Development

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...

Mainstreaming Involuntary Migration in Development Policies

This essay addresses the issue of how best to insert migration concerns into development planning, as a part of a process of thinking more broadly about US migration policies and interests.

The Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration: Issues to Consider

The adoption of the New York Declaration on the Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 19 has launched a new process to negotiate two compacts by 2018: the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (hereinafter referred to as the Global Compact on Migration). Agreeing to a new Global Compact on Refugees should be challenging enough, but reaching an agreement on a Global Compact on Migration will require skill, patience, and, above all, compromise…

Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea

Keumjae Park of William Patterson University reviews Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea, by Bi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi. The book examines how South Korea can work against its impending “brain drain” crisis by exploring four different groups of...

On Climate Change, Migration and Policy

Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. It’s an honor to be asked to fill in for Walter Kälin, with whom I worked closely when we served as co-directors of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement for...

Latinos: Remaking America

Patricia Landolt of University of Toronto, reviews Latinos: Remaking America, by M. M. Suárez-Orozco, and M. M. Páez. This book questions what academics know and need to know about the Latino population in the United States. The book is broken down into several...

Missionaries on the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002

Mary Elizabeth Brown, Archivist at Marymount Manhattan College, reviews Missionaries on the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002. The book is a history of the Scalabrinians’ mission to migrants in South Pacific countries, such...

Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration; America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity; Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle Class

Thomas J. Archdeacon, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviews three books: (1) Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration, by Richard Alba and Victor Nee; (2) America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity, by Frank D. Bean and Gillian...