immigration
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Beyond Borders & Budgets: Chicago’s Path to Compassion Amid the Migrant Crisis
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In recent months, Chicago has been at the epicenter of a significant humanitarian challenge. Over 35,000 migrants have arrived in the city since August 2022, many on buses from Texas. This influx has stretched the city’s resources thin, particularly its shelter system which is struggling to accommodate the increasing numbers…
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America Needs More Immigrants
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Americans have both celebrated and denounced immigration since the country’s founding. George Washington wrote in 1788: “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” In contrast, Benjamin Franklin wrote of…
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The Dublin Convention: Bad for Host Nations, Worse for Migrants
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The calamitous earthquake that rocked Syria and Turkey killed over 46,000 people. As host to more Syrian asylum seekers than every other country combined, the disaster has thrust the refugee crisis back into the news. While more effective government could have limited some of the physical damage and casualties, the…
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When Liberals Become Conservative: A Danish Political Culture of Islamophobia
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In June of 2021, Denmark’s parliament voted in favor of a law allowing the Danish authorities to send asylum seekers to reception centers outside the European Union. This vote was the most recent turn of events in Denmark’s policies to tighten immigration. In May of 2021, the Danish authorities announced…
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Restricting Immigration Leads US Employers to Move Jobs Elsewhere
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Immigration is a perennial source of debate in the United States. Debates tend to focus on low-skilled immigrants – their legal status, employability, country of origin, and even potential threat to national security. In recent years, however, high-skilled legal immigration has increasingly come under scrutiny. Anti-immigration sentiment can stem from…
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The Link Between Income and Xenophobia
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According to the World Bank (2019), close to half the world’s population lives in countries where development goals are hindered by conflict and violence. The UNHCR (2019) claims that by the end of 2018, 70.8 million people had been forcibly displaced from their homes, of whom at least 25.9 million…
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The Connection of Sanctuary Cities and Crime
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In the 1980s, churches across the United States sought to provide shelter for refugees fleeing violence in El Salvador and Guatemala. The U.S. supported the regimes of these countries, and it did not want to provide political asylum to their refugees. Nevertheless, religious communities offered them protection in open defiance…
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(Mis)Information, Immigration and Redistribution
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The base of the Statue of Liberty, which happens to be a gift from a European country to the United States, reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The ideas embodied in this phrase have been increasingly debated in recent years, not just…
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What do Chinese restaurants teach us about the immigrant labor market?
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Chinese immigration to the United States often evokes images of Chinatowns, featuring Lunar New Year Parades, dim sum restaurants housed in pagodas, and storefronts featuring herbal remedies or porcelain goods. Cities have long been gateways for new immigrants to establish businesses in pursuit of economic mobility, and researchers examining Chinese…
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The Unintended Public Health Consequences of Immigration Policing
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From the Trump administration’s promise to build a wall along the Mexican border to the separation of children from migrants attempting to enter the U.S., issues related to immigration policy have dominated American politics. Recent proposals by the Trump administration have attempted to restrict legal immigration by requiring green card…
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What Are the Drivers of Anti-Immigration Sentiment?
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In Western countries, anti-immigration sentiment is becoming more and more widespread. In the United States, President Trump has issued executive orders imposing severe restrictions on arrivals, while in the European Union, the Syrian refugee crisis has sown division among member states. The free movement of persons may be at risk…