Publications

The novel is designed to educate students about contemporary issues and theories relating to migration. Money and Lockhart explore topics such as the impact of migration on both host and home countries, mechanisms of migration governance, and many more interesting topics. 

"Bringing Deported Migrants Home to the US" is a new migrant narrative written by Robert Irwin which discusses the process for deported migrants to return legally to the United States. We encourage you to head over to the "Migrant Narratives" section under our Resources page to check it out!

A new report by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Reem Zaiour finds that four different scenarios involving a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants would lead to up to an additional $1.7 trillion dollars to the nation's GDP and the creation of up to 440 thousand jobs.

To read the article, click here.

A publication by GMC Affiliate Erin Hamilton, GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Paola Langer, and GMC Executive Committee member Caitlin Patler was recently featured in Duke University Press' Demography journal. They discovered that "DACA was associated with improvements in the rates of low birth weight and very low birth weight, birth weight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers".

GMC Affiliate Emily Vazquez was published in the Latin American Literary Review. Her paper focuses on the important facts and implications that can be extracted from the Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli. One of the ideas which she discusses is how the Sonoran Desert has been weaponized by the United States government and is used as an instrument of border control.

To read the entire analysis, click here.

Using longitudinal data from refugees in Germany, GMC Director Giovanni Peri and coauthors Michele Battisti and Agnese Romiti found that "immigrants in districts with larger co-ethnic networks are more likely to be employed soon after arrival. This advantage fades after four years, as migrants located in places with smaller co-ethnic networks catch up due to greater human capital investments." The paper was recently published in Oxford University Press' The Economic Journal.

Using Norwegian Data over several decades the paper shows that higher adaptability, the capacity to adjust to new environments and situations, and higher cognitive ability are significant predictors of the probability to migrate. Adaptability is a particularly strong migration predictor for individuals with low cognitive ability or low socioeconomic background.

To read the full publication, read here.

The same paper which was featured about a month ago in this News section reappears once more in the AEA. This time, it was highlighted in the "chart of the week" section in the AEA. 

To see the featured, graphs the link to the original story can be found here.

This recent research investigates the role that immigrant detention centers have in spreading infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. Patler and Saadi find that of those who are detained, 42.5% had at least 1 chronic condition. This, coupled with the poor living standards of detention centers, can increase the spread and severity of COVID-19 infections. 

To learn more about the research, read the full publication here.

The research investigates the relationship between an immigrant's legal status and their projected socioeconomic status. To explore this relationship, Patler, Hamilton, and Hale compare earnings of immigrants with DACA to those without. What they found was that recipients of DACA were expected to be in a higher socioeconomic class than non-receiving immigrants. 

To learn more about this relationship between legal and socioeconomic status, read the full research here.