Articles
11/26/19, Immigration Impact: Talking Turkey About America’s Most Pressing Issues
11/26/19, Vox: Beware of the feel-good news story
11/25/19, Columbus Dispatch: Under Trump policies, immigrants are waiting years for court hearings: ‘A senseless waste of taxpayer money’
11/25/19, Dallas Morning News: Citizenship, other legal immigration benefits are getting pricier under new Trump policy
11/25/19, The American Prospect: ‘Close to Slavery’ or Legalization? The Farmworkers’ Hard Choice
11/25/19, Washington Post: Jared Kushner’s new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump’s border wall
11/25/19, The Guardian: Aid groups condemn Greece over ‘prison’ camps for migrants
11/25/19, CBS News: Contractor that holds migrant children scraps plans for holiday party at Trump golf club
11/24/19, HuffPost: Trump Got His Wall, After All
11/22/19, The Guardian: Worker who raised alarm before deadly New Orleans hotel collapse to be deported
11/22/19, Washington Post: In squalid Mexico tent city, asylum seekers are growing so desperate they’re sending their children over the border alone
11/22/19, New York Times: A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence
11/22/19, PBS NewsHour: The Trump impeachment hearings highlight immigrants’ stories
11/22/19, Christianity Today: From Foreigner to Family Member
11/22/19, ProPublica: The Trump Administration Was Ordered to Let These Migrants Seek Asylum. It Didn’t Tell the Judges Hearing Their Cases.
11/22/19, Washington Post: Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program to shuttle migrants from Tucson to El Paso
11/21/19, CNN: Refugee agencies challenge order requiring state consent for resettlement
Opinion
11/27/19, The Guardian: The uprooted millions of Europe – archive, November 1943
11/25/19, The Guardian: All migrants deserve support – not just the ‘good’ ones
11/24/19, Sacramento Bee: That immigrant we shun could be our next councilman. Ask Eric Guerra, ‘a proud American.’
11/23/19, New York Times: Why I Couldn’t See My Dying Father One Last Time
11/22/19, Los Angeles Times: Opinion: Restore asylum for women fleeing abuse and death
Publications
Migration Policy Institute: Volunteers and Sponsors: A Catalyst for Refugee Integration?
How can the benefits of volunteering be harnessed by overstretched providers? This report considers where community members can add the most value to integration efforts, assesses the barriers that community organizations and integration service providers face in engaging volunteers, and offers recommendations for how policymakers can facilitate the effective engagement of communities in integration initiatives.
New American Economy: Midwestern Cities Take the Lead in Welcoming Immigrants
The NAE Cities Index, first launched in 2018 as the first-ever comprehensive assessment of cities’ immigration policies and their immigrants’ socioeconomic outcomes, uses 51 unique measures to answer two questions at the heart of the immigration debate: How well are immigrants integrating into American society; and, what role do cities play in that process?
This American Life (podcast): The Out Crowd
Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy. We hear from asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, in a makeshift refugee camp, and from the officers who sent them there to wait in the first place.
Refugee Studies Centre (audio recording): Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour | Professor Kristin Sandvik