2019-2020 News

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.

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.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was recently featured in The New York Times commenting on Donald Trump's proposed immigration ban, noting that “The idea that immigration threatens American jobs is just not there in any data.”

Read the full article here.

The first in our new series, "Policy Briefs and Reports" focuses on the work of GMC affiliate Robert Irwin and Juan Antonio Del Monte from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte on the impact of COVID-19 on immigrants in Tijuana. Specifically, the public health risks of limited health and medical supplies among migrants in Tijuana, with the potential for an especially devastating impact.

Read here.

We are excited to announce our new series, "Policy Briefs and Reports". This series is focused on informing policy-makers with key facts and evidence from a variety of disciplines. Each piece is authored by academics affiliated with the Global Migration Center. There is a specific focus on immigration into the United States and California, but there will also be pieces relative to immigrants in other countries as well. 

Access the main page here.

GMC Affiliate Santiago Pérez was recently interviewed by Argentine newspaper La Nación, discussing his research in immigration and social mobility as well as his insights in Italian immigration into Argentina.

Read the article(in Spanish) here.

We are proud to announce our new series, Migrant Narratives. Discussing the subject of migration usually has to do with the facts and figures of macro-level impacts and observations on policy, economics, and sociology. But it is also important to recognize and acknowledge the experiences of migrants who feel the direct effects of policy firsthand.

This week's Immigration Fact features the work of GMC Affiliate Bradford Jones which notes the counterintuitive relationship between U.S. Border Patrol's(U.S.B.P.) prevention-by-deterrence policies and migrant deaths. The cause of such deaths is the "funnel effect" of unauthorized migrants choosing to cross more dangerous regions, with migrant deaths remaining high despite an overall downturn in migrant numbers due to U.S.B.P. presence.