Britain's ethnic minorities
By David Sanders, Stephen D. Fisher, Anthony Heath, and Maria Sobolewska
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.827795#.UsIKN_uzIeA
Ethno-religious minorities and labour market integration: generational advancement or decline?
By Sin Yi Cheung
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.808757#.UsIKEPuzIeA
Has multiculturalism failed in Britain?
By Anthony Heath and Neli Demireva
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.808754#.UsIJ9PuzIeB
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Human Mobility
No. 102, Ano X, November 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/boletins/Boletim_Mobilidade_Humana_-_ano_X_n._102.pdf
English language content:
Saudi Arabia: Noose tightens around illegals
Over 20,000 held in 2 days of raids
As the inspection squads have tightened the noose on illegals with massive raids being held across the Kingdom, the commercial and business sectors are paying a heavy price.
Hundreds of shops and eateries remained closed for the third day on Wednesday. The number of illegals arrested in the first two days of the campaign exceeded 20,000, with the largest figures
coming from the southern border province of Jazan and the western governorate of Jeddah...
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1885-saudi-arabia-noose-tightens-around-illegals - 0
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...
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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.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1898-5-2-million-legal-immigrants-live-in-italy
Lebanon: Women Refugees From Syria Harassed, Exploited
Insufficient Aid, Lack of Redress Increase Vulnerability
Women refugees from Syria are being sexually harassed by employers, landlords, and even faithbased aid distributors in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch interviewed a dozen women who described being groped, harassed, and pressured to have sex.
The women Human Rights Watch interviewed said they did not report incidents to local authorities due to lack of confidence that authorities would take action and fear of reprisals by the abusers or arrest for not having a valid residency permit…
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1943-lebanon-women-refugees-from-syria-harassed-exploited
Moscow Mayor Thinks Mosques Attract Illegal Migration
Moscow is banning the construction of new mosques, the latest sign of the growing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment in Russia.
The four existing mosques in Russia’s largest city are overcrowded during the Muslim holidays. But Mayor Sergei Sobyanin declared this week that new ones will not be built because they are used by
migrant workers, according to the Christian Science Monitor...
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1927-moscow-mayor-thinks-mosques-attract-illegal-migration
Thousands of Indonesian women trafficked to Hong Kong face exploitation and risk domestic 'slavery'
Thousands of Indonesian women trafficked to Hong Kong risk slavery-like conditions as domestic workers, with both governments failing to protect them from widespread abuse and exploitation, said
Amnesty International.
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http://www.csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1920-thousands-of-indonesian-women-trafficked-to-hong-kong-face-exploitation-and-risk-domestic-slavery
Human traffickers are mostly women, Australian Institute of Criminology report finds
More women than men have been convicted in Australia for human trafficking and slavery and not one has had links to organized crime
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1944-human-trffickers-are-mostly-women-australian-institute-of-criminology-report-finds
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International Journal of Refugee Law
Vol. 25, No. 3, October 2013
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3?etoc
Articles:
Constructing the Refugee Figure in France: Ethnomethodology of a Decisional Process
By Jean-Philippe Dequen
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/449.abstract.html?etoc
Refugee Law, Gender and the Concept of Personhood
By Georgina Firth and Barbara Mauthe
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/470.abstract.html?etoc
Decision Making Conditioned by Radical Uncertainty: Credibility Assessment at the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal
By Trish Luker
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/502.abstract.html?etoc
Child-Proofing Asylum: Separated Children and Refugee Decision Making in Australia
By Mark Evenhuis
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/535.abstract.html?etoc
The ‘Right to Work’ of Refugees in Hong Kong: MA v Director of Immigration
By Michael Ramsden and Luke Marsh
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/3/574.abstract.html?etoc
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Journal of American Ethnic History
Vol. 33, No. 2, Winter 2014
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.2.issue-2
Articles:
"The Great Entrepot for Mendicants": Foreign Poverty and Immigration Control in New York State to 1882
By Hidetaka Hirota
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.2.0005?uid=3739584&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103197375467
Caricaturing Race and Nation in the Irish American Press, 1870-1880: A Transnational Perspective
By Cian T. McMahon
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.2.0033?uid=3739584&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103197375467
A Refugee Camp in America: Fort Chaffee and Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees, 1975-1982
By Jana K. Lipman
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.2.0057?uid=3739584&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103197375467
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 40, No. 3, March 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/current#.UsHPvvuzIeA
Articles:
Immigrants' Ethnic Identification and Political Involvement in the Face of Discrimination: A Longitudinal Study of the German Case
By Marion Fischer-Neumann
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2013.847362#.UsHNhvuzIeA
An Intergenerational Model of Spatial Assimilation in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
By Barbara Edgar
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.830890#.UsHPxfuzIeA
A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed-Ethnic Unions in England and Wales
By Zhiqiang Feng, Maarten van Ham, Paul Boyle, and Gillian M Raab
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.830885#.UsHQo_uzIeA
Do Integration Policies Affect Immigrants' Voluntary Engagement? An Exploration at Switzerland's Subnational Level
By Anita Manatschal and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.830496#.UsHQjPuzIeA
Researching Mobility Barriers: The European Visa Database
By Mogens Hobolth
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.830886#.UsHQd_uzIeA
Does Immigration Erode the Multicultural Welfare State? A Cross-National Multilevel Analysis in 19 OECD Member States
By Takanori Sumino
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.831548#.UsHQYvuzIeA
Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?
By Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.787704#.UsHQFPuzIeA
Migration, Race and Nationhood in Argentina
By Tanja Bastia and Matthias vom Hau
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.782153#.UsHP_vuzIeA
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Foreigners in the Italian Labour Market
By Corrado Bonifazi and Cristiano Marini
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.829710#.UsHP5PuzIeA
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Journal of Intercultural Studies
Volume 34, Number 6, December 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006
Selected articles:
The Inter-generational Politics of ‘Travelling Memories’: Sahrawi Refugee Youth Remembering Home-land and Home-camp
By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006/art00002
Diasporic Memory and the Call to Identity: Yiddish Migrants in Early Twentieth Century East London
By Ben Gidley
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006/art00003
Remembering for Refugees in Australia: Political Memories and Concepts of Democracy in Refugee Advocacy Post-Tampa
By Olaf Kleist
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006/art00004
Refugee and Diaspora Memories: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting
By Thomas Lacroix and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006/art00005
War and Diaspora: The Memories of South Vietnamese Soldiers
By Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006/art00006
The Role of Spanish Refugees in the Construction of the Migration Memory in France and Spain
By Evelyne Ribert and Bruno Tur
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjis/2013/00000034/00000006/art00007
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Refugee Survey Quarterly
Vol. 32, No. 4, December 2013
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4?etoc
Articles:
From Zero Tolerance to Harm Reduction: “The Asylum Problem Problem”
By Desmond R. Manderson
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/1.abstract.html?etoc
Assessing Refugee Camp Characteristics and The Occurrence of Sexual Violence: A Preliminary Analysis of the Dadaab Complex
By Amber Aubone and Juan Hernandez
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/22.abstract.html?etoc
The UNHCR and Zimbabwean Refugees in Mozambique, 1975–1980
By Nathaniel Kinsey Powell
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/41.abstract.html?etoc
Coping Strategies of Sudanese Refugee Women in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
By Jessica Gladden
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/66.abstract.html?etoc
EU Labour Immigration Policy: Discourses and Mobility
By Sonia Gsir
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/90.abstract.html?etoc
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