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Causes of South-South Migration and Its Socioeconomic Effects
October 17 —
Migrants' networks and relatively small travel distances help explain migration from one developing country to another. Dilip Ratha and William Shaw of the World Bank look at these and other reasons for and effects of South-South migration.
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How Los Angeles Deflected Mexican Immigrants to the American Heartland
October 9 —
In the 1990s, Mexican immigrants began to leave California, Texas, and Illinois for the so-called new settlement states where they had not
previously resided. As Ivan Light of UCLA explains, their reasons for leaving or bypassing Los Angeles were both economic and political.
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Unauthorized Youths and Higher Education: The Ongoing Debate
September 11 — The number of unauthorized children in the United States makes it difficult for policymakers to avoid debating whether
to grant these youths access to publicly funded higher-learning institutions. Dawn Konet provides an overview of the arguments
and of legislation at the state and federal levels.
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Judge Rules against DHS in Social Security "No-Match" Case
October 15 — MPI's Aaron Matteo Terrazas and Claire Bergeron report on the halting of DHS
plans to crack down on unauthorized employment, Iraqi refugee admissions, the extended deployment of the National Guard on the
Southwest border, and more.
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Where to Now? Decreasing Options for Displaced Iraqis
September 27 — Over 2 million Iraqis are internally displaced and hundreds of thousands have fled to
neighboring countries. Andrew Harper reports on the latest developments, including Syria's decision to impose visa requirements.
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Ecuador: Diversity in Migration
Thousands of Ecuadorians live in the United States and Spain, making migration-related development policy a major issue for the
government. At the same time, the country has received economic migrants from Peru but has done little to address the
Colombian refugee situation, as Brad Jokisch of Ohio University explains.
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Delaware, South Carolina, Nevada, Georgia, and Tennessee were the five US states with the fastest growing foreign-born populations between 2000 and 2006.
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