Immigration Reading, 8/23/18

Immigration Reading, 8/23/18 Support the Center for Immigration Studies by donating on line here: http://cis.org/donate GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 1. State Department Visa Bulletin 2. DHS entry/exit overstay report for 2017 3. CRS report on trends in DHS appropriations 4. GAO reports on criminal aliens, nonimmigrant visas, and DHS's major acquisitions 5. Senate testimony on protecting unaccompanied alien children from human smugglers and abuse 6. District Court opinion in NAACP v. Trump 7. Finland: Population statistics 8. Norway: Population statistics, report on immigrant unemployment 9. Germany: Report on benefits for asylum seekers 10. N.Z.: Statistics on annual net migration REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC. 11. CIS interview with USCIS Director Francis Cissna 12. Two new reports from TRAC 13. New report from Pew Research Center 14. "Shortchanged: The Big Business Behind the Low Wage J-1 Au Pair Program" 15. Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute 16. Seven new discussion papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor 17. Ten (10) new papers from the Social Science Research Network 18. Fourteen (14) new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog 19. Recent report from the OECD 20. U.K.: Two new briefing papers from MigrationWatch 21. U.K.: Two new reports from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre BOOKS 22. Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship 23. Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration 24. From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century 25. Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants 26. Humans on the Run: Of Exiles and Asylums 27. Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration 28. The European Union and the Eurozone Under Stress: Challenges and Solutions for Repairing Fault Lines in the European Project JOURNALS 29. Comparative Migration Studies 30. Ethnic and Racial Studies 31. IZA Journal of Development and Migration 32. Journal of the Social Sciences 33. Mobilities 34. REMHU - Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 35. The Social Contract 1. State Department Visa Bulletin Vol. X, No. 21, September 2018 https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Bulletins/visabulletin_september2018.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 2. Fiscal Year 2017 Entry/Exit Overstay Report U.S. Department of Homeland Security, August 7, 2018 https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/18_0807_S1_Entry-Exit-Overstay_Report.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 3. New from the Congressional Research Service Trends in the Timing and Size of DHS Appropriations: In Brief By William L. Painter August 7, 2018 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R44604.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 4. New from the General Accountability Office Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, Convictions, Costs, and Removals Government Accountability Office, GAO-18-433, Published July 17, 2018, Released August 16, 2018 Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693162.pdf Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-433 Nonimmigrant Visas: Outcomes of Applications and Changes in Response to 2017 Executive Actions Government Accountability Office, GAO-18-608, Published August 7, 2018, Released August 14, 2018 Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693763.pdf Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693761.pdf Our Annual "Quick Look" at Homeland Security's Major Acquisitions WatchBlog, August 21, 2018 https://blog.gao.gov/2018/08/21/our-annual-quick-look-at-homeland-securitys-major-acquisitions/ Return to Top ******** ******** 5. Thursday, August 16, 2018 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs The Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/oversight-of-efforts-to-protect-unaccompanied-alien-children-from-human-trafficking-and-abuse Oversight of Efforts to Protect Unaccompanied Alien Children from Human Trafficking and Abuse Member Statements: Chairman Rob Portman https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018.08.16%20UAC%20Hearing%20-%20RP%20Opening%20Statement%20Draft%20-%20final%20(Renn)%20(2)1.pdf Ranking Member Thomas R. Carper https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Statement%20of%20Ranking%20Member%20Tom%20Carper1.pdf Witness testimony: Richard M. Hudson Acting Chief, Law Enforcement Operations Directorate U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Guadian%20and%20Hudson%20Joint%20Testimony1.pdf Robert Guadian Acting Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations West U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Guadian%20and%20Hudson%20Joint%20Testimony.pdf Commander Jonathan D. White U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Federal Health Coordinating Official for the 2018 UAC Reunification Effort, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/White%20Testimony.pdf James R. McHenry Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review U.S. Department of Justice https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/McHenry%20Testimony.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 6. NAACP v. Trump United States District Court for the District of Columbia, August 17, 2018 https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2017cv1907-32 Holding: For the foregoing reasons, the government's motion for a stay pending appeal will be granted in part, and the Court will stay its order of vacatur as it applies to initial DACA applications and applications for DACA-based advance parole. The government's motion to clarify will also be granted. A separate order has been issued on this date. Return to Top ******** ******** 7. Finland's preliminary population figure 5,517,887 at the end of July Statistics Finland, August 17, 2018 https://www.stat.fi/til/vamuu/2018/07/vamuu_2018_07_2018-08-17_tie_001_en.html Excerpt: According to the preliminary statistics for July, 16,926 persons immigrated to Finland from abroad and 8,195 persons emigrated from Finland. The number of immigrants was 1,033 lower and the number of emigrants 1,132 higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year. In all, 5,131 of the immigrants and 5,216 of the emigrants were Finnish citizens. Return to Top ******** ******** 8. Population and population changes Statistics Norway, August 22, 2018 https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/folkemengde/kvartal Summary: 9,600 more inhabitants 2nd quarter Immigration: 10,747 Emigration: 6,145 Net immigration: 4,602 +++ Registered unemployed among immigrants August 21, 2018 https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/innvarbl/kvartal Summary: 5.3 % of immigrants are registered as unemployed. Return to Top ******** ******** 9. Benefits for asylum seekers, 2017: roughly 468,000 people entitled to benefits Government net expenditure on benefits paid in accordance with the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers at 5.6 billion euros Statistics Germany, August 23, 2018 https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2018/08/PE18_312_222.html;jsessionid=4AA816C0985AC3550430BC97D4F8F1DA.InternetLive1 Summary: At the end of 2017, a total of 468,000 people received standard benefits in accordance with the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers (AsylbLG). That was a 36% decrease compared with the previous year (728,000 people). The number of recipients went down for the second consecutive time Table: https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online/link/tabelleErgebnis/22221-0001&language=en Return to Top ******** ******** 10. Annual net migration eases but rate still high Statistics New Zealand, August 20, 2018 https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/annual-net-migration-eases-but-rate-still-high Summary: Annual net migration in the July 2018 year was 63,800. Migrant arrivals were 129,000 and migrant departures were 65,200. +++ Migration drives high population growth August 13, 2018 https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/migration-drives-high-population-growth Excerpt: "Net migration has been the main driver of population growth in recent years, reaching a peak of 72,400 migrants in the July 2017 year," population insights senior manager Brooke Theyers said. "However, natural increase continues to contribute around 30,000 people a year." The latest population figure is up 443,200 from 30 June 2013, which is equivalent to adding the population of the Waikato region since 2013. Return to Top ******** ******** 11. Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Director of USCIS Francis Cissna Director discusses legal immigration challenges By Francis Cissna and Jessica M. Vaughan Center for Immigration Studies, August 16, 2018 https://cis.org/Transcript/Immigration-Newsmaker-Conversation-Director-USCIS-Francis-Cissna Video: https://www.cis.org/Immigration-Newsmaker/Immigration-Newsmaker-Conversation-Director-USCIS-Francis-Cissna Return to Top ******** ******** 12. New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University Immigration Prosecutions for June 2018 August 1, 2018 http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/immigration/monthlyjun18/fil/ Excerpt: "Reentry of deported alien" (Title 8 U.S.C Section 1326) was the most frequent recorded lead charge. "Reentry of deported alien" (Title 8 U.S.C Section 1326) was ranked 1 a year ago, while it was ranked 1 five years ago. Ranked 2nd in frequency was the lead charge "Bringing in and harboring certain aliens" under Title 8 U.S.C Section 1324. "Bringing in and harboring certain aliens" under Title 8 U.S.C Section 1324 was ranked 2 a year ago, while it was ranked 2 five years ago. Ranked 3rd was "Entry of alien at improper time or place; etc." under Title 8 U.S.C Section 1325. "Entry of alien at improper time or place; etc." under Title 8 U.S.C Section 1325 was ranked 4 a year ago, while it was ranked 4 five years ago. Among these top ten lead charges, the one showing the greatest increase in prosecutions — up 750 percent — compared to one year ago was Title 21 U.S.C Section 952 that involves " Importation of controlled substances". This was the same statute that had the largest increase — 750 % — when compared with five years ago. +++ Immigration Convictions for June 2018 August 1, 2018 http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/immigration/monthlyjun18/gui/ Excerpt: Among these top ten lead charges, the one showing the greatest increase in convictions — up 1200 percent — compared to one year ago was Title 18 U.S.C Section 1543 that involves " Forgery or false use of passport ". Compared to five years ago, the largest increase — 372 percent — was registered for convictions under "Entry of alien at improper time or place; etc." (Title 8 U.S.C Section 1325 ). Again among the top ten lead charges, the one showing the sharpest decline in convictions compared to one year ago — down 5 percent — was "Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud US" (Title 18 U.S.C Section 371 ). This was the same statute that had the largest decrease — 34.5 % — when compared with five years ago. Return to Top ******** ******** 13. Immigrants or children of immigrants make up at least 12% of Congress By Katherine Schaeffer and Drew DeSilver Pew Research Center, August 21, 2018 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/21/immigrants-or-children-of-immigrants-make-up-at-least-12-of-congress/ Return to Top ******** ******** 14. Shortchanged: The Big Business Behind the Low Wage J-1 Au Pair Program International Labor Recruitment Working Group, August 2018 https://fairlaborrecruitment.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shortchanged.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 15. New from the Migration Policy Institute Shifting Tides: Radical-Right Populism and Immigration Policy in Europe and the United States By Martin A. Schain August 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/radical-right-immigration-europe-united-states Once Relatively Obscure, ICE Becomes a Lightning Rod in Immigration Debate By Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter Migration Information Source Policy Beat, August 22, 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/once-relatively-obscure-ice-becomes-lightning-rod-immigration-debate Connecting Across Nationalities: Inter-Ethnic Relationships in a Kuwaiti Workplace By Batul K. Sadliwala Migration Information Source Feature, August 15, 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/connecting-across-nationalities-inter-ethnic-relationships-kuwaiti-workplace Return to Top ******** ******** 16. New from the Institute for the Study of Labor The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg By Josef Kjellander, Viktor Nilsson, and Aico van Vuuren IZA Discussion Paper No. 11726, August 2018 https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/11726/the-impact-of-the-announcement-of-temporary-building-sites-for-refugees-on-house-prices-in-gothenburg Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State By Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter, and Nico Pestel IZA Discussion Paper No. 11725, August 2018 https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/11725/immigrant-voters-taxation-and-the-size-of-the-welfare-state The Skill Development of Children of Immigrants By Marie C. Hull and Jonathan Norris IZA Discussion Paper No. 11724, August 2018 https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/11724/the-skill-development-of-children-of-immigrants Labour Immigration and Union Strength By Henning Finseraas, Marianne Roed, and Pal Schone IZA Discussion Paper No. 11723, August 2018 https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/11723/labour-immigration-and-union-strength Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement By Kelvin Seah IZA Discussion Paper No. 11685, July 2018 https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/11685/do-you-speak-my-language-the-effect-of-sharing-a-teachers-native-language-on-student-achievement Occupational Barriers and the Labor Market Penalty from Lack of Legal Status By Francesc Ortega and Amy Hsin IZA Discussion Paper No. 11680, July 2018 http://ftp.iza.org/dp11680.pdf Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants By Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic, and Murat G. Kirdar IZA Discussion Paper No. 11679, July 2018 https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/11679/purchasing-power-parity-and-the-saving-behavior-of-temporary-migrants Return to Top ******** ******** 17. New from the Social Science Research Network 1. Property Musings at the U.S.-Mexico Border U of Pittsburgh Law RPS Submitter, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Maryland Journal of International Law, Vol. 33, p. 162 (2018) U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-26 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3235689 2. When Westlaw Fuels Ice Surveillance: Ethics in the Big Data Policing Era By Sarah Lamdan, CUNY School of Law New York University Review of Law & Social Change, Forthcoming https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3231431 3. 'Say What?' Using Interpreters on Children's Cases By Jennifer Baum, St. John's University School of Law St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-0018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3235701 4. The Dreamer Divide: Aspiring for a More Inclusive Immigrants' Rights Movement By Adrienne Pon, Stanford University School of Law Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3223695 5. Pereira v. Sessions: A Jurisdictional Surprise for Immigration Courts By Kit Johnson, University of Oklahoma College of Law Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 50, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211334 6. Foreign Policy Interpretive Lenses and State Migration Law: Realism, Isolationism and Liberalism Thought, and U.S. Immigration Policy By Robbie J. Totten, American Jewish University UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, Vol. 24, pp. 135-177, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3116251 7. Can Skilled Immigration Raise Innovation?: Evidence From Canadian Cities By Joel Blit, University of Waterloo; Mikal Skuterud, Statistics Canada; and Jue Zhang, University of Waterloo Posted: August 16, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3225867 8. Being Deprived of the Right to Effective Counsel in Removal Proceedings: Why the Eighth Circuit's Decision in Rafiyev Must Be Overturned By Charles Ellison, Creighton University School of Law Creighton Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 523, 2016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3224671 9. Legal Remedies in Asylum and Immigration Law: The Balance between Effectiveness and Procedural Autonomy? Central European Public Administration Review, 16(1), pp. 67–79, 2018 By Alžbeta Kralova, Masaryk University Faculty of Law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3222502 10. Labour Market Responses to Immigration: Evidence from Internal Migration Driven by Weather Shocks By Marieke Kleemans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Economics and Jeremy Magruder, University of California, Berkeley Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics The Economic Journal, Vol. 128, Issue 613, pp. 2032-2065, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3225460 Return to Top ******** ******** 18. Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog 1. Donald Trump: Capitalizing (Again) on Human Tragedy -- The Mollie Tibbetts Case August 23, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/donald-trump-capitalizing-again-on-human-tragedy-the-molly-tibbetts-case.html 2. Immigration Article of the Day: Legal and Extra-Legal Challenges to Immigrant Detention By Prerna Lal August 23, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigration-article-of-the-day-legal-and-extra-legal-challenges-to-immigrant-detention-by-prenan-lal.html 3. Immigration Article of the Day: Enforcing/Protection: The Danger of Chevron in Refugee Act Cases By Maureen Sweeney August 23, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigration-article-of-the-day-enforcingprotection-the-danger-of-chevron-in-refugee-act-cases-by-mau.html 4. 'César's Choice': The conditions and decisions facing reunited immigrant families--a conversation with Prof. Lauren Gilbert August 22, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/césars-choice-the-conditions-and-decisions-facing-reunited-immigrant-families-a-conversation-with-prof-lauren-gilbert.html 5. Trump's Assault on Authorized Migration August 21, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/trumps-assault-on-authorized-migration.html 6. Migration to Europe - in Charts! August 18, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/migration-to-europe-in-charts-.html 7. Immigration Article of the Day: A National Study of Immigration Detention in the United States By Emily Ryo and Ian Peacock August 18, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigration-article-of-the-day-a-national-study-of-immigration-detention-in-the-united-states-by-emi.html 8. Executive Office for Immigration Review Announces Largest Immigration Judge Investiture Since At Least 2010 August 17, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/executive-office-for-immigration-review-announces-largest-immigration-judge-investiture-since-at-least-2010.html 9. Attorney General Sessions Continues on Quest to Speed Up Removal Cases August 17, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/attorney-general-sessions-order-to-speed-immigration-cases.html 10. Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention August 16, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/detaining-families-a-study-of-asylum-adjudication-in-family-detention-.html 11. Amid Legal and Political Uncertainty, DACA Remains More Important Than Ever August 15, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/amid-legal-and-political-uncertainty-daca-remains-more-important-than-ever.html 12. India's Citizenship List August 11, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/indias-citizenship-list.html 13. Exporting Murder: US Deportations & the Spread of Violence By Christian Ambrosius and David A. Leblang August 11, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigration-article-of-the-day-exporting-murder-us-deportations-the-spread-of-violence-by-christian-.html 14. The Law and Policy of Refugee Cities: Special Economic Zones for Migrants By Michael Castle-Miller August 10, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigrtaion-article-of-the-day-the-law-and-policy-of-refugee-cities-special-economic-zones-for-migra.html Return to Top ******** ******** 19. New from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Resilience of Students with an Immigrant Background Factors that Shape Well-being March 2018 https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/the-resilience-of-students-with-an-immigrant-background_9789264292093-en#page5 Return to Top ******** ******** 20. Impact of immigration on UK population growth MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper No. 452, August 23, 2018 https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/452 Distortion of the ICT visa system MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper No. 451, August 14, 2018 https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/451 Return to Top ******** ******** 21. New from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre The ethics of refugees By Matthew J Gibney August 10, 2018 https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/the-ethics-of-refugees Self-Reliance in Kalobeyei? Socio-Economic Outcomes for Refugees in North-West Kenya By Alexander Betts, Remco Geervliet, Claire MacPherson, Naohiko Omata, Cory Rodgers, and Olivier Sterck August 2, 2018 https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/self-reliance-in-kalobeyei-socio-economic-outcomes-for-refugees-in-north-west-kenya Return to Top ******** ******** 22. Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship By Rainer Baubock and John Rundell Routledge, 356 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 113862585X, $113.57 https://www.amazon.com/Blurred-Boundaries-Migration-Ethnicity-Citizenship/dp/113862585X/ref=sr_1_88 Book Description: First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of national cultures - either a single one, or a dominant one, or a federation of several ones. However, political and economic developments have upset traditional patterns and have blurred established boundaries. Ongoing immigration from diverse origins has inserted new ethnic minorities into formerly homogenous populations. Democratic liberties and rights provided opportunities for old and new marginalized minorities to resist assimilation and to assert identities. The resulting pattern of multiculturalism is different from earlier ones. Often cultural boundaries are neither clearly defined nor do they simply dissolve by assimilation into a dominant group - they have become fuzzy and a constant source of real or imagined hostility and anxiety. A proliferation of mixed identities goes together with stronger claims for cultural rights and escalating hostilities between ethnic minorities and national majorities. In many countries multiculturalism is today perceived as a challenge rather than as an enrichment. The book focuses on the question how institution and policies of liberal democracies can cope with these trends. The book addresses two tasks: 1) To compare different national contexts and types of ethnic groups (immigrant and indigenous, linguistic and religious minorities) and to discuss how policies of multicultural integration have to be adapted in order to cope with such differences. 2) To evaluate the impact of common rends of globalization which link societies and encourage convergence between national models of multicultural integration. Return to Top ******** ******** 23. Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration By Ayse Çaglar and Nina Glick Schiller Duke University Press Books, 296 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0822370441, $99.95 https://www.amazon.com/Migrants-City-Making-Dispossession-Displacement-Regeneration/dp/0822370441/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 Paperback, ISBN: 0822370565, $25.95 https://www.amazon.com/Migrants-City-Making-Dispossession-Displacement-Regeneration/dp/0822370565/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 Kindle, 13183 KB, ASIN: B07G6K82NM, $25.95 https://www.amazon.com/Migrants-City-Making-Dispossession-Displacement-Regeneration-ebook/dp/B07G6K82NM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 Book Description: In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Çaglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their former standing—Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle/Saale, Germany—Çaglar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society's periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çaglar and Glick Schiller explore their multifaceted role as city-makers, including their relationships to municipal officials, urban developers, political leaders, business owners, community organizers, and social justice movements. In each city Çaglar and Glick Schiller met with migrants from around the world; attended cultural events, meetings, and religious services; and patronized migrant-owned businesses, allowing them to gain insights into the ways in which migrants build social relationships with non-migrants and participate in urban restoration and development. In exploring the changing historical contingencies within which migrants live and work, Çaglar and Glick Schiller highlight how city-making invariably involves engaging with the far-reaching forces that dispossess people of their land, jobs, resources, neighborhoods, and hope. Return to Top ******** ******** 24. From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century By John Weber The University of North Carolina Press, 336 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 1469625237, $30.75 https://www.amazon.com/South-Texas-Nation-Exploitation-Borderlands/dp/1469625237/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 Paperback, ISBN: 1469645572, $27.95 https://www.amazon.com/South-Texas-Nation-Exploitation-Borderlands/dp/1469645572/ref=mt_paperback Kindle, 2588 KB, ASIN: B00W1VH8LU, 326 pp., $9.99 https://www.amazon.com/South-Texas-Nation-Exploitation-Borderlands-ebook/dp/B00W1VH8LU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 Book Description: In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend. Return to Top ******** ******** 25. Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants By Abigail Leslie Andrews University of California Press, 312 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0520299965, $80.75 https://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-Politics-Pathways-Mexican-Migrants/dp/0520299965/ref=mt_hardcover Paperback, ISBN: 0520299973, $29.95 https://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-Politics-Pathways-Mexican-Migrants/dp/0520299973/ref=mt_paperback Kindle, 2928 KB, ASIN: B07FZCWZWY, $28.45 https://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-Politics-Pathways-Mexican-Migrants-ebook/dp/B07FZCWZWY/ref=mt_kindle Book Description: In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politics offers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities' struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants' agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abets gendered violence. Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate, Undocumented Politics reveals how the excluded find space for political voice. Return to Top ******** ******** 6. 26. Humans on the Run: Of Exiles and Asylums By Kumar M. Tiku Oxford University Press, 320 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0199484813, $35.00 https://www.amazon.com/Humans-Run-Kumar-M-Tiku/dp/0199484813/ref=sr_1_16 Kindle, 1840 KB, ASIN: B07FYPCBQ5, $33.25 https://www.amazon.com/Humans-Run-Kumar-M-Tiku-ebook/dp/B07FYPCBQ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 Book Description: Humans on the Run is an attempt to preserve memories of several microscopic journeys embarked upon by humans, in time and space, often under conditions of utter and complete hopelessness. A collection of 24 stories that narrate first-person accounts of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers affected by multiple displacements due to political or sectarian strife across several countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, Eritrea, and South Sudan. Individuals in flight, long disconnected from the certitudes of a settled, anchored existence, map their journeys when moving to the next village, town, city, country, or continent, in the hope of beating certain death, sustained denigration, and systematic abuse. The stories take the reader to the heart of human existence, capturing a sliver of the textured human experiences encapsulated in each person on the run as a result of raging conflict in her or his backyard. Return to Top ******** ******** 27. Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration By Badri Narayan Routledge India, 190 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0367001195, $140.00 https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Emotional-Economy-Migration-Narayan/dp/0367001195/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 Kindle, 4115 KB, ASIN: B07GHJ96MZ, $54.95 https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Emotional-Economy-Migration-Narayan-ebook/dp/B07GHJ96MZ/ref=mt_kindle Book Description: This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial to contemporary times. The volume is an in-depth exploration of the flow of cultures and their interactions through a study of north Indian migrants who underwent two waves of emigration – from the Bhojpuri region to the Dutch colony of Suriname between 1873 and 1916 to work on sugar, coffee, cotton and cocoa plantations, and their descendants who moved to The Netherlands following the Surinamese independence in 1975. It compares this complex network of cultures among the migrants to the folk culture of the Bhojpuri region from where large-scale migration is still taking place. The work draws on archival records, secondary literature, folk songs, rare photographs, and extensive fieldwork across continents – the Bhojpuri region, Mumbai, Surat and Ghaziabad in India, and Suriname and The Netherlands. This second edition marks the 150th Anniversary of the Abolition of Indentured Labour. With a new prologue, an updated introduction and some revisions to the text, it will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, labour studies, sociology, modern Indian history, migration and diaspora studies. It will also interest the Indian diaspora, especially in Europe and the Americas. Return to Top ******** ******** 28. The European Union and the Eurozone under Stress: Challenges and Solutions for Repairing Fault Lines in the European Project By John Theodore, Jonathan Theodore, and Dimitrios Syrrakos Palgrave Macmillan, 247 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 3319522914, $132.50 https://www.amazon.com/European-Union-Eurozone-under-Stress/dp/3319522914/ref=mt_hardcover Paperback, ISBN: 3319848674, $142.49 https://www.amazon.com/European-Union-Eurozone-under-Stress/dp/3319848674/ref=mt_paperback Kindle, 1306 KB, ASIN: B0732RB2QD, $105.05 https://www.amazon.com/European-Union-Eurozone-under-Stress-ebook/dp/B0732RB2QD/ref=mt_kindle Book Description: This book explores the political and economic issues currently challenging EU member states affecting both the core Eurozone and non-core states. It analyses and explains how its own economic, and political, relationships have been critically influenced by fierce competition from its rivals in other major global economies, as well as by the systemic weaknesses in the economic and financial model it created. The book provides insight into both the underlying and more immediate economic and social challenges created by: its post-2007 enlargement to 28 countries - excluding the Balkan remnants of former Yugoslavia; the nature of the regulatory regime centralized in Brussels, and the host of issues and critiques this fosters; its 'open borders' policy and precious guiding principle, crystallized in the Schengen agreement; security weaknesses exacerbated by increasing volumes of migration; and the ongoing debt crises as the greatest existential challenge to the EU project. Featuring interviews with high profile key players from inside and outside Europe the book will examine new and underlying stresses - political and economic - to guide a greater understanding of the EU plan. Return to Top ******** ******** 29. Comparative Migration Studies Vol. 6, No. 25, August 2018 https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/ Latest articles: The relationship between social identification and local voting, and its interplay with personal and group discrimination among the descendants of Turkish immigrants in Western Europe By Maria Kranendonk Return to Top ******** ******** 30. Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 41, No. 13, October 2018 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmob20/13/4 Selected articles: Symposium: Tomás R. Jiménez's The other side of assimilation: how immigrants are changing American life Tomás R. Jiménez's The other side of assimilation: how immigrants are changing American life https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2018.1490794 A new angle to the assimilation debate in the US By Maurice Crul https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1490788 A spotlight on "established", as opposed to "newcomer", Americans By Miri Song https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1490789 The next generation of immigration scholarship By Natasha Warikoo https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2018.1490790 Diversity in our places, diversity in our lives By Philip Kasinitz https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2018.1490791 Pushing the conversation about assimilation forward By Tomás R. Jiménez https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2018.1490793 Return to Top ******** ******** 31. IZA Journal of Development and Migration Vol. 8, No. 15, August 9, 2018 https://izajodm.springeropen.com/ Latest articles: Transnational social mobility of minorities: a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups By Elyakim Kislev https://izajodm.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40176-018-0123-9 Return to Top ******** ******** 32. Journal of the Social Sciences Vol. 4, No. 5, August 2018 https://www.rsfjournal.org/toc/rsf/4/5 Selected articles: Immigration and Changing Identities https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.fm Introduction: Immigration and Changing Identities By Nancy Foner, Kay Deaux, and Katharine M. Donato https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.01 Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood By Cynthia Feliciano and Rubén G. Rumbaut https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.02 Immigrant Perceptions of U.S.-Born Receptivity and the Shaping of American Identity By Michael Jones-Correa, Helen B. Marrow, Dina G. Okamoto, and Linda R. Tropp https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.03 Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism By Prema Kurien https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.04 Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty-First Century By Cristina L. Lash https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.05 The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations: Criminality, Ascription, and Countermobilization By Hana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, and Andrea Becker https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06 Return to Top ******** ******** 33. Mobilities Vol. 13, No. 4, September 2018 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmob20/13/4 Selected articles: Between the village and the global city: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore By Simon Alexander Peth, Harald Sterly, and Patrick Sakdapolrak https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785 Counter-mapping migration: irregular migrants' stories through cognitive mapping By Amalia Campos-Delgado https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2017.1421022 A qualitative viewpoint on the Southern eurozone highly skilled labour mobility in the metropolitan area of Copenhagen in times of crisis and austerity By Alessandra Cenci https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2017.1383665 Return to Top ******** ******** 34. REMHU - Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana Ano XXVI – No. 52, April 2018 http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu English-language articles and abstracts: The construction of a political subject Migrants and struggle for housing in Buenos Aires By Luciana Vaccotti http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/article/view/1018 Despite citizenship. Autonomie migranti e diritto alla città L'occupazione dell'Ex-Moi a Torino By Antonio Stopani and Marta Pampuro http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/article/view/816 A Muslim arrival infrastructure in Rio de Janeiro By Tilmann Heil http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/article/view/1013 After the settlement patterns: interrogating the spatial distribution maps of regional migrants in the Gran Buenos Aires Agglomeration By Gabriela Mera http://www.csem.org.br/remhu/index.php/remhu/article/view/964 Return to Top ******** ******** 35. The Social Contract Vol. 28, No. 4, Summer 2018 https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/index.shtml Articles: Editor's Note: The 'Population Bomb' Is No Dud By Wayne Lutton https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_editor.shtml On the Question of Limits By Chris Clugston https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_clugston_1.shtml Three Strikes - You're Out! By Chris Clugston https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_clugston_2.shtml The Benefits of Population Reduction to a Developed Country By Social Contract Editors https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_mishan.shtml Doomsday Delayed, But Not Deleted How the fracking boom and soaring U.S. oil and gas output postpone the inevitable reckoning between energy and population to another day By Leon Kolankiewicz https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_kolankiewicz_1.shtml On a Planet with Explosive Population Growth, America As Flophouse Must End Zero immigration is needed on the (nearly) eight-billion-person planet By Brenda Walker https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_walker.shtml Numbers (Sometimes) Can Make Them Think By John Vinson https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_vinson.shtml The Ticking 'Population Bomb' in Africa, India, and China - The ramifications of overpopulation for the West By Frosty Wooldridge https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_wooldridge.shtml Some Problems with 'Diversity' By Garrett Hardin https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_hardin.shtml Warning to Canadian Nationalists: Don't Be Played By Tim Murray https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_murray.shtml Immigration, Inside the Polling Booth By Peter B. Gemma https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_gemma.shtml There Is No Limit to the Mainstream Media's Protection of Illegal Aliens By Dave Gibson https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_gibson_1.shtml Trump Was Right: MS-13 Gang Members Are Literally 'Animals' By Dave Gibson https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_gibson_2.shtml Saying 'Ho-Hum' to Nasty 'Three-Year-Olds' in the Slander Sandbox By Diana Hull https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_hull.shtml Two Great Earth Scientists Embark on Their Final Journeys Professors John Cairns and Walter Youngquist investigated humanity's relationship to Earth's resources and environment…and warned against overpopulation By Leon Kolankiewicz https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_kolankiewicz_2.shtml John D. Rockefeller III Presidential Commission on Population Growth By John D. Rockefeller III https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_rockefeller.shtml An Option Best Avoided By Carl F. Horowitz https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_horowitz.shtml A Mainstream Look at Hate Crime Law By Martin Witkerk https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_witkerk_review.shtml The Fight to Preserve Western Civilization By Rick Oltman https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_oltman.shtml Lifting the Muslim Siege of Vienna (1683) Bringing History to Life By Wayne Lutton https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_28_4/tsc_28_4_lutton_review.shtml Return to Top ******** Visit Website