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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. Senate testimony on immigrant enlistment and the U.S. armed forces
2. CRS reports on Central American security initiative and apprehensions of illegal entrants along SW border
3. U.K.: Immigration statistics, report on new immigration law, and actions against illegal working
4. Netherlands: Report on cross-border workers
5. Norway: Statistics on immigration and unemployment among immigrants
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
6. FAIR commentary: "The (Il)Logic of Open-Border Libertarians"
7. Heritage Foundation report: "Expanding Government: Beware of the Senate’s Immense, Obamacare-Style Immigration Bill"
8. Pew Research Center report: "15 States with the Highest Share of Immigrants in Their Population"
9. Five new working papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
10. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
11. Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
12. Twelve new papers from the Social Science Research Network
13. New working paper from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
14. Two new reports from the International Organization for Migration
15. Canada: "Immigrant Integration: Research Implications for Future Policy"
16. "International migration by 2030: impact of immigration policies scenarios on growth and employment"
BOOKS
17. Border War
18. Immigration Economics
19. The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
20. Strange Neighbors: The Role of States in Immigration Policy
21. Understanding Lifestyle Migration: Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life
22. Refugee Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Human Rights, Safety, and Identity
JOURNALS
23. Citizenship Studies
24. CSEM Newsletter
25. Ethnic and Racial Studies
26. International Journal of Refugee Law
27. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
1.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on Defense
Monday, May 19, 2014
Phoenix Military Academy
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings
Immigrant Enlistment: A Force Multiplier for the U.S. Armed Forces
Witness testimony:
Sen. Richard Durbin
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/SAC-D%20immigration%20hearing%20statement.pdf
Rep. Luis Gutierrez
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Device.pdf
Jessica Wright
Acting Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness
U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/05-19-2014%20SACD%20Statement%20on%20DACA%20and%20Military%20Service%20%28Wright%29%20Final.pdf
Col. (Ret.) Kevin Kelley
Director of Military Instruction
Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Kevin%20Kelley%20Testimony%20FINAL.pdf
Sgt. Oscar Vazquez
U.S. Army, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Oscar%20Vazquez%20Testimony%20FINAL.pdf
Mario Rodriguez
Cadet Command Sergeant Major
Phoenix Military Academy
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Mario%20Rodriguez%20Testimony%20FINAL.pdf
Jessica Calderon
Cadet Captain
Phoenix Military Academy
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Jessica%20Calderon%20Testimony%20FINAL.pdf
Gregory Chen
Director for Advocacy
American Immigration Lawyers Association
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/Greg%20Chen%20Testimony%20FINAL.pdf
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New from the Congressional Research Service
Central America Regional Security Initiative: Background and Policy Issues for Congress
By Peter J. Meyer and Clare Ribando Seelke
May 6, 2014
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/226210.pdf
Apprehensions of Unauthorized Migrants along the Southwest Border: Fact Sheet
By Lisa Seghetti and Daniel Durak
May 2, 2014
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/226218.pdf
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Immigration statistics, January to March 2014
U.K. Home Office, May 22, 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2014/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2014
New figures show net migration falls by a third since 2005 peak
U.K. Home Office, May 22, 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-figures-show-net-migration-falls-by-a-third-since-2005-peak
Excerpt:
The latest Home Office figures showed:
* since 2010, family immigration is down by 7%, while student immigration is down by 28%;
* the UK continues to welcome top global talent to work for British businesses, with sponsored visa applications for skilled workers up 18% with significant increases from nationals from India (17%), Australia (30%) and United States (9%). The majority of applications were for work in the following fields; Information and Communication, Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities, Finance and Insurance sectors; and
* there have been a record number of visitor visa applications, with close to 2m visas issued – up 14% compared to the previous year. China, Russia and Kuwait showed the biggest rises in visitors.
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Tougher penalties to combat illegal working
U.K. Home Office, May 16, 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tougher-penalties-to-combat-illegal-working
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Immigration Bill becomes law
U.K. Home Office, May 14, 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/immigration-bill-becomes-law
Highlights of the Immigration Act:
* Cutting the number of immigration decisions that can be appealed from 17 to 4, while allowing us to return certain harmful individuals before their appeals are heard if there is no risk of serious irreversible harm
* Ensuring that the courts have regard to Parliament’s view of what the public interest requires when considering European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) Article 8 claims in immigration cases – making clear the right to a family life is not to be regarded as absolute and unqualified
* Clamping down on people who try to gain an immigration advantage by entering into a sham marriage or civil partnership
* Requiring private landlords to check the immigration status of tenants, preventing those with no right to live in the UK from accessing private rented housing
* Introducing a new requirement from temporary migrants with time-limited immigration status by requiring them to make a financial contribution to the National Health Service
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More than 40 thousand Dutch cross-border workers
Statistics Netherlands, May 21, 2014
http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/arbeid-sociale-zekerheid/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2014/2014-4070-wm.htm
Excerpt:
Last year, 0.8 percent of all people employed in the European Union (EU) were living in one EU country and working in another. The proportion of cross-border workers from the Netherlands was below the EU average. More than 40 thousand people living in the Netherlands were working abroad.
Marginal growth cross-border workers in EU
The number of cross-border workers has grown over the past half decade from 1.5 million to more than 1.8 million in 2013, i.e. 0.8 percent of the employed population in the EU. The rates were high in Slovakia (nearly 6 percent) and Estonia (nearly 4 percent). In the other EU countries, the proportion of cross-border workers was less than 2.5 percent. In the Netherlands, 43 thousand persons (0.5 percent of all persons employed) were working abroad
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Unemployment among immigrants, register-based, Q1 2014
Immigrant unemployment still growing
Statistics Norway, May 22, 2014
http://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/innvarbl
Migrations, 2013
Still high, but fall in immigration
Statistics Norway, April 28, 2014
http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/flytting/aar/2014-04-28?fane=om#content
Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, 1 January 2014
Poles are the largest immigrant group
Statistics Norway, April 24, 2014
http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef
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6.
The (Il)Logic of Open-Border Libertarians
By Eric Ruark
Federation for American Immigration Reform, May 21, 2014
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/The_%28Il%29Logic_of_Open_Border_Libertarians-2.pdf
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Expanding Government: Beware of the Senate’s Immense, Obamacare-Style Immigration Bill
By David Inserra
Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2909, May 12, 2014
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/expanding-government-beware-of-the-senates-immense-obamacare-style-immigration-bill
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15 States with the Highest Share of Immigrants in Their Population
By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Michael Keegan
Pew Research Center Fact Tank, May 14, 2014
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/14/15-states-with-the-highest-share-of-immigrants-in-their-population/
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9.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan L. Averett, and Cynthia Bansak
Discussion Paper No. 8153, April 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=8153
2. Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
By Carlo Devillanova, Francesco Fasani, and Tommaso Frattini
Discussion Paper No. 8151, April 2014
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=8151
3. Contrasts and similarities in economic performance of migrant entrepreneurs
By Mediha Sahin, Peter Nijkamp, and Soushi Suzuki
IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:7, April 2014
http://www.izajom.com/content/3/1/7
4. Remittances and immigration enforcement
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Thitima Puttitanun
IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:6, March 2014
http://www.izajom.com/content/3/1/6
5. Immigrant influx and social cohesion erosion
By Florence Neymotin
IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:5, March 2014
http://www.izajom.com/content/3/1/5
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
By Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri, Panu Poutvaara
NBER Working Paper No. 20131, May 2014
http://www.nber.org/papers/w20131
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. How Migration Can Advance Development Goals
By Patrick Simon and Elsa Steichen
May 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/slow-motion-labor-market-integration-new-immigrants-france
2. Supporting Immigrant Integration in Europe? Developing the Governance for Diaspora Engagement
By Maria Vincenza Desiderio
May 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrant-integration-europe-developing-governance-diaspora-engagement
3. The Current Record on Deportations: What Underlies the 'Eye of the Beholder' Dynamic?
By Marc R. Rosenblum and Doris Meissner
April 2014
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/current-record-deportations-what-underlies-eye-beholder-dynamic
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Give Us Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: A Criminal Defender Resource Guide to Advising the Non-Citizen Criminally Accused
By Rita Montoya, University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law
Criminal Law Practitioner, p. 105, Fall 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2391489
2. Everybody in the Tent: Lessons from the Grassroots About Labor Organizing, Immigrants, and Temporary Worker Policies
By Leticia M. Saucedo, University of California, Davis School of Law
Harvard Latino Law Review, 2014, Forthcoming
UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 382
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2438115
3. Legalization Conflicts and Reliance Defenses
By Mary Fan, University of Washington School of Law
55 Washington University Law Review (Wash. U. St. Louis) (Forthcoming)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA Research Paper No. 2014-19
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2437535
4. Don't Forget the Kids: How Immigrant Policy Can Help Immigrants' Children
By Colin Busby, C.D. Howe Institute and Miles Corak, Statistics Canada; University of Ottawa
May 14, 2014
C.D. Howe Institute E-brief 174
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2436955
5. Comprehensive Immigration Reform(s): Immigration Regulation Beyond Our Borders
By Stella Burch Elias, University of Iowa College of Law
Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2435289
6. The New North Carolinians: The Economic Impact of the Hispanic and Immigrant Population in North Carolina
By Stephen J. Appold, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and James H. Johnson Jr. Jr. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
February 10, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434374
7. Europe 2020: Addressing Low Skill Labour Migration at Times of Fragile Recovery
By Anna Triandafyllidou and Sabrina Marchetti, European University Institute
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS PP 2014/05
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434567
8. Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University, Department of Economics and Cynthia Bansak, Saint Lawrence University
Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 32, Issue 3, pp. 671-680, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434880
9. Restricting Employment of Low-Paid Immigrants: A General Equilibrium Assessment of the Social Welfare Implications for Legal U.S. Wage-Earners
By Peter Dixon, Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR); Maureen T. Rimmer, Monash University Centre of Policy Studies; and Bryan W. Roberts, Econometrica, Inc.
Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 32, No. 3
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434873
10. Immigration and Economic Growth in Metropolitan Areas
By Xiaochu Hu, George Mason University School of Public Policy
May 7, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434245
11. Cooperative Immigration Federalism and Executive Power: The Making and Unmaking of Immigration Policy Post-DACA
By Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado Law School
May 5, 2014
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434219
12. International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies
By Slobodan Djajic, University of Geneva and Michael S. Michael, University of Cyprus Department of Economics
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4748
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434451
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13.
New from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
In Their Own Words: A Nationwide Survey of Undocumented Millennials
By Tom K. Wong and Carolina Valdivia
Working Paper No. 191, May 2014
http://ccis.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/Tom-Wong-In-their-own-words-WP-191.pdf
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New from the International Organization for Migration
A New Global Partnership for Development: Factoring in the Contribution of Migration
By Elaine McGregor, Melissa Siegel, Nora Ragab, and Teressa Juzwiak
Migration Research Series No. 50, May 2014
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/MRS50_20May2014.pdf
The Global Forum on Migration and Development: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific
By Imelda Nicolas and Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias
Issue Brief No. 9, May 2014
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/MPI_IssueNo9_28Apr2014.pdf
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15.
Immigrant Integration: Research Implications for Future Policy
Edited by Kenise Murphy Kilbride
http://www.cspi.org/books/immigrant-integration
Overview: Examining the issues and challenges facing immigrants as they attempt to integrate successfully into Canadian society, Immigrant Integration is a multidisciplinary compendium of research papers, most of which were presented at the 14th National Metropolis Conference, held in Toronto in 2012. This book addresses the growing economic and educational inequality among immigrants and racialized populations in Canada and seeks to guard against further inequities. The authors address policy issues, newcomers’ health and well-being, cultural challenges, and resilience in immigrant communities. Each chapter concludes with a clear set of policy recommendations indicating how those in government and the broader public, private, and non-profit sectors can help newcomers integrate, as well as welcome them as significantly contributing members of Canadian society.
Thorough and relevant, this book includes the research of academics, policy-makers, and experts from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, immigration and settlement, public policy, social work, and geography. With a sense of urgency, these essays illustrate the existing and developing strains that Canadian public policy has created and will continue to create unless built upon the evidence current research has produced.
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International migration by 2030: impact of immigration policies scenarios on growth and employment
By V. Duwicquet, E.M. Mouhoud, and J. Oudinet
Foresight
Vol. 16, No. 2, 2014
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/273/2014/00000016/00000002/art00004
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17.
Border War
By Lou Dobbs and James O. Born
Forge Books, 336 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0765327716, $15.80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409451968/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 550 KB, ASIN: B00GL3NM9G, 340 pp., $10.67
Book Description: Border War is a timely thriller about the struggles of US law enforcement officers on the Mexican border by TV broadcaster Lou Dobbs.
The border is a tough place to work, especially for FBI agent Tom Eriksen. With a history of violence, he cannot afford any on-duty screw-ups. So when an investigation ends in a bloody shootout and the shooting is deemed “questionable,” the bureau reassigns Eriksen to an office known as “the Island of Misfit Cops”: a resting place for those who have screwed up enough to warrant being dumped in El Paso, Texas.
But when his partner is murdered, Eriksen must take charge and solve the case, wading through corruption and betrayal to discover the truth. Only after he teams up with a resourceful and gorgeous NSA agent, Kat Gleason, does his luck change. As they slowly put the puzzle pieces together, the investigation points to a powerful cartel lord and a shadowy US computer company.
As the web of deceit and betrayal tightens, the body count grows. Eriksen must deal with the mayhem caused by the cartels while racing against the clock to stop an assassin whose target is someone very close to him.
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Immigration Economics
By George J. Borjas
Harvard University Press, 296 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0674049772, $39.71
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674049772/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Millions of people--nearly 3 percent of the world's population--no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today a central subject of research in modern labor economics, which seeks to put into perspective and explain this historic demographic transformation.
Immigration Economics synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows. Economist George Borjas lays out with clarity and rigor a full spectrum of topics, including migrant worker selection and assimilation, the impact of immigration on labor markets and worker wages, and the economic benefits and losses that result from immigration.
Two important themes emerge: First, immigration has distributional consequences: some people gain, but some people lose. Second, immigrants are rational economic agents who attempt to do the best they can with the resources they have, and the same holds true for native workers of the countries that receive migrants. This straightforward behavioral proposition, Borjas argues, has crucial implications for how economists and policymakers should frame contemporary debates over immigration.
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
By Peter Eichstaedt
Chicago Review Press, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1613748361, $20.02
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1613748361/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 2461 KB, ASIN: B00JD01KO8, $10.99
Book Description: Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America's legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting with migrants, border security advocates, and communities ravaged by cross-border crime. He rides with the border patrol and reveals the tragic situation that has evolved along the border. Eichstaedt finds that despite tens of thousands of border agents and the expenditure of billions of dollars, an estimated one million Mexicans and Central Americans continue to cross the border each year. These migrants fill jobs that have become the underpinnings of the U.S. economy. Rather than building more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that the United States must reform its immigration and drug laws and acknowledge that costly, counterproductive, and antiquated policies have created deadly circumstances on both sides of the border. Recognizing the truth of America's long and tortured relations with Mexico must be followed by legitimizing the contributions made by migrants to the American way of life.
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Strange Neighbors: The Role of States in Immigration Policy
By Carissa Byrne Hessick and Gabriel J. Chin
NYU Press, 304 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0814737803, $40.50
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814737803/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1276 KB, ASIN: B00JC5UZMC, $30.60
Book Description: Since its founding, the U.S. has struggled with issues of federalism and states’ rights. In almost every area of law, from abortion to zoning, conflicts arise between the states and the federal government over which entity is best suited to create and enforce laws. In the last decade, immigration has been on the front lines of this debate, with states such as Arizona taking an extremely assertive role in policing immigrants within their borders. While Arizona and its notorious SB 1070 is the most visible example of states claiming expanded responsibility to make and enforce immigration law, it is far from alone. An ordinance in Hazelton, Pennsylvania prohibited landlords from renting to the undocumented. Several states have introduced legislation to deny citizenship to babies who are born to parents who are in the United States without authorization. Other states have also enacted legislation aimed at driving out unauthorized migrants.
Strange Neighbors explores the complicated and complicating role of the states in immigration policy and enforcement, including voices from both sides of the debate. While many contributors point to the dangers inherent in state regulation of immigration policy, at least two support it, while others offer empirically-based examinations of state efforts to regulate immigration within their borders, pointing to wide, state-by-state disparities in locally-administered immigration policies and laws. Ultimately, the book offers an extremely timely, thorough, and spirited discussion on an issue that will continue to dominate state and federal legislatures for years to come.
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Understanding Lifestyle Migration: Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life
By Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston
Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1137328665, $89.83
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137328665/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Understanding Lifestyle Migration contributes to the wider turn towards understanding migration through the lens of social theory. It is the first volume to question how lifestyle migration and related phenomena can be understood contributing to this rapidly expanding field of research, and moving beyond definitional considerations to engage deeper understandings of such migrations. It thus aims to set a new and challenging research agenda that brings together researchers from a range of disciplines and geographical locations working on related forms of migration. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling, imagination and representations, and community attachments and belonging.
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Refugee Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Human Rights, Safety, and Identity
By AKM Ahsan Ullah
Palgrave Macmillan, 232 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1137356529, $81.37
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137356529/centerforimmigra
Book Description: AKM Ahsan Ullah provides and insightful analysis of migration and displacement in the Middle East and North Africa. He examines the intricate relationship of these phenomena with human rights, safety concerns, and issues of identity crisis and identity formation. Engaging in a wide range of current debates including the Arab Uprising and regional and international responses to refugee movements, this book will enrich the present understanding of migration and refugee rights.
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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 18, No. 3-4, 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/current
Articles:
‘Domestic transnationalism’: legal advocacy for Mexican migrant workers' rights in Canada
By Christina Gabriel and Laura Macdonald
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905264#.U348OyjidCo
Immigrant sexual citizenship: intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA
By Steven Epstein and Hector Carrillo
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905266#.U349LyjidCo
‘I can't even buy a bed because I don't know if I'll have to leave tomorrow’: temporal orientations among Mexican precarious status migrants in Toronto
By Paloma E. Villegas
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905269#.U34_xSjidCo
Citizenship and migration in Arab Gulf monarchies
By J. Sater
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.820394#.U34_2ijidCo
Citizenship rights in Malaysia: the experience of social and institutional discrimination among ethnic minorities
By Juliet Pietsch and Marshall Clark
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905270#.U34_8SjidCo
Immigration, society and modalities of citizenship in Singapore
By Eric C. Thompson
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905272#.U35C4CjidCo
Testing the liberal subject: (in)security, responsibility and ‘self-improvement’ in the UK citizenship test
By Joseph Turner
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905273#.U35DCCjidCo
Political and social rights for second country nationals: freedom of movement and citizenship in Australasia
By Kate McMillan
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905316#.U35DISjidCo
Gender and cultural citizenship among non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel
By Anna Prashizky and Larissa Remennick
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905276#.U35DOCjidCo
Citizenship, enclaves and earnings: comparing two cool countries
By Ravi Pendakur and Pieter Bevelander
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905279#.U35DTCjidCo
Citizenship and the speaking subject
By Stephen Coleman
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.820392#.U35DZCjidCo
Citizens policing citizens: are citizen watches manifestations of contemporary responsible citizenship?
By Marco van der Land
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905282#.U35DgCjidCo
Sustainable citizenship for a technological world: negotiating deliberative dialectics
By Priya A. Kurian, Debashish Munshi, and Robert V. Bartlett
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2014.905284#.U35D0CjidCo
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CSEM Newsletter
May 2014
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
HAITI MOVES TOWARDS ADOPTION OF COUNTER-TRAFFICKING LAW
An anti-trafficking bill that IOM Haiti helped to draft has been approved by both Chambers of the Haitian Parliament, marking a milestone in the fight against human trafficking, a crime that affects thousands of people in the country, especially minors.
Haiti is a country of origin, transit and destination for victims of trafficking, with a high incidence of internal trafficking, specifically of children from rural areas, who are exploited as domestic servants in urban centres and often subject to physical and sexual abuse.
IOM provides technical support to the Government of Haiti in the process of screening, identification, referral, and reintegration of victims of trafficking, mainly children.
Since the beginning of its counter-trafficking operations in 2005, IOM has provided comprehensive assistance to a total of 2,040 victims, the majority of them children.
IOM assistance includes joint rescue missions, provision of shelter with meals, immediate medical and psychosocial assistance, family reunification and sensitization. Each victim’s family receives additional income-generating assistance in the form of a small grant.
The program also aims to harmonize national data collection, storage, and analysis, by working with response actors to adapt the standardized IOM screening and assistance tools.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2441-haiti-moves-towards-adoption-of-counter-trafficking-law
TEL AVIV CATHOLIC CHURCH SERVES GROWING MIGRANT COMMUNITY
By Indrani Basu and John Albert
Many of the locals living around 33 Shivat Zion St. in the southern end of this booming Mediterranean city haven’t heard of the new church in their midst. The facade is plain cement, and there’s no sign hanging outside.
But Our Lady Woman of Valor Pastoral Center for Migrant Workers fills an overwhelming need among Tel Aviv’s diverse and growing Roman Catholic migrant community.
Each week, the church holds five “Sunday” Masses — though only one of them actually takes place on Sunday. The rest are held Saturday, which is Israel’s Sabbath and the only day migrants have off from work. Masses are celebrated in the languages of the migrants — Tagalog and English for the Filipino community, Konkani and Malayalam for the Indians and Sinhalese for the Sri Lankans.
There are Catholics here from Eritrea, Ghana and Nigeria, in addition to those from Latin America and Eastern Europe. Taken together, the center serves more than a thousand migrant workers, a sliver of the 60,000 Catholic migrants living in the country.
Some live in Israel legally; others have overstayed their legal permits and have no hope of becoming citizens of Israel.
The split-level hall holds only 250 people, and each service is packed to overflowing. But it’s an improvement over the previous gathering space, a bomb shelter.
“My constant nightmare was that something was going to happen and people were going to be trampled to death,” said the Rev. David Neuhaus, coordinator of the migrant pastoral church who is also the patriarchal vicar for the Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Israel.
But the new space is already overflowing. At a recent 5 p.m. Mass, people pushed their way into the back of the hall and the corners of the second level. When that was full, they lined the steps between the two levels, hunched on the railing.
More than 500 members of the church will travel to Bethlehem this weekend to see Pope Francis, who will visit Israel, Jordan and the West Bank May 24-26.
The church, under the aegis of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, has been in this primarily migrant worker neighborhood for the past five years. It serves both migrant workers and asylum seekers.
The migrant population in Israel has grown rapidly as the country has come to rely more on workers from abroad. Some 150,000 of these workers are believed to be Christians, a number comparable to Israel’s Christian population, most of whom are Palestinian Arabs.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2445-tel-aviv-catholic-church-serves-growing-migrant-community
SEX SLAVES LURED TO AUSTRALIA BY FEIGNED LOVE, REPORT FINDS
Hundreds of women are lured to Australia every year and enslaved by husbands who fake love, a new report found.
By Janet Fife-Yeomans
One woman lived in a garage and was allowed out only for sex and to cook for her husband while another had to look after her mother-in-law and a family of 15 while her husband went to live with his girlfriend, taking her passport with him.
Others were banned from using contraception by husbands and mothers-in-law who wanted them to become pregnant, the first research of its kind by the Australian Institute of Criminology said.
The report called it human trafficking involving marriage where the women, many university-educated, met their partners in a variety of ways, including through arranged marriages, family connections, online or just by chance.
The cases are distinct from traditional forms of trafficking where victims are coerced or deceived into sexual servitude or forced labour.
The wives come mainly from Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Their prospects of being assaulted sexually and physically are so serious that Filipino women are six times more likely to be a homicide victims than all women in Australia.
Figures reveal that 2932 women were granted visas under “family violence provisions” between 2006 and 2011 after they escaped abusive relationships. Not all were allowed to remain in Australia.
“It is 100 per cent true, we see them all the time,” psychologist Eman Sharobeem said.
Dr Sharobeem, director of the Immigrant Women’s Health Service in Fairfield, said the women were typically vulnerable as migrants, knowing no one but their husband, with no income and no status outside their marriages.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2452-sex-slaves-lured-to-australia-by-feigned-love-report-finds
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SYRIAN, IRAQI REFUGEES FIND CATHOLIC AGENCIES MEET WIDE RANGE OF NEEDS
Fleeing conflict and violence back home, refugees from Syria and Iraq praised the Catholic humanitarian agencies helping them to cope with their trauma while starting a new life in their adopted safe haven of Jordan.
"We've come out of a nightmarish and desperate time. We're trying to regain some semblance of normalcy in life," said Um Ahmed, a Syrian refugee woman attending a life skills class run by the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Jordanian capital.
The Roman Catholic Bishops' School perched on one of Amman's high hills buzzes with classes of refugees learning English, Arabic literacy, computer skills, handicrafts and cooking conducted after regular classes conclude.
Living became impossible in Ahmed's northern Syrian city of Aleppo because of constant fighting and government bombardments. "My family was also extremely afraid because people were being detained and had disappeared. We feared for our lives," she told Catholic News Service May 5.
"Leaving everything, our work and possessions behind, we had to start from scratch again here," Ahmed said.
Ahmed is among than 600 refugees who are slowly getting back on their feet through JRS-sponsored programs that include home visits, psychosocial support, educational opportunities for children and adults and college degree preparation. The organization also provides food parcels and hygiene kits.
"We serve not only Syrian and Iraqi refugees, but also Somali and Sudanese refugees, who have been marginalized and forgotten here in Jordan by other NGOs," explained Tamim Arif, the agency's acting country director.
Arif said the majority of the students are women.
"This is really good because in Arab culture women rarely leave the house. Our classes provide a safe place for them to share their experiences and to learn," he said.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2428-syrian-iraqi-refugees-find-catholic-agencies-meet-wide-range-of-needs
THAILAND MAKES PROGRESS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING, OFFICIALS TELL US MONITORS
A Team of Thailand's senior ranking anti-trafficking officials from the Ministries of Labor, Foreign Affairs, Social Development and Human Security, and Commerce, and the Royal Thai Police have just concluded anti-trafficking meetings in Washington with Members of Congress, the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP), and Department of Labor.
''Human trafficking is a global problem. It is bigger than any one single country and requires global solutions.''
With release of the State Department's 2014 TIP report rapidly approaching, and growing attention being given to human trafficking issues, the delegation's visit last week sought to highlight facts about the enormous on-going work, international cooperation and progress in combating trafficking in Thailand, and set straight what might have been gravely misrepresented in recent media coverage.
''Thailand is fully committed to combating human trafficking. It's our national priority. In Southeast Asia, we are leading the efforts, working closely with the United States, international non-governmental organizations, the United Nations and our neighboring countries to assist victims of human trafficking, bring human traffickers to justice, and prevent people from falling victim to trafficking,'' commented Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director General of American and South Pacific Affairs Mr Songsak Saichuea after wrapping up a series of meetings on Capitol Hill adding, ''Human trafficking is a global problem. It is bigger than any one single country and requires global solutions.''
Progress to tackle human trafficking has continuously been made in Thailand, but concrete results were most notable in 2013 and in all fronts in accordance with its national strategy based on the 5P's approach that encompasses Prosecution and Law Enforcement, Protection and Recovery, Prevention, Policy and Mechanisms to drive the policy, and Partnerships. Also in 2013, Thailand ratified and became state party to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and acceded to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.
In the area of prosecution and law enforcement, Thailand has made remarkable progress, dramatically increasing the number of human trafficking investigations, prosecutions and convictions in the past year, with sustained momentum during the first quarter of 2014. The Royal Thai Police and other law enforcement agencies like the Department of Special Investigation and the Office of the Attorney-General are working closely together, intensifying, integrating and coordinating their efforts.
2013 law enforcement statistics show significant progress in investigations, prosecutions and convictions of perpetrators, including investigations of 674 trafficking cases, prosecutions of 483 defendants, and convictions of 225 defendants. Over 60 percent of those convicted in 2013 served jail terms of three years or more. Actions against Thai officials alleged to be complicit in human trafficking also increased in 2013. At least 38 members of the police force, including five high-ranking police officials, were either punished or are now under civil and/or criminal processes.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2438-thailand-makes-progress-on-human-trafficking-officials-tell-us-monitors
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WEST SIDE SUCCESS STORIES: EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN
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Although the experiences of female immigrants in Canada have been varied, according to a 2012 survey of Trustlaw/Thomson Reuters Foundation, it is the best G20 nation for women, while Saudi Arabia and India are the second-worst and worst country, respectively, in the G20 for women. Here’s why Canada is on top of the list. Divorcees or single women find their own place in a society that doesn’t look down on them. Moreover, the workplace laws are strong, especially those related to workplace violence and harassment. For instance, neither does a job aspirant’s resume have to include personal information, nor is it proper to ask or even answer any personal questions during an interview. Marital status, sexual orientation, age, religion or region – these factors are of no concern to other employees. This, of course, is in complete contrast to the scenario in conservative South Asian countries like Afghanistan, India or Pakistan.
In November 2013, a Hamilton Street Railway inspector was awarded $25,000 in compensation by a labour arbitrator because the city had not seriously investigated her complaints about sexual harassment on the job. According to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, “Over time, the definition of sexual harassment has continued to evolve to reflect a better understanding of the way sexual power operates in society. For example, it is well-established that harassment and discrimination based on sex may not always be of a sexual nature. Behaviour that is not explicitly sexual may still amount to harassment because of sex.”
Observes Meena Bagchi, who hails from West Bengal, a state in eastern India, “The concept of ‘liberation’ in the West involves not only the rights of the victimised but also extends to living in a mature society.” Meena has been living in with her Canadian boyfriend of German origin. While her parents were initially taken aback with her decision, they finally gave in to her wishes. “My mother warned me against coming to India; she told me it’ll be difficult to face society and relatives. My brother-in-law couldn’t understand why I was taking so long to get married,” Meena shares, “I told them I really couldn’t predict when I would get married, but it would solely be my decision.”
Women, especially those who have grown up in traditional patriarchal societies, enjoy a rare sense of freedom once they immigrate to the West. Even popular Hindi cinema has dealt with the issue of women’s liberation and the breaking of stereotypes through films like ‘English Vinglish’ and ‘Queen’. The common factor in both these movies is that the female protagonist embarks upon a journey of self discovery in a foreign land. At first they are unable to cope with the change, but later they are seen to be stepping out independently, making new friends and realising their potential as individuals and also women.
When Najmus Khan, a Pakistani, first came to Canada seven years back she admits she was hit by the huge culture shock. She elaborates, “I would rebuke my son for addressing his teacher by her name. But I soon realised that it is a norm here. People believe in equality and also dignity of labour.” Khan, who has been working as a manager with a leading bank, realises that she can no longer be comfortable working or staying in her home country. “The strong multicultural fold allows us to be friends with Indians; I can’t imagine that there,” she confesses.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/2421-west-side-success-stories-experiences-of-immigrant-women
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 37, No. 6, May 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/current#.U347KCjidCo
Selected articles:
How the religious context affects the relationship between religiosity and attitudes towards immigration
By Andrea Bohman and Mikael Hjerm
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.748210#.U34bGijidCo
Balancing stigma and status: racial and class identities among middle-class Haitian youth
By Orly Clerge
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.748209#.U34bLyjidCo
Ethnic identity on display: West Indian youth and the creation of ethnic boundaries in high school
By Bedelia Nicola Richards
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.748212#.U34bWSjidCo
The worst of both worlds? Origin and destination effects on migrant religiosity
By Koen Van der Bracht, Bart Van de Putte, and Sarah Van de Velde
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.748211#.U34bdCjidCo
Size and socio-economic resources of core discussion networks in the Netherlands: differences by national-origin group and immigrant generation
By Frank van Tubergen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.734390#.U34dByjidCo
‘Arab invasion’ and decline, or the import of European racial thought by Iranian nationalists
By Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.734389#.U34dHSjidCo
The vulnerable other – distorted equity in Chinese–Ghanaian employment relations
By Karsten Giese and Alena Thiel
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.681676#.U34dWCjidCo
A quantitative study of cultural conflict and gender differences in South Asian American college students
By Zaynah Rahman and Matthew A. Witenstein
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.753152#.U34dmCjidCo
By Domesticating Islam: exploring academic knowledge production on Islam and Muslims in European societies
By Thijl Sunier
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2012.753151#.U34dgCjidCo
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International Journal of Refugee Law
Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2014
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
Selected articles:
Legal Subjectivity and the Refugee
By Simon Behrman
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/1.abstract.html?etoc
Regional Cooperation and Refugee Protection in Latin America: A ‘South-South’ Approach
By Tristan Harley
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/22.abstract.html?etoc
Strengthening the Protection of Migrants and Refugees in Distress at Sea through International Cooperation and Burden-Sharing
By Anja Klug
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/48.abstract.html?etoc
Persecution, Concealment and the Limits of a Human Rights Approach in (European) Asylum Law – The Case of Germany v Y and Z in the Court of Justice of the European Union
By Julian M Lehmann
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/65.abstract.html?etoc
Separating the Persecutors from the Persecuted: A Feminist and Comparative Examination of Exclusion from the Refugee Regime
By Kate Ogg
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/82.abstract.html?etoc
International Humanitarian Law and Raison D’Etat: the Balance Sheet of Kazakhstan’s Ratification of the Geneva Convention on Refugees
By Alex Danilovich and Sabina Insebayeva
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/112.abstract.html?etoc
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 40, No. 8, August 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/current
Selected articles:
A Europe of Rights and Values? Public Debates on Sarkozy's Roma Affair in France, Bulgaria and Romania
By Alex Balch, Ekaterina Balabanova and Ruxandra Trandafoiu
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.854691#.U30dgSjidCo
Negotiating the Boundaries of Social Membership: Undocumented Migrant Claims-making in Sweden and Spain
By Zenia Hellgren
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.858016#.U30v2ijidCo
Latino Spatial and Structural Assimilation: Close Intergroup Friendships among Houston-Area Latinos
By Marcus L. Britton
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.858017#.U30wCCjidCo
Middling Migration: Contradictory Mobility Experiences of Indian Youth in London
By Mario Rutten & Sanderien Verstappen
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.830884#.U30wIyjidCo
Muslims and the Mainstream in Australia: Polarisation or Engagement?
By John S. Dryzek and Bora Kanra
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.849568#.U30wmyjidCo
Resistance and Compliance in Immigrant–Native Figurations: Albanian and Soviet Greek Immigrants and Their Interaction with Greek Society
By Manolis Pratsinakis
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.859071#.U30z7yjidCo
‘Telling the Brown Stories’: An Examination of Identity in the Ethnic Media of Multigenerational Immigrant Communities
By Tara Ross
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.831547#.U300ECjidCo
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