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18.U.K.: "Potential impacts on the UK of future migration from Bulgaria and Romania"
19. "In liberty's shadow: the discourse of refugees and asylum seekers in critical race theory and immigration law/politics"
20. Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging
21. How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
22. Europe's Immigration Challenge: Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility
23. Immigration: Policies, Challenges and Impact
24. Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
25. Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship
26. Race and Immigration in the New Ireland
27. Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies
28. The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East
29. Trafficking and Human Rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives
30. Ethnic and Racial Studies
31. Global Networks
32. Human Mobility
33. International Migration Review
34. Latino Studies
35. Resenha
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2013
SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/border-security-frontline-perspectives-on-progress-and-remaining-challenges
Border Security: Frontline Perspectives on Progress and Remaining Challenges
Member Statements:
Chairman Thomas R. Carper
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=ffafb96f-6ebd-413b-bf19-1530492409a1
Senator Tom Coburn
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=cedc1fac-aa1f-4fae-a8a2-594ba8d5cd1d
Witness Testimony:
Kevin K. McAleenan
Acting Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=5e929261-d746-458e-b1a7-951a2a7f74d2
Michael J. Fisher
Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=27e4ab2b-f5f9-4ec5-906a-6ec1945efc89
Randolph D. Alles
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Air and Marine, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S.Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=32712b53-b2e9-424d-a2f1-5e82d88fa656
James A. Dinkins
Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=f39614fd-e99c-4a97-bb17-e4d7addfedd6
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency
Friday, April 12, 2013
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-impact-sequestration-homeland-security-scare-tactics-or-possible-threat
The Impact of Sequestration on Homeland Security: Scare Tactics or Possible Threat?
Opening Statements:
Chairman Jeff Duncan
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/04-12-13-Duncan-Open.pdf
Witness Testimony:
Rafael Borras
Undersecretary for Management
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-BorrasR-20130412.pdf
Thomas S. Winkowski
Deputy Commissioner Performing the Duties of Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-WinkowskiT-20130412.pdf
John Halinski
Deputy Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-HalinskiJ-20130412.pdf
Daniel H. Ragsdale
Deputy Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-RagsdaleD-20130412.pdf
Brandon Judd
President
National Border Patrol Council Testimony
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-JuddB-20130412.pdf
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Organized Atrocities: Asylum Claims Based Upon a “Pattern or Practice” of Persecution
By Adam L. Fleming
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 3, March 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no3final.pdf
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New report from the General Accountability Office
Partnership Agreements and Enhanced Oversight Could Strengthen Coordination of Efforts on Indian Reservations
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-352, April 5, 2013
Report - http://gao.gov/assets/660/653590.pdf
Highlights - http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-352
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Monthly asylum application tables - January 2013
U.K. Home Office, March 28, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175511/asylum-jan2013.xls
Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers - February 2013
Office for National Statistics, March 28, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175512/child-detention-feb2013.xls
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International Travel and Migration: February 2013
Statistics New Zealand, March 2013
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/Migration/IntTravelAndMigration_HOTPFeb13.aspx
Summary:
In February 2013 compared with February 2012:
Visitor arrivals (281,200) were up 22,200. The biggest changes were in arrivals from:
* China (up 16,300)
* Hong Kong (up 2,200)
* the United States (up 2,200)
Overseas trips by New Zealand residents (110,700) were down 5,700. The biggest change was in departures to Australia (down 3,600).
In February 2013, seasonally adjusted figures showed a net gain of 600 migrants.
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
New Filings Seeking Removal Orders in Immigration Courts through March 2013
April 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/apprep_newfilings.php
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Few in U.S. See Guns, Immigration as Nation's Top Problems
The economy and jobs continue to be named as most important U.S. problems
By Frank Newport
Gallup Politics, April 15, 2013
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161813/few-guns-immigration-nation-top-problems.aspx
Excerpt:
Immigration Not as High a Priority as It Has Been in Past
The 4% of Americans who name immigration as the top problem is about the same as the 5% who mentioned it last month. More generally, Americans have been significantly more likely to mention immigration issues than guns as the nation's top problem in recent years. In April 2006, for example, 19% of Americans said immigration was the nation's top problem, second only to the Iraq war at that point. At least 10% of Americans also mentioned immigration as the top problem at other points in 2007, 2008, and 2010.
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69% Favor Use of U.S. Military on Border to Keep Mexican Drug Violence Out
Rasmussen Reports, April 8, 2013
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2013/69_favor_use_of_u_s_military_on_border_to_keep_mexican_drug_violence_out
Excerpt: Voters remain more concerned about Mexican drug violence coming to this country than they are about illegal immigration, and most favor use of the U.S. military on the border to prevent it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% of Likely U.S. Voters are more concerned about illegal immigration. Fifty-seven percent (57%) worry more about drug violence.
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Just 26% Support Immigration Plan Without Tougher Border Control
Rasmussen Reports, April 5, 2013
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/april_2013/just_26_support_immigration_plan_without_tougher_border_control
Excerpt: Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. Voters favor an immigration plan that gives illegal immigrants legal status to stay in the United States provided the border is really secured to prevent future illegal immigration. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 25% are opposed to this plan.
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Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in Post-Recession America
By Jacob L. Vigdor
Manhattan Institute, March 2013
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_76.htm#.UVHe2DfAGSp
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Making it Work: The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand
By Trudie Cain and Paul Spoonley
Discussion Paper No. 7332, April 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7332
Migration, Trade and Income
By Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri
Discussion Paper No. 7325, April 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7325
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Side-by-Side Comparison of 2013 Senate Immigration Framework with 2006 and 2007 Senate Legislation
Issue Brief No. 3, April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-2013SenateFramework-Side-by-Side.pdf
2. Immigration Reform: A Long Road to Citizenship and Insurance Coverage
By Randy Capps and Michael Fix
April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/HealthAffairs.php
3. Legal Immigration Policies for Low-Skilled Foreign Workers
By Madeleine Sumption and Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Issue Brief No. 2, April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-LowSkilledVisas.pdf
4. Immigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform on the Horizon
By Faye Hipsman and Doris Meissner
Migration Information Source, April 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=946
5. Honduras: The Perils of Remittance Dependence and Clandestine Migration
By Daniel Reichman
Migration Information Source, April 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=945
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Citizenship, Authenticity, and Belonging in Europe and Ghana: The Case of the Ghanaian Migrant
By Maame Gyekye-Jandoh, University of Ghana
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253538
2. Political Competition and Attitudes Toward Immigration in Africa
By Beth Whitaker, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253564
3. Teaching the Arizona V. United States Immigration Case
By Corey Ciocchetti, University of Denver
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253052
4. Why Don't You Develop There Where You Come From?”: Migration, Fusion and Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By Bunto Siwiza, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253515
5. Enforcing Masculinities at the Borders
By Jamie R. Abrams, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2252886
6. Some Essentials of a Workable Guest-Worker Program
By Slobodan Djajic
Department of Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/iere.12013/abstract
7. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: One Step Closer
By Tina Genovese, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253056
8. Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data
By Thomas Bauer; Regina Flake, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics; and Mathias Sinning, Australian National University
Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 370-385, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251701
9. Population Aging and Individual Attitudes Toward Immigration: Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects
By Lena Calahorrano, RWTH Aachen
Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251699
10. Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University and Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University
Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251690
11. What Drives Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in South Africa?
By Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham; Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University; and Mariapia Mendola, University of Milan
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251698
12. The Critique of Asylum Law: Gender-Based Persecution and the Problems of Defining Social Group Ground in US Asylum Law
By Dickson Ntwiga, Mahidol University
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2246398
13 Toward a Constitutionalized Theory of Immigration Detention
By Travis Silva, Yale University Law School
Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 31, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2250417
14. Citizenship Is Not the Only Goal: Immigration Reform Should Bring an End to Mass Deportations
By Sheldon Novick, Vermont Law School
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2248757
15. Mothering While Illegal: Undocumented Mothers from Senegal in the United States
By Ayo A. Coly, Dartmouth College
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2250139
16. Use of the Term 'Illegal Alien'
By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Penn State Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2245049
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New from Canada’s Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS)
Delineating Ethnoburbs in Metropolitan Toronto
By Shuguang Wang and Jason Zhong
CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 100, April 2013
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CWP_100_Wang_Zhong.pdf
Temporariness in Canada: Establishing a Research Agenda
By Amrita Hari, Susan McGrath, and Valerie Preston
CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 99, March 2013
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CWP_99_Hari_McGrath_Preston.pdf
An Overview of Discourses of Skilled Immigrants and “Canadian Experience”: An English-Language Print Media Analysis
By Izumi Sakamoto, Daphne Jeyapal, Rupaleem Bhuyan, Jane Ku, Lin Fang, Heidi Zhang, and Flavia Genovese
CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 98, March 2013
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CWP_98_Sakamoto_et_al.pdf
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New from International Organization for Migration
1. Nutrition Surveillance Report
Issue No. 3, January–December 2012, April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/NutritionSurveillanceReport_JANDEC2012_17Apr2013_FINAL.pdf
2. Summary of the Research Findings of the IOM Independent Network of Labour Migration and Integration Experts (LINET)
By A. Platonova, A. Schuster, M.V. Desiderio, and G. Urso, K. Bürkin
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/PolicyHighlights_WebFull.pdf
3. Migration, Employment and Labour Market Integration Policies in the European Union (2011)
Edited by Giuliana Urso and Anke Schuster
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/AMR2011_WebFull.pdf
4. Improving Access to Labour Market Information for Migrants and Employers
Edited by Maria Vincenza Desiderio and Anke Schuster
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Improving_Access_LMI_for_Migrants_Employers.pdf
5. Recognition of Qualifications and Competences of Migrants
Edited by Anke Schuster, Maria Vincenza Desiderio, and Giuliana Urso
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Recognition_Qualifications_CompetencesofMigrants.pdf
6. Extended Migration Profile of the Republic of Moldova
By Maria Vremi, Viorica Craievschi-Toarta, Eugeniu Burdelnii, Anne Herm, and Michel Poulain
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/110_emp_report.pdf
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State Estimates of the Low-income Uninsured Not Eligible for the ACA Medicaid Expansion
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2013
http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2013/rwjf404825
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LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States
By Gary J. Gates
The Williams Institute, March 2013
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/LGBTImmigrants-Gates-Mar-2013.pdf
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Potential impacts on the UK of future migration from Bulgaria and Romania
By Heather Rolfe, Tatiana Fic, Mumtaz Lalani, Monica Roman, Maria Prohaska, and Liliana Doudeva
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, March 2013
http://www.niesr.ac.uk/sites/cis.org/files/publications/NIESR%20EU2%20MIGRATION%20REPORT.pdf
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In liberty's shadow: the discourse of refugees and asylum seekers in critical race theory and immigration law/politics
By Pulitano Elvira
Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gide/2013/00000020/00000002/art00004
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Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging
By Jamie Winders
CUP Services, 340 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 0871549336, $39.80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871549336/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Beginning in the 1990s, the geography of Latino migration to and within the United States started to shift. Immigrants from Central and South America increasingly bypassed the traditional gateway cities to settle in small cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the nation, particularly in the South. One popular new destination Nashville, Tennessee saw its Hispanic population increase by over 400 percent between 1990 and 2000. Nashville, like many other such new immigrant destinations, had little to no history of incorporating immigrants into local life. How did Nashville, as a city and society, respond to immigrant settlement? How did Latino immigrants come to understand their place in Nashville in the midst of this remarkable demographic change? In Nashville in the New Millennium, geographer Jamie Winders offers one of the first extended studies of the cultural, racial, and institutional politics of immigrant incorporation in a new urban destination.
Moving from schools to neighborhoods to Nashville s wider civic institutions, Nashville in the New Millennium details how Nashville's long-term residents and its new immigrants experienced daily life as it transformed into a multicultural city with a new cosmopolitanism. Using an impressive array of methods, including archival work, interviews, and participant observation, Winders offers a fine-grained analysis of the importance of historical context, collective memories and shared social spaces in the process of immigrant incorporation. Lacking a shared memory of immigrant settlement, Nashville s long-term residents turned to local history to explain and interpret a new Latino presence. A site where Latino day laborers gathered, for example, became a flashpoint in Nashville s politics of immigration in part because the area had once been a popular gathering place for area teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s. Teachers also drew from local historical memories, particularly the busing era, to make sense of their
newly multicultural student body. They struggled, however, to help immigrant students relate to the region s complicated racial past, especially during history lessons on the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement. When Winders turns to life in Nashville s neighborhoods, she finds that many Latino immigrants opted to be quiet in public, partly in response to negative stereotypes of Hispanics across Nashville. Long-term residents, however, viewed this silence as evidence of a failure to adapt to local norms of being neighborly.
Filled with voices from both long-term residents and Latino immigrants, Nashville in the New Millennium offers an intimate portrait of the changing geography of immigrant settlement in America. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latino migration's impact on race relations in the country and is an especially valuable contribution to the study of race and ethnicity in the South.
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How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
By Susan Eckstein, Adil Najam, and Susan Eva Eckstein
Duke University Press Books, 280 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0822353814, $84.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822353814/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0822353954, $21.56
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822353954/centerforimmigra
Book Description: How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India's IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate émigrés who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.
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Europe's Immigration Challenge: Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility
By Grete Brochmann and Elena Jurado
I.B. Tauris, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1780762259, $92.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780762259/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1780762267, $35.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780762267/centerforimmigra
Book Description: As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustainable burden on the European Social Model appears to be gathering support in some circles. But at the same time, the 'right' type of immigrant has often been perceived as a potential cure for Europe's sluggish labor markets and ailing welfare systems - especially immigrants who are young, easily employable and who arrive without family. So far, efforts to solve this conundrum - as in the UK's points-based system - have focused on increasing the selectivity of the admissions process. In this book, leading immigration experts question the effectiveness of this approach. Besides efforts to regulate the flow and rights of immigrants, they argue that governments across Europe need to devise labor market, welfare and immigration policies in a more integrated fashion.
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Immigration: Policies, Challenges and Impact
By Eugene Tartakovsky
Nova Science Pub Inc., 433 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1624170307, $332.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1624170307/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This collected volume presents immigration research from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes chapters written by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, educators, and lawyers. The books chapters focus on both immigrants and the host societies, reflecting different narratives of immigration. The studies presented in the book use a wide array of methodologies: quantitative and qualitative research, longitudinal studies, and analyses of macro-level data. They also provide a broad time perspective on immigration processes that span from the pre-migration period, and include second and third generation immigrants. Finally, the book includes studies conducted in different parts of the world: in Australasia, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and both Americas.
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Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
By Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Timothy J Steigenga, Philip J. Williams, and Manuel A. Vasquez
The New Press, 352 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1595588817, $15.24
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595588817/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 504 KB, ASIN: B00BVTS34Y, $9.99
Book Description: In June 2012, President Obama’s executive order enforcing parts of the Dream Act and the Supreme Court’s decision to block components of Arizona’s draconian immigration law propelled the immigration debate back into the headlines once again. Based on oral histories, individual testimonies, and years of research into the lives of ordinary migrants, Living “Illegal” offers richly textured “stories that often get lost in the rhetoric” (Gainesville Sun)—of real people working, building families, and enriching their communities even as the political climate has grown increasingly hostile.
Moving far beyond stock images and conventional explanations, Living “Illegal” challenges our assumptions about why immigrants come to the United States, where they settle, and how they have adapted to the often confusing patchwork of local immigration ordinances. This revealing narrative takes us into Southern churches, onto the streets of major American cities, into the fields of Florida, and back and forth across different national boundaries—from Brazil to Mexico and Guatemala.
A new preface by the authors frames these stories in light of recent policy developments, as well as the 2012 elections and possible shifts ahead. An unmistakably relevant, deeply humane book, Living “Illegal” will continue to stand as an authoritative guide as we address one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship
By Markus Pohlmann, Jonghoe Yang and Jong-Hee Lee
Springer, 237 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 3642197388, $122.55
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3642197388/centerforimmigra
Book Description: In an age of globalization there is frequent migration across national borders, resulting in a reconsideration of the notion, practice and social institution of national citizenship. Addressing this phenomenon, the book focuses on the exchange between, and responses, of Korea and Germany. In particular, the book deals extensively with citizenship in Korea where the concept of citizenship is young, and thus the study of citizenship is relatively scarce. This book may be the first of its kind, bringing together eminent Korean and German scholars to analyse various aspects of citizenship in Korea. It is hoped that it will contribute to scholarship in the fields of citizenship and migration and to an understanding of the flow of people and ideas between Asia and Europe.
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Race and Immigration in the New Ireland
By Julieann Veronica Ulin, Heather Edwards, and Sean O'Brien
University of Notre Dame Press, 248 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 0268027773, $35.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0268027773/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Although a number of books have addressed recent changes in Ireland that are related to immigration, both during and after the Celtic Tiger economic boom and bust, they are often limited by a focus on a single aspect of immigration or on either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Race and Immigration in the New Ireland, in contrast, offers a variety of expert perspectives and a comprehensive approach to the social, political, linguistic, cultural, religious, and economic transformations in Ireland that are related to immigration. It includes a wide range of critical voices and approaches to reflect the broad impact of immigration on multiple aspects of Irish society and culture. The contributors address immigration and Irish sports, education systems, language debates, migrant women’s issues, human rights policies, and culture both in the Republic and in the North of Ireland. Further, authors offer a framework for considering this new Ireland in relation to earlier colonial contexts, reading intersections between new racism and old sectarianism.
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Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies
By Michalis Lianos
Ashgate Pub Co, 161 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 140944399X, $99.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140944399X/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 5172 KB, ASIN: B00BXGPGTA, $79.96
Book Description: Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies examines the turn in post-industrial societies towards a fear of cultural, racial or religious externality, adopting a ground-breaking analysis which considers 'insecurity' a constituent part of 'otherness', rather than something separate or following from it. By addressing the link between insecurity and otherness, this book sheds light on the contemporary cultures of fear and risk that have made possible the aggressive measures that followed the 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and which continue to dominate contemporary geopolitics. The result of particular socio-economic and political circumstances, a sense of fear in relation to the Other has emerged as a replacement for the social bond, as otherness and danger are increasingly associated with one another - a development that appears paradoxical in the modern, globalized world.Bringing together the latest research from scholars in the UK, Europe and Australia, Dangerous Others,
Insecure Societies engages with diverse issues surrounding migration, authoritarianism and social exclusion to consider the implications of a culture of fear and exclusion for multicultural, globalized, networked societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, social anthropologists and political scientists concerned with questions of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging.
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The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East
By Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke
Leuven University Press, 200 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9058679063, $49.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9058679063/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, actual migration becomes increasingly restricted.
Based on detailed ethnographic accounts, the contributors to this volume focus on the imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration. Decentering the focus of much of migration studies on the receiving societies, the volume foregrounds the subjective aspect of migration and explores the impact which the imagination and practice of migration have on the sociocultural conditions of the various local settings concerned.
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Trafficking and Human Rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives
By Leslie Holmes
Edward Elgar Pub., 264 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1782545808, $28.80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1782545808/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its implications for security and human rights have become clearer.
This fascinating study by international experts provides original research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine trafficked victims' rights, as part of 'quadruple victimization'. It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches that most states and other formal organizations appear loath to introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book.
This must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science and international studies.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 36, No. 4, April 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/current
Selected articles:
Struggling over the mode of incorporation: backlash against multiculturalism in Europe
By Jeffrey C. Alexander
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.752515
Dreaming in Spain: parental determinants of immigrant children's ambition
By Alejandro Portes, Erik Vickstrom, William J. Haller & Rosa Aparicio
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.757339
Contested memories: the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space
By Claire Alexander
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.674542
Fragmenting citizenship: dynamics of cooperation and conflict in France's immigrant rights movement
By Walter J. Nicholls
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.626055
Nigerian London: re-mapping space and ethnicity in superdiverse cities
By Caroline Knowles
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.678874
Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’
By John Campbell
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.634506
Denmark between liberalism and nationalism
By Per Mouritsen and Tore Vincents Olsen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.598233
Contextual explanations of radical right-wing support in Sweden: socioeconomic marginalization, group threat, and the halo effect
By Jens Rydgren and Patrick Ruth
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.623786
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Global Networks
Vol. 13, Issue 2, April 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.2013.13.issue-2/issuetoc
Selected articles:
Media use and transnational political and civic participation: a case study of Mexicans in the USA
By Andrea A. Hickerson
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12003/abstract
Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
By Alison Blunt and Yayani Bonnerjee
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12006/abstract
A stranger at ‘home’: interactions between transnational return visits and integration for Afghan-American professionals
By Ceri Oeppen
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12008/abstract
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Human Mobility
CSEM Newsletter, April 2013
In bastion of tolerance Sweden, immigration is questioned
An influx of refugees from countries such as Syria is fuelling a backlash against immigration in Sweden, for years seen by victims of conflict as a bastion of tolerance.
By Alistair Scrutton and Johan Ahlander
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have risen in voter polls to vie for third place a year before a general election that could leave them holding the balance of power.
City councillor Adam Marttinen personifies the growing anti-immigration sentiment. Dressed in an immaculate suit, gone is the skinhead image that once pushed the party to the sidelines.
Sitting in a cafe in this industrial town west of Stockholm, where unemployment of 15 percent is almost double the national average, Marttinen said immigrants were a burden on the welfare budget. "The main thing is we have to stop immigration to this city," he said.
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http://www.csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1064-in-bastion-of-tolerance-sweden-immigration-is-questioned
Immigrant women face more abuse and family separation, study finds
By Aviva Shen
Tough border enforcement meant to discourage illegal crossing over the years has largely backfired, encouraging permanent migration particularly by women and families. According to a new report by the University of Arizona’s Latin American Studies, women endure especially grueling and dangerous crossings, rarely making it to their destinations compared to men.
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csem.org.br/csem/noticias/982-immigrant-women-face-more-abuse-and-family-separation-study-finds
Brazil reviewing immigration policy and is looking for “brains and human capital”
Brazil is after “brains and human capital” and a special Strategic Actions Secretariat (SAE) which depends directly from the Executive is working on a strategy to attract selective quality immigration according Ricardo Paes de Barros head of SAE interviewed by the Miami Herald.
Historically immigrants helped to build Brazil. The great inflow was in the second half of the XIX century (1888 to 1929), excluding World War One, when the country received on average 100.000 immigrants per annum, mainly Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Germans, Middle East, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians.
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csem.org.br/csem/noticias/986-brazil-reviewing-immigration-policy-and-is-looking-for-brains-and-human-capital
Germany tries warmer welcome for immigrants
Germany has a well-known skilled worker shortage and wants to boost immigration. But the country doesn't have the reputation for making it easy on newcomers. New initiatives seek to change that.
A welcome bag, a smartphone app and personal counseling prior to arrival in Germany are new measures intended to make moving to Germany from abroad easier. The bag contains informational material, important Internet addresses and telephone numbers. And the first stop in Germany may no longer be the immigration office, but rather a welcome center.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/990-germany-tries-warmer-welcome-for-immigrants
Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile, new immigration destinations for Cubans
Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile over the past 20 years have become new Latin American destinations for Cubans who decide to emigrate, the official weekly Trabajadores reported Monday.
The director of the Center for International Migration Studies in Cuba, Ileana Sorolla, said that currently Cuban migration in the region “is oriented toward those nations where the oldest historical settlements exist (Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Venezuela).”
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/993-bolivia-ecuador-and-chile-new-immigration-destinations-for-cubans
Religious, nonreligious organizations may have similar impact on immigrants
Religious and nonreligious organizations may have a similar impact on the ability of immigrants to acclimate to life in the U.S., despite the organizations' different motivations for providing charitable services, according to new research from Rice University.
"There's been a lot of discussion as to whether religious organizations offer some special or unique benefit to immigrant groups that will help them better adapt to American society," said the study's lead author, Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Sociology and director of Rice's Religion and PublicLife Program. "We wanted to see at the organizational level whether there was any practical difference between these two groups."
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1010-religious-nonreligious-organizations-may-have-similar-impact-on-immigrants
Turkey profits from German 'brain drain'
Turkey is trying to attract skilled workers from Germany. Many Germans of Turkish origin are choosing to make their future in Turkey, where they believe they have a bettter chance of setting up their own companies.
Eighteen months ago, Dilek Keser decided to leave Germany and make a new life for herself in Turkey.
"I don't regret it for a moment," she says now. Before she left, she was working as the general manager of a company, but she wasn't happy with her prospects in the job.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1017-turkey-profits-from-german-brain-drain
Forced employment in middle east: thousand 'tricked and trapped'
International Labour Organisation calls for overhaul of employment practices in Middle East, notably end to ‘kafala’ system of sponsorships.
By Ahmad Khatib
An estimated 600,000 people have been "tricked and trapped" into forced employment in the Middle East, many of them also sexually exploited, the UN's labour agency said on Tuesday.
The International Labour Organisation, issuing the findings of a two-year study based on 650 interviews, called for an overhaul of employment practices in the region, notably an end to the "kafala" system of sponsorships.
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csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1027-forced-employment-in-middle-east-thousand-tricked-and-trapped
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International Migration Review
Volume 47, Issue 4, Spring 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.2013.47.issue-1/issuetoc
Articles:
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
By Phillip Connor and Matthias Koenig
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12012/pdf
Looking Down or Looking Up: Status and Subjective Well-Being among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the United States
By Julia Gelatt
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12013/pdf
Immigrant Employment Success in Canada: Examining the Rate of Obtaining a Job Match
By Kristyn Frank
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12014/pdf
Group Conflict Theory in a Longitudinal Perspective: Analyzing the Dynamic Side of Ethnic Competition
By Bram Lancee and Sergi Pardos-Prado
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12015/pdf
Implicit Nativist Attitudes, Social Desirability, and Immigration Policy Preferences
By Benjamin R. Knoll
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12016/pdf
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Israelis with a European Passport – History, Property, Identity
By Yossi Harpaz
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12017/pdf
Smuggled Versus Not Smuggled Across the Czech Border
By Dusan Drbohlav, Premek Stych and Dagmar Dzurova
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12018/pdf
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Latino Studies
Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2013/00000011/00000001
Selected articles:
Special Section Introduction: Transnational engagement of Mexican migrant organizations in Chicago
By Judith A. Boruchoff
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2013/00000011/00000001/art00003
From national to topophilic attachments: Continuities and changes in Chicago's Mexican migrant organizations
By Xochitl Bada
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2013/00000011/00000001/art00004
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Resenha
Ano 24, No. 90, March 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/resenhas/Resenha_n__90_-_Mar%C3%A7o_2013.pdf
English language content:
Immigrants remaking Canada's religious face in surprising ways
By Douglas Todd
Canada is welcoming more than the global average of immigrants who are Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and non-religious. The country, however, is taking in less than the global aver-age of immigrants who are Muslim, Hindu and Jewish.
Those are some of the surprising findings of a sweeping global survey on immigration and religion conducted by the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The report, titled Faith on the Move, provides an enormous amount of data on the religious loyalties of the world's 214-million immigrants, a group larger than the population of Brazil. Canada, which has 7.2 million permanent residents who were not born in the country, is the fifth most popular destination for the world's immigrants. This country of 34 million accepts twice as manyimmigrants per capita as the U.S.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Immigrants+remaking+Canada+religious+face+surprising+ways/6434412/story.html
Muslims in Switzerland “lack legal protection”
Muslims in Switzerland face discrimination, while the country allows legislative gaps on racism to remain open, an Amnesty International report has claimed.
By Clare O'Dea
The report, entitled Choice and Prejudice, also looked at the problem of discrimination against Muslims in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
It concluded that visible symbols of this religious group, including headscarves, beards and minarets, were often viewed with hostility and that Muslims experienced discrimination in employment, education and other areas.
"Discrimination against Muslims in Europe is fuelled by stereotyped and negative views, which fail to take into account basic demographic and sociological factors such as the diversity of Muslim groups as well as their cultural and religious
practices across the region," it stated.
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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Muslims_in_Switzerland_lack_legal_protection.html?cid=32543058
Young Turks Increasingly Favor Integration and Religion
Hardly a year goes by in Germany without a shrill debate on immigration and Islam. Despite the public hand-wringing, however, those in the country with a Turkish background are increasingly eager to integrate, according to a new survey. But younger Turks are also becoming more religious.
When news hit the headlines this spring that Salafists in Germany were handing out free Korans in city centers across the countr y, the outcry was immediate. Politicians called for the campaign to be banned, journalists wrote extensively about Salafist radicalism and even the publishing house printing the free Korans distanced itself.
One group of people living in Germany, however, was not nearly as put off by the promotion. According to a new survey among those of Turkish descent living in the country, almost two-thirds of those aged between 15 and 29 consider the distribution of the Koran to be "good" or "very good," and one-third of them would donate money to the cause.
The result, says Holger Liljeberg, who heads Info GmbH, the company that conducted the survey, "could be the result of a resurgence among young people of religious values from their parents' homeland."
Liljeberg, however, warned against concluding that the survey results--based on interviews with 1,011 people of Turkish heritage in Germany over the age of 15--indicate a trend toward radicalization. Indeed, even as the number of those who identify themselves as strictly religious is rising (from 33 percent in 2009 to 37 percent this year), so too is the share of immigrants who wish to integrate completely into German society.
Islam Overtaking Catholicism as Dominant Religion in France
Meanwhile, the Socialist government in France recently inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a first step toward "progressively building a French Islam."
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The poll also reveals that 43% of French people consider the presence of Muslim immigrants to be a threat to French national identity, compared to just 17% who say it enriches society.
In addition, 68% of people in France blame the problems associated with Muslim integration on immigrants who refuse to integrate (up from 61% two years ago), and 52% blame it on cultural differences (up from 40% two year s ago).
The poll also shows a growing resistance to the symbols of Islam. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of French people say they are opposed to Muslim women wearing the veil or Islamic headscarves in public, compared to 59% two years ago.
Furthermore, the survey shows that only 18% of French people say they support the building of new mosques in France (compared to 33% in 1989, and 20% in 2010).
"Our poll shows a further hardening in French people's opinions," Jerome Fourquet, head of Ifop's opinion department, told Le Figaro. "In recent years, there has not been a week when Islam has not been in the heart of the news for social reasons: the veil, halal food, dramatic news like terrorist attacks or geopolitical reasons," he said.
France, which is home to an estim ated six million Muslims, has the largest Muslim population in the European Union. There are now, in fact, more practicing Muslims in France than there are practicing Roman Catholics.
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2013
SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/border-security-frontline-perspectives-on-progress-and-remaining-challenges
Border Security: Frontline Perspectives on Progress and Remaining Challenges
Member Statements:
Chairman Thomas R. Carper
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=ffafb96f-6ebd-413b-bf19-1530492409a1
Senator Tom Coburn
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=cedc1fac-aa1f-4fae-a8a2-594ba8d5cd1d
Witness Testimony:
Kevin K. McAleenan
Acting Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=5e929261-d746-458e-b1a7-951a2a7f74d2
Michael J. Fisher
Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=27e4ab2b-f5f9-4ec5-906a-6ec1945efc89
Randolph D. Alles
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Air and Marine, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S.Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=32712b53-b2e9-424d-a2f1-5e82d88fa656
James A. Dinkins
Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.hsgac.senate.gov/download?id=f39614fd-e99c-4a97-bb17-e4d7addfedd6
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency
Friday, April 12, 2013
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-impact-sequestration-homeland-security-scare-tactics-or-possible-threat
The Impact of Sequestration on Homeland Security: Scare Tactics or Possible Threat?
Opening Statements:
Chairman Jeff Duncan
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/04-12-13-Duncan-Open.pdf
Witness Testimony:
Rafael Borras
Undersecretary for Management
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-BorrasR-20130412.pdf
Thomas S. Winkowski
Deputy Commissioner Performing the Duties of Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-WinkowskiT-20130412.pdf
John Halinski
Deputy Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-HalinskiJ-20130412.pdf
Daniel H. Ragsdale
Deputy Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-RagsdaleD-20130412.pdf
Brandon Judd
President
National Border Patrol Council Testimony
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20130412/100609/HHRG-113-HM09-Wstate-JuddB-20130412.pdf
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Organized Atrocities: Asylum Claims Based Upon a “Pattern or Practice” of Persecution
By Adam L. Fleming
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 3, March 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no3final.pdf
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New report from the General Accountability Office
Partnership Agreements and Enhanced Oversight Could Strengthen Coordination of Efforts on Indian Reservations
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-352, April 5, 2013
Report - http://gao.gov/assets/660/653590.pdf
Highlights - http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-352
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Monthly asylum application tables - January 2013
U.K. Home Office, March 28, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175511/asylum-jan2013.xls
Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers - February 2013
Office for National Statistics, March 28, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175512/child-detention-feb2013.xls
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International Travel and Migration: February 2013
Statistics New Zealand, March 2013
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/Migration/IntTravelAndMigration_HOTPFeb13.aspx
Summary:
In February 2013 compared with February 2012:
Visitor arrivals (281,200) were up 22,200. The biggest changes were in arrivals from:
* China (up 16,300)
* Hong Kong (up 2,200)
* the United States (up 2,200)
Overseas trips by New Zealand residents (110,700) were down 5,700. The biggest change was in departures to Australia (down 3,600).
In February 2013, seasonally adjusted figures showed a net gain of 600 migrants.
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
New Filings Seeking Removal Orders in Immigration Courts through March 2013
April 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/apprep_newfilings.php
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Few in U.S. See Guns, Immigration as Nation's Top Problems
The economy and jobs continue to be named as most important U.S. problems
By Frank Newport
Gallup Politics, April 15, 2013
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161813/few-guns-immigration-nation-top-problems.aspx
Excerpt:
Immigration Not as High a Priority as It Has Been in Past
The 4% of Americans who name immigration as the top problem is about the same as the 5% who mentioned it last month. More generally, Americans have been significantly more likely to mention immigration issues than guns as the nation's top problem in recent years. In April 2006, for example, 19% of Americans said immigration was the nation's top problem, second only to the Iraq war at that point. At least 10% of Americans also mentioned immigration as the top problem at other points in 2007, 2008, and 2010.
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69% Favor Use of U.S. Military on Border to Keep Mexican Drug Violence Out
Rasmussen Reports, April 8, 2013
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2013/69_favor_use_of_u_s_military_on_border_to_keep_mexican_drug_violence_out
Excerpt: Voters remain more concerned about Mexican drug violence coming to this country than they are about illegal immigration, and most favor use of the U.S. military on the border to prevent it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% of Likely U.S. Voters are more concerned about illegal immigration. Fifty-seven percent (57%) worry more about drug violence.
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Just 26% Support Immigration Plan Without Tougher Border Control
Rasmussen Reports, April 5, 2013
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/april_2013/just_26_support_immigration_plan_without_tougher_border_control
Excerpt: Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Likely U.S. Voters favor an immigration plan that gives illegal immigrants legal status to stay in the United States provided the border is really secured to prevent future illegal immigration. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 25% are opposed to this plan.
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Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in Post-Recession America
By Jacob L. Vigdor
Manhattan Institute, March 2013
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_76.htm#.UVHe2DfAGSp
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Making it Work: The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand
By Trudie Cain and Paul Spoonley
Discussion Paper No. 7332, April 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7332
Migration, Trade and Income
By Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri
Discussion Paper No. 7325, April 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7325
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Side-by-Side Comparison of 2013 Senate Immigration Framework with 2006 and 2007 Senate Legislation
Issue Brief No. 3, April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-2013SenateFramework-Side-by-Side.pdf
2. Immigration Reform: A Long Road to Citizenship and Insurance Coverage
By Randy Capps and Michael Fix
April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/HealthAffairs.php
3. Legal Immigration Policies for Low-Skilled Foreign Workers
By Madeleine Sumption and Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Issue Brief No. 2, April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-LowSkilledVisas.pdf
4. Immigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform on the Horizon
By Faye Hipsman and Doris Meissner
Migration Information Source, April 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=946
5. Honduras: The Perils of Remittance Dependence and Clandestine Migration
By Daniel Reichman
Migration Information Source, April 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=945
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Citizenship, Authenticity, and Belonging in Europe and Ghana: The Case of the Ghanaian Migrant
By Maame Gyekye-Jandoh, University of Ghana
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253538
2. Political Competition and Attitudes Toward Immigration in Africa
By Beth Whitaker, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253564
3. Teaching the Arizona V. United States Immigration Case
By Corey Ciocchetti, University of Denver
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253052
4. Why Don't You Develop There Where You Come From?”: Migration, Fusion and Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By Bunto Siwiza, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253515
5. Enforcing Masculinities at the Borders
By Jamie R. Abrams, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2252886
6. Some Essentials of a Workable Guest-Worker Program
By Slobodan Djajic
Department of Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/iere.12013/abstract
7. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: One Step Closer
By Tina Genovese, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253056
8. Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data
By Thomas Bauer; Regina Flake, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics; and Mathias Sinning, Australian National University
Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 370-385, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251701
9. Population Aging and Individual Attitudes Toward Immigration: Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects
By Lena Calahorrano, RWTH Aachen
Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251699
10. Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University and Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University
Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251690
11. What Drives Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in South Africa?
By Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham; Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University; and Mariapia Mendola, University of Milan
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2251698
12. The Critique of Asylum Law: Gender-Based Persecution and the Problems of Defining Social Group Ground in US Asylum Law
By Dickson Ntwiga, Mahidol University
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2246398
13 Toward a Constitutionalized Theory of Immigration Detention
By Travis Silva, Yale University Law School
Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 31, 2012
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2250417
14. Citizenship Is Not the Only Goal: Immigration Reform Should Bring an End to Mass Deportations
By Sheldon Novick, Vermont Law School
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2248757
15. Mothering While Illegal: Undocumented Mothers from Senegal in the United States
By Ayo A. Coly, Dartmouth College
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2250139
16. Use of the Term 'Illegal Alien'
By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Penn State Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2245049
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New from Canada’s Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS)
Delineating Ethnoburbs in Metropolitan Toronto
By Shuguang Wang and Jason Zhong
CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 100, April 2013
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CWP_100_Wang_Zhong.pdf
Temporariness in Canada: Establishing a Research Agenda
By Amrita Hari, Susan McGrath, and Valerie Preston
CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 99, March 2013
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CWP_99_Hari_McGrath_Preston.pdf
An Overview of Discourses of Skilled Immigrants and “Canadian Experience”: An English-Language Print Media Analysis
By Izumi Sakamoto, Daphne Jeyapal, Rupaleem Bhuyan, Jane Ku, Lin Fang, Heidi Zhang, and Flavia Genovese
CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 98, March 2013
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CWP_98_Sakamoto_et_al.pdf
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New from International Organization for Migration
1. Nutrition Surveillance Report
Issue No. 3, January–December 2012, April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/NutritionSurveillanceReport_JANDEC2012_17Apr2013_FINAL.pdf
2. Summary of the Research Findings of the IOM Independent Network of Labour Migration and Integration Experts (LINET)
By A. Platonova, A. Schuster, M.V. Desiderio, and G. Urso, K. Bürkin
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/PolicyHighlights_WebFull.pdf
3. Migration, Employment and Labour Market Integration Policies in the European Union (2011)
Edited by Giuliana Urso and Anke Schuster
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/AMR2011_WebFull.pdf
4. Improving Access to Labour Market Information for Migrants and Employers
Edited by Maria Vincenza Desiderio and Anke Schuster
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Improving_Access_LMI_for_Migrants_Employers.pdf
5. Recognition of Qualifications and Competences of Migrants
Edited by Anke Schuster, Maria Vincenza Desiderio, and Giuliana Urso
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Recognition_Qualifications_CompetencesofMigrants.pdf
6. Extended Migration Profile of the Republic of Moldova
By Maria Vremi, Viorica Craievschi-Toarta, Eugeniu Burdelnii, Anne Herm, and Michel Poulain
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/110_emp_report.pdf
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State Estimates of the Low-income Uninsured Not Eligible for the ACA Medicaid Expansion
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2013
http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2013/rwjf404825
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LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States
By Gary J. Gates
The Williams Institute, March 2013
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/LGBTImmigrants-Gates-Mar-2013.pdf
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Potential impacts on the UK of future migration from Bulgaria and Romania
By Heather Rolfe, Tatiana Fic, Mumtaz Lalani, Monica Roman, Maria Prohaska, and Liliana Doudeva
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, March 2013
http://www.niesr.ac.uk/sites/cis.org/files/publications/NIESR%20EU2%20MIGRATION%20REPORT.pdf
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In liberty's shadow: the discourse of refugees and asylum seekers in critical race theory and immigration law/politics
By Pulitano Elvira
Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gide/2013/00000020/00000002/art00004
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Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging
By Jamie Winders
CUP Services, 340 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 0871549336, $39.80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871549336/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Beginning in the 1990s, the geography of Latino migration to and within the United States started to shift. Immigrants from Central and South America increasingly bypassed the traditional gateway cities to settle in small cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the nation, particularly in the South. One popular new destination Nashville, Tennessee saw its Hispanic population increase by over 400 percent between 1990 and 2000. Nashville, like many other such new immigrant destinations, had little to no history of incorporating immigrants into local life. How did Nashville, as a city and society, respond to immigrant settlement? How did Latino immigrants come to understand their place in Nashville in the midst of this remarkable demographic change? In Nashville in the New Millennium, geographer Jamie Winders offers one of the first extended studies of the cultural, racial, and institutional politics of immigrant incorporation in a new urban destination.
Moving from schools to neighborhoods to Nashville s wider civic institutions, Nashville in the New Millennium details how Nashville's long-term residents and its new immigrants experienced daily life as it transformed into a multicultural city with a new cosmopolitanism. Using an impressive array of methods, including archival work, interviews, and participant observation, Winders offers a fine-grained analysis of the importance of historical context, collective memories and shared social spaces in the process of immigrant incorporation. Lacking a shared memory of immigrant settlement, Nashville s long-term residents turned to local history to explain and interpret a new Latino presence. A site where Latino day laborers gathered, for example, became a flashpoint in Nashville s politics of immigration in part because the area had once been a popular gathering place for area teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s. Teachers also drew from local historical memories, particularly the busing era, to make sense of their
newly multicultural student body. They struggled, however, to help immigrant students relate to the region s complicated racial past, especially during history lessons on the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement. When Winders turns to life in Nashville s neighborhoods, she finds that many Latino immigrants opted to be quiet in public, partly in response to negative stereotypes of Hispanics across Nashville. Long-term residents, however, viewed this silence as evidence of a failure to adapt to local norms of being neighborly.
Filled with voices from both long-term residents and Latino immigrants, Nashville in the New Millennium offers an intimate portrait of the changing geography of immigrant settlement in America. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latino migration's impact on race relations in the country and is an especially valuable contribution to the study of race and ethnicity in the South.
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How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
By Susan Eckstein, Adil Najam, and Susan Eva Eckstein
Duke University Press Books, 280 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0822353814, $84.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822353814/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0822353954, $21.56
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822353954/centerforimmigra
Book Description: How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India's IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate émigrés who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.
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Europe's Immigration Challenge: Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility
By Grete Brochmann and Elena Jurado
I.B. Tauris, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1780762259, $92.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780762259/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 1780762267, $35.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780762267/centerforimmigra
Book Description: As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustainable burden on the European Social Model appears to be gathering support in some circles. But at the same time, the 'right' type of immigrant has often been perceived as a potential cure for Europe's sluggish labor markets and ailing welfare systems - especially immigrants who are young, easily employable and who arrive without family. So far, efforts to solve this conundrum - as in the UK's points-based system - have focused on increasing the selectivity of the admissions process. In this book, leading immigration experts question the effectiveness of this approach. Besides efforts to regulate the flow and rights of immigrants, they argue that governments across Europe need to devise labor market, welfare and immigration policies in a more integrated fashion.
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Immigration: Policies, Challenges and Impact
By Eugene Tartakovsky
Nova Science Pub Inc., 433 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1624170307, $332.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1624170307/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This collected volume presents immigration research from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes chapters written by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, educators, and lawyers. The books chapters focus on both immigrants and the host societies, reflecting different narratives of immigration. The studies presented in the book use a wide array of methodologies: quantitative and qualitative research, longitudinal studies, and analyses of macro-level data. They also provide a broad time perspective on immigration processes that span from the pre-migration period, and include second and third generation immigrants. Finally, the book includes studies conducted in different parts of the world: in Australasia, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and both Americas.
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Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
By Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Timothy J Steigenga, Philip J. Williams, and Manuel A. Vasquez
The New Press, 352 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1595588817, $15.24
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595588817/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 504 KB, ASIN: B00BVTS34Y, $9.99
Book Description: In June 2012, President Obama’s executive order enforcing parts of the Dream Act and the Supreme Court’s decision to block components of Arizona’s draconian immigration law propelled the immigration debate back into the headlines once again. Based on oral histories, individual testimonies, and years of research into the lives of ordinary migrants, Living “Illegal” offers richly textured “stories that often get lost in the rhetoric” (Gainesville Sun)—of real people working, building families, and enriching their communities even as the political climate has grown increasingly hostile.
Moving far beyond stock images and conventional explanations, Living “Illegal” challenges our assumptions about why immigrants come to the United States, where they settle, and how they have adapted to the often confusing patchwork of local immigration ordinances. This revealing narrative takes us into Southern churches, onto the streets of major American cities, into the fields of Florida, and back and forth across different national boundaries—from Brazil to Mexico and Guatemala.
A new preface by the authors frames these stories in light of recent policy developments, as well as the 2012 elections and possible shifts ahead. An unmistakably relevant, deeply humane book, Living “Illegal” will continue to stand as an authoritative guide as we address one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship
By Markus Pohlmann, Jonghoe Yang and Jong-Hee Lee
Springer, 237 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 3642197388, $122.55
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3642197388/centerforimmigra
Book Description: In an age of globalization there is frequent migration across national borders, resulting in a reconsideration of the notion, practice and social institution of national citizenship. Addressing this phenomenon, the book focuses on the exchange between, and responses, of Korea and Germany. In particular, the book deals extensively with citizenship in Korea where the concept of citizenship is young, and thus the study of citizenship is relatively scarce. This book may be the first of its kind, bringing together eminent Korean and German scholars to analyse various aspects of citizenship in Korea. It is hoped that it will contribute to scholarship in the fields of citizenship and migration and to an understanding of the flow of people and ideas between Asia and Europe.
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Race and Immigration in the New Ireland
By Julieann Veronica Ulin, Heather Edwards, and Sean O'Brien
University of Notre Dame Press, 248 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 0268027773, $35.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0268027773/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Although a number of books have addressed recent changes in Ireland that are related to immigration, both during and after the Celtic Tiger economic boom and bust, they are often limited by a focus on a single aspect of immigration or on either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Race and Immigration in the New Ireland, in contrast, offers a variety of expert perspectives and a comprehensive approach to the social, political, linguistic, cultural, religious, and economic transformations in Ireland that are related to immigration. It includes a wide range of critical voices and approaches to reflect the broad impact of immigration on multiple aspects of Irish society and culture. The contributors address immigration and Irish sports, education systems, language debates, migrant women’s issues, human rights policies, and culture both in the Republic and in the North of Ireland. Further, authors offer a framework for considering this new Ireland in relation to earlier colonial contexts, reading intersections between new racism and old sectarianism.
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Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies
By Michalis Lianos
Ashgate Pub Co, 161 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 140944399X, $99.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140944399X/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 5172 KB, ASIN: B00BXGPGTA, $79.96
Book Description: Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies examines the turn in post-industrial societies towards a fear of cultural, racial or religious externality, adopting a ground-breaking analysis which considers 'insecurity' a constituent part of 'otherness', rather than something separate or following from it. By addressing the link between insecurity and otherness, this book sheds light on the contemporary cultures of fear and risk that have made possible the aggressive measures that followed the 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and which continue to dominate contemporary geopolitics. The result of particular socio-economic and political circumstances, a sense of fear in relation to the Other has emerged as a replacement for the social bond, as otherness and danger are increasingly associated with one another - a development that appears paradoxical in the modern, globalized world.Bringing together the latest research from scholars in the UK, Europe and Australia, Dangerous Others,
Insecure Societies engages with diverse issues surrounding migration, authoritarianism and social exclusion to consider the implications of a culture of fear and exclusion for multicultural, globalized, networked societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, social anthropologists and political scientists concerned with questions of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging.
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The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East
By Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke
Leuven University Press, 200 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9058679063, $49.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9058679063/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, actual migration becomes increasingly restricted.
Based on detailed ethnographic accounts, the contributors to this volume focus on the imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration. Decentering the focus of much of migration studies on the receiving societies, the volume foregrounds the subjective aspect of migration and explores the impact which the imagination and practice of migration have on the sociocultural conditions of the various local settings concerned.
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Trafficking and Human Rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives
By Leslie Holmes
Edward Elgar Pub., 264 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1782545808, $28.80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1782545808/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its implications for security and human rights have become clearer.
This fascinating study by international experts provides original research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine trafficked victims' rights, as part of 'quadruple victimization'. It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches that most states and other formal organizations appear loath to introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book.
This must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science and international studies.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 36, No. 4, April 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/current
Selected articles:
Struggling over the mode of incorporation: backlash against multiculturalism in Europe
By Jeffrey C. Alexander
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.752515
Dreaming in Spain: parental determinants of immigrant children's ambition
By Alejandro Portes, Erik Vickstrom, William J. Haller & Rosa Aparicio
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2013.757339
Contested memories: the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space
By Claire Alexander
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.674542
Fragmenting citizenship: dynamics of cooperation and conflict in France's immigrant rights movement
By Walter J. Nicholls
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.626055
Nigerian London: re-mapping space and ethnicity in superdiverse cities
By Caroline Knowles
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.678874
Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’
By John Campbell
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.634506
Denmark between liberalism and nationalism
By Per Mouritsen and Tore Vincents Olsen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.598233
Contextual explanations of radical right-wing support in Sweden: socioeconomic marginalization, group threat, and the halo effect
By Jens Rydgren and Patrick Ruth
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.623786
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Global Networks
Vol. 13, Issue 2, April 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.2013.13.issue-2/issuetoc
Selected articles:
Media use and transnational political and civic participation: a case study of Mexicans in the USA
By Andrea A. Hickerson
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12003/abstract
Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
By Alison Blunt and Yayani Bonnerjee
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12006/abstract
A stranger at ‘home’: interactions between transnational return visits and integration for Afghan-American professionals
By Ceri Oeppen
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12008/abstract
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Human Mobility
CSEM Newsletter, April 2013
In bastion of tolerance Sweden, immigration is questioned
An influx of refugees from countries such as Syria is fuelling a backlash against immigration in Sweden, for years seen by victims of conflict as a bastion of tolerance.
By Alistair Scrutton and Johan Ahlander
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have risen in voter polls to vie for third place a year before a general election that could leave them holding the balance of power.
City councillor Adam Marttinen personifies the growing anti-immigration sentiment. Dressed in an immaculate suit, gone is the skinhead image that once pushed the party to the sidelines.
Sitting in a cafe in this industrial town west of Stockholm, where unemployment of 15 percent is almost double the national average, Marttinen said immigrants were a burden on the welfare budget. "The main thing is we have to stop immigration to this city," he said.
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http://www.csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1064-in-bastion-of-tolerance-sweden-immigration-is-questioned
Immigrant women face more abuse and family separation, study finds
By Aviva Shen
Tough border enforcement meant to discourage illegal crossing over the years has largely backfired, encouraging permanent migration particularly by women and families. According to a new report by the University of Arizona’s Latin American Studies, women endure especially grueling and dangerous crossings, rarely making it to their destinations compared to men.
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csem.org.br/csem/noticias/982-immigrant-women-face-more-abuse-and-family-separation-study-finds
Brazil reviewing immigration policy and is looking for “brains and human capital”
Brazil is after “brains and human capital” and a special Strategic Actions Secretariat (SAE) which depends directly from the Executive is working on a strategy to attract selective quality immigration according Ricardo Paes de Barros head of SAE interviewed by the Miami Herald.
Historically immigrants helped to build Brazil. The great inflow was in the second half of the XIX century (1888 to 1929), excluding World War One, when the country received on average 100.000 immigrants per annum, mainly Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Germans, Middle East, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians.
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csem.org.br/csem/noticias/986-brazil-reviewing-immigration-policy-and-is-looking-for-brains-and-human-capital
Germany tries warmer welcome for immigrants
Germany has a well-known skilled worker shortage and wants to boost immigration. But the country doesn't have the reputation for making it easy on newcomers. New initiatives seek to change that.
A welcome bag, a smartphone app and personal counseling prior to arrival in Germany are new measures intended to make moving to Germany from abroad easier. The bag contains informational material, important Internet addresses and telephone numbers. And the first stop in Germany may no longer be the immigration office, but rather a welcome center.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/990-germany-tries-warmer-welcome-for-immigrants
Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile, new immigration destinations for Cubans
Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile over the past 20 years have become new Latin American destinations for Cubans who decide to emigrate, the official weekly Trabajadores reported Monday.
The director of the Center for International Migration Studies in Cuba, Ileana Sorolla, said that currently Cuban migration in the region “is oriented toward those nations where the oldest historical settlements exist (Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Venezuela).”
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/993-bolivia-ecuador-and-chile-new-immigration-destinations-for-cubans
Religious, nonreligious organizations may have similar impact on immigrants
Religious and nonreligious organizations may have a similar impact on the ability of immigrants to acclimate to life in the U.S., despite the organizations' different motivations for providing charitable services, according to new research from Rice University.
"There's been a lot of discussion as to whether religious organizations offer some special or unique benefit to immigrant groups that will help them better adapt to American society," said the study's lead author, Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Sociology and director of Rice's Religion and PublicLife Program. "We wanted to see at the organizational level whether there was any practical difference between these two groups."
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1010-religious-nonreligious-organizations-may-have-similar-impact-on-immigrants
Turkey profits from German 'brain drain'
Turkey is trying to attract skilled workers from Germany. Many Germans of Turkish origin are choosing to make their future in Turkey, where they believe they have a bettter chance of setting up their own companies.
Eighteen months ago, Dilek Keser decided to leave Germany and make a new life for herself in Turkey.
"I don't regret it for a moment," she says now. Before she left, she was working as the general manager of a company, but she wasn't happy with her prospects in the job.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1017-turkey-profits-from-german-brain-drain
Forced employment in middle east: thousand 'tricked and trapped'
International Labour Organisation calls for overhaul of employment practices in Middle East, notably end to ‘kafala’ system of sponsorships.
By Ahmad Khatib
An estimated 600,000 people have been "tricked and trapped" into forced employment in the Middle East, many of them also sexually exploited, the UN's labour agency said on Tuesday.
The International Labour Organisation, issuing the findings of a two-year study based on 650 interviews, called for an overhaul of employment practices in the region, notably an end to the "kafala" system of sponsorships.
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csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1027-forced-employment-in-middle-east-thousand-tricked-and-trapped
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International Migration Review
Volume 47, Issue 4, Spring 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.2013.47.issue-1/issuetoc
Articles:
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
By Phillip Connor and Matthias Koenig
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12012/pdf
Looking Down or Looking Up: Status and Subjective Well-Being among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the United States
By Julia Gelatt
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12013/pdf
Immigrant Employment Success in Canada: Examining the Rate of Obtaining a Job Match
By Kristyn Frank
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12014/pdf
Group Conflict Theory in a Longitudinal Perspective: Analyzing the Dynamic Side of Ethnic Competition
By Bram Lancee and Sergi Pardos-Prado
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12015/pdf
Implicit Nativist Attitudes, Social Desirability, and Immigration Policy Preferences
By Benjamin R. Knoll
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12016/pdf
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Israelis with a European Passport – History, Property, Identity
By Yossi Harpaz
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12017/pdf
Smuggled Versus Not Smuggled Across the Czech Border
By Dusan Drbohlav, Premek Stych and Dagmar Dzurova
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12018/pdf
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Latino Studies
Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2013/00000011/00000001
Selected articles:
Special Section Introduction: Transnational engagement of Mexican migrant organizations in Chicago
By Judith A. Boruchoff
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2013/00000011/00000001/art00003
From national to topophilic attachments: Continuities and changes in Chicago's Mexican migrant organizations
By Xochitl Bada
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2013/00000011/00000001/art00004
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Resenha
Ano 24, No. 90, March 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/resenhas/Resenha_n__90_-_Mar%C3%A7o_2013.pdf
English language content:
Immigrants remaking Canada's religious face in surprising ways
By Douglas Todd
Canada is welcoming more than the global average of immigrants who are Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and non-religious. The country, however, is taking in less than the global aver-age of immigrants who are Muslim, Hindu and Jewish.
Those are some of the surprising findings of a sweeping global survey on immigration and religion conducted by the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The report, titled Faith on the Move, provides an enormous amount of data on the religious loyalties of the world's 214-million immigrants, a group larger than the population of Brazil. Canada, which has 7.2 million permanent residents who were not born in the country, is the fifth most popular destination for the world's immigrants. This country of 34 million accepts twice as manyimmigrants per capita as the U.S.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Immigrants+remaking+Canada+religious+face+surprising+ways/6434412/story.html
Muslims in Switzerland “lack legal protection”
Muslims in Switzerland face discrimination, while the country allows legislative gaps on racism to remain open, an Amnesty International report has claimed.
By Clare O'Dea
The report, entitled Choice and Prejudice, also looked at the problem of discrimination against Muslims in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
It concluded that visible symbols of this religious group, including headscarves, beards and minarets, were often viewed with hostility and that Muslims experienced discrimination in employment, education and other areas.
"Discrimination against Muslims in Europe is fuelled by stereotyped and negative views, which fail to take into account basic demographic and sociological factors such as the diversity of Muslim groups as well as their cultural and religious
practices across the region," it stated.
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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Muslims_in_Switzerland_lack_legal_protection.html?cid=32543058
Young Turks Increasingly Favor Integration and Religion
Hardly a year goes by in Germany without a shrill debate on immigration and Islam. Despite the public hand-wringing, however, those in the country with a Turkish background are increasingly eager to integrate, according to a new survey. But younger Turks are also becoming more religious.
When news hit the headlines this spring that Salafists in Germany were handing out free Korans in city centers across the countr y, the outcry was immediate. Politicians called for the campaign to be banned, journalists wrote extensively about Salafist radicalism and even the publishing house printing the free Korans distanced itself.
One group of people living in Germany, however, was not nearly as put off by the promotion. According to a new survey among those of Turkish descent living in the country, almost two-thirds of those aged between 15 and 29 consider the distribution of the Koran to be "good" or "very good," and one-third of them would donate money to the cause.
The result, says Holger Liljeberg, who heads Info GmbH, the company that conducted the survey, "could be the result of a resurgence among young people of religious values from their parents' homeland."
Liljeberg, however, warned against concluding that the survey results--based on interviews with 1,011 people of Turkish heritage in Germany over the age of 15--indicate a trend toward radicalization. Indeed, even as the number of those who identify themselves as strictly religious is rising (from 33 percent in 2009 to 37 percent this year), so too is the share of immigrants who wish to integrate completely into German society.
Islam Overtaking Catholicism as Dominant Religion in France
Meanwhile, the Socialist government in France recently inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a first step toward "progressively building a French Islam."
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The poll also reveals that 43% of French people consider the presence of Muslim immigrants to be a threat to French national identity, compared to just 17% who say it enriches society.
In addition, 68% of people in France blame the problems associated with Muslim integration on immigrants who refuse to integrate (up from 61% two years ago), and 52% blame it on cultural differences (up from 40% two year s ago).
The poll also shows a growing resistance to the symbols of Islam. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of French people say they are opposed to Muslim women wearing the veil or Islamic headscarves in public, compared to 59% two years ago.
Furthermore, the survey shows that only 18% of French people say they support the building of new mosques in France (compared to 33% in 1989, and 20% in 2010).
"Our poll shows a further hardening in French people's opinions," Jerome Fourquet, head of Ifop's opinion department, told Le Figaro. "In recent years, there has not been a week when Islam has not been in the heart of the news for social reasons: the veil, halal food, dramatic news like terrorist attacks or geopolitical reasons," he said.
France, which is home to an estim ated six million Muslims, has the largest Muslim population in the European Union. There are now, in fact, more practicing Muslims in France than there are practicing Roman Catholics.
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