News Mentions/Interviews

GMC Affiliate Brad Jones' commentary on Border Patrol prevention by deterrence policies was featured as part of an AZ Central article on the effect of record heat on migration deterrence policy and its alternatives.

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GMC Visiting Scholar Daniel Costa was recently featured as a guest writer for YubaNet, giving his commentary on a Supreme Court order that makes it more difficult for farmworkers to unionize. 

To understand his stance in full, click here,

GMC Affiliate Raquel Aldana was recently featured on ImmigrationProf giving her commentary on US immigration policies amid the backdrop of her experiences providing legal orientation to asylum seekers at the border.

To read her entire analysis, click here.

A recent study by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Reem Zaiour that notes the economic effects of four different scenarios for the legalization of undocumented migrants was featured as part of an LA Times Op-Ed arguing for the halting of deportations and the opening of pathways to citizenship.

GMC Affiliate Bradford Jones' commentary on Title 42 was featured in an article by The Marshall Project. Jones notes that Title 42 is part of a series of policy measures that lead to more death and harm to those crossing the border by creating incentive to cross. Title 42 allows for the immediate deportation of individuals without prior screening for potential asylum protection, leading more people to attempt to cross the border and risk their lives.

In an article for Inksick Media, GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin points to the large backlog of migrants waiting to cross the US-Mexico border, and the low success rate of asylum applications initiated from migrants arriving there, many of whom do not realize that US asylum law was not designed to be a remedy for poverty, unemployment, climate disaster, domestic violence, or public health emergency. Stories of migrants from the Humanizing Deportation archive help to illustrate the predicament. 

GMC Affiliate Kevin Johnson of UC Davis Law School was featured in a recent UC Davis press release as one of the heads of the Next Generation Campus Safety Task Force. The group's purpose is to "discuss and assess how the university’s Police Department should evolve to look, operate and engage on both the Davis and Sacramento campuses" and will deliver its final report later this month. 

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured in a recent installment of UC Davis Research's Ask an Expert series. In a series of four videos, Professor Peri explains the impact of immigration on the US economy and the current state of immigration in the United States. 

Click here to find the playlist of these four videos.

Last week, a paper by GMC Director Giovanni Peri, GMC Visiting Scholar Chad Sparber, and former GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Kevin Shih showing the impact of immigration on the United States' aggregate productivity growth was featured by Reason magazine on an article discussing immigration reform as means for the US to outpace China's economy.  In the study they found that an inflow of foreign STEM workers accounted for 30%-50% of the aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. between 1990 and 2010.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was recently featured on an episode of the podcast The Cultural Mosaic discussing the economic implications and impacts of Mexican immigration as well as policy recommendations for the issues Mexican immigrants face. 

To listen to the podcast, click here.

Daniel Costa was interviewed by Mother Jones to discuss the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Although the name suggests an improvement in conditions for farm laborers, Daniel Costa is dubious of its beneficence. He suggests that the tweak to the system could have an adverse consequence of lowering the pay for migrant farm workers. 

To read Costa's full analysis of the bill in Mother Jones, click here.

As coauthor of a binational proposal to address the precarious situation faced by migrants seeking to cross the US's southern border, Irwin argues that "there is not a migratory crisis" but rather that opponents of immigration reform in the US are promulgating a discourse of "crisis" in hopes of thwarting the Biden administration proposals for comprehensive immigration reform.

To read the full story, click here.

GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin's Humanizing Deportation project was recently the subject of an op-ed by Guillermo Castillo Ramírez for Desinformpémonos.com. The op-ed introduces its community based participatory method, and its robust audiovisual archive on the contemporary human consequences of contemporary migration control mechanisms in the United States and Mexico.

To read the full story, click the link here. 

GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin's commentary on the state of immigration legislation was recently featured in an article by La Jornada which notes how academics are urging for the demilitarization of the border as a way to stop and prevent human rights abuse. 

To read the direct quotes from Dr. Irwin, read here. 

GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin's project Humanizing Deportation was recently featured by Rebelión. The article noted how the project serves to make visible the experiences of individuals in their own words, highlighting their exclusion from our increasingly globalized world and the violence they face as a result of their status.

To read about the Humanizing Deportation project, click the link here.