GMC affiliate Angel N. Desai and coauthors published an article examining the global associations between cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (CL/ML) cases, conflict intensity, and environmental factors from 2005 to 2022, finding a positive correlation between higher conflict levels and increased CL/ML risk, particularly during intense violence.
GMC affiliate Raquel E. Aldana and coauthors published an article highlighting how Colombia stands out among low to middle-income countries for its efforts to integrate 2.5 million Venezuelan refugees. The article emphasizes Colombia's 10-year temporary protection program, which has granted legal status to over a million Venezuelans, offering a model for a more humane and welcoming refugee response, in contrast to wealthier nations that tend to restrict refugee inflows despite hosting far fewer refugees.
GMC affiliate Kevin Johnson recently published an article on the KKK's legacy of white Anglo-Saxon supremacy, highlighting how its anti-immigrant ideologies continue to shape modern American immigration law and politics, exemplified by figures like former President Donald Trump.
GMC affiliate Chad Sparber has published a new paper in the Journal of International Economics on the negative consequences of allocating H-1B status through a random lottery.
GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin and Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez’s, “Narrativas digitales con migrantes en situación de calle: reflexiones metodológicas” in Arlet Rodríguez Orozco and Sergio Prieto Díaz, Coords. Errante: Imaginarios migrantes en primera persona (Mexico City: Centro de Investigación e Integración Transdisciplinar en Ciencia y Arte, 2024), pp. 68-91.
GMC Deputy Director, Robert McKee Irwin has just returned from the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, where he and Víctor Espinioza, the President of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) presented the just published book Humanizando la deportaciión: narrativas digitales desde las calles de Tijuana, which Irwin coedited with the late Guillermo Alonso Meneses, also of el COLEF.
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.
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.
GMC Director Giovanni Peri, along with coauthors, estimate the transition rate of international students to the U.S. labor market in a new paper published in the Journal of Public Economics. They find transition rates of 0.23 (0.08) for foreign master’s (bachelor’s) graduates.
GMC Faculty Affiliates Caitlin Patler and Brad Jones are co-editing a special issue of RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, “The Deportation System and its Aftermath.” From the introduction, “The overarching objective for the issue is to publish outstanding new studies that further the theorization and documentation of the direct and indirect impacts of the deportation system and its aftermath.”
GMC Director Giovanni Peri and co-authors and GMC affiliates Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, and Giuseppe Ippedico's paper was published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. This paper shows the loss of entrepreneurship in Italy because of young, college-educated individuals' emigration after the 2010 recession.
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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.
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GMC Deputy Director Robert Mckee Irwin's article "Contemporary Stories of Migration and Deportation" has been published in Latin America in Transition, Vol.5, edited by Mónica Szurmuk and Devra Castillo (Cambridge University Press).
