Immigration Reading List, 2/25/14

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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

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REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.

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Timeline: How The Obama Administration Bypassed Congress To Dismantle Immigration Enforcement

http://c9.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/enforcement_action.pdf

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The Economic Effects Of Massive Immigration, A Chart Book

http://c0.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/20140129_economic_effects_massive_immigration.pdf

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http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/examining-challenges-and-wasted-taxpayer-dollars-modernizing-border-security-it-systems

Examining Challenges and Wasted Taxpayer Dollars in Modernizing Border Security IT Systems

http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/02-06-14-Duncan-Open.pdf

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20140206/101720/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-PownerD-20140206.pdf

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20140206/101720/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-ArmstrongC-20140206.pdf

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20140206/101720/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-MichelliT-20140206.pdf

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New from the Congressional Research Service

Border Security: Immigration Inspections at Port of Entry

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/221268.pdf

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New from the General Accountability Office

DHS's Efforts to Modernize Key Enforcement Systems Could be Strengthened

http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660706.pdf
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-342T

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Monthly asylum application tables

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-asylum-application-tables

Children entering detention under Immigration Act powers

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/children-entering-detention-under-immigration-act-powers

Immigration statistics, July to September 2013

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2013

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http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/immigration-patterns-and-characteristics-of-non-uk-born-population-groups-in-england-and-wales/non-

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Considerable increase asylum seekers from Syria and Somalia

http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/veiligheid-recht/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2014/2014-4015-wm.htm

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Immigration from Bulgaria and Romania: high rate of higher education graduates

https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/Migration/highlight_Immigration.html

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Population estimate 2013: number of inhabitants increased to just under 80.8 million

https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/_Doorpage/HighlightPopulationEstimate.html

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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University

Surprising Variability in Immigration Detainer Trends by Gender, Nationality

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/340/

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The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Aliens on Texans

http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/TexasCostStudy_2014.pdf

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Poll: Focus On Jobs, Not Income Gap Or Immigration

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/013114-688416-public-disapproves-obama-focus-on-inequality.htm

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On immigration, Republicans favor path to legal status, but differ over citizenship

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/28/on-immigration-republicans-favor-path-to-legal-status-but-differ-over-citizenship/

Excerpt

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/12/17/changing-patterns-of-global-migration-and-remittances/

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How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party

http://www.eagleforum.org/immigration.html

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2013 Immigration Report

http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/2013-immigration-report.aspx

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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor

1.Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7924

2.The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7922

3.Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7921

4.From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7920

5.Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?

http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7919

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New from the Migration Policy Institute

1.Human Smuggling and Trafficking into Europe: A Comparative Perspective

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Human-Smuggling.pdf

2.“Donkey Flights”: Illegal Immigration from the Punjab to the United Kingdom

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Punjabi-Migration-UK.pdf

3.Trade-Offs in Immigration Enforcement

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Migration-EnforcementTradeoffs.pdf

4.IRCA in Retrospect: Guideposts for Today’s Immigration Reform

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-IRCALessons.pdf

5.A Strategic Framework for Creating Legality and Order in Immigration

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/TCM-Migration-StrategicFramework.pdf

6.Valuing Citizenship: A Commodity or an Identity?

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/2014_01_27.pdf

7.Refugees and Asylees in the United States

http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=986

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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research

How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19855

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New from the Social Science Research Network

1.The Deportation Conundrum

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2387134

2.What Is to Be Done for Migrant Domestic Workers?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2386947

3.The U.S. Criminal-Immigration Convergence and Its Possible Undoing

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2385232

4.Immigrants in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area Labor Market

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384982

5.Future Flows and Worker Rights in S. 744: A Guide to How the Senate Immigration Bill Would Modify Current Law

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2385393

6.A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Effects of Immigration on Labor Market Outcomes

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384229

7.Ripples Against the Other Shore: The Impact of Trauma Exposure on the Immigration Process Through Adjudicators

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383985

8.Undocumented Workers, Tax Evasion and Document Fraud: A Case Study

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384176

9.Waves of Immigration from the Middle East to the United States

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383505

10.Intergenerational Mobility of Second Generation Migrants from the Middle East to the United States

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383499

11.Understanding of the Immigration Flow and Stock in Washington DC Metropolitan Area: Observations from Panel Data

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2382987

12.Temporary Migration and the Flow of Savings to the Source Country

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383626

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The State of Environmental Migration 2013 – A review of 2012

http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/State_Environmental_Migration_2013.pdf

Migration Policy Practice

http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/MigrationPolicyPracticeJournal14_30Jan2014.pdf

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New from the World Bank

Does Migration Foster Exports? Evidence From Africa

http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20140106132715

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Migration, Remittances, and Poverty: Case studies from West Africa

http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780821366271

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Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration

http://aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/tandi_pdf/tandi468.pdf

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Danish and Swedish immigrants' cultural policies between 1960 and 2006: toleration and the celebration of difference

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gcul/2014/00000020/00000002/art00006

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Migrant Marginality: A Transnational Perspective

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415893178/centerforimmigra

Book Description

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Stand Together or Fall Apart: Professionals Working with Immigrant Families

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1552665259/centerforimmigra

Book Description

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The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415658896/centerforimmigra

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/041565890X/centerforimmigra

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Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415847729/centerforimmigra

Book Description

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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1447301226/centerforimmigra

Book Description

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Migrants or Expatriates?: Americans in Europe

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230296963/centerforimmigra

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CSEM Newsletter

http://csem.org.br/

English language content

SUPER BOWL AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2170-super-bowl-and-human-trafficking-what-you-need-to-know

HAITI MIGRANT BOAT SINKS OFF FLORIDA: US OFFICIALS

http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2172-haiti-migrant-boat-sinks-off-florida-us-officials

WOMEN SLAVES IN AUSTRALIA SILENT AND ISOLATED, ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY STUDY

http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2176-women-slaves-in-australia-silent-and-isolated-according-to-australian-institute-of-criminology-study

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January 2014

SYRIAN REFUGEE WOMEN, GIRLS FACE SERIOUS PROBLEMS, SAYS TTB

http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2152-syrian-refugee-women-girls-face-serious-problems-says-ttb

THAI POLICE RESCUE HUNDREDS OF ROHINGYA IN RAID ON SUSPECTED TRAFFICKERS' CAMP

http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2149-thai-police-rescue-hundreds-of-rohingya-in-raid-on-suspected-traffickers-camp

FROM REFUGEE TO LEADER: AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN SHOWS THE WAY IN KENYA

http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2124-from-refugee-to-leader-an-ethiopian-woman-shows-the-way-in-kenya

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/37/3#.UurqivuzIeA

Selected articles

Segmented political assimilation: perceptions of racialized opportunities and Latino immigrants' partisan identification

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.783222#.Uur2SPuzIeA

Defining immigrant newcomers in new destinations: symbolic boundaries in Williamsburg, Virginia

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.716521#.Uur2LvuzIeA

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International Migration

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.2014.52.issue-1/issuetoc;jsessionid=59E55AA099C5C033CE7AA0F3B68FBCAB.f03t03

Special Issue: POLISH MIGRATION AFTER THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN

Articles

Polish Migration after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12146/abstract

Polish Contemporary Migration: From Co-migrants to Project ME

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12076/abstract

Labour Market Behaviours of Back-and-Forth Migrants From Poland

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12128/abstract

“Economic Migrants” or “Middling Transnationals”? East European Migrants’ Experiences of Work in the UK

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00677.x/abstract

The Experience of Labour Emigration in the Life of Married Women: The Case of Podlasie, Poland

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00772.x/abstract

Successful Earners and Failing Others: Transnational Orientation as Biographical Resource in the Context of Labor Migration

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12144/abstract

“Aiding Defeated Migrants”: Institutional Strategies to Assist Polish Returned Migrants

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12145/abstract

Homo Sovieticus Revisited – Anti-Institutionalism, Alcohol and Resistance Among Polish Homeless Men in London

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12041/abstract

Homelessness Abroad: “Place Utility” in the Narratives of the Polish Homeless in Brussels

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00782.x/abstract

High Mobility of Polish Women: The Ethnographic Inquiry of Barcelona

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12119/abstract

Polish Immigration in Barcelona: The Sagrada Familia Neighbourhood as an Arena for Interaction

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12101/abstract

Fatherhood and Transmission in the Context of Migration: An Irish and a Polish Case

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12067/abstract

Migrant Men's Fathering Narratives, Practices and Projects in National and Transnational Spaces: Recent Polish Male Migrants to London

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12046/abstract

Polish Young Peoples' Narratives: Impacts of Living and Studying in the UK

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12025/abstract

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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001

Articles

Inequalities in Perinatal Mortality Rates Among Immigrant and Native Population in Spain, 2005–2008

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009730

Migration Status, Work Conditions and Health Utilization of Female Sex Workers in Three South African Cities

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009758

Comparison of Stroke Mortality in Finnish-Born Migrants Living in Sweden 1970–1999 and in Swedish-Born Individuals

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009780

Acculturation and Nutritional Health of Immigrants in Canada: A Scoping Review
By Dia Sanou, Erin O’Reilly, Ismael Ngnie-Teta, Malek Batal, Nathalie Mondain, Caroline Andrew, Bruce Newbold, and Ivy Bourgeault
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009823

Immigrants’ Mortality Patterns in the Short- and Long-Term Point Toward Origin-Related Diversities: The Israeli Experience

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009858

Factors Affecting Adequate Prenatal Care and the Prenatal Care Visits of Immigrant Women to Taiwan

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009734

Migrants Suffering Violence While in Transit Through Mexico: Factors Associated with the Decision to Continue or Turn Back

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009759

What We Know and Don't Know About Mental Health Problems Among Immigrants in Norway
By Dawit Abebe, Lars Lien, and Karin Hjelde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009745

Acculturation Factors and Metabolic Syndrome Among Japanese-Brazilian Men in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
By Marie Tashiro, Junko Yasuoka, Krishna Poudel, Hiroshi Noto, Miho Masuo, and Masamine Jimba
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009797

Mental Health of Intermarried Immigrant Women and Their Children in South Korea
By Sun Lee, Yong Park, Jaeuk Hwang, Jooyeon Im, and Donghyun Ahn
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009747

Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Amongst Recently Arrived Sudanese Refugees in Queensland, Australia
By A. Renzaho, P. Bilal, and G. Marks
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009791

The Oral Health Status of Recent Immigrants and Refugees in Nova Scotia, Canada
By Edmond Ghiabi, Debora Matthews, and Martha Brillant
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009785

An Application of Cultural Model to Assess and Compare Malaria Prevention Among Afghani Migrant and Baluchi Resident in the Endemic Area, Southeastern Iran
By Kh. Shahandeh, H. Basseri, and Y. Sharifzadeh
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009850

Ethnicity and Self-Perceived Oral Health in Colombia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
By Andres Agudelo-Suarez, Eliana Martinez-Herrera, Adriana Posada-Lopez, Danilo Sanchez-Patino, and Yomaira Vinas-Sarmiento
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009844

Sending-Country Violence and Receiving-Country Discrimination: Effects on the Health of Colombian Refugees in Ecuador
By Michele Shedlin, Carlos Decena, Hugo Noboa, and Oscar Betancourt
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009777

Changes in the ‘Healthy Migrant Effect’ in Canada: Are Recent Immigrants Healthier than They were a Decade Ago?
By Alden Blair and Amy Schneeberg
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009813

What are the Health Needs, Familial and Social Problems of Thai Migrants in a Local Community in Australia? A Focus Group Study
By Pasitpon Vatcharavongvan, Julie Hepworth, Joanne Lim, and John Marley
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009725

“Judging a Body by Its Cover”: Young Lebanese-Canadian Women’s Discursive Constructions of the “Healthy” Body and “Health” Practices
By Zeina Abou-Rizk and Genevieve Rail
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009757

A Comparison of Health Access Between Permanent Residents, Undocumented Immigrants and Refugee Claimants in Toronto, Canada
By Ruth Campbell, A. Klei, Brian Hodges, David Fisman, and Simon Kitto
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009740

Erratum to: Migrants Suffering Violence While in Transit Through Mexico: Factors Associated with the Decision to Continue or Turn Back
By Edson Servan-Mori, Rene Leyva-Flores, Cesar Xibille, Pilar Torres-Pereda, and Rodrigo Garcia-Cerde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/10903/2014/00000016/00000001/00009860

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Migration Studies
Vol. 1, No. 3, November 2013
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

Articles:

The migration industry in the United States, 1882–1924
By Ivan Light
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/258.full

Eliciting illegal migration rates through list randomization
By David McKenzie and Melissa Siegel
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/276.full

Subject to deportation: IRCA, ‘criminal aliens’, and the policing of immigration
By Jonathan Xavier Inda
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/292.full

What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level
By Yvonni Markaki and Simonetta Longhi
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/311.full

Moving toward reform? Mobility, health, and development in the context of neoliberalism
By Peggy Levitt and N. Rajaram
http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/338.full

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