Immigration Reading List
Last Updated: 9/20/13
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. Latest issues of DOJ EOIR Immigration Law Advisor
2. DHS OIG report on implementation of L-1 Visa regulations
3. GAO reports on ICE release of sex offenders and the training of CBP officers
4. Treasury Dept. OIG report on review and verification of ITIN applications
5. SSA OIG report on employer wage reports containing significant errors in names and SSNs
6. U.K.: Quarterly immigration statistics
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
7. Seven new reports from TRAC
8. Five new working papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor
9. Eight new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
10. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
11. Twenty-one new papers from the Social Science Research Network
12. Six new reports from the International Organization for Migration
13. "Immigration and the Revival of American Cities: From Preserving Manufacturing Jobs to Strengthening the Housing Market"
14. "Verification Nation: How E-Verify Affects America’s Workers"
15. U.K.: "Curbing EU immigration could cost UK £60 billion in lost GDP by 2050 and drive up national debt"
16. "Do immigrant outflows lead to native inflows? An empirical analysis of the migratory responses to US state immigration legislation"
17. "The Effectiveness of Immigration Policies"
18. "Health status and preventative behaviors of immigrants by gender and origin: A Portuguese cross-sectional study"
BOOKS
19. Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law
20. Crimes of Mobility: Criminal Law and the Regulation of Immigration
21. The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
22. Policing Non-Citizens
23. Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
JOURNALS
24. CSEM Newsletter
25. Human Mobility
26. International Journal of Refugee Law
27. International Migration
28. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
29. Journal of Refugee Studies
30. Refugee Survey Quarterly
1.
Moncrieffe v. Holder: Exploring the Legal Landscape of Section 101(a)(43)(B) of the Act
By Sam Chow, Rachael Dizard, and Cindy Heidelberg
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 7, August 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no6.pdf
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Implementation of L-1 Visa Regulations
DHS Office of Inspector General
OIG-13-107, August 2013
http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2013/OIG_13-107_Aug13.pdf
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New report from the General Accountability Office
ICE Could Better Inform Offenders It Supervises of Registration Responsibilities and Notify Jurisdictions when Offenders Are Removed
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-832, Sep 12, 2013
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/657831.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-832
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Has Taken Steps to Address GAO's Recommendations Aimed at Ensuring Officers Are Fully Trained
Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-768R, August 28, 2013
Report - http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/657297.pdf
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-768R
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Review and Verification of Individual Taxpayer Identification Number Applications Has Improved; However, Additional Processes and Procedures Are Still Needed
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of the Inspector General
Audit Number 2013-40-052, May 2, 2013
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201340052fr.pdf
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Employers Who Report Wages with Significant Errors in the Employee Name and Social Security Number
Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General
A-08-12-13036, August 2013
http://oig.ssa.gov/sites/default/files/audit/full/pdf/A-08-12-13036.pdf
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Immigration Statistics, April to June 2013
U.K. Home Office, August 29, 2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2013/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2013
Excerpt: There was a 2% fall for work visas issued to 144,554, accounted for by lower numbers for (Tier 1) high value individuals following the closure of the Tier 1 General and Tier 1 Post Study categories to new applicants, partially offset by an increase for skilled workers (Tier 2). However, work visas issued were slightly (2%) higher than in the year ending March 2013 (141,772), due to increases for skilled workers and for youth mobility and temporary workers.
By contrast there was a 9% increase in work-related extensions to 145,855, largely explained by higher numbers of grants for skilled workers (Tier 2), offset partly by lower numbers in the high value workers’ route (Tier 1).
There were 23,499 asylum applications, a rise of 18%, with increases in applications from a range of nationalities, including Syria, Pakistan and Albania. This remains low relative to the peak in 2002 (84,132), and similar to levels seen since 2006. Correspondingly, the number of applications received since April 2006 pending a decision continues to rise, by 23% to 14,589 main applicants at the end of June 2013.
5% more people entered detention (to 29,710) and 5% more people left detention (to 29,348). Of those leaving detention, 59% were removed from the UK. As of the end of June 2013, 3,142 people were in detention, 5% higher than the number recorded at the end of June 2012.
There were 7% fewer enforced removals (to 14,062), and 1% fewer passengers refused entry at port and who subsequently departed (to 14,134). There was little change in voluntary departures (29,265).
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New from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
1. Few ICE Detainers Target Serious Criminals
September 17, 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/330/
Excerpt: Very timely case-by-case data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that no more than 14 percent of the "detainers" issued by the government in FY 2012 and the first four months of FY 2013 met the agency's stated goal of targeting individuals who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security. In fact, roughly half of the 347,691 individuals subject to an ICE detainer (47.7 percent) had no record of a criminal conviction, not even a minor traffic violation.[1]
2. Deportation Proceedings: Deportation Proceedings in Immigration Courts
August 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/deport_filing_charge.php
3. Prosecutor Discretion: Immigration Court Cases Closed Based on Prosecutorial Discretion
August 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/prosdiscretion/
4. Snapshot Reports: Removal Orders Sought
August 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/apprep_newfiling_charge.php
5. Snapshot Reports: Nature of Charge for Removal Orders
August 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/apprep_newfiling_charge.php
6. Snapshot Reports: ICE Targeting: Odds Noncitizens Ordered Deported
August 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/apprep_outcome_leave.php
7. Snapshot Reports: Number of Noncitizens Allowed to Remain
August 2013
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/apprep_outcome_stay.php
Excerpt: Examples of reasons why an individual may be allowed to remain in the country include situations where the judge finds the charges against the individual are not sustained (or the government requests that the charges be dropped), as well as where the judge finds other provisions in the immigration law entitle the individual "relief" from removal. A person also may be allowed to remain because the government requests that the case be administratively closed. These numbers include Immigration Court cases closed through the exercise of ICE's prosecutorial discretion.
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New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
1. Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records
By Osea Giuntella
Discussion Paper No. 7588, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7588
2. Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind
By Matloob Piracha, Teresa Randazzo, and Florin Vadean
Discussion Paper No. 7582, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7582
3. Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
By Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, and Hillel Rapoport
Discussion Paper No. 7568, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7568
4. Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain
By Nu Lídia Farré and Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Discussion Paper No. 7558, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7558
5. Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences
By Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Pieter Hooimeijer, Maarten van Ham, and Wim Meeus
Discussion Paper No. 7510, August 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7510
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New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Demography and Migration: An Outlook for the 21st Century
By Rainer Munz
MPI Policy Brief, September 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Demography-Migration-Outlook.pdf
2. What Do We Know About Skilled Migration and Development?
By Michael Clemens
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/SkilledMigration-Development.pdf
3. Environmental Change and Migration: What We Know
By Susan F. Martin
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Migration-EnvironmentalChange.pdf
4. Does Respect for Migrant Rights Contribute to Economic Development?
By Donald M. Kerwin
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MigrantRights-EconomicDevelopment.pdf
5. Attracting and Selecting from the Global Talent Pool — Policy Challenges
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/GlobalTalent-Selection.pdf
6. State Access to Federal Immigration Data Stirs New Controversy in Debate over Voting Rights
By Muzaffar Chishti and Faye Hipsman
Migration Information Source Policy Beat, September 12, 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=964
7. Integrating Immigrant Youth: Transatlantic Perspectives
By Magdalena Ziolek-Skrzypczak
Migration Information Source, September 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=963
8. The Gambia: Migration in Africa's "Smiling Coast"
By C. Omar Kebbeh
Migration Information Source Country Profile, August 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=961
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New from the National Bureau of Economic Research
1. U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
By William R. Kerr
NBER Working Paper No. 19377, August 2013
http://www.nber.org/papers/w19377
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New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Separation of Powers as Bill of Rights: The Case of Immigrants’ Rights
By Antonios E. Kouroutakis, University of Oxford
Added September 12, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2325010
2. Competing Concerns in Employment Litigation: How Courts Are Managing Discovery of an Employee's Immigration Status
By Thomas A. Doyle
28 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 405, Spring 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2324555
3. Determinants of Illegal Mexican Immigration into the US Southern Border States
By Andreas Buehn, Dresden University of Technology and Stefan Eichler, Dresden University of Technology
Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 4, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2323482
4. Supreme Court Denies Retroactivity of Post-Conviction Relief Claims of Immigrants Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Padilla is Not Retroactive
By Jean Pierre Espinoza, Espinoza Law Offices P.A. and Paul Palacios, Espinoza Law Offices P.A.
ILW Immigration Daily (2013)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2323522
5. Revisiting the Meaning of Marriage: Immigration for Same-Sex Spouses in a Post-Windsor World
By Scott Titshaw, Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
66 Vand. L. Rev. en Banc, 2013, Forthcoming
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2322161
6. Incompetent but Deportable: The Case for a Right to Mental Competence in Removal Proceedings
By Fatma E. Marouf, University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318169
7. Undocumented Migrants and the Failures of Universal Individualism
By Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321728
8. Undocumented Patients: Undocumented Immigrants and Access to Health Care
By Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center and Michael K. Gusmano, The Hastings Center
The Hastings Center, Executive Summary, March 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321295
9. Immigration Detention as Punishment
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Capital University Law School; University of Denver Sturm College of Law
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 5, 2014, Forthcoming
U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-41
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321219
10. English as a Gateway? Immigration and Public Opinion in Japan
By David Green, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law and Yoshihiko Kadoya, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law
ISER Discussion Paper No. 883
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2320269
11. Explaining the Divergence in Asylum Grant Rates Among Immigration Judges: An Attitudinal and Cognitive Approach
By Linda Keith, University of Texas at Dallas Department of Political Science; Jennifer S. Holmes, University of Texas at Dallas School of Economics, Political and Policy Sciences and
Banks Miller, University of Texas at Dallas
Law & Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 261-289, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2320845
12. Social Security for Migrant Workers and Their Families in Australia
Anna Katherine Boucher, The University of Sydney and Terry Carney, University of Sydney Faculty of Law
Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 13/67
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319173
13. Canada's Immigrant Selection Policies: Recent Record, Marginal Changes and Needed Reforms
By Herbert Grubel, Simon Fraser University Department of Economics
Fraser Institute Studies in Immigration Policy, August 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318122
14. Federal Preemption and Immigrants' Rights
By Karla Mari McKanders, University of Tennessee College of Law
Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2013
University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 223
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318079
15. Immigration Policing and Federalism Through the Lens of Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy
By Anil Kalhan, Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law
Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 74, 2013 Forthcoming
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2316327
16. Criminal Justice for Noncitizens: An Analysis of Variation in Local Enforcement
By Ingrid V. Eagly, UCLA School of Law
New York University Law Review, Vol. 88, 2013, Forthcoming
UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 13-29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2316336
17. Procedural Due Process in the Expulsion of Aliens Under International, United States, and European Union Law: A Comparative Analysis
By Won Kidane, Seattle University School of Law
Emory International Law Review, Vol. 27, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2314557
18. Regulatory Rights: Civil Rights Agencies and the Emergence of Language Rights in Schools and Workplaces
By Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado Law School
U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-16
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2314040
19. Salience, Path Dependency and the Coalition between the European Commission and the Danish Council Presidency: Why the EU Opened a Visa Liberalisation Process with Turkey
By Alexander Bürgin, Izmir University of Economics
European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Vol. 17 (2013), Article 9
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2313718
20. Balancing Integration Obligations and Welfare Rights: An Examination of Membership Policy in Three European Countries
By Gregory Baldi, Western Illinois University and Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2301612
21. Do Policy Legacies Matter? Past and Present Guest Worker Recruitment in Germany
By Antje Ellermann
University of British Columbia - Department of Political Science
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2299560
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New from International Organization for Migration
1. World Migration Report 2013 – Migrant Well-being and Development
Added September, 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/WMR2013_EN.pdf
2. A Situational Analysis of Aruba’s Response to Human Trafficking
Added September, 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Situational_Analysis_Aruba_10Sep.pdf
3. International Dialogue on Migration No. 22 - Diasporas and Development: Bridging Societies and States
Added September 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/DMC_report_23Aug13.pdf
4. Diasporas and Development: Bridging Societies and States
Added August 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/DMC_report_23Aug13.pdf
5. Migration and the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda
Edited by Frank Laczko and Lars Johan Lönnback
Added September 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Migration_and_the_UN_Post2015_Agenda.pdf
6. Health Vulnerabilities of Mixed Migrants from the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes to Southern Africa
Added September 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Migration_Health_Study_FINALweb.pdf
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Immigration and the Revival of American Cities: From Preserving Manufacturing Jobs to Strengthening the Housing Market
By Jacob L. Vigdor
Partnership for a New American Economy, September 2013
http://www.renewoureconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/revival-of-american-cities.pdf
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Verification Nation: How E-Verify Affects America’s Workers
By Josh Stehlik, Emily Tulli, and Stacy Villalobos
National Immigration Law Center, August 2013
http://op.bna.com/dlrcases.nsf/id/lfrs-9azhhr/$File/Verification%20Nation.pdf
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Curbing EU immigration could cost UK £60 billion in lost GDP by 2050 and drive up national debt
Centre for Economics and Business Research, September 10, 2013
http://www.cebr.com/reports/migration-benefits-to-the-uk/
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Do immigrant outflows lead to native inflows? An empirical analysis of the migratory responses to US state immigration legislation
Applied Economics, Vol. 45, No. 30, October 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/raef/2013/00000045/00000030/art00009
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The Effectiveness of Immigration Policies
By Mathias Czaika and Hein De Haas
Population and Development Review, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/padr/2013/00000039/00000003/art00006
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Health status and preventative behaviors of immigrants by gender and origin: A Portuguese cross-sectional study
By Sonia Dias, Ana Gama, and Maria O. Martins
Nursing and Health Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/nhs/2013/00000015/00000003/art00008
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Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law
By Satvinder Singh Juss and Colin Harvey
Edward Elgar Pub., 336 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1782547657, $128.25
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1782547657/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 646 KB, ASIN: B00DY3FFM8, $9.99
Book Description: Refugee law is going through momentous times, as dictatorships tumble, revolutions simmer and the 'Arab Awakening' gives way to the spread of terror from Syria to the Sahel in Africa. This compilation of topical chapters, by some of the leading scholars in the field, covers major themes of rights, security, the UNHCR, international humanitarianism and state interests and sets out to map new contours.
The concerns over our security are replacing humanitarian concerns over the plight of others. Securitization, exclusion and the internal relocation of genuine refugees are now the favored polices. Yet, while central idioms of protection, persecution and non-refoulement have changed, there are also new demands on refugee law. The contributors to this book ask whether there are new spheres of protection emerging, for which refugee law must find a clear space, such as the protection of child refugees, trafficked persons, gender-related asylum and conscientious objectors to military service. This timely and valuable book shows that in these uncertain times, refugee law still has an exciting and challenging future ahead.
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Crimes of Mobility: Criminal Law and the Regulation of Immigration
By Anna Aliverti
Routledge, 248 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415820901, $123.77
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415820901/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 802 KB, ASIN: B00EKN8TNI, $108.00
Book Description:
This book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain. The criminalization of immigration status has historically served functions of exclusion and control against those who defy the state’s powers over its territory and population. In the last two decades, the powers to exclude and punish have been enhanced by the expansion of the catalogue of immigration offences and their more systematic enforcement.
This book is the first in-depth analysis on criminal offences in Britain, and presents original empirical material about the use of criminal powers against suspected immigration wrongdoers. Based on interviews with practitioners and staff at the UK Border Agency and data from court cases involving immigration defendants, it examines prosecution decision making and the proceedings before the criminal justice system. Crimes of Mobility critically analyses the criminalization of immigration status and, more generally, the functions of the criminal law in immigration enforcement, from a legal and normative perspective.
It will be of interest to academics and research students working on criminology, criminal law, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, migration and refugee studies, and human rights, as well as criminal law and immigration practitioners.
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The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
By David Bacon
Beacon Press, 328 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0807001619, $16.77
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807001619/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 559 KB, ASIN: B00BVJFNEM, $15.49
Book Description: People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth disparities make it impossible for Mexicans to make a living at home. And yet when they migrate to the United States, they must grapple with criminalization, low wages, and exploitation.
In The Right to Stay Home, journalist David Bacon tells the story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities. Bacon shows how immigrant communities are fighting back—envisioning a world in which migration isn’t forced by poverty or environmental destruction and people are guaranteed the “right to stay home.” This richly detailed and comprehensive portrait of immigration reveals how the interconnected web of labor, migration, and the global economy unites farmers, migrant workers, and union organizers across borders.
In addition to incisive reporting, eleven narratives are included, giving readers the chance to hear the voices of activists themselves as they reflect on their experiences, analyze the complexities of their realities, and affirm their vision for a better world.
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Policing Non-Citizens
By Leanne Weber
Routledge, 222 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0415811287, $135.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415811287/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0415811295, $40.30
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415811295/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discusses the detection of unlawful non-citizens as a distinct form of policing which is impacting on a growing range of agencies and sections of society. It constitutes an important contribution not only to the literature on policing but also to the field of border control studies within criminology. Drawing on the work of Clifford Shearing, Ian Loader and P.A.J. Waddington, it offers new theoretical approaches to the study of police powers and practice.
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Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
By Alexander Betts
Cornell University Press, 256 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 080145106X, $75.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080145106X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0801477778, $25.60
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801477778/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1457 KB, ASIN: B00DW2VH32, $19.49
Book Description: International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as “refugees,” preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of “survival migration” to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves.
Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa—Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia—Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.
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CSEM Newsletter
September 2013
http://csem.org.br/
English language content:
Migrants to be granted access to healthcare in Thailand
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Following a meeting with related and international agencies at Thailand's Government House yesterday, Thai Public Health Minister Pradit Sintava-narong said this decision stems from Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shina-watra's policy to provide healthcare to everybody in the country, especially mothers and children accompanying migrant workers. He added that this policy would help solve social problems such as human trafficking, child abuse, prostitution, drug abuse and crimes, and would also be something in return for the contribution of migrant workers to the country's gross domestic product.
Since migrants still had problems with the complicated nationality identification process, which also works out to be quite expensive, the government has chosen to get these workers and their families to register for national healthcare using just fingerprints and photo identification, he explained
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1668-migrants-to-be-granted-access-to-healthcare-in-thailand
Haiti: Seeking solutions for illegal immigration to Brazil
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The latest figures, particularly provided by various consular offices in the region indicate that until June 2013 there were about 12,204 Haitians arrived in Brazil on a regular basis, the Brazilian government issued a total of 10,165 humanitarian visas to migrants who came the territory. The Council insisted on the fact that the regularization of the situation of Haitians in Brazil was not a government program, but rather a response to the emergency situation faced by Haiti since the January 2010 earthquake.
"Migration from Haiti is not a new phenomenon. We are simply seeing new destinations such as Brazil, but also Argentina and Chile, amongst others. Some migrants have decided to settle, even temporarily, in transit countries such as Ecuador," said Jorge Peraza, IOM Regional Project Development Officer for South America.
The study also confirms the existence of established smuggling networks that meet the migrants arriving in Quito, Ecuador on flights from Panama. They arrange for basic food and shelter, false travel documents and continued transportation. Migrants have reported paying as much as USD 2,500 to the smugglers, which confirms that it is not the poorest of Haitians who are using this route.
Brazil has created mechanisms for migrants to obtain visas in their country of origin or in some transit countries such as Ecuador, Peru and the Dominican Republic. But many migrants continue to resort to irregular migration using human smugglers.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1672-haiti-seeking-solutions-for-illegal-immigration-to-brazil
Malaysia arrests hundreds of suspected illegals
Malaysia's Immigration Department arrested 2,433 people during a major swoop across the country to flush out illegal immigrants, Bernama news agency reported.
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the arrests Monday in 40 operations were the first and warned that more well-planned raids and arrests are coming.
"This operation isn't seasonal and won't end Dec. 31 this year," he said.
"This is an ongoing operation and we won't compromise. Our target is to achieve zero illegal immigrants."
More than 2,200 government and police personnel were involved in the raids. Police, anti-smuggling and anti-drugs agencies and enforcement agencies of the Immigration Department and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission worked together to check more than 8,000 suspected illegals.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1647-malaysia-arrests-hundreds-of-suspected-illegals
Sweden offers residency to all Syrian refugees
Swedish migration authorities have ruled that all Syrian asylum seekers who have come to Sweden will be granted permanent residency in light of the worsening conflict in Syria.
Sweden is the first country in the EU to offer permanent residency to refugees from Syria, news agency TT reported.
The decision covers all asylum seekers from Syria who have been granted temporary residency in Sweden for humanitarian protection. They will now receive permanent residence permits, the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) announced on Tuesday.
Previously, around half of Syrian asylum seekers had been granted permanent residency, with the remaining half receiving three-year residence permits.
The assessment is based on whether a person has an individual or general need for protection. As the situation in Syria has deteriorated and is now "extreme and marked by general violence" with no solution in sight, the agency has judged the poor security situation in Syria to be permanent.
The decision means that the roughly 8,000 Syrians who have temporary residency in Sweden will now be able to stay in the country permanently.
They will also have the right to bring their families to Sweden.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1653-sweden-offers-residency-to-all-syrian-refugees
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Muslim Rohingya asylum seekers escape Thai detention centre
A group of Muslim Rohingya asylum-seekers in southern Thailand escaped from an immigration detention centre on Tuesday, highlighting the growing desperation of a stateless minority fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar.
Rights activists are critical of Thailand's response to the influx of Rohingya and have urged the authorities not to deport the refugees back to Myanmar, where they face pervasive discrimination.
The 87 escapees used blades to cut through iron bars and hacked at cement walls before disappearing into nearby rubber plantations, prompting a large search operation, said Suwit Chernsiri, police commander of the southern province of Songkla.
"The men were detained for many months and tensions were high," Suwit told Reuters. The jail break was the second after a group of 30 escaped from a Songkla police station earlier this month.
More than 1,800 Rohingya who fled Myanmar by sea this past year are being detained across Thailand, often in overcrowded centres and shelters, and thousands more have been intercepted and pushed back out to sea by the Thai authorities.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1588-muslim-rohingya-asylum-seekers-escape-thai-detention-centre
Hard to stay, harder to return
After working in Thailand legally for four years, many Myanmar migrant workers are facing an uncertain future in the coming weeks as their visas expire. Tired of the lack of security, they want the Myanmar government to improve the current labour agreement with Thailand.
The death of 27-year-old Soe Moe Kyaw’s father in 2010 drove the family’s rice planting business in Mandalay into a dire economic situation. Strapped for cash, his mother borrowed 8,000 baht (266 dollars) from her sister to pay a broker in Myanmar for Soe Moe Kyaw to travel across the border into Thailand.
Several months after his arrival, he found employment canning fish for 300 baht (10 dollars) per day at tuna canning factory Unicord in Mahachai. As the eldest of three siblings, Soe Moe Kyaw had dreams of earning enough money in Thailand to improve his family’s way of life.
“In the beginning, I thought that I could earn enough money to invest in a rice trade business in Myanmar, but the first few months of my salary went towards repaying my aunt. Even though I work eight hours per day and sometimes overtime, I only make enough to pay my sister’s education costs,” Soe Moe Kyaw told IPS.
“Since I entered the country illegally, I didn’t have proper documents, so I often had to hide in a room for fear of being arrested by the Thai police. As migrants, we face a lot of uncertainties because our jobs aren’t guaranteed, and even after paying a lot of money to become legal, we’re always threatened with losing our visas.”
Nearly 80 percent of the estimated three million migrant workers in Thailand are from Myanmar.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1606-hard-to-stay-harder-to-return
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Human Mobility
Boletim 99, Ano IX, August 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/boletins/Boletim_Mobilidade_Humana_-_ano_X_n._99.pdf
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Israel forcing jailed African migrants to accept 'voluntary’ deportation despite un policy, rights groups say
In letter to deputy attorney general, lawyers cite examples of heavy-handed tactics used by Interior Ministry officials.
By Ilan Lior
The Interior Ministry pressures African migrants in Israeli detention centers to agree to voluntary repatriation, in violation of UN policy, according to human rights organizations. Two lawyers for the Hotline for Migrant Workers yesterday sent a letter to the Justice Ministry documenting alleged abuses by Interior Ministry employees of the return policy.
In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Dina Silber, Asaf Weitzen and Nimrod Avigal claimed that jailed migrants are being told they will not be granted refugee status in Israel and will remain in custody unless they sign the forms agreeing to voluntary repatriation.
Around 200 African nationals have returned under the voluntary repatriation procedure for migrants from Eritrea and Sudan in the two months since Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein approved the program. According to the United Nations and human rights organizations, incarcerated individuals are by definition incapable of consenting freely to leave a country and therefore they should not be repatriated even if they sign consent forms.
The letter cites examples to substantiate the lawyers’ claims. In one case, a Sudanese man in the Saharonim detention center who had signed the consent forms told the Custody Tribunal in late July that he had done so only to obtain treatment for kidney stones. Custody Tribunal Judge Michael Silberschmidt halted his repatriation procedure and ordered the Israel Prison Service to provide immediate medical care.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1624-israel-forcing-jailed-african-migrants-to-accept-voluntary-deportation-despite-un-policy-rights-groups-say
Russia: 83 New Detention Centers for Illegal Immigrants Planned
The Federal Migration Service has drafted a bill to set up 83 new detention centers for illegal immigrants across the country as Moscow's three holding facilities ran out of space following a week of raids on the city's markets.
The drive to fight illegal migration was triggered by a brawl at the Matveyevsky market on July 27 between the police and the relatives of rape suspect Magomed Magomedov. One police officer was hospitalized with a fractured skull as a result of the fight.
Last Monday police began combing Moscow's markets for illegal immigrants, even though the people who attacked the police officer had Russian citizenship.
The shortage of detention facilities forced Moscow police to open a temporary tented camp for several hundred detained immigrants, most of whom are Vietnamese, although nationals of Egypt, Syria and Afghanistan are also present.
The camp held over 500 people on Sunday afternoon, the police said, but rights activists said buses with more detainees had been arriving all day. Diplomats have also weighed in with their objections to the camp, in which conditions are said to be cramped and dirty.
"Putting 40 people in a 50-meter-tent — these are simply inhumane conditions," the head of the Vietnamese consulate in Russia said.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1547-russia-83-new-detention-centers-for-illegal-immigrants-planned
Syrians and Egyptians' among migrants reaching Italy
Syrians and Egyptians are reported to be among nearly 700 migrants who arrived illegally by boat in southern Italy in the space of 24 hours.
In one boat, coast guards found 176 people, including 41 women and 73 children, who said they were from the two countries, Italian media report.
Each had reportedly paid at least $2,000 (£1,290; 1,500 euros) to people traffickers for the two-week journey.
African migrants rescued separately said two people had died at sea.
EU states such as Malta are struggling to cope with the migrant influx.
On Tuesday, the country refused to accept a group of African migrants rescued by an oil tanker en route from Libya, before Italy stepped in to allow them to land in Sicily.
The European Commission had tried to persuade Malta to accept the migrants on humanitarian grounds but Malta argued they were not in danger and should have been taken back to Libya.
About 7,800 illegal migrants and asylum seekers landed on the coast of Italy in the first six months of this year, according to the UN refugee agency.
They had mostly departed from North Africa - from Libya in the main - but also from Greece and Turkey.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1560-syrians-and-egyptians-among-migrants-reaching-italy
African migrants aspire to a better life in Asia
Over 70,000 Africans migrated to Malaysia in 2012. While many have found a better life, some continue to live rough in one of Southeast Asia's biggest cities, Kuala Lumpur.
Robert Adesina takes the train to work in central Kuala Lumpur every morning. He enters a carriage and almost everyone stops and stares.
"It's like this everyday. They think I am some sort of alien," he tells DW.
The Nigerian national sits next to a woman, who then abruptly puts her hand on her mouth, shielding herself from a perceived stench.
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http://csem.org.br/index.php/csem/noticias/1577-african-migrants-aspire-to-a-better-life-in-asia
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International Journal of Refugee Law
Vol. 25, No. 2, June 2013
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
Articles:
The Next Frontier: Expanding Protection in Europe for Victims of Armed Conflict and Indiscriminate Violence
By Helene Lambert
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/207.abstract.html?etoc
Protecting Recognized Geneva Convention Refugees outside their States of Asylum
By Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/235.abstract.html?etoc
Reflections on Refoulement and Collective Expulsion in the Hirsi Case
By Maarten Den Heijer
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/265.abstract.html
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures
By Robert Gibb and Anthony Good
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/291.abstract.html
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International Migration
Vol. 51, No. 5, September 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.2013.51.issue-5/issuetoc
Articles:
ON POLICY ISSUES
Immigrant Naturalization in the Context of Institutional Diversity: Policy Matters, but to Whom?
By Maarten Peter Vink, Tijana Prokic-Breuer and Jaap Dronkers
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12106/abstract
Framing an EU Level Regularization Mechanism: Mission Impossible?
By Ali Bilgic
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12064/abstract
Policy Implications for Addressing Roma Precarious Migration Through Employment at Home
By Maria-Carmen Pantea
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12069/abstract
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Beyond 3×1: Linking Sending and Receiving Societies in the Development Process
By Miryam Hazán
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00784.x/abstract
Linking Food Security, Migration and Development
By Jonathan Crush
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12097/abstract
Emigration for Development? An Exploration of the State's Role in the Development-Migration Nexus: The Case of Romania
By Romana Careja
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12115/abstract
REFUGEES
Well-Being of Refugees from Burma: A Salutogenic Perspective
By Summer Borwick, Robert D. Schweitzer, Mark Brough, Lyn Vromans and Jane Shakespeare-Finch
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12051/abstract
Sudanese and Somali Refugees in Canada: Social Support Needs and Preferences
By Edward Makwarimba, Miriam Stewart, Laura Simich, Knox Makumbe, Edward Shizha and Sharon Anderson
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12116/abstract
Attitudes to Employment of Professionally Qualified Refugees in the United Kingdom
By John Willott and Jacqueline Stevenson
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12038/abstract
Why Refugees Rebel: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Refugee Militarization
By Mike Lebson
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00780.x/abstract
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Vol. 39, No. 9, November 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/current#.UjnM8H-JoeA
Selected articles:
The Upward Occupational Mobility of Immigrant Women in Spain
By Sònia Parella, Alisa Petroff, and Carlota Solé
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815395#.UjnNd3-JoeA
Snakes and Ladders in Educational Systems: Access to Higher Education for Second-Generation Turks in Europe
By Maurice Crul
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815388#.UjnaAX-JoeA
Just a Matter of Time? The Ways in Which the Children of Immigrants become Similar (or not) to Italians
By Giuseppe Gabrielli, Anna Paterno, and Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815389#.UjnbR3-JoeA
Transnational Elite Formation: The Senegalese Murid Community in Italy
By Mayke Kaag
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815410#.Ujneb3-JoeA
Do National Feelings Influence Public Attitudes towards Immigration?
By Hoi Ok Jeong
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815428#.UjnekH-JoeA
Mexican Population Growth in New US Destinations: Testing and Developing Social Capital Theories of Migration using Census Data
By Michael Francis Johnston, Stavros Karageorgis, and Ivan Light
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815430#.UjneuX-JoeA
Unauthorised Crossings, Danger and Death at the Canada–US Border
By Jane Helleiner
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2013.815431#.UjnNY3-JoeA
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Journal of Refugee Studies
Vol. 26, No. 3, September 2013
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3?etoc
Selected articles:
‘White Tigers’: Researcher Roles in Relation to Linking Social Capital within Tamil Voluntary Associations in Norway
By Eugene Guribye
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/416.abstract.html
In Search of Sanctuary: Border Closures, ‘Safe’ Zones and Refugee Protection
By Katy Long
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/458.abstract.html
Resettlement of Somali Bantu Refugees in an Era of Economic Globalization
By Yda J. Smith
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/477.abstract.html
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Refugee Survey Quarterly
Vol. 32, No. 3, September 2013
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3
Articles:
The Dynamics of Bosnian Refugee Migrations in the 1990s, Current Migration Trends and Future Prospects
By Marko Valenta and Zan Strabac
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/1.abstract.html?etoc
Refugee Resettlement in Australia: What We Know and Need to Know
By Farida Fozdar and Lisa Hartley
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/23.abstract.html?etoc
The Logistics of Climate-Induced Resettlement: Lessons from the Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea
By Julia B. Edwards
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/52.abstract.html?etoc
Readmission Agreements and Refugee Rights: From a Critique to a Proposal
By Mariagiulia Giuffré
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/79.abstract.html?etoc
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