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Beyond Assimilation: The Second Generation in France (Working Paper #186)
May 20, 2011

Abstract: This presentation assesses the normative model of integration, the so-called republican model, and what it means for the prospects of the second generation of immigrants in France.  It shows that the salience of race …

From Sheriff’s Deputies to Immigration Officers: Screening Immigrant Status in a Tennessee Jail (Working Paper #185)
January 19, 2011

Abstract: This paper contributes to emerging literature documenting the devolution of immigration enforcement authority by focusing on the implementation of the 287(g) program in Davidson County, Tennessee. It outlines how deputized immigration officers do their …

Managing labour migration in Europe: ideas knowledge and policy change (Working Paper #184)
January 20, 2010

Abstract: Since the late 1990s many European countries have embraced the concept of managing labour migration for their national economic benefit. The last 10 years have seen dramatic changes in patterns and flows of migration …

Immigrant Retirement Prospects: From Bad to Worse? (Working Paper #183)
January 20, 2010

Abstract: We compare the retirement prospects of immigrant men with their native-born Canadian counterparts. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), we show a substantial gap that is concentrated in the …

Central American Migration to Mexico and the United States: The Influence of Gender on Destinations and Destinies (Working Paper #182)
November 30, 2009

Carmen Fernández Casanueva, Research Fellow, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Mexico); Guest Scholar, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Abstract
This article explores the role gender plays on the development of migratory trajectories of Guatemalan, Honduran and …

Estimates of the Cyclical Inflow of Undocumented Migrants to the United States (Working Paper #181)
October 05, 2009

Scott Borger.   Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego.
This paper constructs estimates for the inflow of undocumented migrants to the United States using survey-based micro estimates of the probability of apprehension per attempt and …

The Declining Use of the Mixtec Language Among Oaxacan Migrants and Stay-at-Homes: The Persistence of Memory, Discrimination, and Social Hierarchies of Power (Working Paper #180)
July 01, 2009

Elizabeth Perry. University of California, San Diego
Drawing on binational ethnographic research regarding Mixtec “social memory” of language discrimination and Mixtec perspectives on recent efforts to preserve and revitalize indigenous language use, this study suggests that …

Living Islam in Non-Muslim Spaces: How Religiosity of Muslim Immigrant Women Affect Their Cultural and Civic Integration in Western Host Societies (Working Paper #179)
June 30, 2009

Saba Senses Ozyurt, University of California, Irvine

Abstract
Research on Muslim immigrants in Europe show that they often remain separated and
marginalized within their respective societies. Empirical research further indicates that
Muslim immigrant women in Europe perform more poorly …

Anti-immigrant Sentiment and Welfare State Regimes in Europe (Working Paper #178)
March 31, 2009

Xavier Escandell, University of Northern Iowa
Alin M. Ceobanu, University of Florida
Abstract:
This paper examines whether the stand-alone and cross-level interactive effects of individual and contextual predicting variables of anti-immigrant sentiment vary as a function of institutional …

Globalización, inmigración y género: Vivencias laborales y de género de mexicanos en EE.UU. y Marroquíes en España (Working Paper #177)
March 20, 2009

Kathryn Kopinak, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Rosa M. Soriano Miras, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Abstract:
Economic globalization has brought the movement of people and increasing
transnational connections among them which may best be studied from a comparative
perspective. The …