Population

Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City

Arturo Ignacio Sánchez of Barnard College reviews Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City by Arlene Dávila. Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New...

Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas

Timothy Meagher of Catholic University of America reviews Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas by Graham Davis. Graham Davis tells an Irish-Texan story of the search for land by recounting the experiences of the original empresarios John McMullen,...

Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility

Thomas Faist of the University of Toronto reviews Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility by Bill Jordan and Franck Düvell. Bill Jordan and Franck Düvell provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of mobility and border crossings in an...

Migration in European History

Barbara Schmitter Heisler of Gettysburg College reviews Migration in European History by Klaus Bade. Klaus Bade describes that since the fall of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries, but migrations to,...

Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany

Nedim Ögelman of University of Texas at Austin reviews Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany by Eva Østergaard-Nielsen. Eva Østergaard-Nielsen uses the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany as a case study, offering a unique analysis of trans-state political loyalties...

Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927

Betty Lee Sung of the City College of New York reviews Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927 by Weili Ye. Weili Ye discusses how the students who came to the United States in the...

Toward a Theory of Immigration

David P. Lindstrom of Brown University reviews Toward a Theory of Immigration by Peter C. Meilaender. Peter Meilaender states that changes in the global political order have combined with dominant trends in liberal political philosophy to spark increasing scholarly criticism of...

Don’t Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese

Lucie Cheng of Shih Hsin University reviews Don’t Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese by Wang Gungwu. Wang Gungwu discusses that the Chinese overseas comprise the 25 million or more who left China to settle abroad, and their families and...

Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossers after 2010 Because Illegal Entries Dropped to Their Lowest Level in Decades

This essay by CMS Senior Fellow Robert Warren examines the number of nonimmigrants who overstayed their visas to the United States. It demonstrates that the number of visa overstays has not spiked, but has remained in the 200,000 to 400,000 range since 2000. Moreover, visa overstays leave the undocumented population at significant rates, including through emigration and adjustment to lawful permanent resident status. Of those who overstayed their non-immigrant visas in 2000, less than one-half were living in the United States as undocumented residents in 2017.

The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible?

Mansha Mirza of the University of Illinois at Chicago reviews The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible? by Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum and Ben Saul. Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum and Ben Saul focus on...