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Tijuana call centers are a refuge for some deportees

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 second part, it talks about how call centers in Tijuana provide decent jobs and wages but also an environment for deportees to comfortably be themselves and be welcomed. 

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Some deportees make it back, but the shadow stays with them

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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13 Honored as Chancellor’s Fellows

GMC Affiliate Caitlin Patler is a professor from the department of sociology, she has received $25,000 in unrestricted funds for her research. She is one of thirteen professors awarded the title of Chancellor's Fellowship. Chancellor Gary May notes how these fellows “positively impacts our university’s mission of research, teaching and public service.” Read more here

Family detentions? Why Biden is tacking right on immigration.

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.” 

Project Feature: Humanizando la Deportación

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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Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana for CUNY

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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Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees

GMC director Giovanni Peri and coauthors' work was published in Journal of Public Economics. Their research pertains to “the intergenerational effects of expanding language training for refugees.”  Their findings conclude differences between older boys and girls in lower secondary school/education.    Read more here

La narrativa digital como método de investigación: Saberes migrantes en tiempos de pandemia

This Wednesday at 1:00 PM, GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin will present “Saberes migrantes en tiempos de pandemia: La narrativa digital como método de investigación” at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF). This is the result of a PIMSA (Programa de Investifacion en Migracion y Salud) grant funded by UC Berkeley's Health Initiative of the Americas. Co-PI Juan Antonio Del Monte of el COLEF will be respondent. This is open to the public from el COLEF on Facebook Live.    Find the link here.

La voz de los migrantes

Humanizando la Deportación was featured in an op-ed in Milenio (Mexico), “La voz de los migrantes," by Yuliet Bedoya Rangel. She is a postdoctoral scholar at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Monterrey and has been a Humanizando la Deportación research team member since 2018. Read more here.

Stanford Guestworker Migration Initiative Research Manager

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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New USCIS Data Show H-1B Denial Rates Remain Low

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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