Latino Identity Fades As Immigrant Ties Weaken, Study Finds
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Finance Minister says asylum seekers should seek protection elsewhere
Private Immigrant Jails
Big Money As Private Immigrant Jails Boom
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/21/565318778/big-money-as-private-immigrant-jails-boom
The two largest private corrections corporations, GEO Group and CoreCivic, each gave $250,000 to Trump’s inaugural festivities.
right wing in Italy and immigration
In Italy, Right-Wing Politicians Set Their Sights On Parliament
SYLVIA POGGIOLI November 8, 20175:03 AM ET
Poland and immigrants
Klaus, W. (2017). Security First: The New Right-Wing Government in Poland and its Policy towards Immigrants and Refugees. Surveillance & Society, 15(3/4), 523–528.
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/6627
The so called refugee crisis in 2015 coincided with the Polish parliamentary electoral campaign. The effect of it was – for the first time in Poland – the introduction of migration policy to the political agenda of the right-wing and populist political parties on a massive scale. They presented migration as an issue of security – both national and cultural, direct and symbolic.
he new government and its authoritarian style of governing has introduced a number of initiatives designed to deprive individuals of immigrant rights (like in the new so-called Antiterrorist Act from the mid of 2016, based on which every foreign citizen could be put under surveillance without any court control) or to stop refugee influx on the Polish territory in any way – directly from their country of origins
NIGHTMARE AT PDX
https://aclu-or.org/en/news/nightmare-pdx
Cristina Alonso, a 22-year-old college student from Spain, planned to visit Oregon for six weeks this summer. Instead, border agents sent her to NORCOR jail in the The Dalles for over 48 hours. Her friend, Professor Laurie Bridges, shares the shocking story.
conference Istanbul Turkey
REFUGEES AND FORCED IMMIGRATION ’17 / II. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugee and Forced Immigration Studies in Social Sciences, Humanities and Art
SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2017
Istanbul, Turkey
All of the presented papers will be published in the proceedings e-book (with an ISBN number), which will be given to you in a DVD box and will be sent to be reviewed in the “Thomson & Reuters WOS’ Conference Proceedings Citation Index-CPCI”.
paris france
The French, Coming Apart
A social thinker illuminates his country’s populist divide.
Christopher Caldwell Spring 2017
https://www.city-journal.org/html/french-coming-apart-15125.html
Christophe Guilluy calls himself a geographer. 2010, with the newest, Le crépuscule de la France d’en haut (roughly: “The Twilight of the French Elite”
At the heart of Guilluy’s inquiry is globalization. Internationalizing the division of labor has brought significant economic efficiencies. But it has also brought inequalities unseen for a century, demographic upheaval, and cultural disruption. Now we face the question of what—if anything—we should do about it.
A process that Guilluy calls métropolisation has cut French society in two.
Cheap labor, tariff-free consumer goods, and new markets of billions of people have made globalization a windfall for such prosperous places. But globalization has had no such galvanizing effect on the rest of France. Cities that were lively for hundreds of years—Tarbes, Agen, Albi, Béziers—are now, to use Guilluy’s word, “desertified,”
TED talks on immigration
Putting humans first in the immigration debate
The heated political debate around immigration has meaningful, life-changing impacts on immigrants themselves. Jorge Ramos, a journalist for Univision and one of the top correspondents in Hispanic TV, discusses how we can debate immigration by putting immigrants themselves at the center of the story. Hosted by Vox and TED.
Posted by TED on Monday, April 24, 2017