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GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin was invited for a feature interview for the online television program Zona Contexto (Klinbam Network) hosted by Emmy award winning journalist Pablo Barragán Márquez, which was aired on October 24, and is available for streaming on YouTube. The interview focused on the Humanizing Deportation project and the many changes it has documented in migration dynamics at the Tijuana border over the past seven years.

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The Migrant Autonomy blog recently featured a post by GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin in which he reflects on the effects of migration policies enacted over the past half dozen years on vulnerable migrants who publish their stories in the Humanizando la Deportación archive.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri, Affiliates Chad Sparber and Kevin Shih and co-authors were published in an article in the ILR review. This article discusses how firms are dealing with shortages of H1B and what those consequences look like. 

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GMC Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on KYMA in Yuma, Arizona about migrant and asylum seeker crossings on the Arizona border. Jones says that “Asylum seekers actually want to be detained. They want to be apprehended because that’s what gets the asylum-seeking process started”. 

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GMC Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on Cronkite News. In this interview, the conversation was in regard to migrant deaths that were high in July, but in totality remained low.  

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was interviewed for The Latin Times. Here he talks about the vacancies that are seen in sectors where migrants usually work and with the decline in migration, there are a lot of yet to be filled jobs for US born workers. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured on the Workforce Monitor on the impact that work-visa challenges are affecting educated foreign workers. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was interviewed by the Latin Times on his study, co-authored with GMC Graduate Student Coordinator Reem Zaiour and published in the Journal of Population Economics. The study found that a decline in immigration led to a decline in employment in specific sectors. 

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Brad Jones was interviewed on KYMA in Yuma, AZ about migrant and asylum seeker crossings on the Arizona border.

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GMC Faculty Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed about the migrant death crisis by Cronkite News. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was interviewed by the Workforce Monitor regarding American visa pathways for foreign students. 

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GMC Faculty Affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed on Tucson's ABC affiliate, KGUN9, about the high heat on the Arizona Border that asylum seekers are experiencing.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC graduate student affiliate Reem Zaiour's co-authored article "Changes in international immigration and internal native mobility after COVID-19 in the USA" was published in the Journal of Population Economics. 

The article found no significant link between post-pandemic decreased immigration and internal native mobility in the United States. 

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New paper using Census data (1850-1920) to analyze incareration rates for immigrants and U.S. born by Santiago Pérez and coauthors in NBER.

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Brad Jones was interviewed by NewsNation about migrant deaths and the high temperatures in the Arizona desert.

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