Governance

New from IMR: Labor Markets, Diaspora Policies, and Migration Flows

The Spring 2019 edition of the International Migration Review (IMR) is now available online and in print through paid or institutional subscription. This edition is sorted thematically into three sections. The first section examines labor markets, skills, and mobility, including...

For Syrian refugees, another year has gone by, but most see no sign of hope on the horizon

Omar al-Muqdad – a prominent journalist, documentary filmmaker, and former Syrian refugee – writes a bi-monthly blog for CMS titled, “Dispatches from the Global Crisis in Refugee Protection.” This series covers the Syrian Civil War, the experiences of Syria’s immense...

Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah of University at Buffalo, State University of New York reviews Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Julian Lim. Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the U.S.-Mexico...

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration: The Implementation Phase

On July 13, 2018, Ambassadors Juan José Gómez Camacho of Mexico and Jürg Lauber of Switzerland, the skilled co-facilitators for the consultation and negotiation phases of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (“GCM,” or “the Compact”), gaveled the GCM negotiations to a close, signaling the final draft of the document. Assuming the document is adopted in Marrakech, Morocco in December, Kevin Appleby, CMS's senior director of international migration policy, writes about the most difficult phase of the process - the GCM's implementation.

CMSOnAir | Her Excellency Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés

This CMSOnAir episode features an interview with Her Excellency Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, president of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. President Espinosa Garcés speaks with Kevin Appleby, CMS’s senior director of international migration policy, on global migration issues in advance of the upcoming intergovernmental conference to adopt the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, which will be held in December 2018 in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Proposed Public Charge Rule Would Significantly Reduce Legal Admissions and Adjustment to Lawful Permanent Resident Status of Working Class Persons

On October 10, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its long-anticipated proposed rule on inadmissibility on public charge grounds. Under the proposed rule, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers would consider receipt of cash benefits and, in a break from the past, non-cash medical, housing, and food benefits in making public charge determinations. This focuses on the potential effect of the proposed rule on two populations, undocumented immigrants and nonimmigrants that would otherwise be eligible for legal permanent resident (LPR) status based on a legally qualifying relationship to a US citizen or LPR living in their household. This CMS report analyzes how these populations in 2016 would have fared under the proposed rule. After placing the rule in historic context, the paper profiles these two populations and examines the characteristics that would mitigate in favor of and against their inadmissibility. The study offers a snapshot of these two groups based on estimates derived from the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS).

Asylum Policy, Boat People and Political Discourse: Boats, Votes and Asylum in Australia and Italy

Josh Watkins of Texas A&M University reviews Asylum Policy, Boat People and Political Discourse: Boats, Votes and Asylum in Australia and Italy by Irial Glynn. Irial Glynn compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two...

Nationalism in an Era of Record Migration

Faith Communities Should Oppose the Administration’s Proposed Public Charge Rule and Broader Attack on Immigrant Families

On October 10, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published in the Federal Register a 447-page proposed rule changing the definition of a “public charge,” a term applied to legal immigrants who access certain public benefits. While in previous...

Center for Migration Studies’s Executive Director Decries Historically Low Refugee Ceiling Set by Trump Administration

Donald Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS), today sharply criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that the United States would resettle at most 30,000 refugees in fiscal year (FY) 2019. “The proposed...