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GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin's research in conjunction with El Colegio del Frontera Norte on the impact of COVID-19 on migrant populations in Tijuana was featured recently in two Mexican newspapers, Milenio and Alianzatex. 

Read the Milenio article(in Spanish) here.

Read the Alianzatex article(in Spanish) here.

GMC Affiliate Kevin R. Johnson has recently published an entry on the blog ImmigrationProf detailing the specifics of immigration-based Supreme Court decisions and upcoming cases in 2019 and 2020. 

Read the full post here:
 

An article by GMC Deputy Director Robert Irwin and Juan Antonio Del Monte was published recently as part of El Colegio De La Frontera Norte's Documentos de la Contingencia series, a set of interdisciplinary articles detailing the various impacts of the current COVID-19 Pandemic on migrants. The article details the impacts of sanitary measures on migrants in Tijuana and outlines suggested plans of action to help combat problems with sanitation, logistics, and legislation.

An article by GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana was featured in Nexos magazine's Migrant Observatory, a blog dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion focused on migration.

An op-ed by GMC Executive Committee member Caitlin Patler and GMC affiliate Erin Hamilton on the future of the DACA program following the recent Supreme Court decision was featured today in CalMatters. Although DACA is saved for now, the program remains at risk of being dismantled by the Trump administration, with over seven hundred thousand DACA recipients at risk of deportation despite many of them fulfilling essential roles in the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.  

New research by GMC Executive Director Giovanni Peri and UC Davis past and current graduate students Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso and Giuseppe Ippedico shows that emigration deprives countries of origin of entrepreneurs and hence of the ability of creating new firms. Using recent data on a large wave of emigration from Italy, the authors show that this has reduced firm creation and innovative start up in areas where many people departed.

Read the entire paper here.

A new essay by Giovanni Peri for the Center for Growth and Opportunity emphasizes the role that immigrants can play in the economic recovery after the COVID-19 crisis, and urges a reversal of the restrictive immigration policies proposed by the Trump administration.

Click to read How Immigrants Can Help the “Transition to a Great Economy” after COVID-19

GMC Affiliate Kevin R. Johnson recently published an article in the UC Davis Law Review titled, "Proposition 187 and Its Political Aftermath: Lessons for U.S. Immigration Politics After Trump". The article outlines the evolution of immigration politics in California, specifically noting that the passing but failed implementation of 1994's Proposition 187 as having a significant impact on Latinx political participation and therefore the immigration politics of the state. Lessons from the legacy of Prop.

GMC Affiliate Kevin R. Johnson recently published Trump's Latinx Repatriation in the U.C.L.A. Law Review. Read the abstract below or click here for the full article.

The Economics of Migration seminar series features regular presentations on the latest research in migration economics by prominent researchers and Ph.D candidates, all from a variety of institutions. 

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through the Scientific Research Coordination (CIC), the Liaison and Technology Transfer Coordination (CVTT) and the University of California (UC) through Alianza UCMX in collaboration with the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, announce a Special Call For Binational Collaborative Projects Addressing COVID-19. Awards are up to $10,000 for the first stage and $20,000 for the second.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri's research was recently featured in a Forbes article on the potential halt to H1-B visas and their affect on U.S. job growth.

Read the article here.

GMC Affiliate Jeanette Money was interviewed for UCSD's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation e-newsletter. In the interview, Professor Money discusses her latest book, Migration Crises and the Structure of International Cooperation, the research behind it, and her upcoming projects. 

Read the full interview here.

Global Migration Center faculty Erin Hamilton, Caitlin Patler, and Robin Savinar have a new paper in Social Problems, one of Sociology's top journals: "Transition into Liminal Legality: DACA's Mixed Impacts on Education and Employment among Young Adult Immigrants in California."

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was recently interviewed by Yahoo News on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigration as well as the implications of President Donald Trump's executive order to curb on green cards. 

Watch the full interview here.