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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
1. Senate testimony on S.744
2. Senate testimony on S.744
3. Senate testimony on comprehensive immigration reform legislation
4. DHS report on the number of refugees and asylees
5. Latest issue of DOJ EOIR Immigration Law Advisor
6. Norway: Statistics on immigration and emigration for 2012
REPORTS, ARTICLES, ETC.
7. "America’s Patriotic Assimilation System Is Broken"
8. "Immigration: Fueling U.S. Income Inequality"
9. Two new reports from the Institute for the Study of Labor
10. Three new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute
11. Eight new papers from the Social Science Research Network
12. Five new reports from the International Organization for Migration
13. "Guestworkers in the high-skill U.S. labor market"
14. "A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States"
15. "Immigrant Financial Services Study"
16. "Memory, migration and guilt"
BOOKS
17. Immigration Enforcement: Elements and Legal Issues
18. Behind the Green Card: How Immigration Policy is Killing the American Dream
19. Contested Voices: Women Immigrants in Today's World
20. The Demography of Europe
21. Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant
Women in Israel
JOURNALS
22. Citizenship Studies
23. Ethnic and Racial Studies
24. Human Mobility
1.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=aa74149c42b092f2488b81816628a1f2
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,
S.744
Member Statements:
Chairman Patrick Leahy
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13LeahyStatement.pdf
Witness Testimony:
Janet Napolitano
Secretary
Department of Homeland Security
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13NapolitanoTestimony.pdf
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2.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Monday, April 22, 2013
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=8cbd56caad16c74c7ff47a4bf3bfabdf
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,
S.744
Member Statements:
Chairman Patrick Leahy
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13LeahyStatement.pdf
Witness Testimony:
Arturo Rodriguez
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13RodriguezTestimony.pdf
Charles Conner
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13ConnerTestimony.pdf
Alyson Eastman
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13EastmanTestimony.pdf
Megan Smith
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13MeganSmithTestimony.pdf
Jim Kolbe
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13KolbeTestimony.pdf
Tamar Jacoby
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13JacobyTestimony.pdf
Rick Judson
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13JudsonTestimony.pdf
Brad Smith
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13BradSmithTestimony.pdf
Ron Hira
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13HiraTestimony.pdf
Neeraj Gupta
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13GuptaTestimony.pdf
Fred Benjamin
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13BenjaminTestimony.pdf
Gaby Pacheco
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13PachecoTestimony.pdf
Janet Murguia
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13MurguiaTestimony.pdf
David Fleming
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13FlemingTestimony.pdf
Mark Krikorian
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13KrikorianTestimony.pdf
Laura L. Lichter
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13LictherTestimony.pdf
Kris Kobach
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13KobachTestimony.pdf
Mark Shurtleff
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13ShurtleffTestimony.pdf
Bill Vidal
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13VidalTestimony.pdf
Janice L. Kephart
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13KephartTestimony.pdf
Chris Crane
[unavailable at site]
Steven Camarota
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13CamarotaTestimony.pdf
Grover Norquist
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-22-13NorquistTestimony.pdf
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3.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Friday, April 19, 2013
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3453280c7b001bfa7ddd84aeeb215221
Hearing on Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
Member Statements:
Chairman Patrick Leahy
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-19-13LeahyStatement.pdf
Witness Testimony:
Peter Kirsanow
Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-19-13KirsanowTestimony.pdf
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
President
American Action Forum
Washington DC
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-19-13Holtz-EakinTestimony.pdf
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4.
Refugees and Asylees: 2012
By Daniel C. Martin and James E. Yankay
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics, Annual Flow Report, April 2013
http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_rfa_fr_2012.pdf
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5.
Vartelas v. Holder: The Revival of the Fleuti Doctrine
By Sabrina Gillespie
Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 7 No. 4, April 2013
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/ILA-Newsleter/ILA%202013/vol7no4.pdf
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6.
Immigration and emigration, 2012
Statistics Norway, May 3, 2013
http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvutv/aar/2013-05-02
Excerpt: In 2012, 78 500 immigrations and 31 200 emigrations were registered.
Although both of these figures were slightly lower than in 2011, the resulting
net migration was 47 300; up 300 from the previous record high in 2011.
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7.
America’s Patriotic Assimilation System Is Broken
By John Fonte and Althea Nagai
The Hudson Institute, April 2013
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/Final04-05.pdf
Excerpt:
Quantitative analysis of Harris Interactive Survey reveals that the patriotic
assimilation of immigrants to American identity is weak and ambivalent As
Congress debates immigration reform legislation many argue that “our
immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed.” Perhaps. This quantitative
analysis of Harris Interactive survey data however (originally commissioned by
the Bradley Foundation Project on American National Identity) suggests that our
patriotic assimilation system is also broken and needs to be fixed.
A large “patriotic gap” exists between native-born citizens and immigrant
citizens on issues of patriotic attachment and civic knowledge. Despite what
some may believe, native-born citizens have a much higher degree of patriotic
attachment to the United States than naturalized citizens.
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8.
New from FAIR
Immigration: Fueling U.S. Income Inequality
By Jack Martin
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, April 2013
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/research-pub/InequalityReport2013.pdf
Excerpt: Despite the recent leveling off in growth of the illegal alien
population, the number of illegal aliens in the country increased significantly
between 2000 and 2010 and their distribution among the states changed as more
illegal aliens settled in states that previously had few. The findings in this
report demonstrate that this shift in distribution of the illegal alien
population was accompanied by a corresponding change in the income inequality
data.
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9.
New from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
By Ingo Isphording
Discussion Paper No. 7360, April 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7360
Migration from Ukraine: Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence
By Simon Commander, Olexandr Nikolaychuk, and Dmytro Vikhrov
Discussion Paper No. 7348, April 2013
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7348
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10.
New from the Migration Policy Institute
1. Detailed Review of the 2013 Senate Legislation and Side-by-Side Comparison
with 2006, 2007 Senate Bills
Issue Brief No. 4, April 2013
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/CIRbrief-2013SenateBill-Side-by-Side.pdf
2. Sweeping Senate Bill Sets the Stage for Fundamental Overhaul of US
Immigration System
By Muzaffar Chishti and Faye Hipsman
Migration Information Source Policy Beat, April 26, 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=948
3. Mexico: The New Migration Narrative
By Francisco Alba
Migration Information Source Policy Beat, April 24, 2013
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=947
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11.
New from the Social Science Research Network
1. Transboundary Impacts of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Disaster: Focus on Legal
Dilemmas in South Florida
By Alka Sapat, Florida Atlantic University and Ann-Margaret Esnard, Florida
Atlantic University
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2221282
2. Bias in the Legal System? An Essay on the Eligibility of Undocumented
Immigrants to Practice Law
By Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis School of Law
UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 333
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2257026
3. A Note on Canadian Migration to the United States During the 1980s and 1990s
By Richard Mueller, University of Lethbridge
Applied Economics, Vol. 45, No. 22, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2256040
4. Learning from the Past: Why Termination of a Non-Citizen Parent's Rights
Should Not Be Based on the Child's Best Interest
By Stacy L. Byrd
University of Miami School of Law
University of Miami Law Review, Forthcoming
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2255653
5. Preempting Immigration Detainer Enforcement Under Arizona v. United States
By Christopher N. Lasch, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
University of Denver Sturm College of Law Legal Research Paper Series, Working
Paper No. 13-23
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253001
6. Revisiting INS v. Lopez-Mendoza: Why the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule
Should Apply in Deportation Proceedings
By Elizabeth Rossi
Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 44, 2013
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253326
7. Enforcement Redundancy and the Future of Immigration Law
By Adam B. Cox, New York University School of Law
Supreme Court Review, Forthcoming
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-19
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2252982
8. Immigration, Civil Rights, and the Formation of the People
By Cristina Rodriguez, Yale Law School
Daedelus, Vol. 142, No. 3, Summer 2013
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2252061
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12.
New from International Organization for Migration
1. Trafficked at sea. The exploitation of Ukrainian seafarers and fishers 2012
By Rebecca Surtees
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Trafficked_at_sea_web.pdf
2. Labour Market Inclusion of the Less Skilled Migrants in the European Union
Edited by Anna Platonova and Giuliana Urso
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Labour_Market_Inclusion_in_EU.pdf
3. Labour Shortages and Migration Policy
Edited by Anna Platonova and Giuliana Urso
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Labour_Shortages_and_Migration_Policy.pdf
4. Migration, Employment and Labour Market Integration Policies in the European
Union (2010)
Edited by Anna Platonova and Giuliana Urso
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Migration_Employment_2010.pdf
5. Children on the Move
April 2013
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Children_on_the_Move_19Apr.pdf
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13.
Guestworkers in the high-skill U.S. labor market
An analysis of supply, employment, and wage trends
By Hal Salzman, Daniel Kuehn, and B. Lindsay Lowell
Economic Policy Institute, April 24, 2013
http://www.epi.org/files/2013/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis.pdf
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14.
A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States
By Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Mark Hugo Lopez
Pew Research Hispanic Center, May 1, 2013
http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/2013/05/2013-04_Demographic-Portrait-of-Mexicans-in-the-US.pdf
Excerpt: Immigration status. Almost two-thirds of Mexicans in the U.S. are
native born (65%). About two-thirds of immigrants from Mexico (65%) arrived in
the U.S. in 1990 or later.
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15.
Immigrant Financial Services Study
New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, Office of Financial Empowerment
Research Brief, March 2013
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ofe/downloads/pdf/IFSStudy_english.pdf
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16.
Memory, migration and guilt
By Aleida Assmann and Anja Schwarz
Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2013
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/cjmc/2013/00000004/00000001/art00004
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17.
Immigration Enforcement: Elements and Legal Issues
Edited by Stephanie A. Westbrook and Karen C. London
Nova Science Pub. Inc., 231 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1626183120, $195.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1626183120/centerforimmigra
Book Description: This book addresses the new elements and legal issues
pertaining to immigration enforcement in the United States. Topics include the
scope of prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement; a look at whether
administrative amnesty harms our efforts to gain and maintain operational
control of the borders; defining and quantifying the criminal alien population
and enforcement statistics; the various authorities governing immigration
detainers and key legal issues; authority of the state and local police to
enforce federal immigration law; the Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v.
United States and the implications for immigration enforcement activity by
states and localities; immigration-related worksite enforcement performance
measures; and border security and immigration enforcement between ports of
entry.
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18.
Behind the Green Card: How Immigration Policy is Killing the American Dream
By Donald Dobkin
Algora Publishing, 202 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 087586970X, $29.66
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/087586970X/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0875869696, $20.62
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875869696/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Behind the Green Card explodes the innumerable myths and
bogeymen that obscure the reality of US immigration policy. Blinded by
misguided national security interests, the United States has codified a series
of unworkable and irresponsible laws which make this country weaker, poorer and
less secure than ever. Through the elimination of both a huge marketplace and
enormous supply of labor, the US struggles to regain economic growth while
other developed nations, through sensible immigration policies, forge ahead.
Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has described America's immigration policy as
the greatest case of national suicide ever seen. The US is no longer the only
game in town, and America's hard line toward immigration has sent applicants
fleeing to other countries. India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK
have benefited enormously from this flight. The economic consequences of this
policy have been severe.
Immigration Lawyer Donald Dobkin decided to write a book on immigration in the
belief that the American public has not been getting the true story about our
immigration system. Misconceptions and misinformation rule the day. We need to
get off of our arrogant pedestal and change our policies quickly.
As Dobkin details in these chapters, the US has stumbled its way toward
impending disasters:
* The economic peril of quasi-closed borders
* The myths of purported national security imperatives
* The brain-drain: exclusion of foreign best and brightest minds
* The Rise of the Administrative State: US largest actual branch of government
* The strangulation of legal immigration
'Behind the Green Card' is a startlingly frank expose of cynical political
interests, economic manipulation and outright racism run amok. Written in
common-sense, straightforward style, the book is for readers across the board
of interests: politicos, social advocates, policy students, current events
readers.
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19.
Contested Voices: Women Immigrants in Today's World
By Marianne Githens
Palgrave Macmillan, 186 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0312240201, $72.91
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312240201/centerforimmigra
Paperback, ISBN: 0312240414, $25.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312240414/centerforimmigra
Book Description: Using the concepts of intersectionality and the social
construction of identity, Contested Voices offers a comprehensive picture of
immigrant women today and the impact which public policy, class, race,
religion, and ethnicity have on their efforts to adjust to a new environment.
Rejecting the notion that all immigrant women have the same experiences in
adapting and adjusting to their new environment, the book examines the impact
of gendered immigration policy in the receiving country, the attitudes and role
expectations of both the citizens in the receiving country and the members of
the women's own immigrant community who live there, and the women's efforts to
construct a viable social identity their new country.
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20.
The Demography of Europe
Edited by Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, Laura Bernardi, and
Christoph Buhler
Springer; 2013 edition, 233 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9048189772, $129.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9048189772/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 1863 KB, ASIN: B00CHGU0Q4, $103.20
Book Description: Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental
changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has
fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while
childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life
expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has
been declining for men in some Eastern European countries. Immigration from
non-European countries has increased substantially, as has mobility within
Europe. These changes pose major challenges to population studies, as
conventional theoretical assumptions regarding demographic behavior and
demographic development seem unfit to provide convincing explanations of the
recent demographic changes.
This book, derived from the symposium on “The Demography of Europe” held at the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany in November
2007 in honor of Professor Jan M. Hoem, brings together leading population
researchers in the area of fertility, family, migration, life-expectancy, and
mortality. The contributions present key issues of the new demography of Europe
and discuss key research advances to understand the continent’s demographic
development at the turn of the 21st century.
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21.
Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women
in Israel
By Beverly Mizrachi
Wayne State University Press, 216 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 081433881X, $44.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081433881X/centerforimmigra
Book Description: While first-generation immigrant women often begin their
lives at the bottom of their new societies, the fates of their adult daughters
can be very different. Still, little research has been done to examine the
opportunities or constraints that second-generation women face and the class
achievements they make. Inthis volume, author Beverly Mizrachi presents an
in-depth study of 40-50-year-old Moroccan women whose parents made up part of
the largest ethnic group to enter Israel after its establishment in 1948 and
whose mothers began their new lives at the bottom of the economic and social
ladder. Through her analysis of the life history narratives of these women,
Mizrachi reveals that they used a range and number of sites to achieve an
impressive mobility into the low, middle, and high segments of the middle
class. Mizrachi's findings have implications for studying the middle-class
mobility of second-generation immigrant women from
subordinate groups in other Western societies. Paths to Middle-Class Mobility
among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel begins by examining
the historical background and culture of Jewish communities in Morocco that
affected the mobility resources of the first, immigrant generation of Moroccan
women in Israel and those accrued by the second generation. Mizrachi goes on to
analyze the life history narratives of a group of six second-generation
Moroccan women to show how they used their education, employment, gendered
spousal relationships, motherhood, residential mobility, and the body to
achieve their middle-class mobility. Ultimately, she finds that these women
used their human agency and social structures over these multiple social sites
to reach their class goals for themselves and their children while
simultaneously constructing new classed and ethnicized feminine identities.
Mizrachi's findings integrate issues of gender, ethnicity, immigration, and
class mobility in a single intriguing study. Her volume will appeal to students
and teachers of sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and Middle East studies
as well as readers interested in immigration and women's studies.
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Citizenship Studies
Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/17/2#.UYBT9UoTTwo
Special Issue: Immigrant Protest
Articles:
Immigrant protest: an introduction
By Imogen Tyler and Katarzyna Marciniak
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780728#.UYBYYkoTTwo
Impossible protest: noborders in Calais
By Joe Rigby and Raphael Schlembach
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780731#.UYBc3EoTTwo
No Border: photo essay
By Julie Rebouillat
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.781258#.UYBcuEoTTwo
After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile
commons
By Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vassilis S. Tsianos
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780736#.UYBco0oTTwo
Immigrant protests in Toronto: diaspora and Sri Lanka's civil war
By Ishan Ashutosh
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780739#.UYBcjEoTTwo
Naked protest: the maternal politics of citizenship and revolt
By Imogen Tyler
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780742#.UYBceUoTTwo
Medical aid as protest: acts of citizenship for unauthorized im/migrants and
refugees
By Heide Castañeda
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780744#.UYBcWkoTTwo
Gagging orders: asylum seekers and paradoxes of freedom and protest in liberal
society
By Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780748#.UYBY6koTTwo
Legal/illegal: protesting citizenship in Fortress America
By Katarzyna Marciniak
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780754#.UYBYyEoTTwo
‘I am an American’: protesting advertised ‘Americanness’
By Cynthia Weber
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2013.780755#.UYBYqEoTTwo
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Vol. 36, No. 5, May 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/current
Selected articles:
Moral bricolage and immigrant identification: The case of Romanian Americans
By Mariana Craciun
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.629001#.UYMJW0oTTwo
Secular citizenship and Muslim belonging in Turkey: migrant perspectives
By Lejla Voloder
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.653382#.UYMJPkoTTwo
For love and money: second-generation Indian-Americans ‘return’ to India
By Sonali Jain
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.641576#.UYMJJkoTTwo
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24.
Human Mobility
Boletim 95, Ano X, April 2013
http://csem.org.br/images/downloads/boletins/Boletim_Mobilidade_Humana_-_ano_X_n._95.pdf
English language content:
How has immigration changed Britain?
. . .
According to the British Social Attitudes survey, it's the poorest, least well
educated and most insecure who feel that most including, interestingly, many
first or second-generation migrants.
In Peterborough market Ian, who runs the shoe-repair stall, tells me that his
house is for sale as he no longer believes his son will get a good education in
the city. One school recently revealed that none of its pupils spoke English as
a first language. In Peterborough 10% of households have no-one at home who
speaks English.
Once the issue of immigration and race were inextricably linked, making the
issue hard for mainstream politicians to talk about without being accused of
racism. The arrival of so many white Christian Europeans has changed all that.
Attitudes
Interestingly, Param Singh, who runs the One World food stall supplying
ingredients from all over the world to the city's Afro-Caribbean and Asian
residents, agrees. He tells me that when his father moved from the Punjab to
Peterborough he integrated - not so, he claims, those who have made the journey
from Europe.
The florist, Steve - white, working-class and British - welcomes the new
immigrants. He lives in nearby Boston, in which many of those who work on the
land - and work hard for low pay - are eastern Europeans. Their labour allows
businesses like his to keep going, he argues.
Peterborough's political leader is an Italian. Marco Cereste's family came in
the 1950s with thousands of fellow countrymen recruited to work in the local
brick works which, you guessed it, couldn't find locals to do the dirty jobs.
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1106-how-has-immigration-changed-britain
Mexico: Traffickers abandoning immigrants at sea
Mexican authorities said Monday that they've spotted a troubling immigration
trend: large numbers of migrants abandoned at sea by traffickers.
Every month, Mexico's navy says it rescues about 150 stranded migrants, left
adrift in overloaded boats off the country's Pacific coast.
As part of the scam, officials said in a statement, traffickers tell the
migrants that there has been an equipment failure and promise to return but
never do.
The immigration and maritime authorities said the frequency of that approach --
about 10 or 12 times per month -- inspired them to issue a warning on Monday:
"Do not allow yourself to be fooled and put your life at risk by leaving it in
the hands of people without scruples whose only goal is obtaining money without
caring about the lives of other human beings."
Authorities have long warned of the dangers of illegal border crossings, often
focusing on perilous desert treks by land.
And in the past five years, maritime border crossings into the United States
have become a "new frontier," said David Shirk, a professor of political
science at San Diego State University and an expert on Mexico and border
security.
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1109-mexico-traffickers-abandoning-immigrants-at-sea
Southeast Asian migrants revitalizing Taiwan economy
. . .
But a growing population of migrant workers is reheating Taiwan’s economy.
Peter O’Neill, a Catholic Church priest, who counsels migrants, says Southeast
Asians do valuable work for up to 18 hours per day and get paid less than the
Taiwanese.
“Those industries are where the working conditions are very dangerous, very
hot, very uncomfortable, because Taiwanese people no longer want to work in the
manufacturing sector,” O'Neill stated.
Nearly 450,000 Southeast Asian workers live in Taiwan today, up from 270,000
just 15 years ago. More than half come from Indonesia and the rest are mainly
Thai, Filipino or Vietnamese. Migrants reach Taiwan on short-term labor
contracts and are paid minimum wage, earning enough on average by their third
year to send money to relatively poor families back home.
Taiwan’s government relaxed migrant labor laws last year to let in more
workers. The move was part of a bigger directive to bring Taiwanese factories
home from China, where they have operated in some cases for nearly three
decades.
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1111-southeast-asian-migrants-revitalizing-taiwan-economy
Brazil reviewing immigration policy and is looking for “brains and human
capital”
Brazil is after “brains and human capital” and a special Strategic Actions
Secretariat (SAE) which depends directly fro m the Executive is working on a
strategy to attract selective quality immigration according Ricardo Paes de
Barros head of SAE interviewed by the Miami Herald.
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/986-brazil-reviewing-immigration-policy-and-is-looking-for-brains-and-human-capital
40% Of The Largest U.S. Companies Founded by Immigrants or Their Children
Here’s a damned fine argument for letting more qualified immigrants into
America. Immigrants were key in the founding of Proctor & Gamble in 1837,
Pfizer in 1849 and U.S. Steel in 1901–as well as more recently Ebay, Google and
Bright star.
Not to mention the 25% of high tech companies founded between 1995 and 2005
that had at least one immigrant founder. 75% of the companies funded by
American venture capital had ?one core foreign born team member such as CEO,CTO
or VP of Engineering, says a report titled "Not Coming to America, Why the U.S.
is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent." It was published by The
Partnership for a New American Economy in May, 2012. In fact, I call Andrew
Grove, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant a founder of Intel along with his two
partners, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1092-40-of-the-largest-u-s-companies-founded-by-immigrants-or-their-children
Broken dreams for immigrant wives
Korea urged to increase efforts to help marriage immigrants a dapt
By Cho Chung-un
Globalization, demographic change and economic growth have led Korea to embrace
cultural diversity and tolerance toward others. But biases and discrimination
against foreigners remain and Koreans’ pride of ethic purity is deeply
entrenched. This is the second in a 10-part series on the nation’s efforts to
promote multiculturalism and on challenges in immigration laws, education,
welfare, public perception, mass culture and other diverse aspects. ? Ed.
Around 2000, Korea began to witness an influx of Asian women married to Korean
farmers and toiling in homes, restaurants and factories
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1059-broken-dreams-for-immigrant-wives
Religious, nonreligious organizations may have similar impact on immigrants
Religious and nonreligious organizations may have a similar impact on the
ability of immigrants to acclimate to life in the U.S., despite the
organizations' different motivations for providing charitable services,
according to new research from Rice University.
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1010-religious-nonreligious-organizations-may-have-similar-impact-on-immigrants
First Muslim Woman Will Enter Australian Parliament
A Pakistan-born migrant is to become the first Muslim woman to serve in an
Australia parliament. Mehreen Faruqi, a prominent figure in environmental
engineering, has been chosen by the New South Wales Greens to fill a vacancy in
the upper house of the state legislature.
Mehreen Faruqi migrated from Pakistan with her family in 1992. She describes
herself on her Twitter page as an "environmental engineer, climate change
activist, proud union member and feminist." She has been chosen to represent
the Greens, a center left party, in Australia's first and oldest parliament in
New South Wales. The university academic was selected by a postal ballot of
party members, from a field of seven in a contest in which only women could run
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1078-first-muslim-woman-will-enter-australian-parliament
Trafficking in human beings: more victims in the EU but Member states are slow
to respond
23.632 people were identified or presumed victims of trafficking in the EU over
the 2008 2010 period. This is the most striking figure emerging from the first
report on trafficking in human beings in Europe, published today by the
European Commission. The report also highlights that the number of people being
trafficked in and to the EU increased by 18% from 2008 to 2010, but less
traffickers end up behind bars, since convictions decreased by 13% over the
same period.
Despite this worrying back ground, to date, only 6 out of the 27 EU Member
States have fully transposed the EU Anti-Trafficking Directive into their
national legislation and three countries have only reported partial
transposition of the directive, with the deadline having expired on 6 April 2013
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1045-trafficking-in-human-beings-more-victims-in-the-eu-but-member-states-are-slow-to-respond
Egypt: Human Trafficking in Sinai
Many refugees, mostly from Eritrea, are being kidnapped and held hostage by
criminal networks working in the largely lawless Sinai Peninsula.
Since around 2006, the Sinai Peninsula in eastern Egypt, bordering Israel, has
been the site of what the UN has referred to as one of the most unreported
humanitarian crises in the world. Criminal gangs operate through complex
networks with impunity, and the region has been seen several cases of serious
human rights violations, torture and human trafficking.
Operating in a largely lawless wilderness, gangs take refugees who are fleeing
northwards towards Egypt and Israel hostage and demand ransoms for their
release. The hostages are often tortured and some are killed. Meanwhile, many
accuse the Egyptian and Israeli governments of not doing enough to combat the
problem and of contravening their legal obligations towards refugees
. . .
http://csem.org.br/csem/noticias/1072-egypt-human-trafficking-in-sinai
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