Mathias Risse (Harvard): Taking Up Space on Earth: Theorizing Territorial Rights, the Justification of States and Immigration from a Global Standpoint. Alex Sager (Portland State): Immigration, Ethics, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Methodological Reflections on Joseph Carens’ The Ethics of Immigration. Jose Jorge Mendoza (UMass): Enforcement Matters: Reframing the Philosophical Debate over Immigration. William Walters (Carleton): Reflections on Migration and Governmentality. From Ameriquests, a special issue on Illegality Regimes: Mapping the Law of Irregular Migration. Antoine Pecoud on thinking about open borders, a taboo in international political debates. Ruben Andersson on why border controls are now a global game. Doug Saunders on the real reasons why migrants risk everything for a new life elsewhere. Andreas Beerli and Giovanni Peri on the labour market effect of opening the border to immigrant workers. Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh): Poverty and Immigration Policy; and Immigration as a Human Right. Chandran Kukathas (LSE): A Critique of the Cultural Defence of Immigration Control; and Chandran Kukathas (LSE): Are Refugees Special? Stefania Barichello (SAS): The Legacy of Hannah Arendt on the Analysis of the Contemporary Condition of the Refugee. Zeynep Tufekci on the plight of refugees, the shame of the world. A Silicon Valley mogul wants to solve the global refugee crisis by creating a new country.
Julien Jeandesboz (Amsterdam): EU Border Control: Violence, Capture and Apparatus. Angeliki Dimitriadi (ELIAMEP): “Greece is Like a Door, You Go Through it to Get to Europe”: Understanding Afghan Migration to Greece. Migrants trying to sail from Turkey to Greece are increasingly reporting being attacked by gunmen trying to prevent them from reaching Europe. Two hundred thousand migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean already this year — who will take them all? Tim Chester on 4 common myths about the Calais migrants debunked. Ross Douthat on Africa’s scramble for Europe. Amanda Taub on a 1-minute debate that perfectly captures the shameful racism of anti-immigration arguments. Giorgio Gomel on migration and memory in Europe. We were upvoted for posting Nazi propaganda about migrants in the Daily Mail. Is the ugly German back? Flames of hate haunt a nation. Read the newspapers, study the crime figures, and you would think Germany is united in antipathy towards its migrant population — but an army of volunteers is doing its best to make them feel welcome. Jonathan Portes on the truth about the people and numbers in the loud and furious migration debate. Daniel Trilling on how Europe could solve the migrant crisis — if it wanted. The first chapter from Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe by Richard Alba and Nancy Foner.
Zachary Gochenour (Western Carolina): Coyotes: The Industrial Organization of Human Smuggling. Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, and Jeremy Singer-Vine on the new American slavery: Invited to the U.S., foreign workers find a nightmare. Bill Ong Hing (San Francisco): Ethics, Morality, and Disruption of U.S. Immigration Laws. Jeremy Slack (UTEP), Daniel E. Martinez (George Washington), and Scott Whiteford and Emily Peiffer (Arizona): In Harm’s Way: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement Programs and Security on the US-Mexico Border. Elizabeth Keyes (Baltimore): Evolving Contours of Immigration Federalism: The Case of Migrant Children. April Schueths on how US immigration policy denies US citizens (and non-citizens) the right to choose their partners and live with their families. Juanita Sundberg (UBC): The State of Exception and the Imperial Way of Life in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Walter A. Ewing, Daniel E. Martinez, and Ruben G. Rumbaut on the criminalization of immigration in the United States. Kevin R. Johnson (UC-Davis): Race-Based Law Enforcement: The Racially Disparate Impacts of Crimmigration Law. Chris Lukinbeal and Laura Sharp (Arizona): Performing America’s Toughest Sheriff: Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio’s Old West. “Bring the battlefield to the border”: Todd Miller on how America’s immigration wars were poisoned by the military-industrial complex.
Michael Kagan (UNLV): Do Immigrants Have Freedom of Speech? Esther Yu-Hsi Lee on the dehumanizing history of the words we’ve used to describe immigrants. Should I use the term “illegal immigrant”? Jeffrey Toobin wonders. The House is picking a fight with “sanctuary city” ordinances — how is this like the fugitive slave laws? Sam Stein and Amanda Terkel on how a good chunk of GOP field wants to repeal the 14th Amendment. Ian Millhiser on how Donald Trump placed himself on the same side as the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision (and more). Dara Lind on Donald Trump’s immigration plan, explained (and more). A poll finds a large majority of Republicans trusts Donald Trump on illegal immigration. Naomi Shavin on how Donald Trump’s immigration reform plan would be unimaginably expensive. Matthew Yglesias on the most neglected fact in immigration economics. Immigrants to the rescue: Donald Trump is wrong — immigration isn’t a problem, but the solution to a shrinking, aging U.S. population. Todd Seavey on the disputed border between Sanders and Trump: How about no borders at all? Dean Baker on Bernie Sanders, open borders and a serious route to global equality. There is debate over Open Borders vs. more restrictive immigration, but how about some combination of the two options?
