Immigration Reading, 8/9/18

Immigration Reading, 8/9/18 Support the Center for Immigration Studies by donating on line here: http://cis.org/donate GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 1. CRS reports on zero tolerance immigration policy and DHS component funding for FY19 2. GAO report on evaluation of border barriers for the SW border 3. Senate testimony on oversight of immigration enforcement and family reunification efforts 4. Netherlands: Population statistics 5. U.K.: Migration statistics quarterly report 6. Italy: Demographic projections 7. E.U.: Report on self-employment among migrants 8. Australia: Population statistics REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC. 9. New report from TRAC 10. "U.S. Immigration: A Primer for State Policy Makers" 11. Four new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute 12. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research 13. Eleven (11) new papers from the Social Science Research Network 14. Twelve (12) new postings from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog 15. Two new reports from the OECD 16. U.K.: New briefing paper from MigrationWatch 17. "Lost in Categorisation: Smuggled and Trafficked Refugees and Migrants on the Balkan Route" 18. U.K.: Poll: BREXIT voters' attitudes on immigration as a priority BOOKS 19. Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb 20. Immigrant Experiences: Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here 21. Migration: Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches 22. Immigration Control in a Warming World: Realizing the Moral Challenges of Climate Migration 23. Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration: The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space 24. New Chinese Migrants in Europe: The Case of the Chinese Community in Hungary 25. The Effects and Consequences of Migration and Immigration on the Lebanese Economy and Tourism Sector 25. Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State JOURNALS 27. Comparative Migration Studies 28. Ethnic and Racial Studies 29. International Migration Review 30. Journal of Migration and Human Security 31. Rural Migration News 1. New from the Congressional Research Service The Trump Administration's "Zero Tolerance" Immigration Enforcement Policy By William A. Kandel July 20, 2018 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45266.pdf Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2019: In Brief By William L. Painter July 18, 2018 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R45262.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 2. New from the General Accountability Office Southwest Border Security: CBP Is Evaluating Designs and Locations for Border Barriers but Is Proceeding Without Key Information Government Accountability Office, GAO-18-614, July 30, 2018 Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693488.pdf Highlights: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693487.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 3. Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Senate Committee on the Judiciary https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/oversight-of-immigration-enforcement-and-family-reunification-efforts Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Reunification Efforts Opening Statement: Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/07-31-18%20Grassley%20Statement.pdf Witness testimony: Carla L. Provost, Acting Chief U.S. Border Patrol U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/07-31-18%20Provost%20Testimony.pdf Matthew Albence, Executive Associate Director Enforcement and Removal Operations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/07-31-18%20Albence%20Testimony.pdf Commander Jonathan D. White U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Federal Health Coordinating Official for the 2018 UAC Reunification Effort Washington, DC https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/07-31-18%20White%20Testimony.pdf James R. McHenry III, Director Executive Office for Immigration Review Department of Justice Falls Church, VA https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/07-31-18-mchenry-testimony Jennifer Higgins, Associate Director Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/07-31-18%20Higgins%20Testimony.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 4. Population up by over 32 thousand in first half of 2018 Statistics Netherlands, July 31, 2018 https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2018/31/population-up-by-over-32-thousand-in-first-half-of-2018 Summary: During the first six months of 2018, 82 thousand children were born and 81 thousand people died. Natural population growth therefore stood at one thousand, versus 4 thousand in the first half of 2017. In this period, the number of live births was virtually the same, while 78 thousand deaths were recorded. Furthermore, over 100 thousand immigrants registered with a Dutch municipality, almost equivalent to the first six months of 2017 and 2016. The number of emigrants was the same as well: 69 thousand. As a result, net migration remained unchanged at 31 thousand. The Netherlands currently has 17.2 million inhabitants. Return to Top ******** ******** 5. Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: July 2018 U.K. Office of National Statistics, July 18, 2018 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/july2018revisedfrommaycoveringtheperiodtodecember2017 Excerpt: Main points Migration is a complex issue and to fully understand it we need to consider all information. Our best assessment shows around 280,000 more people coming to the UK than leaving in 2017, so net migration has continued to add to the UK population. Net migration has fallen following record levels in 2015 and early 2016, and has been broadly stable since. This is similar to the level recorded in year ending September 2014. Underlying this, immigration has remained broadly stable at around 630,000 and emigration has shown a gradual increase since 2015 and is currently around 350,000. Our assessment is that net migration has been broadly stable over the last year. Although the Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) estimates show an increase in net migration over the latest year, this is due to an unusual pattern in the estimates for student immigration in 2016, which was not seen in other sources and which our quality work suggests is an anomaly. The number of non-EU citizens coming to the UK to study has remained relatively stable over the past few years based on an assessment of the International Passenger Survey (IPS), Home Office data on long-term study visas and Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data together. Return to Top ******** ******** 6. The demographic future of the Country, 2017-2065 Italian National Institute of Statistics, May 3, 2018 https://www.istat.it/en/archivio/214235 Excerpt: According to the median scenario, the resident population for Italy is estimated to be 59 million in 2045 and 54.1 million in 2065. The decrease compared to 2017 (60.6 million) would be 1.6 million of residents in 2045 and 6.5 million in 2065. Taking into account the variability associated with demographic events, the population estimate by 2065 ranges from a minimum of 46.4 million to a maximum of 62. The chance of a population increase scenario by 2065 is 9%. . . . The net migration is expected to be positive, being on average more than 165,000 units annually (144,000 last observed in 2016), although marked by a strong uncertainty. A possibility that in the long term net migration could turn negative is not excluded at all, although with little chance of being observed (9.1%). The natural change of the population draws partial benefit from migration. In the median scenario, the additional effect of the migratory balance on birth and death dynamics entails 2.6 million additional residents throughout the projection period. Return to Top ******** ******** 7. How common is self-employment among migrants in the EU? Eurostat, August 2, 2018 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/DDN-20180702-1?inheritRedirect=true&redirect=%2Feurostat%2Fnews%2Fwhats-new Summary: In 2017, 30.4 million persons in the EU aged 20-64 were self-employed. Of these, 26.9 million were native-born, while 3.5 million were foreign-born (of which 2.2 million were migrants born outside the EU and 1.3 million were migrants born in a different EU Member State). In relative terms, the share of self-employed persons among the native-born population (14.2%) was higher than the share recorded for foreign-born migrants (12.7% for migrants born in a different EU Member State and 12.4 % for migrants born outside the EU). Among the EU Member States, by far the highest self-employment rates for migrants born outside the EU were recorded in Slovakia (36.5%) and the Czech Republic (34.5%), followed by Hungary (20.3%) and Malta (19.5%). The lowest rates were recorded in Sweden (8.1%), Estonia and Austria (both 8.0%) and Cyprus (7.9%). For migrants born in a different EU Member State, the highest self-employment rate in 2017 was recorded in Poland (28.6 %), followed by Malta (20.3 %) and Latvia (19.5%). In contrast, the lowest self-employment rates for migrants born in a different EU Member State were registered in Austria (9.0%), Cyprus and Luxembourg (both 8.8%), with the lowest share in Hungary (7.4%). Return to Top ******** ******** 8. Australia's population to reach 25 million Australian Bureau of Statistics, August 7, 2018 http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/C3315F52F6219DE9CA2582E1001BC66A?OpenDocument Excerpt: 25 million - how did we get here? "Australia's population has increased more than sixfold since 1901 when it was 3.8 million. "By 1918 it had grown to 5 million, it had doubled to 10 million by 1959 and reached 20 million in October 2004. It has been just over 2.5 years since we reached 24 million in January 2016." The overall total population increase is estimated to be one person every 1 minute and 23 seconds. Within this there is estimated to be: * one birth every 1 minute and 42 seconds; * one death every 3 minutes and 16 seconds; * one person arriving to live in Australia every 1 minute and 1 second; and * one Australian resident leaving to live overseas every 1 minute and 51 seconds. It is not possible to identify who the 25 millionth person will be. It could be a newborn baby, a new migrant to Australia, or an Australian citizen returning home after living overseas. Return to Top ******** ******** 9. New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University Stepped Up Illegal-Entry Prosecutions Reduce Those for Other Crimes August 6, 2018 http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/524/ Excerpt: The push to prioritize prosecuting illegal border crossers has begun to impact the capacity of federal prosecutors to enforce other federal laws. In March 2018, immigration prosecutions dominated so that in the five federal districts along the southwest border only one in seven prosecutions (14%) were for any non-immigration crimes. But by June 2018, this ratio had shrunk so just one in seventeen prosecutions (6%) were for anything other than immigration offenses. See Figure 1 and Table 1. Federal prosecutors are responsible for enforcing a wide range of important federal laws - designed to combat narcotics trafficking and weapons offenses, battle those polluting air and water, counter corporate and other schemes to defraud the public, and much more. There is a combined population in these five southwest border districts of close to 30 million people. However, the number of prosecutions for committing any non-immigration crimes dwindled from a total of 1,093 in March 2018 to just 703 prosecutions in June 2018. Return to Top ******** ******** 10. U.S. Immigration: A Primer for State Policy Makers National Council of State Legislatures, June 27, 2018 http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/u-s-immigration-a-primer-for-state-policy-makers.aspx Return to Top ******** ******** 11. New from the Migration Policy Institute Tapping the Talents of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States: Takeaways from Experts Summit By Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix August 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/tapping-talents-highly-skilled-immigrants-united-states-takeaways-experts-summit Mind the Gap: Bringing Migration into Development Partnerships and Vice Versa By Kate Hooper and Kathleen Newland MPI Policy Brief, July 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/mind-gap-migration-development-partnerships Egypt: Migration and Diaspora Politics in an Emerging Transit Country By Gerasimos Tsourapas Migration Information Source Profile, August 8, 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/egypt-migration-and-diaspora-politics-emerging-transit-country European Immigrants in the United States By Elijah Alperin and Jeanne Batalova Migration Information Source Spotlight, August 1, 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-united-states Return to Top ******** ******** 12. New from the National Bureau of Economic Research Distributing the Green (Cards): Permanent Residency and the Income Tax after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 By Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ethan G. Lewis NBER Working Paper No. w24872 http://www.nber.org/papers/w24872 Return to Top ******** ******** 13. New from the Social Science Research Network 1. Enforcing/Protection: The Danger of Chevron in Refugee Act Cases By Maureen Sweeney, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-23 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3228530 2. Beyond the Walls: The Importance of Community Contexts in Immigration Detention By Emily Ryo, University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Ian Peacock, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Posted: August 8, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3216868 3. A National Study of Immigration Detention in the United States By Emily Ryo, University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Ian Peacock, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Southern California Law Review, 2018 4. A Decade of Policy Failure: The Impact of Mass Refugee Fraud on the U.S. Immigration System By Charles Fillinger Posted: August 7, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3220352 5. The Immigration-Welfare Nexus in a New Era? By Andrew Hammond, Senior Lecturer in the College and Lecturer in Law Lewis & Clark Law Review, Forthcoming https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3212724 6. Exporting Murder: US Deportations & the Spread of Violence By Christian Ambrosius, Free University of Berlin (FUB) Institute of Latin American Studies and David A. Leblang, University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences Posted: August 2, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3213383 7. Health Worker Migration and Migrant Healthcare: Seeking Cosmopolitanism in the NHS Arianne Shahvisi, University of Sussex Medical School Bioethics, Vol. 32, Issue 6, pp. 334-342, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3223084 8. The Politics of a New Legal Regime: Governing International Crime Through Domestic Immigration Law By Jamie Rowen, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College Law & Policy, Vol. 40, Issue 3, pp. 243-266, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3221407 9. A Better Balance for Federal Rules Governing Public Access to Appeal Records in Immigration Cases By Nancy Morawetz, New York University School of Law 69 Hastings Law Journal, 1271 (2018) NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-37 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3223569 10. Opportunities & Anxieties: A Study of International Students in the Trump Era By Kit Johnson, University of Oklahoma - College of Law Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 22, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211386 11. A Decade of Policy Failure: The Impact of Mass Refugee Fraud on the U.S. Immigration System By Charles Fillinger, Independent Posted: August 7, 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3220352 Return to Top ******** ******** 14. Latest posts from the Immigration Law Professors' Blog 1. Latino USA Looks at the US/Mexico Port of Entry August 9, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/latino-usa-looks-at-the-usmexico-port-of-entry.html 2. Immigration Article of the Day: The Immigration-Welfare Nexus in a New Era? By Andrew Hammond August 9, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigration-article-of-the-day-the-immigration-welfare-nexus-in-a-new-era-by-andrew-hammond.html 3. Susan Akram: What's Driving The Migration Crisis At Our Southern Border? August 8, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/susan-akram-whats-driving-the-migration-crisis-at-our-southern-border.html 4. Trump Administration Threatens Immigrants with Penalties for Lawful Public Benefit Receipt August 8, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/trump-administration-threatens-immigrants-with-penalties-for-lawful-public-benefit-receipt.html 5. Ninth Circuit rules Mexican mother can sue over cross-border Border Patrol shooting August 8, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/ninth-circuit-rules-mexican-mother-can-sue-over-cross-border-border-patrol-shooting-.html 6. Nolan Rappaport: Even with no new arrests, it would take four years to eliminate immigration court backlog August 6, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/nolan-rappaport-even-with-no-new-arrests-it-would-take-four-years-to-eliminate-immigration-court-bac.html 7. Death on the Border: The Thousands of Bodies Along the US-Mexico Border August 6, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/death-on-the-border-the-thousands-of-bodies-along-the-us-mexico-border.html 8. ICYMI- DOJ Pulls Immigration Judge from Case (Castro-Tum) After Judge Requests Briefing August 4, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/icymi-doj-pulls-immigration-judge-from-case-castro-tum-after-judge-requests-briefing-.html 9. Cities, States Resist — and Assist — Immigration Crackdown in New Ways August 3, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/cities-states-resist-and-assist-immigration-crackdown-in-new-ways.html 10. Immigration Article of the Day: A Better Balance for Federal Rules Governing Public Access to Appeal Records in Immigration Cases By Nancy Morawetz August 3, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigration-article-of-the-day-a-better-balance-for-federal-rules-governing-public-access-to-appeal-.html 11. Immigration Article of the Day: The Economics of Immigration Reform By Howard F. Chang August 1, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/immigrtaion-article-of-the-day-the-economics-of-immigration-reform-by-howard-f-chang.html 12. Short Video Features Border Rancher on Drug Smuggling, Wall July 29, 2018 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/07/short-video-features-border-racher-on-drug-smuggling-wall.html Return to Top ******** ******** 15. New from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development How Immigrants Contribute to Costa Rica's Economy July 2018 https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/how-immigrants-contribute-to-costa-rica-s-economy_9789264303850-en#page3 Working Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Vienna July 2018 https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/working-together-for-local-integration-of-migrants-and-refugees-in-vienna_9789264304147-en#page1 Return to Top ******** ******** 16. Letter from Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, to Sir David Clementi, Chairman of the BBC MigrationWatchUK Briefing Paper No. 450, August 3, 2018 https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/450 Return to Top ******** ******** 17. Lost in Categorisation: Smuggled and Trafficked Refugees and Migrants on the Balkan Route By Claire Healy ICMPD Working Paper, June 2018 https://www.icmpd.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ICMPD_Working_Paper_Healy.pdf Return to Top ******** ******** 18. New polling reveals shift from immigration to sovereignty as the priority By Christina Pagel and Christabel Cooper The UK in a Changing Europe, July 23, 2018 http://ukandeu.ac.uk/new-polling-reveals-shift-from-immigration-to-sovereignty-as-the-priority/ Excerpt: Leave voters prioritise sovereignty over immigration and economic growth Leave voters regard the UK taking control of its laws and regulations as the most important priority for Britain in the next five years, followed by the ability for the UK to make its own trade deals. Limiting immigration only to high-skilled workers came third in the list, with a second immigration option to reduce the overall numbers of immigrants to the UK even lower down in fifth place (economic growth placed fourth). Leave voters preferred control and trade to immigration by 67% to 33% and 59% to 41% respectively. They preferred control and trade to strong economic growth by 69% to 31% and 61% to 39% respectively. Return to Top ******** ******** 19. Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb By Noriko Matsumoto Rutgers University Press, 190 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0813588863, $95.00 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813588863/centerforimmigra Paperback, ISBN: 081358888X, $25.95 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081358888X/centerforimmigra Book Description: In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and New Jersey. Since the 1970s, successive waves of immigrants from East Asia have transformed this formerly white community into one of the most diverse suburbs in the greater New York region. Fort Lee today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast, with Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans forming distinct communities while influencing the structure and everyday life of the borough. Noriko Matsumoto explores the rise of this multiethnic suburb—the complex processes of assimilation and reproduction of ethnicities, the changing social relationships, and the conditions under which such transformations have occurred. Return to Top ******** ******** 20. Immigrant Experiences: Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here By Walter A. Ewing Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 170 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 1538100509, $35.00 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1538100509/centerforimmigra Kindle, 7568 KB, ASIN: B07D63KFL1, $33.00 Book Description: Immigrant Experiences: Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here weaves together detailed historical and contemporary examples of immigration to the United States that move beyond hackneyed stereotypes about immigrants to give readers a fact-based understanding of why and how immigration occurs. Discussing immigration from the 1800s to today, Ewing explores the motivations, challenges, and triumphs of various immigrant groups, including the Irish, Italians, Mexicans, Chinese, and Indians. Tackling issues of discrimination and assimilation, this book looks at how immigrants have added to the American culture and way of life, and what to expect going forward. Return to Top ******** ******** 21. Migration: Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches By Doris Bachmann-Medick and Jens Kugele De Gruyter, 280 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 3110597675, $68.99 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3110597675/centerforimmigra Kindle, 4578 KB, ASIN: B07FZH66D7, $55.19 Book Description: Recent debates on migration have demonstrated the important role of concepts in academic and political discourse. The contributions to this collection revisit established analytical categories in the study of migration such as border regimes, orders of belonging, coloniality, translation, trans/national digital culture and memory. Exploring notions, images and realities of migration in their cultural framings, this volume sheds light on the powerful work of these concepts. Including perspectives on migration from history, visual studies, pedagogy, literary and cultural studies, cultural anthropology and sociology, it explores the complex scholarly and popular notions of migration with particular focus on their often unspoken assumptions and political implications. Revisiting established analytical tools in the study of migration, the interdisciplinary contributions explore new approaches and point to the importance of conceptual nuance extending beyond academic discourse. Return to Top ******** ******** 22. Immigration Control in a Warming World: Realizing the Moral Challenges of Climate Migration By Johannes Graf Keyserlingk Imprint Academic, 230 pp. Paperback, ISBN: 1845409795, $29.90 http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845409795/centerforimmigra Book Description: In the course of the twenty-first century, climate change is projected to significantly increase the already weighty immigration pressures that rich countries in Europe and North America face. Estimates vary greatly from 50 to 500 million further migrants until 2050, most of them from developing countries that have contributed little to global warming. Meanwhile, the willingness of citizens in destination countries to let further foreigners immigrate is unlikely to keep pace with that increase. In fact, the concern with climate migration is a blurry, intricate and pressing one that will turn out to challenge current political and philosophical frameworks. It is a blurry one because it will often be impossible to tell whether or to what extent it really was the changing climate that triggered a particular migratory flow (rather than, say, economic, social or demographic factors that often interact with the climatic trigger). It is an intricate one because, although it appears that heavily emitting countries have a particularly strong responsibility toward climate migrants, there is little doubt that in times of rising anti-immigrant sentiment that moral responsibility cannot be addressed by simply calling for more open borders. And it is a pressing one because this latter insight neither absolves us from our obligations toward climate migrants nor will it keep them from moving. Return to Top ******** ******** 23. Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration: The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space By Felicitas Hillmann, Ton van Naerssen, and Ernst Spaan Routledge, 228 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0815359802, $140.00 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815359802/centerforimmigra Book Description: This book draws attention to the various factors that characterize migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and sociocultural integration. It highlights processes such as fl exible migrant routes, temporary and return migration, mental aspects of migration processes and transnationalism, which are organised around the themes of shaping trajectories, frictions in space, and the migrant mental framework. It brings together work from scholars from Europe and beyond, with the contributions collected emphasizing the social and mental processes that underpin the migratory process, which can be seen as the 'soft side' of migration. Too often, this side is neglected when the governance of migration is discussed. The novel ideas expressed here also help to overcome the mechanistic view of migration as a push-pull event. Thus, the book suggests a different understanding of migration and mobility as relational, non-linear and fluid social processes, characterized by instability in migrant life trajectories. Emphasizing the fl exibility of migrants and migration and advocating the importance of emotionally charged, individual perceptions as central to migrant decision-making, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and geography with interests in migration and diaspora studies. Return to Top ******** ******** 24. New Chinese Migrants in Europe: The Case of the Chinese Community in Hungary By Pal Nyiri Routledge, 144 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 1138323101, $91.38 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1138323101/centerforimmigra Book Description: First published in 1999, this book is a political enthnography of recent migration from the People's Republic of China into Europe. It argues that the very high mobility and intensive communications of Chinese migrants enable them to maintain a transnational community within which they easily shift countries and social roles - from student to trader to worker - if doing so is economically expedient. This makes them the natural beneficiaries and users of the Western globalization discourse, even more so that - contrary to culturalist explanations of global Chinese networks - anonymity, sovereign decision making and freedom from social pressures are at least as important in motivating migration as family connections. Yet their identity discourse expresses an authentic Chinese globalization. Chinese migrants see themselves not as local minorities but as a global majority attached to China by a deterritorialised nationalism. This nationalism is not only encouraged by China's official discourse but also supported by the economic dependence of new migrants on cultural capital built up in China, which makes them less reliant on resources in their countries of residence. Return to Top ******** ******** 25. The Effects and Consequences of Migration and Immigration on the Lebanese Economy and Tourism Sector By Nadine Sinno Mohammad Makki Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 202 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 1527511480, $119.95 http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1527511480/centerforimmigra Book Description: This book tackles several important and timely topics with regards to Lebanon, especially after the Syrian conflict. The contributions here analyse the situation of the internal and external Lebanese economy and tourism, and shed light on the causes and effects of migration and immigration. The articles provide detailed insight into private and public policies, and offer a holistic analysis that enables the reader to benefit from their suggested recommendations. The book can be used as a reference book for scholars and practitioners in the public and private sectors interested in Middle Eastern politics, economics forecasting, marketing and tourism studies. The articles were originally presented and discussed at the Second Local Economics and Tourism Conference held in May 2017 at the Lebanese International University. Return to Top ******** ******** 26. Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State By Radhika Mongia Duke University Press Books, 248 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 0822370395, $94.95 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822370395/centerforimmigra Paperback, ISBN: 0822371022, $24.95 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822371022/centerforimmigra Book Description: How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration regulations was dependent upon, accompanied by, and generative of profound changes in normative conceptions of the modern state. Focused on state regulation of colonial Indian migration between 1834 and 1917, Mongia illuminates the genesis of central techniques of migration control. She shows how important elements of current migration regimes, including the notion of state sovereignty as embodying the authority to control migration, the distinction between free and forced migration, the emergence of passports, the formation of migration bureaucracies, and the incorporation of kinship relations into migration logics, are the product of complex debates that attended colonial migrations. By charting how state control of migration was critical to the transformation of a world dominated by empire-states into a world dominated by nation-states, Mongia challenges positions that posit a stark distinction between the colonial state and the modern state to trace aspects of their entanglements. Return to Top ******** ******** 27. Comparative Migration Studies Vol. 6, No. 24, August 2018 https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/ Selected articles: Debating the 'integration of Islam': the discourse between governmental actors and Islamic representatives in Germany and the Netherlands By Matthias Kortmann https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-018-0086-2 Return to Top ******** ******** 28. Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 41, No. 12, September 2018 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/41/12?nav=tocList Selected articles: Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and refugees along the Balkan Route By Piro Rexhepi https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2017.1415455 Return to Top ******** ******** 29. International Migration Review August 2018 http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mrx Selected articles: Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese International Migrants By Min Zhou and Xiangyi Li http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/imre.12268 Internal versus International Migration Impacts of Remittances on Child Labor and Schooling in Vietnam By Michele Binci and Gianna Claudia Giannelli http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/imre.12267 Male Migration and Female Labor Market Attachment New Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey By Qing Wang http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/imre.12290 Weathering the Storm? The Great Recession and the Employment Status Transitions of Low-Skill Male Immigrant Workers in the United States By Blake Sisk and Katharine M. Donato http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/imre.12260 Return to Top ******** ******** 30. Journal of Migration and Human Security XX (X), July-August 2018 http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs/index Latest articles: The US Refugee Resettlement Program — A Return to First Principles: How Refugees Help to Define, Strengthen, and Revitalize the United States By Donald Kerwin http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2331502418787787 From IIRIRA to Trump: Connecting the Dots to the Current US Immigration Policy Crisis By Donald Kerwin http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2331502418786718 Return to Top ******** ******** 31. Rural Migration News Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2018 https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/ IMMIGRATION DACA, Travel, Sanctuary President Trump, assessing his performance after 500 days in office June 5, 2018, claimed credit for "lower crime and illegal immigration, stronger borders, best economy and jobs ever." Trump cited improved border security, more arrests of unauthorized foreigners in the US, and a crackdown on MS-13 and other gangs. Trump in February 2018 released a four-part immigration reform proposal that includes a path to US citizenship over 12 years for up to 1.8 million unauthorized foreigners brought to the US as youth; $25 billion for a wall on the Mexico-US border; an end to the diversity visa lottery that awards 50,000 immigrant visas a year to countries that sent fewer than 50,000 immigrants during the previous five years; and restrictions on the right of immigrants and US citizens to sponsor their relatives for immigrant visas after current backlogs are cleared, a bid to reduce so-called chain migration. https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2184 DHS: Families, ICE President Trump in May 2018 sharply attacked DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a cabinet meeting for not doing enough to stop illegal entries and deport unauthorized foreigners in the US. Trump is frustrated that DHS is moving "slowly" to fulfill his 2016 campaign promises to halt illegal immigration and that judicial injunctions block planned actions to step-up enforcement. The number of foreigners arrested just inside the US border topped 50,000 in both March and April 2018, the highest monthly totals since Trump took office in January 2017. There were 304,000 apprehensions of unauthorized foreigners in FY2017, and apprehensions are on track to exceed 400,000 in FY18. https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2185 H-2A; H-2B President Trump, speaking in Michigan April 28, 2018, said "For the farmers, OK, it's going to get good. We're going to let your guest workers come in." Trump continued: "They're going to come in, they're going to work on your farms ... but then they have to go out." https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2186 NAFTA, Canada, Mexico Canada, Mexico and the US failed to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement. The talks broke down in May 2018 over a US demand that a revised NAFTA would automatically sunset after five years if not renewed. The US proposed NAFTA re-negotiation, and much of the discussion focused on the share of car parts that must be made in North America and in the US for cars to trade freely in North America. Currently, cars must have 62.5 percent North American content. Trump wanted to raise this content requirement and insist that 50 percent of car parts be made in the US for autos to trade freely in North America. https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2187 Europe, Asia The EU 28 member states granted asylum to 538,000 foreigners in 2017; two-thirds were Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis, and 60 percent of those recognized as refugees were in Germany. A June 2018 summit of EU leaders tried to revise the Dublin Agreement that makes the first EU country reached by an asylum seeker responsible for whether the person needs refuge. Instead, leaders reached an agreement to establish detention centers in some EU and North African countries to screen asylum seekers quickly, return those who do not qualify as refugees, and resettle those recognized as refugees throughout the EU to countries that will accept them. Eastern European countries have refused to accept relocated migrants. https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2188 Population and Migration The UN released a final Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in July 2018 whose goal is to protect the basic human rights of all migrants by "harnessing the benefits of regular migration while safeguarding against the dangers of irregular movements that place people at risk." The agreement is expected to be signed by most of the 193 UN member states in Morocco in December 2018. The US withdrew from the GCM process in December 2017, and Hungary withdrew in July 2018. https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2189 Return to Top ********