2019-2020 News

Executive Committee member Caitlin Patler and UCI PhD candidate Gabriela Gonzalez published a new paper, "The Educational Consequences of Parental Immigration Detention", in Sociological Perspectives demonstrating the deleterious educational consequences of parental immigration detention. The paper is based on 104 multigenerational and multi-perspective interviews with detained immigrants, their spouses, and the young children they share.

Read the paper here.

In a post on ImmigrationProf, featured GMC affiliate Raquel Aldana of the UC Davis School of Law details the recent attempts by the Trump administration to dismantle the methods of litigation being used to protect asylum laws in the United States.

Read the full feature on ImmigrationProf here.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was recently interviewed by BBC Mundo as part of an article discussing the impact of Mexican workers on the U.S. economy. 

Read the article(In Spanish) here.

A new publication on the Humanizing Deportation project by Robert Irwin was recently published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American History. The publication focuses on the origins and execution of the project itself: the largest qualitative archive of its kind on the topic of deportation and its effects on migrant communities.

Read here.

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.

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.

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.

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.