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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
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House testimony on the contrasting House-Senate approaches to border security
2. House testimony on noncitizens brought to the U.S. as children
3. Senate testimony on local cooperation and northern border security
4. Latest issues of DOJ EOIR Immigration Law Advisor
5. GAO reports on visa overstay enforcement and improving US-Mexican border traffic flow
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
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New report from TRAC
7. New report from FAIR
8. Two new reports from the Institute for the Study of Labor
9. Six new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
10. Six new papers from the Social Science Research Network
11. New report from the International Organization for Migration
12. "Diminishing Mexican Immigration to the United States"
13. "Building a Wall around the Welfare State, Instead of the Country"
14. "By Diverse Children: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in America's New Non-Majority Generation"
BOOKS
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Outsiders No More?: Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation
16. Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States
17. Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home, Youth, Gender, Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia
18. Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Separation
19. The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden
20. Stand Together or Fall Apart: Professionals Working with Immigrant Families
JOURNALS
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Human Mobility
22. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
23. Migration News
24. Rural Migration News
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2013
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-study-contrasts-house-and-senate-approaches-border-security
A Study in Contrasts: House and Senate Approaches to Border Security
Witness Testimony:
Sen. John Cornyn
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony%20Cornyn.pdf
Rep. Xavier Becerra
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony%20Becerra.pdf
Jayson Ahern
Principal
Chertoff Group
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony%20Ahern.pdf
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony%20Alden.pdf
Richard Stana
Former Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office
http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony%20Stana.pdf
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House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Washington, DC 20515
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_07232013.html
Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children
Witness Testimony:
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-CO
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Rep.%20Coffman%20Judiciary%20Subcommittee%20Testimony.pdf
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-CA
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Congressman%20Denham%20statement%20for%20Judiciary%20Hearing%20July%2022%202013.pdf
Rep. Cory Gardner, R-CO
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Testimony%20of%20the%20Honorable%20Cory%20Gardner.pdf
Rep. Luis Guiterrez, D-CA
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Congressman%20Gutierrez%20Written%20Testimony%20for%207%2023%2013%20%28FINAL%29%20.pdf
Barrett Duke
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Testimony_Barrett%20Duke_House%20Judiciary%20Subcommittee%20on%20Immigration%20and%20Border%20Security_July%2023%202013.pdf
Margie McHugh
Migration Policy Institute
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/MargieMcHughTestimony-HJC-ChildhoodArrivals-FINAL.pdf
Pamela Rivera
Washington, D.C.
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Rivera%20Testimony%20072313.pdf
Rosa Velazquez
Arkansas Coalition for DREAM
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/07232013/Rosa%20Velazquez%20HJC%20Testimony%20July%2021%20%28FINAL%29.pdf
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Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workplace
July 12, 2013
Montana State University Northern, Hensler Auditorium,
Havre, Montana
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/fpfw/hearings/protecting-our-northern-border-enhancing-collaboration-and-building-local-partnerships
Protecting our Northern Border: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Local Partnerships
Agenda: The border between the United States and Canada is the longest shared international border in the world – consisting of over 5,500 miles, including 545 miles in the state of Montana. Securing such an expansive border requires a multi-faceted approach. In addition to a smart and effective deployment of technology and manpower, we must also be doing everything we can to ensure federal, local, state and Canadian partners are working very closely and collaboratively.
This field hearing seeked to identify some of the challenges confronting that task, including overlapping jurisdictions of government agencies that could impede our efforts and potentially create critical gaps in security along the border. The hearing also seeked to identify and highlight various opportunities for collaboration and cost-sharing, including stronger partnerships between agencies, local officials, tribes and the private sector to secure our border and preserve the cross-border commerce that is critical to economic development and job creation.
Witness Testimony:
[Access individual statements at link above]
Don Brostrom
Sheriff of Hill County
Montana
Nathan Burr
Havre Sector Vice President and U.S. Border Patrol Agent
National Border Patrol Council
Debbie Vandeberg
Executive Director
Havre Chamber of Commerce
Kumar Kibble
Special Agent in Charge, Denver
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
Christopher Richards
Havre Sector Chief Patrol Agent
U.S. Border Patrol
Robert Desrosier
Homeland Security Director
Blackfeet Nation
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Understanding Marriage-Based K Nonimmigrant Visas: The Difficulty in Saying “I Do”
By Josh Lunsford
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 6, June-July 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no6.pdf
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New report from the General Accountability Office
Overstay Enforcement: Additional Actions Needed to Assess DHS's Data and Improve Planning for a Biometric Air Exit Program
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-683, July 30, 2013
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/656316.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-683
U.S.-Mexico Border: CBP Action Needed to Improve Wait Time Data and Measure Outcomes of Trade Facilitation Efforts
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-603, July 24, 2013
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/656140.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-603
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Number of ICE Detainers Drops by 19 Percent
July 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/325/
Excerpt: ICE does say that when it finds a match, "In most cases, ICE will issue a detainer against the jailed individual". The issuance of a detainer, however, is not automatic. ICE must decide who among all these potential targets it wants to take into custody and deport and who it does not.
As a result of these gaps in information, Table 2 leaves many questions unanswered. We do not know how many individuals — as distinct from matches — ICE identified through S-Comm, or how many of these individuals ICE then decided to issue a detainer for. And, while detainers issued under Secure Communities are included in the data released to TRAC, we cannot separately identify which ones these are, or determine how their characteristics compare with detainers issued under other programs.
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Out of the Shadows (2013)
Shining a Light on Immigration and the Plight of the American Worker
By Eric A. Ruark
Federation for American Immigration Reform, June 2013
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/JobsReport_7-3-13.pdf
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Perception of Workplace Discrimination Among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
By Bridget Daldy, Jacques Poot, and Matthew Roskruge
Discussion Paper No. 7504, July 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7504
2. Financial Liberalization and Remittances: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
By James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra, and Phanindra V. Wunnava
Discussion Paper No. 7497, July 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7497
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Tackling Brain Waste: Strategies to Improve the Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Qualifications
By Madeleine Sumption
July 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/credentialing-strategies.pdf
2. Recognizing Foreign Qualifications: Emerging Global Trends
By Lesleyanne Hawthorne
July 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Credentialing-GlobalTrends.pdf
3. Is the United States Bad for Children’s Health? Risk and Resilience among Young Children of Immigrants
By Jennifer Van Hook, Nancy S. Landale, and Marianne M. Hillemeier
July 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/COI-ChildHealth.pdf
4. Skills, Professional Regulation, and International Mobility in the Engineering Workforce
By Matthew Dixon
July 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Engineering-credentialrecognition.pdf
5. Limited English Proficient Population of the United States
By Monica Whatley and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source, July 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=960
6. A Portrait of Chinese Traders in Dakar, Senegal
By Daouda Cissé
Migration Information Source, July 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=959
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Detaining Noncitizens: Law, Security, Crime, and Politics
By Lauren L. Martin, Department of Geography, University of Oulu
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(4)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2304134
2. Improving Immigrant Selection: Further Changes are Required Before Increasing Inflows
By Christopher Worswick, Carleton University Department of Economics
C.D. Howe Institute E-brief 157
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2303896
3. Assimilation Anxiety
By David Barnhizer, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 13-256
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2303878
4. Renewing the Dream: Dream Act Redux and Immigration Reform
By Mariela Olivares, Howard University School of Law
Harvard Latino Law Review, Vol. 16, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302889
5. A 'Special Track' for Former Child Soldiers: Enacting a 'Child Soldier Visa' as an Alternative to Asylum Protection
By Elizabeth Rossi, U.S. District Court
Berkeley Journal of International Law (BJIL), Vol. 31, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302324
6. Multiculturalism and Immigration: A Contested Field in Cross-National Comparison
By Ruud Koopmans, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Department of Migration, Integration, Transnationalization
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 39, pp. 147-169, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2298453
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New from International Organization for Migration
International Migration, Health and Human Rights
July 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/IOM_UNHCHR_EN_web.pdf
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Diminishing Mexican Immigration to the United States
By Carl Meacham, Michael Graybeal
Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 17, 2013
http://csis.org/files/publication/130711_Meacham_DiminishingMexImm_WEB.pdf
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13.
Building a Wall around the Welfare State, Instead of the Country
By Alex Nowrasteh and Sophie Cole
CATO Institute Policy Analysis No. 32, July 25, 2013
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/building-wall-around-welfare-state-instead-country
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By Diverse Children: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in America's New Non-Majority Generation
Donald J. Hernandez, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; and Jeffrey S. Napierala, University at Albany
Foundation for Child Development, July 24, 2013
http://fcd-us.org/resources/race-ethnicity-and-immigration-report#node-1360
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Outsiders No More?: Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation
By Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa
Oxford University Press, USA, 370 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0199311315, $84.51
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199311315/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0199311323, $33.95, 368 pp.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199311323/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Outsiders No More? brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. At a time when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many democratic polities, this volume makes a timely and valuable intervention by pushing researchers to articulate causal dynamics, provide clear definitions and measurable concepts, and develop testable hypotheses. By including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, by ranging across North America and Western Europe, by addressing successful and failed incorporative efforts, this handbook offers guides for anyone seeking to develop a dynamic, unified, and supple model of immigrant political incorporation.
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Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States
By Gilbert Gonzalez
Paradigm Publishers, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1612054471, $115.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1612054471/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 161205448X, $31.45
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/161205448X/centerforimmigra
Book Description: A decade of political infighting over comprehensive immigration reform appears at an end, after the 2012 election motivated the Republican Party to work with the Democratic Party's immigration reform agendas. However, a guest worker program within current reform proposals is generally overlooked by the public and by activist organizations. Also overlooked is significant corporate lobbying that affects legislation. This updated edition critically examines the new guest worker program included in the White House and in the Congressional bipartisan committee's immigrant reform blueprints. It describes how the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO agreed on guidelines for a new guest worker program to be included in the final bipartisan immigration reform proposal. Gonzalez shows how guest worker programs stand within a history of utilizing controlled, cheap, disposable labor--with lofty projections rarely upheld.
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Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home, Youth, Gender, Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia
By Ala Sirriyeh
Ashgate Pub Co., 208 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1409444953, $94.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409444953/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 991 KB, ASIN: B00E8GONQO, 217 pp., $79.96
Book Description: In recent years there has been growing interest in the experiences of young people seeking asylum in Europe. While the significance of the role of age is recognized, both youth transitions and trajectories beyond the age of eighteen are still largely unexplored, the role and impact of mobility predominantly centering on experiences of movement from country of origin to country of settlement. Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home contends that in considering migration and settlement experiences of young refugees it is also important to consider the role of their mobility through age and transitions in the country of settlement. Based on narrative research with young refugees, this book explores how migration journeys are intertwined with life course journeys and transitions into adulthood, shedding light on the manner in which gender intersects with age in experiences of migration and settlement, with close attention to the processes by which 'home' is understood and constructed. Through the concept of 'home' the book draws together and reflects on interconnections between integration in areas such as education or housing and experiences of social networks. Examining experiences of the asylum process and the manner in which they are interwoven within a wider narrative of home both within and beyond, Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home will be of interest to social scientists working in the areas of migration, asylum, intersectionality and the life course.
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Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Separation
By Michael S. Merry
Palgrave Macmillan, 232 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1137033703, $71.58
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137033703/centerforimmigra
Book Description: There is much evidence to suggest that segregation creates and sustains inequality, and undermines the social trust necessary for shared citizenship. Yet in this highly original study the idea that integration is the only or even the best remedy for these ills is forthrightly challenged. Carefully framing his analysis using the political principles of liberty, equality and citizenship, and attentive to the contextual realities for minority groups on both sides of the Atlantic, Michael Merry challenges many of our most cherished and time-honored beliefs in integration. Defending a circumscribed notion of 'voluntary separation', Merry argues that for many stigmatized groups it is not 'integration' but rather an imaginative, pragmatic and organized response to the terms of one's segregated experience that may facilitate possibilities to pursue important forms of equality and to cultivate civic virtues that promote the good of one's community.
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The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden
By Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow
NYU Press, 284 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1479834769, $19.56
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1479834769/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Environmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in Colorado, under the guise of environmental protection, passed a resolution limiting immigration, bolstering the privilege of the wealthy and scapegoating Latin American newcomers for the area’s current and future ecological problems. This might have escaped attention save for the fact that this wasn’t some rinky-dink backwater. It was Aspen, Colorado, playground of the rich and famous and the West’s most elite ski town.
Tracking the lives of immigrant laborers through several years of exhaustive fieldwork and archival digging, The Slums of Aspen tells a story that brings together some of the most pressing social problems of the day: environmental crises, immigration, and social inequality. Park and Pellow demonstrate how these issues are intertwined in the everyday experiences of people who work and live in this wealthy tourist community.
Offering a new understanding of a little known class of the super-elite, of low-wage immigrants (mostly from Latin America) who have become the foundation for service and leisure in this famous resort, and of the recent history of the ski industry, Park and Pellow expose the ways in which Colorado boosters have reshaped the landscape and altered ecosystems in pursuit of profit and pleasure. Of even greater urgency, they frame how environmental degradation and immigration reform have become inextricably linked in many regions of the American West, a dynamic that interferes with the efforts of valorous environmental causes, often turning away from conservation and toward insidious racial privilege.
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Stand Together or Fall Apart: Professionals Working with Immigrant Families
By Judith K. Bernhard
Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd., 128 pp.
Paperback, ISBN: 1552665259, $14.22
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1552665259/centerforimmigra
Book Description: An exploration of one of the most important topics debated across Western countries, this analysis challenges traditional attitudes toward immigration and integration. The conventional strategy employed by social workers, teachers, and other social service practitioners is decidedly Euro-centric and treats immigrants as if they have little cultural- or community-based means of integrating of their own. The strategies outlined in this book are built on the argument that immigrants have deep cultural, familial and communal resources to aid their integration and that these resources need to be tapped by social workers, teachers, counselors, settlement workers, early childhood educators, and child and youth care workers alike. Providing several alternative, integrated, research-based programs that combine cultural resources, traditions, and family dynamics, this accessible, concise book will help practitioners to better understand the struggles of immigrants and thus be better able to assist them as they adjust to life in a new country.
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Human Mobility
Boletim 98, Ano IX, July 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/boletins/Boletim_Mobilidade_Humana_-_ano_X_n._98.pdf
English language content:
Eritreans sign 'willful emigration'; dozens to be deported
Immigration authority implements AG-approved procedure, signs hundreds of detained asylum seekers on 'willful emigration' papers. Human rights groups oppose procedure, saying asylum seekers' access to fair process was denied
By Omri Efraim
The Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration has begun signing asylum seekers to "willful emigration" documents, allowing to deport them from Israel.
According to Amnesty International and the Israeli Hotline for Migrant Workers, the process was put into effect in recent days among Eritrean asylum seekers currently held at the Saharonim detention center.
Some two weeks ago, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced the procedure was authorized. The authorization relates to Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1446-eritreans-sign-willful-emigration-dozens-to-be-deported
Australia to Send New Migrants to Papua New Guinea
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“From now on, any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees,” Rudd told reporters.
The move, described by Rudd as “very hard line,” aims to deter an escalating number of asylum seekers who travel to Australia in rickety fishing boats from poor, war-torn homelands through other countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
The growing influx is a major political problem for Rudd’s Labor Party, which is the clear underdog in elections expected within months.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke says the rule will apply to refugees who arrive from Friday.
Asylum seekers who arrive by boat would continue to have their refugee claims assessed in Australia and at detention camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1479-australia-to-send-new-migrants-to-papua-new-guinea
Malaysia displaces Qatar as top destination for Nepali workers
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Foreign employment agencies and government officials have attributed the increased hiring by Malaysia to multiple factors including a slowdown in recruitment of workers from other labour sending countries like Indonesia and Myanmar.
Moreover, the Malaysian government has stopped the employment of Bangladeshi workers. The two countries had agreed to send workers through government-to-government channel but it could not materialize due to pressure from the private sector in Bangladesh.
Officials of the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA) said there has been a rise in the number of women going for industrial jobs in Malaysia. Last year, 7,165 women went to Malaysia to work in the industrial and plantation sectors. “This is a new phenomenon. There will be greater demand for women in these sectors in the coming year,” said Kumud Khanal, former NAFEA second secretary, whose company sends workers to Malaysia.
According to manpower agencies, there will be greater demand from Malaysia this fiscal too. “Malaysian state-operated plantations and factories are slowly shifting their attention to Nepali workers after they could not recruit workers from Bangladesh. There will be requests for thousands of workers from state-run agencies.”
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1497-malaysia-displaces-qatar-as-top-destination-for-nepali-workers
Comptroller to investigate claims of ‘forced contraception implants’ given to Ethiopian immigrants
Women reportedly told birth control shot was "vaccination," MK Orly Levy-Abecassis calls the reports "worrisome and shocking."
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich and Yonah Jeremy Bob
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State Comptroller Joseph Shapira will investigate claims that Ethiopian women were given birth control implants while waiting approval for aliya in their native country, and continued to get the implant “against their will” once in Israel “to reduce their birthrate,” he told MK Orly Levy-Abecassis on Sunday.
In a public letter, Shapira said that “it appears that some of the people did not remotely understand what was happening at the time” when they were being given birth control.
Shapira also told Army Radio that, “the issue is important to me, both in its substance and in light of the fact that we are talking about the Ethiopian community.”
The Comptroller has been a stalwart supporter of the Ethiopian community, both ensuring diversity in his office and investing significant resources in his reports on issues impacting the community.
Several ministries and the Jewish Agency have reportedly denied knowledge of the issue.
The Yisrael Beytenu MK said that the findings of a recent report by the Knesset research department that dealt with the matter were “worrisome and shocking.” Their report maintained that the women were told they needed the implant under the of the upper arm because it was a “vaccination.”
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1452-comptroller-to-investigate-claims-of-forced-contraception-implants-given-to-ethiopian-immigrants
Rape and domestic violence follow Syrian women into refugee camps
By Phoebe Greenwood
Children have witnessed massacres, mothers seen their sons killed, families watched their homes looted and burned. But there is one act of violence that refugees from the Syrian crisis will not discuss.
The conflict has been distinguished by a brutal targeting of women. The United Nations has gathered evidence of systematic sexual assault of women and girls by combatants in Syria, and describes rape as "a weapon of war". Outside the conflict, in sprawling camps and overloaded host communities, aid workers report a soaring number of incidents of domestic violence and rampant sexual exploitation.
But this is a deeply conservative society. The endemic violence suffered by Syrian women and girls is hidden under a cultural blanket of fear, shame and silence that even international aid workers are loth to lift.
Dr Manal Tahtamouni is the director of the Institute for Family Health, a local NGO funded by the European commission that was among the first to open a women's clinic in Zaatari refugee camp. When asked, she says, most women will not admit to being raped. They will say they have seen others being raped.
"This is a conservative area. If you have been raped, you wouldn't talk openly about it because you would be stigmatised for your entire life. The phenomenon is massively under-reported," Tahtamouni says. Only after a long process of building trust through one-on-one counselling sessions might a rape survivor talk. Of the 300 to 400 cases her clinics receive in a day, 100 are female victims of violence, mostly domestic.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1502-rape-and-domestic-violence-follow-syrian-women-into-refugee-camps
Pope Francis visits Italy's migrant island of Lampedusa
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The Pope called for a "reawakening of consciences" to counter the "indifference" shown to migrants.
"We have lost a sense of brotherly responsibility," he said, and "have forgotten how to cry" for migrants lost at sea.
He denounced the traffickers who exploited migrants and took great risks with their lives.
Francis, whose own ancestors immigrated to Argentina from Italy, has previously stood in sympathy with impoverished illegal migrants.
Lampedusa's native population of 6,000 is often outnumbered by thousands of migrants in improvised camps around the island.
The UN refugee agency says 8,400 migrants have landed in Italy and Malta in the first six months of the year, almost twice as many as last year, but down on 2011, when tens of thousands fled north Africa during the Arab Spring.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1425-pope-francis-visits-italy-s-migrant-island-of-lampedusa
Refugees in Greece face identity struggles
By Ali M Latifi
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Speaking to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity, due to fear of retribution from far-right groups or angry family members back home, those who attend the Sunday Mass and other similar gatherings at the centre say they come for a variety of reasons.
“Why should it be odd, it’s a house of God,” Ahmad, an Afghan asylum seeker in his mid-twenties says when asked if he feels any sort of tension in such an environment.
“It’s a house of God”, he repeats.
Staring out on to the alleyway directly in front of the centre’s now open door, Ahmad solemnly says “we are fed here”.
For asylum seekers, who say they can make no more than 10 euros per day by doing manual labour, the centre is a vital source of sustenance.
Rami, 17, wearing a bright yellow t-shirt, looks up from his plate and says: “I listen, but it all goes in one ear and immediately out the other.”
Though he says “it’s all about the food”, Rami also points to another feature that sets this centre apart from the estimated 10 others like it around the Greek capital – the Christian pastors are Iranian.
As the religious service ends, the chairs are quickly rearranged around plastic foldout tables and groups of Afghans and Iranians cluster around to reminisce and joke in their common language.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1504-refugees-in-greece-face-identity-struggles
Major new initiative to protect women and girls from modern-day slavery
ILO and DFID team up to combat the trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East.
Over 100,000 girls and women in South Asia are set to benefit from a new initiative by the International Labour Organization and the UK Department for International Development, which aims to prevent trafficking within the region and to the Middle East.
The Work In Freedom programme, funded by UK aid, will focus on trafficking in to domestic labour and the garment sector through known labour trafficking routes from Bangladesh, India and Nepal, to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and India.
Head of the ILO Special Action Programme on Forced Labour, Beate Andrees said, “trafficking reduces labour to a commodity and opens workers to the worst kind of abuses. Work in Freedom is a major step in helping to prevent women and girls being tricked and trapped into this situation.”
Tens of thousands of women will receive training as part of the programme, designed to help them avoid being trafficked and to secure a legal contract and a decent wage. This will include improving understanding of their rights, how to organize collectively and vocational training to help ensure access to decent jobs in destination countries.
At the same time the programme will crack down on unscrupulous recruitment practices, including the charging of extortionate, illegal recruitment fees. The ILO estimates that over $12billion worth of income a year is withheld from those in forced labour in Asia and the Middle East.
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http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1465-major-new-initiative-to-protect-women-and-girls-from-modern-day-slavery
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 39, No. 8, August 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/current
Articles:
Dreaming of Seamless Borders: ICTs and the Pre-Emptive Governance of Mobility in Europe
By Dennis Broeders and James Hampshire
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.787512#.UfrNnazOAeA
Inter-Ethnic Neighbourhood Acquaintances of Migrants and Natives in Germany: On the Brokering Roles of Inter-Ethnic Partners and Children
By Merlin Schaeffer
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.778147#.UfrNsazOAeA
Migrants, Cohesion and the Cultural Politics of the State: Critical Perspectives on the Management of Diversity
By Davide Pero
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.787511#.UfrNxqzOAeA
Somali Associations' Trajectories in Italy and Finland: Leaders Building Trust and Finding Legitimisation
By Paivi Pirkkalainen, Petra Mezzetti, and Matteo Guglielmo
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.778146#.UfrN8qzOAeA
The Complexity of Refugees' Return Decision-Making in a Protracted Exile: Beyond the Home-Coming Model and Durable Solutions
By Naohiko Omata
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.778149#.UfrOB6zOAeA
Bosses of Their Own: Are the Children of Immigrants More Likely to be Self-Employed than their Parents?
By Feng Hou, Teresa Abada, and Yuqian Lu
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.778154#.UfrOHazOAeA
Admission-Group Salary Differentials in the United States: The Significance of the Labour-Market Institutional Selection of High-Skilled Workers
By Lingxin Hao
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.787513#.UfrOLqzOAeA
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Migration News
Vol. 20 No. 3, July 2013
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/
THE AMERICAS
Senate Approves S 744
A bipartisan group of eight senators introduced the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S 744) in April 2013. The Senate Judiciary Committee sent the bill to the full Senate on a 13-5 vote in May 2013, after Democrats agreed to slightly loosen restrictions on H-1B visas and not to offer immigration visas to foreign same-sex partners of US citizens.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3838_0_2_0
Immigration Reform: House, States
Majority House Republicans in mid-July 2013 said they would not take up S 744 because they did not trust the Obama administration to secure the border and prevent unauthorized migration. Instead, they endorsed a piecemeal or step-by-step approach to immigration reform, and said that there was no urgency to enacting immigration reform legislation.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3839_0_2_0
DHS: Border, Interior, USCIS, DACA
Border. The number of unauthorized foreigners apprehended just inside US borders rose in 2013, suggesting that about 380,000 will be apprehended in FY13. The number apprehended in FY12, 365,873, was up slightly from the low of 340,252 apprehensions in FY11.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3840_0_2_0
Jobs, Foreign-Born, H-1B
The US economy continued to create jobs; June 2013 marked the 33rd consecutive month of job gains, and the unemployment rate was stable at 7.6 percent. There were 11.8 million unemployed workers, including over four million who were jobless for at least six months.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3841_0_2_0
Canada, Mexico
Canada in 2011 had 6.8 million foreign-born residents, making almost 21 percent of the 33 million Canadian residents immigrants. Of the 1.2 million immigrants who arrived in Canada between 2006 and 2011, over 57 percent were Asian, including 13 percent Filipinos, 11 percent Chinese and 10 percent Indians.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3842_0_2_0
EUROPE
EU: Migration, Borders
The European Commission in April 2013 unveiled plans to make it easier for EU nationals to seek jobs in other EU member states. The Commission wants each member state to establish a contact point for EU nationals who want to enter and work and to set up procedures for migrants to seek remedies if they suffer discrimination.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3843_0_4_0
UK: Migrants
The populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which calls for Britain to leave the European Union and to control immigration strictly, won 23 percent of the vote in May 2, 2013 local elections. UKIP leader Nigel Farage said that opposition to immigration will help UKIP to enter the British Parliament in elections expected in 2015.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3844_0_4_0
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Rural Migration News
Vol. 19, No. 3, July 2013
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/
RURAL AMERICA
California: Jobs, San Joaquin Valley
California's unemployment rate fell to nine percent in April 2013, the lowest rate in four years but 1.5 percentage points higher than the US rate of 7.7 percent. The rate fell in part because more people stopped looking for work. California's labor force participation rate, the share of residents 16 and older employed or looking for work, was 63 percent, the lowest level in a decade.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1762_0_2_0
IMMIGRATION
Immigration Reform: Agriculture
S 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, would legalize currently unauthorized farm workers and
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1769_0_4_0
Farm Labor Shortages: 2013
Farm papers complained of labor shortages in summer 2013. The California Farm Bureau's weekly Ag Alert on June 12, 2013 quoted FLC Carlos Casta?eda in San Luis Obispo county saying that he has begun to plan ahead so that his crews are not idle: "If I have one crew wrapping up at 2 o'clock, then I can send them down the road to help with another grower so he doesn't lose his crop."
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1770_0_4_0
H-2A; H-2B
H-2A. A July 2013 Government Accountability Office warned that DOL data on employer applications for H-2A visas to fill farm jobs are unreliable
Canada, ANZ
Canada. The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) brings farm workers from Mexico and several Caribbean island countries to work seasonally in Canada. In Ontario, the province with the most SAWP migrants, the farmer-controlled Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (FARMS) handles the paperwork and transportation for about 15,000 SAWP workers a year.
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1772_0_4_0
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