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Humanizing Deportation, with funding from UCD's Office Public Scholarship and Engagement (Public Impact Research Initiative grant) and Davis Humanities Institute (Public Engagement Fellows Program), as well as the Law School, sent UCD Law professor Raquel Aldana and a team of her students to Tijuana for the weekend of March 25-27 to offer free legal consultations to migrants at several migrant shelters and also at the offices of Al Otro Lado, a migrant legal services organization there.

GMC Affiliates Raquel Aldana and Joanna Regulska were featured as panelists during a recent UC Davis Law panel discussion on the current war in Ukraine. Aldana and Regulska both emphasize the humanitarian issues that stem from the event, noting incidents of racism and mass internal displacement due to the war.

Read the synopsis of the event here.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri's commentary on the current job programs set up for Ukrainian refugees was featured in the New York Times. Peri states that refugees may find themselves resettled in their new communities for longer than expected and that job programs focused on integrating Ukrainian women into the labor force have great potential due to their social networks and the range of jobs that they can fill. 

Read the article here.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured in a New York Times article about the effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the European economy.

To read the article in full, click here.

GMC Affiliate Joanna Regulska was recently interviewed on FOX40 News about the motivations and potential effects of the current war in Ukraine. 

Watch the video of the interview here.

The Bank of Canada and the Global Migration Center at the University of California Davis would like to invite you to submit a paper to the workshop on the Macroeconomic Implications of Migration that will take place in Ottawa on August 29-30, 2022. We aim at holding the conference in-person at the Bank of Canada’s head office (subject to change due to the pandemic).  

GMC affiliates Kevin R. Johnson and Joanna Regulska were separately brought in as guests on Cap Radio's Insight with Vicki Gonzalez. Kevin Johnson was brought on to discuss reports of racism in the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

Joanna Regulska was brought on the show to discuss the current displacement of Ukrainian women following the war and taking care of international students.

Comments on the challenges faced by Ukrainian women and girls during the refugee crisis by GMC Affiliate Joanna Regulska were recently featured in an ABC 10 article on the free document-saving Article 26 Backpack service offered by UC Davis for Ukrainian refugees.

To read the story, click here.

GMC affiliate Kevin Johnson and Karla McKanders of Vanderbilt's Law School recently published an Op-Ed arguing the importance of recognizing how systemic racism is rooted in immigration laws.

To read the full opinion piece, click here.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri and coauthors have recently published a new NBER working paper on the effects of a 2013 Danish policy matching newly arrived refugees to occupations with local labor shortages. 

Find the working paper here.

ARE alumnus and Montana State University Assistant Professor Diane Charlton, recent Ph.D. graduate and Arizona State University Post-doc Zachariah Rutledge, and Professor J. Edward Taylor published a new chapter in the Handbook of Agricultural Economics titled “Evolving Agricultural Labor Markets.” It examines the changing role of agricultural employment in developing and developed economies across the globe.

Global Migration Center affiliates Philip Martin and Zachariah Rutledge published an article in California Agriculture that examined H-2A visa use and associated labor costs in the United States and California.

The article can be found here.

In late January, a UC Davis student was finally granted political asylum after a 20 year wait. In an article covering the story, both Bradford Jones and Gabriel Chin comment on the duration of the waiting period and the government's role in administering immigration law.

To read the full article, click here.

Location: Faculty of Law, University of A Coruña (Spain)

Dates: September 1-2, 2022

Download the call for papers here

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Humanizing Deportation's recent work in Tijuana was featured in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science research newsletter. This story follows the community partnerships, outreach, and collaborative research that Robert McKee Irwin's Humanizing Deportation team has been able to develop in recent months through a Public Impact Research Initiative grant from UC Davis's Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement, which has hosted a series of blog posts on the project.