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myth of migration

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Much of What We Think We Know Is Wrong

The debate over migration is plagued by a variety of inaccuracies and misunderstandings — on both the right and the left. Here is what the research really shows.

By Hein de Haas  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eight-myths-about-migration-and-refugees-explained-a-1138053.html

Hein de Haas is a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He was a founding member and former co-director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford.

1. No, closed borders do not automatically lead to less migration.

2. No, migration policies have not failed.

3. No, migration policies have not become more restrictive.

4. No, development aid in origin countries does not prevent migration.

5. No, migration doesn’t lead to “brain drain.”

6. No, migrants don’t steal jobs, nor do they undermine the welfare state.

7. No, migration cannot solve the problems associated with an aging society.

8. No, we aren’t living in an era of unprecedented migration.

if the roles reverse

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What if the roles reverse?…

Erica, one of the students in HONS 221 https://www.facebook.com/groups/hons221/ posted this video, as our ongoing discussion about migration and refugees in the contemporary world.

Alicia Keys made this short film to illustrate what life might be like if Americans had to face the struggles of refugees. (via We Are Here Movement)

Posted by Upworthy on Saturday, July 9, 2016

It comes on the same day, when a Bulgarian Court found NOT guilty a thug with a long rap sheet, who pride himself as a “migrant hunter”
http://www.novinite.com/articles/175563/Bulgarian+Court+Releases+Migrant+Hunter+on+Bail

Immigration and Crime

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New Study Found No Link Between Immigration and Increased Crime in Forty Years of Data

February 15, 2017 http://sciencenewsjournal.com/new-study-found-no-link-immigration-increased-crime-forty-years-data/
In a study done at the University at Buffalo however, no links were found between the two. According to the findings, immigration instead appears to be linked to reductions in some types of crimes instead.
The full peer reviewed study was published in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.

Julia Rainer discussion

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Julia Rainer,

a guest speaker at the HONS 221 Migration and Refugees in a Global World class tonight, Thursday, 5PM, MC 206.

The guest speaker Julia Rainer, is the Austrian Youth Ambassador to the United Nations.
Julia will be having an information conversation with the students, which will academically will be oriented toward assisting the students with their final projects.
The meeting will take place on Adobe Connect: http://scsuconnect.stcloudstate.edu/ims

  • Julia is 24 years old and that appeals to the average age of our students
  • Julia is an acting member of the United Nations: https://youtu.be/pJmwORCnLGk
  • Julia is active not only professionally, but also on a private level with the refugee crisis in Europe. She will share with the class first-hand impressions and will lead a discussion on parallels with the migration and refugee situation in the United States and, in particular, in St. Cloud.

Hungary border fence

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Hungary starts building second, ’smart’ border fence

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/hungary-starts-building-second-smart-border-fence/

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing government considers migration to be one of the largest threats to the status quo in the EU. But officials in Brussels and some other EU centers are distressed by some of his go-it-alone policies.

Orban was also a rare EU leader to endorse U.S. President Donald Trump, who is seeking to built a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

refugees in Minnesota

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Dangerous passage: Refugees in Minnesota risk death to reach Canada

“Why I take this risk?” he asked. “(It) is because there was no humanity in the United States any longer because of the new administration.”

Fear is driving people to take desperate action, according to Maggie Yaboah, president of the 1,200-member Ghanaian Union of Manitoba, which often provides informal assistance to new arrivals.

Day Without Immigrants

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Many Twin Cities businesses closing Thursday for ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protest

A national protest is spurring immigrants to make their voices heard by walking off their jobs.
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The one-day boycott, organized through social media, urges immigrants — whether citizens or not — to not go to work, open their businesses, spend money or send their children to school in reaction to President Donald Trump’s views and actions on immigration. The idea is to send a message that the “country is paralyzed” without immigrants, who do everything from run corporate boardrooms to clean them.