It is frequently stated that the United States is a nation of immigrants, but while that was once true, it is no longer true. We were a nation of immigrants during the 17th and 18th centuries, when the European immigrant to American population ...
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January 9, 2016
Rational immigration
By Ronald Cherry
It is frequently stated that the United States is a nation of immigrants, but while that was once true, it is no longer true. We were a nation of immigrants during the 17th and 18th centuries, when the European immigrant to American population ratio, outside American Indians, was initially 100%. Even the American Indians were initially immigrants from Asia. The history of every nation outside the African Rift Valley reveals that its early inhabitants were immigrants from somewhere else – true for England, France, Russia, India, China, Japan, etc. The ratio of immigrant to existing American population during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries has been fairly low, reflecting the truth that we are no longer a nation of immigrants. The United States is now a nation primarily of natural-born Americans, just as China is a nation primarily of natural-born Chinese.
Immigrant to American Population Ratio:
1607-1622 (Jamestown & Plymouth): 100%
1830: 0.18%
1870: 1.0%
1910: 1.1%
1950: 0.16%
1990: 0.62%
2010: 0.34%
In the early years, the United States was underpopulated and was thus a nation in need of mass immigration, but with 323 million people, we are no longer underpopulated, so the United States no longer needs mass immigration.
As Thomas Jefferson stated, rightful individual human liberty is limited by the equal rights of the other people around us, so if we are jammed together like sardines, our freedom of action becomes very limited. Envision 100 people moving freely in three dimensions within the Superdome, each person having nearly unobstructed action according to his will, even within limits drawn around each of them by the equal rights of the others who are moving about. Now envision 1,000,000 people rubbing and bouncing against each other in the same venue. Like gumballs in a jar, each person is now extremely limited in his liberty, each obstructed in his action within tight limits drawn around him by the equal rights of the vast array of others.
America needed massive immigration in prior ages, when the nation was young and underpopulated, but times have changed. I do not want my children and grandchildren to live like ants in an overpopulated ant colony.
Overpopulation stresses the environment and mathematically reduces individual human liberty, and thereby violates the individual's natural right to the pursuit of happiness, and tends a society toward totalitarian government – all of which is immoral and wrong.
The age of massive immigration (legal and illegal) to the United States is over. It is not immoral or wrong to oppose immigration in the quality and on the scale that now exists in the United States, and especially for immigrants who have been raised with a mentality of serflike submission to a Socialist Big Brother or to totalitarian Islamic sharia law. I do not want any further Muslim immigration because their religion contains a totalitarian political ideology opposed to the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. We are also now saturated with illegal Mexican immigrants who have become a drain on hardworking American taxpayers.
What should be done to help protect our nation from overpopulation, the importation of a totalitarian Islamic political system, and the economic drag of millions of government dependents? First of all, Congress should revoke the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, followed by a federal law that limits immigration to a trickle. We may need certain highly talented individuals to immigrate here, and we should be a haven for a few refugees fleeing for their lives, but mass immigration must end, because it has come to the point where immigration is harming natural-born Americans. Additionally, all immigrants to the United States must be required to swear obedience to our Constitution and Bill of Rights, because even more than our great flag, that is the essence of America. Anyone refusing should not be here.
Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/rational_immigration.html#ixzz3wm7diEm7
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Placating Americans with Fake Immigration Law Enforcement
How our leaders create fantasy 'solutions' for our immigration-related vulnerabilities.
By Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com, December 4, 2015
Therefore the Visa Waiver Program should have been terminated after the terror attacks of 9/11 yet it has continually been expanded.
It is clear that the overarching goal of a succession of administrations and many members of Congress, irrespective of political party affiliation, is to keep our borders open and take no meaningful action to stop that flow of aliens into the United States.
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The obvious question is why the Visa Waiver Program is considered so sacrosanct that even though it defies the advice and findings of the 9/11 Commission no one has the moral fortitude to call for simply terminating this dangerous program.
The answer can be found in the incestuous relationship between the Chamber of Commerce and its subsidiary, the Corporation for Travel Promotion, now doing business as Brand USA.
The Chamber of Commerce has arguably been the strongest supporter of the Visa Waiver Program, which currently enables aliens from 38 countries to enter the United States without first obtaining a visa.
The U.S. State Department provides a thorough explanation of the Visa Waiver Program on its website.
Incredibly, the official State Department website also provides a link, “Discover America,” on that website which relates to the website of The Corporation for Travel Promotion, which is affiliated with the travel industries that are a part of the “Discover America Partnership.
much more here:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/12/amnesty-hoax-to-keep-wages-depressed.html
Immigration Events, 1/5/16
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1. 1/6, DC - Book discussion: The Economics of Immigration
2. 1/6-10, NYC - Immigration at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting
3. 1/7-10, Atlanta - Immigration at the American Historical Association annual meeting
4. 1/9, Cambridge, MA - Book discussion: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp - [New Listing]
5. 1/11, San Diego - Book discussion: Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
6. 1/12-3/3, DC - Certificate program course on global trends in international migration - [New Listing]
7. 1/13, NYC - CIS at debate on the admission of Syrian refugees - [New Listing]
8. 1/13-15, London - Conference on the changing face of global mobility - [New Listing]
9. 1/13-17, DC - Immigration at the Society for Social Work and Research annual meeting
10. 1/27-29, DC - Certificate program course on migration and development - [New Listing]
1.
The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
4:00-5:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Cato Institute, Hayek Auditorium
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403
http://www.cato.org/events/economics-immigration-market-based-approaches-social-science-public-policy
Speakers:
Zac Gochenour, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Carolina University
Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
Commentator:
Neil Ruiz, Executive Director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Finance, George Washington University
Moderator:
Benjamin Powell, Director, Free Market Institute, and Professor of Economics, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University.
Description: In his new book The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy, editor and economics professor Benjamin Powell brings together several immigration scholars to discuss how immigrants affect the wages of American workers and government budgets, as well as how they assimilate into American culture. The book also presents different policy recommendations in light of the economic evidence—including proposals for a market in visas, open borders, and cuts in legal immigration. The authors and editor will be joined by Neil G. Ruiz, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Finance at George Washington University, who will offer his own comments and criticisms. Please join us as four economists discuss the economic impact of immigration.
If you can’t make it to the event, you can watch it live online at www.cato.org/live and join the conversation on Twitter using #CatoEvents. Follow @CatoEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute.
Register: https://ssl.cato.org:8443/catopublic/#MtgDetail/00000890
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Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting
Wednesday-Sunday, January 6–10, 2016
New York Hilton Midtown & Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
New York City, NY
http://www.aals.org/am2016/
Immigration-related session:
Saturday, January 9, 2016
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Immigration and the 2016 Presidential Election: Campaign Rhetoric, Minority Voting, and Policy Possibilities
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American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Thursday-Sunday, January 7-10, 2016
Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, and Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/start.html#srch=words|migra|method|and|pge|1
Immigration-related sessions:
Thursday, January 7, 2016
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Caught in the Middle: The Politics of Migrant Labor in Mexico and the United States
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13501.html
Papers:
Between Two Nations: Organizing among Mexican Migrants in Los Angeles, California, 1920–35
Daniel Morales, Columbia University
The Making of the Unassimilable Mexican and Race as a Common US-Mexico History, c. 1920s
Jose Luis Ramos, Valparaiso University
A State’s Sovereign Right: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Maria E. Balandran, University of Chicago
Health Care and Deportation during the Bracero Program
Laura D. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Chinese Mass Migrations: Convergences and Divergences
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13589.html
Papers:
The End of China’s Emigration Ban in 1893: A Non-event?
Shelly Chan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Reconciling the Open Door with the Closed Gate: Chinese Exclusion and US Imperialism
Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University
From Compradors to Hacendados: Toward an Asian Settler Colonial History of Chinese Migrations to Peru
Ana Maria Candela, Binghamton University (State University of New York)
Uncalculated Divergences: The Philippine-Chinese Community in the Turbulent 20s
Phillip Guingona, Marietta College
1:20 p.m.
The Making of the Unassimilable Mexican and Race as a Common US-Mexico History, c. 1920s
Jose Luis Ramos, Valparaiso University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19153.html
1:40 p.m.
Planting the Seeds: Women Voting on Immigration Policy
Erin Leary, University of Rochester
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19906.html
Friday, January 8, 2016
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Transnational Labor Migration, Globalization, and Ecological Integration in the Pacific World, 1800s-2000s
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13544.html
Papers:
Migrant Peoples, Migrant Natures: Tracing Economic and Ecological Changes in 19th-Century Polynesia
Gregory Rosenthal, Roanoke College
Contested Oceans: Maritime Labor, Anti-Colonial Politics, and Asian/Pacific Diasporas in the 20th-Century Dutch Empire
Kris Alexanderson, University of the Pacific
South American Workers in Japan: Migration, Inequality, and Global Capitalism
Tomoyuki Sasaki, Eastern Michigan University
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Women and Families sin Fronteras: New Directions in Gender in the United States/Mexico Borderlands
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13235.html
Papers:
Indian Women and the Creation of Mining Towns and Borderlands
Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego
Californiana Legacies: Family and Popular Memories in California’s Borderlands
Margie Brown-Coronel, California State University, Fullerton
Women, Labor, and Intermarriage in the Baja California Borderlands
Veronica Castillo-Munoz, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30 a.m.
Biatek Family: A Case Study in Polish Immigration History
Barbara D. Pulaski, Mount Ida College and Francis S. Wolenski, Cambridge, Massachusetts
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19797.html
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Empire City: Intersecting Diasporas and Migrant Neighbors in 20th-Century New York
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13552.html
Papers:
Atlantic Neighbors: Puerto Rican and Italian Intersecting Diasporas in 20th-Century New York
Simone Cinotto, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University
Crucial but Unheralded Actions: Puerto Rican Workers and the New York City Labor Movement, 1953–60
Aldo Lauria Santiago, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Trailblazers and Harbingers: Mexicans in New York before 1970
Julie Leininger Pycior, Manhattan College
3:10 p.m.
Trailblazers and Harbingers: Mexicans in New York before 1970
Julie Leininger Pycior, Manhattan College
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19546.html
3:30 p.m.
Notes on the Economic and Social Impact of Migrants in Belgium during the 20th Century
Paolo Tedeschi, University of Milan Bicocca and Pierre Tilly, Université Catholique de Louvain
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18503.html
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Empire and Nation in Contest: Chinese Migrants in a Globalizing World
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13155.html
Papers:
Forever Sojourning? Articulations Between Empire, Nation, and the Local in the Identities of the Yokohama Chinese
Eric Han, College of William and Mary
Reconsidering Chinese Nationalism in Republican China: Jinan University, Chinese Migrants, and Southeast Asia, 1911-41
Leander Seah, Stetson University
Experiencing “Empire” and “Nation” from Afar: Chinese Laborers and Students in Europe in the 1910s and 20s
Nagatomi Hirayama, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
“One Chinese Is a Dragon, Three Chinese Are a Worm”: An Investigation into the New Chinese Migrants in Africa
Haifang Liu, Peking University
Saturday, January 9, 2016
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Challenging Historiography: Connecting Empire and Migration Studies
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13295.html
Papers:
The Rise of Finance Capitalism and Role of Balkan Muslims in the Arabic-Speaking World’s Absorption of Euro-American Power
Isa Blumi, Georgia State University
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Synergy between Colonial History and Migration Studies and the Promise of International History
Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University
Transnational Ligatures of Empire: The “Atavistic” Syrian Migrant and the World's “Intermedium”
Bryan Garrett, University of Texas at Arlington
Migrants and Agents of Empire: 19th-Century German-Speaking Colonization and Settlement in the South Atlantic
Isabelle Rispler, Université Paris Diderot and University of Texas at Arlington
Citizens and Neighbors: New Research on the Legal Aspects of Global Migration
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13554.html
Panel:
Katherine A. Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University; Sam Erman, University of Southern California; Torrie Hester, Saint Louis University; Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University; and Larisa Veloz, Georgetown University
Contested Citizenship, Overlapping Authorities: New York’s Immigrant Catholics in Political, Religious, and Progressive Spheres
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13731.html
Papers:
“Battling Alone in My Own Peculiar Way”: Father Curry, Crusader of Cherry Hill
Adrienne deNoyelles, University of Florida
“This Is Not the America I Belong To”: Irish American and German American Responses to Immigration Restriction
Elizabeth Jane Stack, Fordham University
Austro-Hungarian Officials, Homeland Priests, American Bishops, and the Contest for Eastern European Immigrant Catholics, 1900–14
Kristina Poznan, College of William and Mary
Polish Immigrant and Polish American Ethnic Women
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13797.html
Papers:
Warsaw, East London, and Detroit: Ravensbrück Camp Inmates Searching for a Home
Anna Muller, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Women, Immigration, and Ethnicity: A Review of Sociological Studies
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
Forbidden Desires: Women and Transgressive Sexuality in Polish American Fiction
Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Instrument of Empire: The Spanish Language and the Global Reach of Hispanism, 1910s–40s
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13445.html
Papers:
US Hispanism and the Enigmatic Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa
John Nieto-Phillips, Indiana University Bloomington
“Long Live Spain and Hispanoamericanism!” The Spanish Diaspora and the Promotion of Hispanism in Spain and the United States
Ana Varela-Lago, Northern Arizona University
Antifascist Networks in the United States: Félix Martí Ibáñez’s Postmodern Hispanic Humanism
Montserrat Feu, Sam Houston State University
Citizens and Neighbors: New Research on the Legal Aspects of Global Migration
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13554.html
Panel:
Katherine A. Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University; Sam Erman, University of Southern California; Torrie Hester, Saint Louis University; Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University; and Larisa Veloz, Georgetown University
9:20 a.m.
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Synergy between Colonial History and Migration Studies and the Promise of International History
Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19190.html
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session12753.html
Panel:
Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Toronto; Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin; Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University; and José C. Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Reimagining Latino Geographies: Historicizing Midwest and Southern (Im)Migration
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13429.html
Papers:
Becoming Pedro: Racial Play at South of the Border, 1950–61
Cecilia Marquez, University of Virginia
Negotiating Latinidad: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in West Michigan, 1950–72
Delia Fernandez, Ohio State University
Food, Culture, and Belonging in Mexican Chicago
Michael Innis-Jimenez, University of Alabama
11:50 a.m.
Transatlantic Migration under the Neutral Flag during World War I: A Business Perspective
Torsten Feys, Ghent University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18913.html
Sunday, January 10, 2016
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Global Migrations, Socio-Religious Networks, and State Formations from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13236.html
Panel:
Nathanael Andrade, University of Oregon; Bryan Averbuch, College of Staten Island, City University of New York; Rachel Mairs, University of Reading; Jason Neelis, Wilfrid Laurier University; and Roberta Tomber, British Museum
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
The Great War, Transnational Experience, and International Migration: Africa, Europe, and North America
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session12964.html
Papers:
War of Movement: Military and Labor Migration in France, 1914–18
Richard S. Fogarty, University at Albany, State University of New York
The Migration of Irish Nationalist Ideology in Postwar Europe, 1918–26
Justin Dolan Stover, Idaho State University
German Veteran Emigrants and the Long First World War
Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University
From Immigrant Radical to Pro-war Patriot: Onorio Ruotolo and the Italian American Response to World War I
Christopher M. Sterba, San Francisco State University
Between the Family and the Global: Managing Population Migration to Western Europe in an Age of Globalization, 1945–90
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13494.html
Papers:
Rethinking Postwar Migration through the Mediterranean, 1945–74
Michael Kozakowski, University of Colorado Denver
Can the Family Member Integrate? Family Migration and European Identity in West Germany, 1973–90
Lauren Stokes, University of Chicago
France, West Germany, and the Formation of a European Population Migration Regime, 1955–84
Emmanuel Comte, European University Institute
11:00 a.m.
From El Bajío to the Nuevo New South: Ideations of Race through Transnational Migration
Yuridia Ramirez, Duke University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19606.html
11:20 a.m.
We Were American All Along: US Virgin Island Migrants’ Claims to Citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s
Johnnie Tiffany Holland, Duke University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19075.html
11:40 a.m.
France, West Germany, and the Formation of a European Population Migration Regime, 1955–84
Emmanuel Comte, European University Institute
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19126.html
German Veteran Emigrants and the Long First World War
Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18727.html
12:00 p.m.
Empire, Immobility, and Antagonism: The Australian Case
David C. Atkinson, Purdue University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18281.html
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4.
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Sponsored by MIT Center for International Studies
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Saturday, January 9, 2016
MIT Coop at Kendall Sq.
325 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=16475001
Speaker: Ben Rawlence
Description: Former Human Rights Watch researcher Rawlence (Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War, 2012) tells the distressing story of Kenya's vast Dadaab refugee camp, where nearly 500,000 people fleeing civil war in nearby Somalia live in a "teeming ramshackle metropolis" the size of Atlanta. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted during a series of extended visits to Dadaab since 2010, the author plunges readers into this hellish city of "mud, tents and thorns," where three generations of displaced persons have lived amid malnourishment and disease.
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Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
12:00–1:30 p.m., Monday, January 11, 2016
ERC Conference Room 115
University of California, San Diego
9450 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92092-0100
http://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/seminars.html
Speakers:
Frank D. Bean, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on International Migration, University of California, Irvine
Susan K. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
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Certificate in International Migration Studies
XCPD-700 - Global Trends in International Migration
Course Description: Worldwide international migration is a large and growing phenomenon, with more than 230 million people now living outside of their home countries for extended periods. Understanding the complex dynamics behind international migration is essential to improved policies and programs to address the multiple causes and consequences of these movements of people. This course provides an overview of international migration numbers and trends, causes of population movements, the impact of international migration on source and receiving countries, and policy responses to population movements.
The course provides an introduction to the major theories underpinning the study of international migration, including the new economics of labor migration, dual labor market theory, world systems theory, cumulative causation, and migration networks theory. The course focuses attention on domestic and international legal regimes regarding migration, examining laws, major legal cases and regulatory frameworks. It also examines issues pertaining to the integration of immigrants in destination countries. The connections between migration and such other issues as security, development and environmental change are discussed.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
* Assess the positive and negative impacts of international migration on source, transit, and destination countries;
* Describe the international legal frameworks that set out the rights of migrants and the responsibilities of states;
* Discuss and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the principal policy frameworks governing the admission of migrants, control of irregular migration, and protection of refugees and other forced migrants;
* Explain the importance of gender in understanding the causes and consequences of international migration; and
* Describe models for integration of immigrants in destination countries and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches.
ONLINE COURSE
http://scs.georgetown.edu/courses/1007/global-trends-in-international-migration#courseSection
Tuesday, January 12-Thursday, March 3, 2016
Section Notes: This course section is delivered online. Students can access the course content via Canvas. Course modules will be available every Tuesday and Thursday evening (EST) between January 12, 2016 and March 3, 2016.
Instructors: Susan Martin, Elzbieta Gozdziak, Becky Hoven, Lindsay Lowell
Tuition: $995.00, 16 Sessions, 32 Contact hours
Register: https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/coursebasket/publicCourseBasket.do?method=addToCart
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The U.S. Should Let in 100,000 Syrian Refugees
6:45-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street
(b/w Broadway and Amsterdam)
NY, NY 10023
http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/upcoming-debates/item/1492-the-u-s-should-let-in-100-000-syrian-refugees
Panelists:
For
Robert Ford, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria
David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Against
David Frum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies
Moderator
John Donvan, Author and Correspondent for ABC News
Description: Since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country, creating the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Most have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, but many have risked death to reach Europe and the possibility of a better life. Unlike Europe and Syria’s neighbors, the United States has had the advantage of picking and choosing from afar, taking in just over 2,000 Syrian refugees since the war’s start. The Obama administration has pledged to take another 10,000 in 2016, but there are some who suggest that we are falling well below the number that we can and should accept. What are our moral obligations, and what are the cultural, economic, and security issues that must be taken into account? Should the U.S. let in 100,000 Syrian refugees?
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The Changing Face of Global Mobility
Wednesday-Friday, January 13-15, 2016
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/the-changing-face-of-global-mobility/imi-conference-programme_final.pdf
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Keynote addresses
The global ‘Migration Crisis’: do we need to rethink the relationship between development, inequality and change?
1: Stephen Castles, University of Sydney
Refugees and asylum seekers, the crisis in Europe and the future of policy
2: Tim Hatton, University of Essex
2:00–3:45 p.m.
Parallel session 1 - Impact of migrants’ return
International emigration and the labour market outcomes of women staying behind - the case of Morocco
Audrey Lenoël, Institute National for Demographic Studies and Anda David (DIAL)
Return migration in the post-conflict context
Sonja Fransen, Maastricht University; Isabel Ruiz, University of Oxford; and Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Oxford
Remittances and expenditures of Peruvian households left behind: preliminary results
Gabriella Berloffa and Sara Giunti, University of Trento
Returning Home: Migrant Connections and Local Development in Rural Nepal
Jytte Agergaard and Ditte Rasmussen Broegger, University of Copenhagen
Parallel session 2 - Family relations
Why Men Migrate Relative Deprivation, Risk Attitudes and Migration in Thailand
Johanna Gereke, European University Institute
Migrant women, transnational relations and social change: how do Senegalese women combine migration with family life?
Nathalie Mondain, University of Ottawa
Beyond Trafficking Discourse: Entrepreneurial Endeavors Among Female Marriage Migrants in Germany
Julia Rushchenko, University of Hamburg, Utrecht University
Marriage Migration in Britain: a Gender Perspective
Zonca Elena Valentina, University of Trieste
4:15–6:00 p.m.
Parallel session 3 - Migration changing places
Lagos: Tracing mobilities and diversities within an African urban landscape
Naluwembe Binaisa, Max Planck
Belonging and the Built Environment: Transnational Spatial Influences on First-Generation Mexican Immigrants in Southern California
John Arroyo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From expatriation to social promotion in the global South: intersection of Chinese SOE globalization and Chinese expats’ mobility trajectories in Ghana
Katy N. Lam, Baptist University and the Max Weber Foundation
Moving South: Understanding the development potential of the new Portuguese migration to Angola
Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg
Parallel session 4 - Diaspora engagement
Remittances and post electoral crisis in cote d'ivoire: a survey data analysis
Yao Silvère Konan, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
How do migration status changes influence remittances sending? An exploratory mixed-method approach for the case of Colombian and Ecuadorian migrants in Spain
Manuel Assner, Free University of Berlin
Juxtaposing Pakistani diaspora policy with migrants' transnational citizenship practices
Marta Bivand Erdal, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Diasporas and conflict
Marion Mercier, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Fabio Mariani; IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain; and Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics
Thursday, January 13, 2016
9:00–10:30 a.m.
Keynote session 2
1: Filiz Garip, Harvard University
2: Diverse mechanisms of international migration: the Mexico-U.S. case
Caglar Ozden, World Bank
11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Parallel session 5 - Aspirations and migration decisions
Exploring the relationship between migration aspirations and the capacity-to-aspire: a consideration of 'preference to stay' among young adults in Senegal
Kerilyn Schewel, University of Amsterdam
Returns to Somalia: Transformation and Agency in Return and Reintegration Processes
Nassim Majidi, Sciences Po Paris & Samuel Hall
Social networks and the intention to migrate
Sultan Orazbayev, University College and Nazarbayev University and Miriam Manchin, University College London
‘...because I hope for a better future’. Hopes, imaginaries and realities of Bulgarian migration to England
Polina Manolova, University of Birmingham)
Parallel session 6 - Labour migration
Mobile people, immobile structures – A study of labour migrants in India and access to social protection
Nabeela Ahmed, University of Sussex
From illegality to tolerance and beyond: irregular immigration as a selective and dynamic process
Maurizio Ambrosini, University of Milan
Labour market changes and human capital investment: evidence from migration boom in Nepal
Rashesh Shrestha, University of Wisconsin
South–South Migration: Reflections from the Cambodia-Thailand System
Maryann Bylander, Lewis and Clark College
1:45–3:30 p.m.
Parallel session 7 - Politics and migration decisions
Why Liberal States Restrict Wanted Immigration -Citizenship Regimes and the Politics of Highly-Skilled Immigration Policy
Melanie Kolb, University of Georgia
Between Populist Liberalism and a new Commitment to Human Rights: Recent Immigration and Asylum Policy Cycles in Latin America
Luisa Feline Freier, LSE and Universidad del Pacífico
Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit
Katie Kuschminder, Maastricht University
Determinants of Internal and International Migration in Rural Pakistan
Abdul Rehman, University of East Anglia
Parallel session 8 - High-skilled migration
Is there a “Pig Cycle” in the labour supply of doctors? How training and immigration policies respond to physician shortages
Yasser Moullan, University of Oxford and Xavier Chojnicki, University of Lille
The Rise of Singapore in the Global Academic Talent Race: Strategies and Effects
Lucie Cerna, University of Oxford and Meng-Hsuan Chou, Nanyang Technological University
The Globalisation of International Student Mobility: Assessing the Role of Policies and Networks
Mathias Czaika and Yasser Moullan, University of Oxford
Dynamics of internal mobility of nurses in the Gambian health system: prerequisites for international migration
Angele Flora Mendy, University of Lausanne
4:00-5:45 p.m.
Parallel session 9 - Role of states and policies
Maghreb emigration: Fifty Years of State Influence
Katharina Natter, University of Amsterdam
Sub-Saharan Migration to Europe in Times of Restriction: An Empirical Test of Substitution Effects
Marie-Laurence Flahaux, University of Oxford; Cris Beauchemin, Institut national d‘études démographiques; and Bruno Schoumaker, Université catholique de Louvain
States of Convergence and Change: A Data-Driven Typology and Analysis of Human Mobility Governance
Anna Boucher, University of Sydney and Justin Gest, George Mason University
Migration Outflows and Optimal Migration Policy: Rules versus Discretion
Ismael Issifouy, University of Orléans and Francesco Magris, University ‘François Rabelais’ of Tours
Parallel session 10 - Social remittances
Social remittances and the unintended social consequences of temporary migration from Poland
Izabela Grabowska, University of Warsaw and Godfried Engbersen, Erasmus University Rotterdam
The migration-home nexus: a new perspective on migrant transnational engagement over space and time
Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento
Understanding processes of political change and migration: Agency, desires, capacities and structures
Marieke van Houte, University of Oxford
Rumour and migration
Jørgen Carling and Tove Heggli Sagmo, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Friday, January 15, 2016
9:00–10:30 a.m.
Keynote session 3
1. Moving migrants: Journeys across space and time
Robin Cohen, University of Oxford
2. Popular Representations of Migrants: Shifting discourses of transnationalism, diaspora and identity
Uma Kothari, University of Manchester
11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Parallel session 11 - Challenging transnationalism
The boundaries of transnationalism: the case of assisted voluntary return migrants
Ine Lietaert, Ghent University
The new international migration: settlement and the decline of transnationalism
Richard Jones, University of Texas at San Antonio
Migrant integration and transnational linkages -- using a human security framing to move beyond nationalist presumptions
Giulia Sinatti, Free University of