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GMC Deputy Director, Robert McKee Irwin, was featured on KPBS San Diego by Gustavo Solís. Solís published a two part story focusing on the stories of migrants from the Humanizing Deportation archive including comments made by Irwin. In the first part, pertains to the lasting trauma that remains and the misconceptions about deportees. 

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GMC affiliate, Brad Jones was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor in a story about Title 42 and the Biden Administration's handling of border policies. What is being seen now is that the Biden Administration might be seeing a struggle in balancing the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jones “suggests increasing the number of shelters at the border and connecting local governments with nongovernmental organizations that can provide assistance.” 

A group of Colombian and Mexican scholars has been awarded a grant from the Fundación Universitaria Popayán (Colombia) for the project “Narrativas de migración forzada, desplazamiento, violencia y procesos de retorno en Colombia y México desde una perspectiva transnacional,” which will permit the collaboration of teams of scholars in Mexico and Colombia in UC Davis’ Humanizando la Deportación project.
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Congratulations to GMC Graduate Affiliate Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, who accepted a tenure track job in the Black and Latino Studies department of Baruch College (City University of New York).

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured on Business Insider. Rising food prices are correlated to the “lack of workers and the need to raise wages.” Peri states that reform on the legislative degree would help not see such a stagnation of immigrants. 

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We are currently looking for a research manager to manage the initiative. This is a full-time role based at Stanford that can start either this summer or earlier. 

The role has a lot of scope for developing relationships with policymakers, so it would be a particularly good match for someone interested in US immigration policy.

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Red Franciscana para Migrantes (RFM) launched a new rubric of  “Migrant Stories” that features the Humanizing La Deportatión project. These stories emphasize human rights issues underlying contemporary migration dynamics in North America.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri, was featured on Forbes. This feature pertains to recent data on the denial rates with H-1B at its lowest marking just around 2%. Citing his research saying that by “maintaining the H-1B annual numerical limits harms job growth for U.S.-born professionals.

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