2018-2019 News

“As a Ph.D. student I had already worked on some immigration issues in my studies, and when this topic surfaced I began looking deeper into the issue and realized that we lacked a lot of good information to properly examine and fully explore the issue,” Rutledge told Western Farm Press in a telephone interview. “I contacted the California Farm Bureau which had conducted a survey in 2017. I felt like we needed to add additional questions to the survey to get a broader picture of the issue, and the CFB agreed to partner with us to conduct the 2019 updated survey.”

Professor J. Edward Taylor discusses the economic impact of refugees and research in poverty in Office Hour Podcast.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson's article titled "The Trump Administration and the War on Immigration Diversity" published on ImmigrationProf Blog.

California farmers are facing a serious shortage of labor according to a new report by the California Farm Bureau.  A survey showed that almost six out of 10 farmers were unable to hire all the workers they needed at some point in the past 5 years. Many of those farmers said shortages were worse the past two years, even though 86 percent of farmers said they had raised wages.

Read the full feature here. 

Professor Katherine Eriksson's recent publication was featured in articles by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Economist.

Professor Robyn Magalit Rodriguez interviewed about the circumstances in the Philippines and the US that drive Filipinos to work abroad.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Caitlin Patler recently received the Pacific Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award

AP News featured Professor Gabriel J. Chin's comments on tactics used by ICE agents

The economic impact of immigration has been highly debated within the last two decades as the issue of illegal immigration is constantly brought to attention and ways to resolve the issue are proposed, yet hardly ever implemented. Professor Giovanni Peri and researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, agree that immigration has slight marginal gains as a whole, while recognizing that it does have negative impacts for some. 

We invite you to submit a paper or express interest in attending the Bank of Italy workshop on “Labour mobility and migration: determinants and consequences”, taking place on October 4, 2019 and hosted by Banca d’Italia in Rome.  Submission deadline June 14.