Labor

DACA Recipients are Essential Workers and Part of the Front-line Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, as Supreme Court Decision Looms

Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have long contributed to the US labor force, economy, and communities, and several are now on the front lines combating the outbreak of COVID-19 and working to prevent the spread of the virus and to support those affected by it. This post provides estimates of the numbers of DACA recipients working in essential industries.

Three Scalabrini Migration Study Centers Release Reports on the Future of Work for Migrants

New York, NY, USA | Cape Town, South Africa | Quezon City, Philippines – Three think-tanks that are part of the network of Scalabrini Migration Study Centers (SMSC) and the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), today released a series of reports commissioned...

Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases

Adam Moore of the University of California, Los Angeles reviews Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases by Kevin Thomas. In addressing why low-skilled workers in developing countries migrated to Iraq...

Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City

Liza Schuster of the University of London reviews Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City by Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay. Focusing on London-based migrants and their employers, Bloch and McKay expose the contradictions in policy and...

New from IMR: Generational Differences, Work, and Social Change

The Winter 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 four sections. The first section is about enforcement and uncertainty facing immigrants. The second section has articles that examine family and social change, including an article on ethnic and generational differences in gender role attitudes among immigrant populations in Britain. The third section analyzes selectivity and immigration policy. The fourth section features two articles about gender and work, one about migrant domestic workers in Spain and one about itinerancy among Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers. Lastly, this edition has four new book reviews, which are free to access.

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers: Gender, Migration, and Post-Soviet Nation-State Building

Alexander Tymczuk of the University of Oslo reviews On the Shoulders of Grandmothers: Gender, Migration, and Post-Soviet Nation-State Building by Cinzia D Solari. Using in-depth interviews and ethnographic data collected in three countries, Solari shows that Ukrainian nation-state building occurs...

New from IMR: Education, Political Participation, and the Determinants of Migration

The Fall 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 four sections. The first section focuses on economic outcomes. The second section...

Domestic Economies: Women, Work and the American Dream in Los Angeles

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas of the University of Southern California reviews Domestic Economies: Women, Work and the American Dream in Los Angeles by Susanna Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women—Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white,...

New from IMR: Labor, Well-Being, and Immigration Enforcement

The Summer 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 immigrant labor and immigration policy, including...

On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China

Li Zhang of the University of California, Davis reviews On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka. Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka explore the impact of migration on the identities,...