Communities in Crisis: Interior Removals and Their Human Consequences
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In late 2017, the Kino Border Initiative (KBI), the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS), and the Office of Justice and Ecology (OJE) of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and...
View ArticlePorous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah of University at Buffalo, State University of New York reviews Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Julian Lim. Julian Lim...
View ArticleStatement of Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of the Center for Migration...
Last evening, President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office, asserting that there exists a crisis on our southern border which necessitates the construction of a border wall. Despite the...
View ArticleUS Undocumented Population Continued to Fall from 2016 to 2017, and Visa...
Introduction This report presents estimates of the US undocumented population for 2017 derived by the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS). It focuses on the steep decline in the undocumented...
View ArticleUS Undocumented Population Continued to Fall from 2016 to 2017 and Visa...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This article presents estimates of the US undocumented population for 2017 derived by the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS). It focuses on the steep decline in the...
View ArticleBodily Inertia and the Weaponization of the Sonoran Desert in US Boundary...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since 2000, 3,199 human remains of unauthorized migrants have been recovered from the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona (Coalición de Derechos Humanos 2018). These recovered remains...
View ArticleBorder Spirituality: ‘Tu eres mi otro yo’
Established in 2014, the Fr. Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S. Annual Lecture on International Migration addresses a migration-related topic of pressing concern to faith communities. Fr. Tomasi, a founding member...
View Article2019 Fr. Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S. Annual Lecture on International Migration |...
Established in 2014, the Fr. Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S. Annual Lecture on International Migration addresses a migration-related topic of pressing concern to faith communities. Fr. Tomasi, a founding...
View ArticleCMSOnAir | Joanna Williams on the Kino Border Initiative
This episode of CMSOnAir features an interview with Joanna Williams, director of education and advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative (KBI). KBI is a bi-national organization based in Nogales, Arizona...
View ArticleDoes the United States Need to Invest More in Border Enforcement?
The Trump administration came into office at a time when illegal border crossings from Mexico had been reduced to one-fourth from their historic highs and the US undocumented population had been...
View ArticleLand! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas
Timothy Meagher of Catholic University of America reviews Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas by Graham Davis. Graham Davis tells an Irish-Texan story of the search for land by...
View ArticleWhy Border Patrol Agents and CBP Officers Should Not Serve as Asylum Officers
United States Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen allegedly hit an undocumented migrant with his truck in November 2017. In preparation for trial, federal prosecutors revealed that Bowen had a history of...
View ArticleParadoxes of Protection: Compassionate Repression at the Mexico–Guatemala Border
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Anti-immigrant rhetoric and constricting avenues for asylum in the United States, amid continuing high rates of poverty, environmental crisis, and violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and...
View ArticleStatement on the Shooting in El Paso
The violent attack yesterday in El Paso in which 22 people lost their lives and more than 24 others were injured evokes two starkly divergent views of El Paso, the first held by most of its residents...
View ArticleImpressions and Reflections on My First Experience of the US-Mexico Border
I had the privilege of participating in a recent trip to the Arizona-Mexico border to learn about conditions for migrants. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the national network hub of 125 Jewish...
View ArticleCMSONAIR | David FitzGerald on the Shrinking Avenues for Asylum
CMS’s researcher Mike Nicholson asks David FitzGerald about the concept of “remote controls,” new constraints on asylum seekers, and the impact of wealthy democracies closing their doors to migrants....
View ArticleDomestic Economies: Women, Work and the American Dream in Los Angeles
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas of the University of Southern California reviews Domestic Economies: Women, Work and the American Dream in Los Angeles by Susanna Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum examines how two groups of...
View ArticleCMSONAIR | Bishop Mark J. Seitz on “Night Will Be No More” and What It Means...
Bishop Mark J. Seitz speaks about his recent pastoral letter, “Night Will Be No More.” The post CMSONAIR | Bishop Mark J. Seitz on “Night Will Be No More” and What It Means to Be a Border City appeared...
View ArticleMigrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Martin Lopez-Galicia of Syracuse University reviews Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Miroslava Chávez-García. To examine how migrants navigate gender, culture,...
View ArticleStatelessness in the United States: A Study to Estimate and Profile the US...
DOWNLOAD REPORT I question my very existence, my very essence of being human. We don’t want to live or die as ghosts. – Stateless person from the former Soviet Union Stateless means having no hope,...
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