From The National Voter, June 2007
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Global Interdependence and Migration |
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Immigration: Impact on U.S. Economy |
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Immigration Policy in the
21st Century - Panel Discussion Immigration Policy in the 21st Century was the topic of a
three-person panel discussion at the LWVUS Council 2007. The panel featured:
Donald Kerwin, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network; Doris
Meissner, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute; and Frank Sharry,
Executive Director of National Immigration Forum. |
From
Irene Bloemraad:
Dr. Irene Bloemraad, sociology
professor at University of California-Berkeley is an immigration specialist. She
recently spoke at the LWVCA convention in California and has generously shared
the slide show from her talk with us. Click here to view the
PowerPoint slide show. This is very informative, giving many statistics and
a perspective on immigration. It also
addresses the differing proposed legislation in Congress this Spring.
Bloemraad’s faculty home page is here http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/bloemraad/
--with lots of good sources and resources.
Bloemraad’s syllabus
for her graduate course on immigration.
Article by Bloemraad: “Immigrant
Citizenship in the United States and Canada: Explaining the Difference” based
on her book, Becoming
a Citizen (2006).
She recommends these two books to get
started:
Zolberg, Arisitide
A Nation by Design
Portes, Alejandro and Ruben
Rumbaut
Immigrant America, 3rd edition.
Recommended reading list from Jeanette
Sherbondy, Chair of LWVKC Immigration Study Group. All books are available in
the Miller Library of Washington College:
Bloemraad, Irene
2006 Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants
and Refugees in the United States and Canada. Berkeley: University of
California Press
Borjas, George J.
1999 Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the
American Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Levitt, Peggy
2000 The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Reports
from our study group
On June 12, 2007, the LWVKC Immigration Study Committee
met with a group of local service providers for an International Lunch at the
Kent Family Center. Here is the
Committee Report from that meeting.
Here is a
link of another LL’s Immigration Study (additional and some repetitive
resources):
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From the
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Stop Guestworker
Abuse Thousands of foreign
guestworkers are lured to the United States each year with false promises only
to be systematically exploited in a program that many describe as modern-day
slavery. Join us in speaking out against this moral outrage. Read the report. Note: The SPLC is becoming
more involved in Immigration and Guestworker ISSUES. Their Home Page is http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
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numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of
international migration and refugee trends. A unique, online resource, the
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Recent book
that looks intriguing by Levitt.
God
Needs No Passport, Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape, Peggy Levitt
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Revised: Sunday, October 07, 2007