American Immigrant Policy Portal Update, March, 2013

THE AMERICAN IMMIGRANT POLICY PORTAL UPDATE

MARCH 18, 2013

Policy-related reports, studies, and information about the challenge and promise of immigrant integration. Click on headlines for abstracts and links.

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Migration: Past, Present, and Future, Boston College, Boston, MA, March 21-22, 2013

New Jersey Immigration Economic Forum, Bridging America Project, Madison, NJ, April 4, 2013

Caring for South Asian Families: Maternal and Child Health Issues in Clinical Practice, UMDNJ, Piscataway, NJ, April 11, 2013

Food and Immigrant Life: The Role of Food in Forced Migration, Migrant Labor, and Recreating Home, The New School, New York, NY, April 18-19, 2013

State of Workforce Diversity 2013, Heldrich Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 23, 2013 (no link available)

Crossing Borders: Immigration and Gender in the Americas, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 25, 2013

Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability, Project Intersect, Washington, D.C., April 25-26, 2013

New Research and Reports

ADULT EDUCATION
Report recommends a "comprehensive restructuring" of California's adult education system

CIVIC PARTICIPATION
Report finds that soaring naturalization fees are depressing naturalization rates, especially among low-income immigrants

CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCY
Paper urges steps to maximize the inclusion of immigrants in New York health care reform

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EMPLOYMENT, AND LABOR ISSUES
Working Group presents blueprint for ending the abuse and exploitation of internationally recruited temporary workers

CDM report looks at reguatory challenges in current visa programs for the recruitment of temporary foreign workers

Report documents abuses of H-2B workers in the U.S. fair and carnival industry

IWPR releases report calling for pathways to legal status for immigrant in-home care workers

MPI reports finds that the shrinking supply of agricultural workers spells trouble for farmers in the U.S. and Mexico

Center for American Progress critiques economic studies produced by restrictionist groups

NATIONAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Paper critiques "rule of law" arguments against amnesty and birthright citizenship

Study examines the meaning of amnesty in the current immigration debate and proposes a "vindication" model of amnesty

Paper questons the overcriminalization of immigration law

HIAS paper examines "emerging challenges" in the U.S. refugee resettlement program

MPI examines the history and future prospects of the Global Migration Group

Older Reports Uploaded This Month

Amnesty or Abolition? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement (2011)

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