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.
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Study finds changes to gut microbiome begin as soon as migrants move to the US and continue to change over decades.
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.
An interesting and notable point of detail about the “lifetime ban” legislation is that it would not apply to the refugee children.
Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appeal to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
The brain drain is coming – it has to be stopped.
There is a gap between free trade and free migration.
The new prime minister has said he believes ‘the Bible is not a policy handbook’. However, his faith has certainly had an influence on his worldview.
New research shows recruiting high-skilled immigrants leads to a ‘meaningful’ increase in innovation – and even more than spending money on research and development.
Here’s the evidence the UK will use to design a new managed migration policy after Brexit.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
Introducing yet another special agricultural employment visa might destroy the good things about the ones we’ve got.
A record number of immigrant children are being detained in the US. Here’s what you need to know.
In the mid-1980s Germany was wracked by a toxic ‘Asyldebatte’ that bears similarities to what’s happening today.
Journalists should mind their language.
The proudly illiberal leader is forging new alliances ahead of European elections next year.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law and Government, Durham University, Durham University
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor in the Department of Economics, UCL
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
