10 May 2024

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Call for participation: American Immigration Council Seeks Volunteers for Credible Fear Interview Preparation in CBP Hotline [info]

Short pieces:

Crime Rates, Not the Number of Crimes, are a Better Way to Judge Immigrant Criminality (CATO at Liberty Blog, April 2024) [text]

Federal Register: Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear Screenings (Proposed Rule) (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2024) [text]
- See also related Politico article and ImmigrationProf blog post.

"How Defining ‘Refugees’ Shapes the Lives of Millions," New Lines Magazine, 12 April 2024 [text]

Many immigrants to the US are fleeing violence and persecution − here’s how the federal government can help cities absorb them (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

Many US cities are eager to welcome migrants. We need to make it easier for them to do so (The Hill, May 2024) [text]

Reimagining the Asylum Office (The Asylumist Blog, May 2024) [text]

Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy − but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now (The Conversation, May 2024) [text]

New open access book:

Arab Americans in the United States: Immigration, Culture and Health
 (Springer, Jan. 2024) [open access]
- This book "presents a cross-cultural perspective between culture and illness. It touches upon identity struggles, the notion of not feeling 'safe, understood, accepted', and its relation to Arab American health. The book provides a comprehensive review of the history of Muslims in America and discusses better healthcare services for chronic illness—diabetes. It provides an ethnographic framework for building cultural belief models of illness, which helps study any illness among any population. It is a must-read for everyone interested in understanding the relationship among culture, health, and immigration, as well as the importance of building cultural belief models of illness and their possible impact on providing better healthcare services."

Journal articles:

"Immigraft," Wisconsin Law Review, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- "This Essay introduces the term immigraft to capture this phenomenon, defined as the unjust transfer of funds from individuals to the state in the context of efforts to obtain immigration benefits or relief from the state."

"Manufactured State Immigration Emergencies as State Vigilantism," Texas A&M Law, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- See also related VOA article.

"The Theater of Refuge," Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice, vol. 13, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Title 42 Postmortem: U.S. Pandemic-Era Expulsions Policy Did Not Shut Down the Border," Migration Information Source, 25 April 2024 [text]

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