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This book proposes a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government initiatives and church-state relations, across equalities agendas and the education system, the courts and the media.
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Immigrants, Literature and National Integration
By Chantal Lacroix
Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0230230458, $85.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230230458/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences.
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Citizenship Policies in the New Europe: Expanded and Updated Edition
Edited by Rainer Baubock, Bernhard Perchinig, and Wiebke Sievers
Amsterdam University Press, 464 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9089641084, $74.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9089641084/centerforimmigra
Book Description: The two most recent expansions to the EU, in May 2004 and January 2007, have had a significant impact on contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building, and citizenship within the Union. This volume outlines the citizenship laws in each of the twelve new countries as well as in the accession states of Croatia and Turkey.
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Second Promised Land: Migration to Alberta and the Transformation of Canadian Society
By Harry H. Hiller
McGill-Queen's University Press, 512 pp. (hardcover),
Hardcover, ISBN: 0773535179, $100.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773535179/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0773535268, $29.95, 568 pp.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773535268/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Explosive economic growth in resource-rich Alberta has led to a stunning increase in its population. In contrast to Ontario and British Columbia, which have grown primarily through international migration, Alberta has become a magnet for internal migrants, contributing to population redistribution within Canada, with significant national social and economic consequences. Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study, Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration to Alberta. His innovative approach begins with the individual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience from origin to destination. Through interviews with hundreds of migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex and dynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but also prompted by a process that begins in the region of origin that makes migration possible and helps determine whether migrants stay or return home. By combining a social psychological approach with structural factors such as Alberta's transition from a regional hinterland province to its emerging role the global system, discussions of gender, the internet, and folk culture, "Second Promised Land" provides a multi-dimensional and deeply human account of a contemporary Canadian phenomenon.
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Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
By Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath
Amsterdam University Press, 640 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9089641602, $59.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9089641602/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Over the past decade there have been significant advances in the field of migration and ethnic studies, ranging in topic from ethnic conflict and discrimination to nationalism, citizenship, and integration policy. But many of these studies are oriented towards the United States, slighting, when not outright ignoring, the European perspective. This volume—the first in a set of four—will fill this research gap, gathering essays that have set a benchmark for research on and in Europe.
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Immigration and Citizenship in Japan
By Erin Aeran Chung
Cambridge University Press, 224 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0521514045, $75.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521514045/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of prewar immigrants and their descendants. Whereas others have focused on international norms, domestic institutions, and recent immigration, this book argues that contemporary immigration and citizenship politics in Japan reflect the strategic interaction between state efforts to control immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident activists to gain rights and recognition specifically as permanently settled foreign residents of Japan. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka, this book aims to further our understanding of democratic inclusion in Japan by analyzing how those who are formally excluded from the political process voice their interests and what factors contribute to the effective representation of those interests in public debate and policy.
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Immigration and Self-Government of Minority Nations
Edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero
Peter Lang Publishing, 177 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9052015473, $43.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9052015473/centerforimmigra
Book Description: During the last two decades, the debate on multiculturalism has been one-dimensional. It has deployed arguments related to cultural demands linked either to feminism, immigration, or national minorities. Little attention has been given to the relations between these dimensions, and how they affect each other. The purpose of this book is to set a research agenda around the interaction between cultural demands of immigrants and minority nations.
The primary aim is to establish basic normative arguments while advancing an institutional analysis in three contexts: Quebec, Flanders and Catalonia. Each part contains two chapters that address the topic in terms of how immigration is seen from a self-government perspective, or how self-government is interpreted from an immigration perspective. The different chapters raise questions related to how this interaction challenges the idea of a culturally homogeneous nation-state, and also pushes us to other conceptualisations of *political community* and de-nationalised forms of citizenship. Current debates on diversity have failed to address these issues in societies where a dual belonging exists.
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Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
By Kelly M. Greenhill
Cornell Univ Press, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0801448719, $25.20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801448719/centerforimmigra
Book Description: At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and far-reaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least in part from the exercise of a unique kind of coercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, manipulation, and exploitation of real or threatened mass population movements. In Weapons of Mass Migration, Kelly M. Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of this widely deployed but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. She shows both how often this unorthodox brand of coercion has been attempted (more than fifty times in the last half century) and how successful it has been (well over half the time). She also tackles the questions of who employs this policy tool, to what ends, and how and why it ever works.
Coercers aim to affect target states' behavior by exploiting the existence of competing political interests and groups, Greenhill argues, and by manipulating the costs or risks imposed on target state populations. This 'coercion by punishment' strategy can be effected in two ways: the first relies on straightforward threats to overwhelm a target's capacity to accommodate a refugee or migrant influx; the second, on a kind of norms-enhanced political blackmail that exploits the existence of legal and normative commitments to those fleeing violence, persecution, or privation. The theory is further illustrated and tested in a variety of case studies from Europe, East Asia, and North America. To help potential targets better respond to--and protect themselves against--this kind of unconventional predation, Weapons of Mass Migration also offers practicable policy recommendations for scholars, government officials, and anyone concerned about the true victims of this kind of coercion--the displaced themselves.
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Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11: Integration, Security, and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective
Edited by Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia and Simon Reich
Rutgers University Press, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0813547164, $45.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813547164/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0813547172, $33.77
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813547172/centerforimmigra
Book Description: America's approach to terrorism has focused on traditional national security methods, under the assumption that terrorism's roots are foreign and the solution to greater security lies in conventional practices. Europe offers a different model, with its response to internal terrorism relying on police procedures.
Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11 compares these two strategies and considers that both may have engendered greater radicalization--and a greater chance of home-grown terrorism. Essays address how transatlantic countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands have integrated ethnic minorities, especially Arabs and Muslims, since 9/11. Discussing the "securitization of integration," contributors argue that the neglect of civil integration has challenged the rights of these minorities and has made greater security more remote.
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Asian Migration News
Edited by Fabio Baggio and Maruja M.B. Asis
Scalabrini Migration Center, Manila, January 2010
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amnissue.php
Highlights:
WORLD
Immigrants found in fridge
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#world1
Skilled workers still in demand – survey
EAST ASIA
CHINA
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#China
Debate over new residence permit rages
Barrier against medical insurance of migrants
State Council wants better labor protection
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BANGLADESH
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Bangladesh
Bangladeshis repatriated due to global recession
Gov’t to give female workers mobile phones
Burmese nationals nabbed
SOUTHEAST ASIA
INDONESIA
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Indonesia
Jakarta pushes Malaysia and Kuwait for better labor rights
Jakarta repatriates workers from the Middle East
Australia-bound asylum-seekers arrested in Indonesia
Egyptian arrested for trafficking
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AFGHANISTAN
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Afghanistan
Migrants trapped in Afghanistan
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AUSTRALIA
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Australia
Asylum-seekers intercepted near Christmas Island
Tougher laws result in drop in newly-hired skilled workers
Rejection rates for Indian, Nepali students on the rise
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http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#New_Zealand
New Zealand sees bigger surge in Chinese immigration
Gov’t agrees to take in 13 Tamil refugees
ID cards to become a must for Kiwis working in UK
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 33, No. 5, 2010
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g920956488~tab=toc
Selected articles:
Social networks and identity negotiations of religious minority youth in diverse social contexts
By Arniika Kuusisto
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a915615329
Transnational family relationships, social networks and return migration among British-Caribbean young people
By Tracey Reynolds
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a916373845
Enabling and constraining aspects of social capital in migrant families: ethnicity, gender and generation
By Elisabetta Zontini
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a915661363
Care leavers and social capital: understanding and negotiating racial and ethnic identity
By Ravinder Barn
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a916563175
‘True stories from bare times on road’: Developing empowerment, identity and social capital among urban minority ethnic young people in London, UK
By Daniel Briggs
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a915660633
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International Migration Review
Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2010
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001
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Crime Victimization in Latin America and Intentions to Migrate to the United States
By Charles H. Wood, Chris L. Gibson, Ludmila Ribeiro, and Paula Hamsho-Diaz
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Evaluating Migrant Integration: Political Attitudes Across Generations in Europe
By Maxwell, Rahsaan
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Sources of Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: A Multi-Level Analysis
By Elisa Rustenbach
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
National Narratives and Migration: Discursive Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in Jordan and Lebanon
By Laurie A. Brand
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
The Effect of Economic Standing, Individual Preferences, and Co-ethnic Resources on Immigrant Residential Clustering
By Eric Fong and Elic Chan
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Household Context, Generational Status, and English Proficiency Among the Children of African Immigrants in the United States
By Kevin J.A. Thomas
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Is it Race, Immigrant Status, or Both? An Analysis of Wage Disparities among Men in the United States
By Quincy Thomas Stewart and Jeffrey C. Dixon
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands
By Bram Lancee
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective
By Hein de Haas
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Latino Immigrants and The Transformation of the US South
By Renée Daamen
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
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Journal of Refugee Studies
Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2010;
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol23/issue1/index.dtl?etoc
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Leaving Mogadishu: Towards a Sociology of Conflict-Related Mobility
By Anna Lindley
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/2?etoc
Predicting Stress Related to Basic Needs and Safety in Darfur Refugee Camps: A Structural and Social Ecological Analysis
By Andrew Rasmussen and Jeannie Annan
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/23?etoc
Sedentary Policies and Transnational Relations: A 'Non-sustainable' Case of Return to Bosnia
By Laura Huttunen
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/41?etoc
The Status of the Asylum-seeking Child in Norway and Denmark: Comparing Discourses, Politics and Practices
By Kathrine Vitus and Hilde Liden
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/62?etoc
Field Report
The Experiences of Students from Refugee Backgrounds at Universities in Australia: Reflections on the Social, Emotional and Practical Challenges
By Andrew Joyce, Jaya Earnest, Gabriella de Mori, and Genevieve Silvagni
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/82?etoc
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Latino Studies
Vol. 8, No. 1, 2010
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001
Articles:
In its darkest times, Haiti is still the world's hope, and a mirror of the Latino/a experience
By Suzanne Obole
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
The declining symbolic significance of the embargo for South Florida's Cuban Americans
By Chris Girard, Guillermo J. Grenier, and Hugh Gladwin
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas
By Stuesse, Angela C
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Violence across borders: Familism, hegemonic masculinity, and self-sacrificing femininity in the lives of Mexican and Peruvian migrants
By M Cristina Alcalde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Re-conceptualizing the economic incorporation of immigrants: A comparison of the Mexican and Vietnamese
By Shannon Gleeson
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Latin American immigrants in Indianapolis: Perceptions of prejudice and discrimination
By Antonio V Menéndez Alarcón and Katherine B. Novak
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
New allies for immigration reform: A Cincinnati story
By Erynn Masi de Casanova
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
The farmworkers' journey
By Elaine Levine
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Four generations of Norteños. New research from the cradle of Mexican migration
By Ana María Aragonés
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights
By Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America
By Louis Mendoza
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Contemporary US Latino/a Literary Criticism
By Juanita Heredia
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced
By Marta Caminero-Santangelo
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
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Migration News
Volume 17 No. 2, April 2010
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/
THE AMERICAS
Congress: Immigration Reform?
President Obama mentioned immigration reform in his January 27, 2010 State of the Union speech, saying: "we should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system - to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation."
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3587_0_2_0
DHS: Border, Interior, Services
Mexico-US Border. The US is continuing to build fences to deter migrants and vehicles on the Mexico-US border; about 650 miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile border are completed. The fence has cost an average of $4 million a mile.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3588_0_2_0
Unemployment, Projections, H-1B
The unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January 2010, and remained at 9.7 percent in February and March 2010; the rate was 10 percent in in December 2009. The number of unemployed, 15 million in March 2010, included 6.5 million workers without work six months or more, 44 percent of all the jobless. The unemployment rate was higher in 1981-82, but only a quarter of the unemployed then were without a job for six months or more.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3589_0_2_0
Foreign-Born: Numbers and Effects, Health
Foreign-born. The Pew Hispanic Center in January 2010 reported that the US had 38 million foreign-born residents in 2008; they were 12.5 percent of the 304 million US residents. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of foreign-born residents rose by seven million and the number of US-born residents by 16 million.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3590_0_2_0
Canada, Mexico
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney proposed changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in October 2009. The changes include more more careful checks to ensure that employer job offers are genuine, require foreign workers employed in Canada four years to leave Canada for at least six years before returning, and bar employers who violate TFWP rules from hiring guest workers for two years. Some 70,000 foreign workers were admitted in 2008; an estimated 300,000 foreign workers were employed in Canada sometime in 2009.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3591_0_2_0
Haiti, Ecuador, Jamaica
Haiti. A 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010 killed an estimated 230,000 people, left a million people homeless, and destroyed about 20 percent of the buildings in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The US government halted the deportation of 30,000 Haitians and offered Haitians in the US when the quake struck temporary protected status for 18 months; the TPS application fee is $470. By April 2010, about 43,000 Haitians had applied for TPS; the total was expected to be 75,000 to 100,000.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3592_0_2_0
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People and Place
Vol. 17, No. 4, 2009
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/issue/?volume=17&issue=4
Selected articles:
Kind or cruel? Labor's asylum and boat people policies
By Adrienne Millbank
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/abstract/?article=0000011039
Population growth and Australia’s 2020 greenhouse gas emission commitments
By Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/abstract/?article=0000011060
The new intergenerational report’s population projection and the uncertainty of Australia’s demographic future
By Tom Wilson
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/abstract/?article=0000011081
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Rural Migration News
Volume 16 No. 2, April 2010
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/
IMMIGRATION
Immigration Reform: AgJOBS
AgJOBS. Most farm employers and worker advocates support enactment of the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act or AgJOBS, which would legalize unauthorized farm workers and further streamline the H-2A program. Farm employers organized into the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform (ACIR) and the United Farm Workers (UFW) met with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to push AgJOBS. They argued that, without a reliable supply of foreign workers, the share of labor-intensive commodities that are imported would rise.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1530_0_4_0
H-2A: Old Rules, Reactions, Cases
DOL on February 12, 2010 issued a final H-2A rule effective March 15, 2010 that reinstates the 1987-2009 rules, with a few twists. The H-2 program was created in 1952 and modified by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986; it became the H-2A program in 1987. In FY09, employers filed 8,150 labor certification applications requesting 103,955 H-2A workers, and DOL certified 94 percent, approving requests for 86,014 H-2A workers.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1531_0_4_0
H-2B: Program, Cases
The Center for Immigration Studies issued a report on the H-2B program in February 2010 that emphasized rapid growth in the number of visas issued, the dominance of large employers and intermediaries in hiring H-2B workers for the maximum 10 months a year, and going-through-the-motions recruitment for US workers. The H-2B program was created by IRCA in 1986, when the previous H-2 program was divided into H-2A for seasonal farm workers and H-2B for seasonal nonfarm workers.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1532_0_4_0
DHS: Border, Interior, Services
Mexico-US Border. The US is continuing to build fences to deter migrants and vehicles on the Mexico-US border; about 650 miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile border are completed. The fence has cost an average of $4 million a mile.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1533_0_4_0
Canada, UK, Australia
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canada's largest private sector union with 250,000 members, was certified to represent 70 Mexican workers admitted under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) at Sidhu & Sons Nursery in March 2010. Sidhu argued that, because the nursery employed both SAWP and Canadian workers, a SAWP-only unit was not appropriate.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1534_0_4_0
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The Social Contract
Volume 20, No. 2, Winter 2009-2010
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/index.shtml
Selected articles:
A Note from the Editor: If Jobs are Number One, End Mass Immigration
By Wayne Lutton
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_edit…
The Economic Case for a Moratorium
By Edwin S. Rubenstein
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_rube…
Why Import Workers Now?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_p_bu…
Time for an Immigration Moratorium
By Virgil Goode
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/Time_for_an_I…
A Timeout on Immigration - A Cost-Effective Jobs Program Obama Overlooked
By Tom Tancredo
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_tanc…
Put Terrorism in Perspective - Fix Immigration with a Moratorium
By Donald A. Collins
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_coll…
Immigration Enforcement - A Populist Program to Create Jobs
By Bay Buchanan
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_b_bu…
The Most Generous Nation in the World... at Giving Jobs Away
By Rob Sanchez
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_sanc…
We Shall Overwhelm - Deciphering Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on Hispanic Workers
By William Buchanan
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_w_bu…
Immigration and the Christmas Day Attack - Officials Create Illusions of Safety and Security Leaving Borders Unsecured
By Michael W. Cutler
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_cutl…
The Relationship of Legal to Illegal Immigration
By John Tanton
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_tant…
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This book proposes a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government initiatives and church-state relations, across equalities agendas and the education system, the courts and the media.
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Immigrants, Literature and National Integration
By Chantal Lacroix
Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0230230458, $85.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230230458/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences.
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Citizenship Policies in the New Europe: Expanded and Updated Edition
Edited by Rainer Baubock, Bernhard Perchinig, and Wiebke Sievers
Amsterdam University Press, 464 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9089641084, $74.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9089641084/centerforimmigra
Book Description: The two most recent expansions to the EU, in May 2004 and January 2007, have had a significant impact on contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building, and citizenship within the Union. This volume outlines the citizenship laws in each of the twelve new countries as well as in the accession states of Croatia and Turkey.
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Second Promised Land: Migration to Alberta and the Transformation of Canadian Society
By Harry H. Hiller
McGill-Queen's University Press, 512 pp. (hardcover),
Hardcover, ISBN: 0773535179, $100.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773535179/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0773535268, $29.95, 568 pp.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773535268/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Explosive economic growth in resource-rich Alberta has led to a stunning increase in its population. In contrast to Ontario and British Columbia, which have grown primarily through international migration, Alberta has become a magnet for internal migrants, contributing to population redistribution within Canada, with significant national social and economic consequences. Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study, Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration to Alberta. His innovative approach begins with the individual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience from origin to destination. Through interviews with hundreds of migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex and dynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but also prompted by a process that begins in the region of origin that makes migration possible and helps determine whether migrants stay or return home. By combining a social psychological approach with structural factors such as Alberta's transition from a regional hinterland province to its emerging role the global system, discussions of gender, the internet, and folk culture, "Second Promised Land" provides a multi-dimensional and deeply human account of a contemporary Canadian phenomenon.
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Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
By Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath
Amsterdam University Press, 640 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9089641602, $59.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9089641602/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Over the past decade there have been significant advances in the field of migration and ethnic studies, ranging in topic from ethnic conflict and discrimination to nationalism, citizenship, and integration policy. But many of these studies are oriented towards the United States, slighting, when not outright ignoring, the European perspective. This volume—the first in a set of four—will fill this research gap, gathering essays that have set a benchmark for research on and in Europe.
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Immigration and Citizenship in Japan
By Erin Aeran Chung
Cambridge University Press, 224 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0521514045, $75.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521514045/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of prewar immigrants and their descendants. Whereas others have focused on international norms, domestic institutions, and recent immigration, this book argues that contemporary immigration and citizenship politics in Japan reflect the strategic interaction between state efforts to control immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident activists to gain rights and recognition specifically as permanently settled foreign residents of Japan. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka, this book aims to further our understanding of democratic inclusion in Japan by analyzing how those who are formally excluded from the political process voice their interests and what factors contribute to the effective representation of those interests in public debate and policy.
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Immigration and Self-Government of Minority Nations
Edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero
Peter Lang Publishing, 177 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 9052015473, $43.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9052015473/centerforimmigra
Book Description: During the last two decades, the debate on multiculturalism has been one-dimensional. It has deployed arguments related to cultural demands linked either to feminism, immigration, or national minorities. Little attention has been given to the relations between these dimensions, and how they affect each other. The purpose of this book is to set a research agenda around the interaction between cultural demands of immigrants and minority nations.
The primary aim is to establish basic normative arguments while advancing an institutional analysis in three contexts: Quebec, Flanders and Catalonia. Each part contains two chapters that address the topic in terms of how immigration is seen from a self-government perspective, or how self-government is interpreted from an immigration perspective. The different chapters raise questions related to how this interaction challenges the idea of a culturally homogeneous nation-state, and also pushes us to other conceptualisations of *political community* and de-nationalised forms of citizenship. Current debates on diversity have failed to address these issues in societies where a dual belonging exists.
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Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
By Kelly M. Greenhill
Cornell Univ Press, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0801448719, $25.20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801448719/centerforimmigra
Book Description: At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and far-reaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least in part from the exercise of a unique kind of coercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, manipulation, and exploitation of real or threatened mass population movements. In Weapons of Mass Migration, Kelly M. Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of this widely deployed but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. She shows both how often this unorthodox brand of coercion has been attempted (more than fifty times in the last half century) and how successful it has been (well over half the time). She also tackles the questions of who employs this policy tool, to what ends, and how and why it ever works.
Coercers aim to affect target states' behavior by exploiting the existence of competing political interests and groups, Greenhill argues, and by manipulating the costs or risks imposed on target state populations. This 'coercion by punishment' strategy can be effected in two ways: the first relies on straightforward threats to overwhelm a target's capacity to accommodate a refugee or migrant influx; the second, on a kind of norms-enhanced political blackmail that exploits the existence of legal and normative commitments to those fleeing violence, persecution, or privation. The theory is further illustrated and tested in a variety of case studies from Europe, East Asia, and North America. To help potential targets better respond to--and protect themselves against--this kind of unconventional predation, Weapons of Mass Migration also offers practicable policy recommendations for scholars, government officials, and anyone concerned about the true victims of this kind of coercion--the displaced themselves.
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Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11: Integration, Security, and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective
Edited by Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia and Simon Reich
Rutgers University Press, 320 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0813547164, $45.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813547164/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0813547172, $33.77
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813547172/centerforimmigra
Book Description: America's approach to terrorism has focused on traditional national security methods, under the assumption that terrorism's roots are foreign and the solution to greater security lies in conventional practices. Europe offers a different model, with its response to internal terrorism relying on police procedures.
Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11 compares these two strategies and considers that both may have engendered greater radicalization--and a greater chance of home-grown terrorism. Essays address how transatlantic countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands have integrated ethnic minorities, especially Arabs and Muslims, since 9/11. Discussing the "securitization of integration," contributors argue that the neglect of civil integration has challenged the rights of these minorities and has made greater security more remote.
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Asian Migration News
Edited by Fabio Baggio and Maruja M.B. Asis
Scalabrini Migration Center, Manila, January 2010
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amnissue.php
Highlights:
WORLD
Immigrants found in fridge
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#world1
Skilled workers still in demand – survey
EAST ASIA
CHINA
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#China
Debate over new residence permit rages
Barrier against medical insurance of migrants
State Council wants better labor protection
SOUTH ASIA
BANGLADESH
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Bangladesh
Bangladeshis repatriated due to global recession
Gov’t to give female workers mobile phones
Burmese nationals nabbed
SOUTHEAST ASIA
INDONESIA
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Indonesia
Jakarta pushes Malaysia and Kuwait for better labor rights
Jakarta repatriates workers from the Middle East
Australia-bound asylum-seekers arrested in Indonesia
Egyptian arrested for trafficking
MIDDLE EAST
AFGHANISTAN
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Afghanistan
Migrants trapped in Afghanistan
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AUSTRALIA
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#Australia
Asylum-seekers intercepted near Christmas Island
Tougher laws result in drop in newly-hired skilled workers
Rejection rates for Indian, Nepali students on the rise
NEW ZEALAND
http://www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn1001/amn1001.htm#New_Zealand
New Zealand sees bigger surge in Chinese immigration
Gov’t agrees to take in 13 Tamil refugees
ID cards to become a must for Kiwis working in UK
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 33, No. 5, 2010
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g920956488~tab=toc
Selected articles:
Social networks and identity negotiations of religious minority youth in diverse social contexts
By Arniika Kuusisto
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a915615329
Transnational family relationships, social networks and return migration among British-Caribbean young people
By Tracey Reynolds
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a916373845
Enabling and constraining aspects of social capital in migrant families: ethnicity, gender and generation
By Elisabetta Zontini
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a915661363
Care leavers and social capital: understanding and negotiating racial and ethnic identity
By Ravinder Barn
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a916563175
‘True stories from bare times on road’: Developing empowerment, identity and social capital among urban minority ethnic young people in London, UK
By Daniel Briggs
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a915660633
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International Migration Review
Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2010
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001
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Crime Victimization in Latin America and Intentions to Migrate to the United States
By Charles H. Wood, Chris L. Gibson, Ludmila Ribeiro, and Paula Hamsho-Diaz
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Evaluating Migrant Integration: Political Attitudes Across Generations in Europe
By Maxwell, Rahsaan
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Sources of Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: A Multi-Level Analysis
By Elisa Rustenbach
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
National Narratives and Migration: Discursive Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in Jordan and Lebanon
By Laurie A. Brand
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
The Effect of Economic Standing, Individual Preferences, and Co-ethnic Resources on Immigrant Residential Clustering
By Eric Fong and Elic Chan
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Household Context, Generational Status, and English Proficiency Among the Children of African Immigrants in the United States
By Kevin J.A. Thomas
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Is it Race, Immigrant Status, or Both? An Analysis of Wage Disparities among Men in the United States
By Quincy Thomas Stewart and Jeffrey C. Dixon
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands
By Bram Lancee
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective
By Hein de Haas
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
Latino Immigrants and The Transformation of the US South
By Renée Daamen
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imre/2010/00000044/00000001/a…
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Journal of Refugee Studies
Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2010;
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol23/issue1/index.dtl?etoc
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Leaving Mogadishu: Towards a Sociology of Conflict-Related Mobility
By Anna Lindley
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/2?etoc
Predicting Stress Related to Basic Needs and Safety in Darfur Refugee Camps: A Structural and Social Ecological Analysis
By Andrew Rasmussen and Jeannie Annan
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/23?etoc
Sedentary Policies and Transnational Relations: A 'Non-sustainable' Case of Return to Bosnia
By Laura Huttunen
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/41?etoc
The Status of the Asylum-seeking Child in Norway and Denmark: Comparing Discourses, Politics and Practices
By Kathrine Vitus and Hilde Liden
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/62?etoc
Field Report
The Experiences of Students from Refugee Backgrounds at Universities in Australia: Reflections on the Social, Emotional and Practical Challenges
By Andrew Joyce, Jaya Earnest, Gabriella de Mori, and Genevieve Silvagni
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/82?etoc
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Latino Studies
Vol. 8, No. 1, 2010
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001
Articles:
In its darkest times, Haiti is still the world's hope, and a mirror of the Latino/a experience
By Suzanne Obole
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
The declining symbolic significance of the embargo for South Florida's Cuban Americans
By Chris Girard, Guillermo J. Grenier, and Hugh Gladwin
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas
By Stuesse, Angela C
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Violence across borders: Familism, hegemonic masculinity, and self-sacrificing femininity in the lives of Mexican and Peruvian migrants
By M Cristina Alcalde
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Re-conceptualizing the economic incorporation of immigrants: A comparison of the Mexican and Vietnamese
By Shannon Gleeson
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Latin American immigrants in Indianapolis: Perceptions of prejudice and discrimination
By Antonio V Menéndez Alarcón and Katherine B. Novak
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
New allies for immigration reform: A Cincinnati story
By Erynn Masi de Casanova
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
The farmworkers' journey
By Elaine Levine
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Four generations of Norteños. New research from the cradle of Mexican migration
By Ana María Aragonés
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights
By Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America
By Louis Mendoza
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Contemporary US Latino/a Literary Criticism
By Juanita Heredia
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced
By Marta Caminero-Santangelo
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/lst/2010/00000008/00000001/ar…
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Migration News
Volume 17 No. 2, April 2010
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/
THE AMERICAS
Congress: Immigration Reform?
President Obama mentioned immigration reform in his January 27, 2010 State of the Union speech, saying: "we should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system - to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation."
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3587_0_2_0
DHS: Border, Interior, Services
Mexico-US Border. The US is continuing to build fences to deter migrants and vehicles on the Mexico-US border; about 650 miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile border are completed. The fence has cost an average of $4 million a mile.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3588_0_2_0
Unemployment, Projections, H-1B
The unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January 2010, and remained at 9.7 percent in February and March 2010; the rate was 10 percent in in December 2009. The number of unemployed, 15 million in March 2010, included 6.5 million workers without work six months or more, 44 percent of all the jobless. The unemployment rate was higher in 1981-82, but only a quarter of the unemployed then were without a job for six months or more.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3589_0_2_0
Foreign-Born: Numbers and Effects, Health
Foreign-born. The Pew Hispanic Center in January 2010 reported that the US had 38 million foreign-born residents in 2008; they were 12.5 percent of the 304 million US residents. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of foreign-born residents rose by seven million and the number of US-born residents by 16 million.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3590_0_2_0
Canada, Mexico
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney proposed changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in October 2009. The changes include more more careful checks to ensure that employer job offers are genuine, require foreign workers employed in Canada four years to leave Canada for at least six years before returning, and bar employers who violate TFWP rules from hiring guest workers for two years. Some 70,000 foreign workers were admitted in 2008; an estimated 300,000 foreign workers were employed in Canada sometime in 2009.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3591_0_2_0
Haiti, Ecuador, Jamaica
Haiti. A 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010 killed an estimated 230,000 people, left a million people homeless, and destroyed about 20 percent of the buildings in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The US government halted the deportation of 30,000 Haitians and offered Haitians in the US when the quake struck temporary protected status for 18 months; the TPS application fee is $470. By April 2010, about 43,000 Haitians had applied for TPS; the total was expected to be 75,000 to 100,000.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3592_0_2_0
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People and Place
Vol. 17, No. 4, 2009
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/issue/?volume=17&issue=4
Selected articles:
Kind or cruel? Labor's asylum and boat people policies
By Adrienne Millbank
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/abstract/?article=0000011039
Population growth and Australia’s 2020 greenhouse gas emission commitments
By Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/abstract/?article=0000011060
The new intergenerational report’s population projection and the uncertainty of Australia’s demographic future
By Tom Wilson
http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/view/abstract/?article=0000011081
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Rural Migration News
Volume 16 No. 2, April 2010
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/
IMMIGRATION
Immigration Reform: AgJOBS
AgJOBS. Most farm employers and worker advocates support enactment of the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act or AgJOBS, which would legalize unauthorized farm workers and further streamline the H-2A program. Farm employers organized into the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform (ACIR) and the United Farm Workers (UFW) met with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to push AgJOBS. They argued that, without a reliable supply of foreign workers, the share of labor-intensive commodities that are imported would rise.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1530_0_4_0
H-2A: Old Rules, Reactions, Cases
DOL on February 12, 2010 issued a final H-2A rule effective March 15, 2010 that reinstates the 1987-2009 rules, with a few twists. The H-2 program was created in 1952 and modified by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986; it became the H-2A program in 1987. In FY09, employers filed 8,150 labor certification applications requesting 103,955 H-2A workers, and DOL certified 94 percent, approving requests for 86,014 H-2A workers.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1531_0_4_0
H-2B: Program, Cases
The Center for Immigration Studies issued a report on the H-2B program in February 2010 that emphasized rapid growth in the number of visas issued, the dominance of large employers and intermediaries in hiring H-2B workers for the maximum 10 months a year, and going-through-the-motions recruitment for US workers. The H-2B program was created by IRCA in 1986, when the previous H-2 program was divided into H-2A for seasonal farm workers and H-2B for seasonal nonfarm workers.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1532_0_4_0
DHS: Border, Interior, Services
Mexico-US Border. The US is continuing to build fences to deter migrants and vehicles on the Mexico-US border; about 650 miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile border are completed. The fence has cost an average of $4 million a mile.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1533_0_4_0
Canada, UK, Australia
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canada's largest private sector union with 250,000 members, was certified to represent 70 Mexican workers admitted under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) at Sidhu & Sons Nursery in March 2010. Sidhu argued that, because the nursery employed both SAWP and Canadian workers, a SAWP-only unit was not appropriate.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1534_0_4_0
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The Social Contract
Volume 20, No. 2, Winter 2009-2010
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/index.shtml
Selected articles:
A Note from the Editor: If Jobs are Number One, End Mass Immigration
By Wayne Lutton
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_edit…
The Economic Case for a Moratorium
By Edwin S. Rubenstein
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_rube…
Why Import Workers Now?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_p_bu…
Time for an Immigration Moratorium
By Virgil Goode
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/Time_for_an_I…
A Timeout on Immigration - A Cost-Effective Jobs Program Obama Overlooked
By Tom Tancredo
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_tanc…
Put Terrorism in Perspective - Fix Immigration with a Moratorium
By Donald A. Collins
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_coll…
Immigration Enforcement - A Populist Program to Create Jobs
By Bay Buchanan
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_b_bu…
The Most Generous Nation in the World... at Giving Jobs Away
By Rob Sanchez
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_sanc…
We Shall Overwhelm - Deciphering Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on Hispanic Workers
By William Buchanan
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_w_bu…
Immigration and the Christmas Day Attack - Officials Create Illusions of Safety and Security Leaving Borders Unsecured
By Michael W. Cutler
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_cutl…
The Relationship of Legal to Illegal Immigration
By John Tanton
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_2/tsc_20_2_tant…