Kit Johnson (Oklahoma): Theories of Immigration Law. Kerry Abrams and Kent Piacenti (Virginia): Immigration's Family Values. Kristin A. Collins (BU): Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation. L. Jason Anastasopoulos (Harvard): (When) Race Matters: How Undocumented Immigrant Race and Place Shape Immigration Policy Attitudes. Dustin McLochlin (BGSU): Immigration Reform and the Great Society: The Demise of the Bracero Program, the War on Poverty, and the UFW response. Amy H Liu, Anand Edward Sokhey, Joshua B Kennedy, and Annie Miller (Colorado): Immigrant Threat and National Salience: Understanding the “English Official” Movement in the United States. Justin Peter Steil (NYU) and Ion Bogdan Vasi (Iowa): The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000–2011. Peter Cervantes-Gautschi on how the for-profit corporate prison lobby killed immigration reform. As the federal government cracks down on immigrants in the country illegally and forbids businesses to hire them, it is relying on tens of thousands of those immigrants each year to provide essential labor. Lydia DePillis on how immigration helps American workers: The definitive argument. From TNR, Rebecca Leber on how the immigration case backlog just hit an all-time high; and how much would it cost to deport all undocumented immigrants? Way, way more than anyone is willing to pay. Dara Lind on how almost half of Americans want to deport migrant kids. Megan Coester on how to really stop the surge of migrant children. Here is a research roundup on unaccompanied migrant children in the US by Alexandra Raphel. Ben Casselman on how immigration is changing much more than the immigration debate. Ali Gharib on undocumented immigrants and libertarian refuseniks at the border. Andy Lamey reviews The Ethics of Immigration by Joseph Carens.
