News Mentions/Interviews

GMC affiliate Brad Jones was quoted in a Newsweek article about the immigration issue in the 2024 US Presidential Election.

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GMC affiliate Kevin Johnson's article was featured in ImmigrationProf Blog.

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Newsweek interviewed GMC affiliate Brad Jones about the migrant death crisis concerning the razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

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GMC affiliate Brad Jones was interviewed about gender and the migrant death crisis by the publication “The 19th”. 

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GMC Affiliate Kevin Johnson and co-authors for the ImmigrationProf Blog do a summary of Supreme Court decisions on immigration. 

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Immigration promises to be a key issue in the Presidential and Congressional campaigns. Candidates from both parties favor limits but differ on the extent of restrictions. Immigration is important for many sectors of the economy. Concerns arise, however, from the possible adverse effects on employment and wages among the native-born. Giovanni Peri, founding director of the Global Migration Center at UC Davis, joins EconoFact Chats to discuss these issues in our newest podcast Immigration and the Economy.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri's research was featured in an article in the Des Moines Register in connection with Iowa's welfare being dependent on immigrants both documented and undocumented. Peri's research has revealed how important and influential immigrants are to the economy, whose contributions aid productivity, sustainability, stability, and growth of the economy. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and affiliate Reem Zaiour's work regarding foreign-born workers in America, whose workforce began to decrease in 2019, was featured in The Economist. This concerns how legal pathways to immigration have bounced back since its decline and the decline of the foreign-born workforce in America is being filled once again by college-educated legal migrants.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and his latest working paper regarding the effects of immigration on natives’ wages in the US was featured in an article in The Epoch Times. The article pertains to the political, social, and fiscal outcomes of immigration and the distinction between higher-educated and low-educated immigrants. Peri suggests that more legal entry options should be offered to low-education immigrants which in turn “… would be able much more to track and know what’s going on with them. It would be much more orderly”.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured in an article in The New Yorker discussing how Biden's new immigration policy at the southern border has received backlash from immigrant-rights and civil-rights groups. Peri argues that this policy can help reduce chaos at the border but should be paired with more legal entry options. He highlights that the U.S. economy benefits significantly from immigrants' labor and spending and that more legal channels for immigration are crucial for both economic growth and effective border security.

GMC affiliate Kevin Johnson was featured in an article on 12 News discussing the government's proposal to expedite the rejection of certain asylum claims.

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The L&S Magazine summarizes GMC affiliate Santiago Pérez and co-author's paper regarding the incarceration rates between immigrants and U.S.-born.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri's research on immigration's impact on workforce diversity and its effects on labor market outcomes was highlighted in The Economist.

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GMC affiliate Santiago Perez and co-author's paper about the historical incarceration rate gap between immigrant and US-born was featured on CNN.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri's insights were highlighted in an op-ed published by The Washington Post. The article includes a segment from his interview discussing strategies to revitalize struggling areas in the United States.

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