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Between Integration and Exclusion: Migrant Women in European Labor Markets
March 23 — Women migrate to Europe for many reasons and through a variety of pathways. Utilizing research carried out for the FeMiPol project, Maria Kontos of the Institute for Social Research at Goethe University explores how various factors affect the social and labor market integration of migrant women in European countries.
Unanswered Questions Surround ICE's Secure Communities Program
March 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti, Claire Bergeron, and Lang Hoyt report on the Secure Communities program, a new State Department initiative allowing the same-sex partners of US diplomats to apply for J-1 visas, additional funding for immigration agencies in the proposed 2012 Homeland Security budget, and more.
Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States
March 8 — Immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa are more likely than the overall foreign-born population to be proficient in English, to have a college degree, and to be naturalized US citizens. MPI's Aaron Terrazas uses the latest federal data to explore the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics.
United Kingdom: A Reluctant Country of Immigration
Recent immigration to the United Kingdom is larger and more diverse than at any point in its history. This updated profile examines how the global recession is affecting migration flows, the latest immigration and asylum data, and overviews of new immigration and integration policies.
Re-envisioning Security and the Movement of People
March 1 — In the post-9/11 era, policymakers have increasingly used migration policy tools to strengthen national security. This piece highlights civil rights and liberties issues that point to the need to re-envision the relationship between security and mobility, and discusses a proposal to "secure human mobility."
Filling Labor Shortages through Immigration: An Overview of Shortage Lists and their Implications
February 23 — Many governments use shortage lists to either facilitate or discourage economically-motivated immigration into particular occupations or fields, but the practice of doing so raises a variety of practical and philosophical questions. MPI's Madeleine Sumption discusses the challenges of maintaining shortage lists and developing immigration policies around them.
Filipino immigrants make up nearly 12 percent of the 650,000 foreign-born veterans of the US armed forces, making them the second-largest immigrant group to have served in the military after the Mexican born (12.8 percent).
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