Development

Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization

Erica Consterdine of University of Sussex reviews Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization by Margaret E. Peters. Margaret E. Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined with growing international competition due to lowered...

Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity

Armand Gutierrez of the University of California, San Diego reviews Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity by Eric J. Pido. Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and balikbayans—Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their...

Refugees, Development, Debt, Austerity: A Selected History

Global policymakers agree that a major challenge facing refugees is their treatment as a short-term humanitarian problem rather than also as a long-term development challenge. This paper agrees that refugees constitute a development challenge, but it argues that certain development policies have contributed to the status quo of refugee poverty and marginalization in the first place. The paper places particular emphasis on policies of austerity and of laissez-faire. In their stead, it argues in favor of policy approaches that are egalitarian and redistributive, and that emphasize refugees’ economic and social rights.

Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823– 1957

Susan D. Greenbaum of University of South Florida reviews Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823– 1957, by Nancy Raquel Mirabal. Nancy Raquel Mirabal explores Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth...

CMSOnAir | The Global Compact on Migration (featuring Ambassador Juan Jose Gómez Camacho and Ambassador Jürg Lauber)

This episode features a conversation with the co-facilitators leading the development of the Global Compact on Migration – Ambassador Juan Jose Gómez Camacho, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations and Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations.

Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent

Abdeslam Marfouk of the University of Liege and IWEPS reviews Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent, by Anna Boucher. Dr. Boucher describes a global race for skilled immigrants that seeks to attract the best global workers. In the...

Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine

M. Scott Solomon of the University of South Florida reviews Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants, by Christl Kessler and Stefan Rother of Albert Ludwigs University. Kessler and Rother discuss whether labor migration can affect democratization processes and what...

Scalabrini Study Centers Release First Annual International Migration Policy Report

New York, NY – The migration study centers of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrinians, a Catholic community dedicated to serving refugees and migrants throughout the world, released today their first annual International Migration Policy...

International Migration Policy Report: Responsibility Sharing for Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants in Need of Protection

This inaugural report of the Scalabrini migration study centers covers responsibility-sharing for large-scale refugee and migrant populations in need. The report consists of chapters that describe the situation of refugee and migrant populations in select regions around the world and analyzes the responses of states, regional bodies and the international community.

Migration, Development and Immigration Reform in the Post-World War II Era: A Story of the Italian Diaspora

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) maintains unique archive collections that document US immigration history and policy from the mid-19th century to the present. CMS’s From the CMS Archive series attempts to apply archive records, documents, photographs and other...