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GMC affiliate Caitlin Patler was featured on KQED. This article covers ICE's use of solitary confinement in California detention facilities. As Patler states, “It’s highly likely that individuals’ rights are being violated by being placed into these extremely punitive settings...”

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On August 24, the Biden Administration issued a final rule on the DACA program, which will take effect on October 31, with the goal to "preserve and fortify" the DACA program. The administration's memorandum about the rule includes citations to academic research on DACA, including work by UC Davis Sociology professors and GMC affiliates, Erin Hamilton and Caitlin Patler. 

Giovanni Peri and his coauthors Simone Moriconi (U. of Paris) and Riccardo Turati (Autonoma del Bercelona) were recently released a working paper. They show that second generation immigrants in European countries have a tendency to vote for more left-leaning parties, relative to similar natives, after controlling for their characteristics and their country of origin. They then show that this left-bias associates with stronger preferences for government intervention and for internationalism and multiculturalism.

GMC affiliate Jeremy Rud, was quoted in Politico. In this, he elaborates the USCIS's use of text analytics algorithms to pre-screen asylum applications.

Read about it here.

GMC affiliate, Kevin Johnson, was featured for the LAist. In this feature, Johnson detailed possibilities on why the Biden administration may not be acting as quickly as they can in the finals of the 'Remain in Mexico' program. For instance, the Biden administration may be acting out of cautiousness in addition to a political timing issue. 

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The host Fareed Zakaria, from CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, was elaborating on a solution to inflation. Furthermore, when talking about immigration, Zakaria mentions GMC director, Giovanni Peri, and GMC affiliate Reem Zaiour's research in the process.

Hear more about it here.

The research of GMC Director, Giovanni Peri, and GMC affiliate, Reem Zaiour was featured in The Economist. Their research pertains to the decline of immigration during Trump's administration. This article discusses the current work force shortage which in turn correlates with the economic difficulties faced in America today, which are caused by the actions to reduce immigration. They have discovered that about ten to fifteen percent of job openings, that typically employ immigrant or foreign-born workers, are still vacant. 

GMC Director, Giovanni Peri, describes that while foreign students in STEM are a great contributor to economic development, there is a struggle that foreign graduate students face to find housing in California.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri, was featured on Boss Magazine. This article elaborates on the correlation of immigration and construction; the outcomes and effects of productivity, capacity, and efficiency. Peri found that “… when immigrants stepped into the jobs people born in the U.S. no longer would perform, it allowed those U.S.-born workers to take jobs with higher pay and more benefits.”

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GMC affiliate, Robert Irwin, was mentioned in a Spanish language press story in the Mexican agency EFE. Irwin's project, Humanizing Deportation, has been a major sponsor in the Tijuana based community activist Esther Morales's Comida Calientita project. Morales's projects centers on delivering hot meals to migrant shelters and accounts the support of UCD graduate student and GMC affiliate Brooke Kipling and Lucas Ruppel. 

GMC Affiliate, Raquel E. Aldana, made a publication in Cardozo Law Review. This article talks about the United States' borders and its enforcement. Stating that the United States can be more humane and elaborating on two principles; the extent of the border's impact and human trauma, to serve as a guide. 

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Placing an emphasis on socio-economic research, the research pertains to migration issues and economic history.

Amount of funding: Fully Funded

Deadline: July 31, 2022

If interested, learn more here. 

The location of the event is at Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus, Lisbon, Portugal. The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries. Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation; social networks and migration; migration and globalization; migration and institutional / technological / demographic / cultural change in sending countries, today and in the past.

Dates: September 15 and 16, 2022

Franciscans International is an international non-governmental human rights organization. This can be of great interest to undergrads, especially those who just graduated. This organization also coordinates as a voice at the United Nations. 

Internship is for the Fall of 2022.

Amount of funding: 700 USD per month (if full time). 

Apply by August 1, 2022. 

Learn more here. 

On CAP Radio, GMC affiliate Kevin Johnson, talks about DACA and the future it holds with the current legal challenges it faces. 

Listen here.