China-born migrants in Australia’s capital cities are becoming more suburban, but there are differences in settlement patterns between the biggest cities and smaller cities.
This is the first article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century, which looks at the impact of the rise of China and Chinese migration on our cities.
Anthony W. Fontes, American University School of International Service
MS-13 is not the biggest or most violent gang in the US. But its grisly murders and Latino membership inflame Americans’ anxiety about immigration. GOP campaign ads stoke those fears to attack Democrats.
When immigrants come to the US, it isn’t just the people who assimilate. The microbes in their gut also become Westernized after living here. This may predispose them to diseases like obesity.
Mass murders like the killings at a Pittsburgh synagogue are seen as the work of disturbed individuals. But America has allowed violence to become unexceptional, ignoring its root cause.
Despite heated debates about immigration policy, German citizens’ views of migrants and a ‘refugee crisis’ changed little in the year after Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to open borders.
Latinos are less likely than other Americans to vote in November, new polling shows. Here’s why Democrats shouldn’t expect a Latino blue wave to swing the midterms in their favor.
A scholar who has worked with asylum-seekers for a decade explains why the legal path to safety is challenging for the migrants currently traveling through Mexico.
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego and Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego
New research shows recruiting high-skilled immigrants leads to a ‘meaningful’ increase in innovation – and even more than spending money on research and development.
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham