Development

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...

Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights

Ritendra Tamang & Ajay Pradhan of Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University and the Network for Democracy and Development, respectively, review Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights. The volume focuses on migration as...

Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico

Laura V. Gonzalez-Murphy, a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at Albany, reviews Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico. The book analyzes the process of development...