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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured in an opinion editorial in "The Baltimore Sun" which discusses the need for more immigrants in the United States. Peri's research and commentary about immigration and the effect on wages and native employment was used to contribute to the author's argument.

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GMC affiliate Raquel Aldana was interviewed by ABC 10 to discuss the swift response in granting temporary protected status to Ukrainians by the Biden administration. Aldana points out how this quick and decisive action has not been realized in previous refugee crises.

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Commentary by GMC Director Giovanni Peri on the impact of the immigration shortfall on increasing prices and wages was featured by the Spanish-language edition of the Chicago Tribune. 

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GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana's essay on Humanizing Deportation and the Playas de Tijuana Mural project was featured by Zocalo Public Square.

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Cecilia Vasquez was awarded a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Ethnic Studies department at UC Riverside for the upcoming academic year, during which she will continue to develop her deeply collaborative community-based scholarship in the Inland Empire.

Research on the effect of migrant workers on American wages by GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured in The Economist in an article explaining the economic benefits of Mexican migration to the US.

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A working paper by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and coauthors Mette Foged and Janis Kreuder on the integration of refugees by addressing labor market shortages was featured on the NBER homepage. They found that Denmark's recent policy that matched refugees to occupations with local labor shortages led to higher long term employment rates for refugees, suggesting that this policy could decrease the decrease the concern of labor shortages in the long term. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri recently had his research on US-Mexico immigration featured in The Economist. The article cites Peri's research in an effort to convey the importance of US-Mexico immigration on both of their respective economies.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri was recently featured on the IMF Podcast to discuss the economic impact of Ukrainian refugees. Specifically, Dr. Peri notes that the efforts toward building human capital in the migrants justify the upfront cost and may be a solution for countries experiencing aging and labor market shortages

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An analysis on the economic assimilation of Mexican and Central American Migrants by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and former GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Zach Rutledge was recently published in the IZA Journal of Development and Migration. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and Graduate Student Affiliate Reem Zaiour's policy brief on the impact of falling immigration rates on the current labor shortage was featured in an opinion editorial published in the Washington Post and St. Louis Dispatch. Using findings from Peri and Zaiour's brief, the author of the op-ed asserts that Democrats' anxiety about a potential influx of immigrants is misguided. 

GMC Deputy Director Robert McKee Irwin and Faculty Affiliate Emily Vázquez, both of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, in collaboration with Affiliates Raquel Aldana and Leticia Saucedo of UCD Law School, have been awarded a Humanities Connections Planning Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to prepare bilingual students for careers in immigration law – including those aspiring to law school, as well as those who aim to work in civil organizations that serve Spanish speaking immigrant communities – by developing a series of upper division courses in Spanish th

GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC External Affiliate Daniel Costa's research and commentary on the effects of slowing immigration rates on the US labor market post-COVID were featured in the Wall Street Journal. Industries with higher shares of foreign-born workers are more likely to have higher job vacancies coupled with wage and inflationary pressures. 

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Former GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Justin Wiltshire's research on the impact of Walmart supercenters' monopsony on local labor markets was featured as a policy brief by Equitable Growth. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri's commentary on the influx of Ukrainian refugees and the efforts to which neighboring countries are accommodating them was featured on KCRW's podcast To The Point.

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