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People have always moved to live, from early agrarian societies seeking fertile land to the undocumented workforce that currently powers this country’s agricultural sector. More recent, though, are the systematized and codified restrictions on that movement—telling us who can move where and for how long—and one of their preeminent categories through which this sorting is done has been the all-encompassing notion of “work.” In the United States, where much of that migration is currentl...

An Economic and Humanitarian Win-Win: Using Jobs to Resettle Refugees | Opinion Michael Doyle and Elie Peltz On 1/11/21 at 5:30 AM EST President-elect Joe Biden will soon be inheriting a broken refugee resettlement system. As difficult as it is, addressing this global crisis will only be possible if he adds smart options that use labor visas to rescue refugees. There are 26 million refugees and 4 million asylum seekers in the world today. Nearly half are below the age of 18. ...

Posted on January 10, 2021. As the future U.S. president, Joe Biden promises to deal with immigrants differently than his predecessor did. But Donald Trump’s policies will continue to shape the country for years. More than 600,000 tons of steel and nearly 24.7 million cubic feet, distributed along approximately 422 miles. That is the preliminary result of what was once Donald Trump’s most important campaign promise. He wanted to build a wall, make Mexico pay for it, and make the U.S. safe a...

Share this: Workers at an orchard in Yakima, Washington, pull on equipment while wearing masks and gloves to protect against the coronavirus. A recent study by UC Berkeley found that farmworkers were less likely to get the vaccine, even though they were more likely than the general public to contract Covid-19. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Food and agricultural workers are supposed to be a part of the next group of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, but experts worry that many workers won’t...

As COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, undocumented immigrants fear retribution for seeking dose Marco della Cava, Daniel Gonzalez and Rebecca Plevin, USA TODAY COVID-19 vaccine distribution begins in United States Replay Video UP NEXT As the COVID-19 vaccine makes its way throughout the United States, immigration activists and lawmakers are rallying to ensure that the 11 million undocumented immigrants at the heart of the nations food production and service industry sectors are no...

Foreign Refugee Managers: Keep Americans in the Dark 18 Dec 2020 Nearly all managers in taxpayer-funded, refugee-delivery organizations say the public should have no say about the delivery of unskilled refugees into Americans’ neighborhoods, job markets, and schools, says a survey by refugee groups. The 61-page survey was released December 8 by the Refugee Council USA and the Center for Migration Studies, as the refugee groups cheered Joe Biden for his campaign-trail promise to dramatically e...

URL copied to clipboard Migration is an integral part of life in West Africa, a region that experiences a high level of intra-regional mobility. The closure of land borders as part of the measures taken to fight the pandemic has seriously affected the livelihoods of those who depend on cross-border economic activities. But what will be the impact of this pandemic on the long term for migration in this region? Although COVID-19 may not significantly change the willingness of low-skilled pers...

Liberian immigration activists at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, last year. As many as 10,000 Liberian immigrants may be eligible for green cards, but a program that would help them is ending. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In late August — over halfway through the one-year application window for a little-known progra...

Opinion December 13, 2020 A visit to Balochistan invariably becomes educative. The rest of Pakistan does not hear much about anything good happening there. But it is not all doom and gloom; on a recent visit I observed a couple of well-oiled institutions that the readers may find informative. The first is the International Centre for Refugee and Migration Studies (ICRMS) located at the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) and supporte...

Biden policy agenda for Central America mirrors what Catholic organizations support Dec 12, 2020 catholic news service Members of Honduran security forces stand in front of a bus at a check point in Ocotepeque, Honduras, Dec. 10, 2020. The bus is carrying people taking part in a new caravan of migrants, set to head to the United States. (Credit: Jose Cabezas/Reuters via CNS.) When President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, he will embark on pursuing a policy agenda for Central America ...