Senior Immigrants in the United States May 30 —The nearly 5 million immigrants age 65 and older residing in the United States in 2010 accounted for 12 percent of all elderly as well as 12 percent of the total immigrant population. MPI's Jeanne Batalova examines the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the elderly immigrant population, including where they live, countries of origin, and their sources of income.
Voice after Exit: Revolution and Migration in the Arab World
Since mid-December 2010, popular uprisings have taken hold in a number of countries across North Africa and the Middle East in what has been dubbed the Arab Spring.
Philippe Fargues of the European University Institute discusses the demographic trends underpinning the recent eruption of unrest in the Arab world, and the likely impact of the revolts on migration.
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Lesotho: From Labor Reserve to Depopulating Periphery? May 2 — Jim Cobbe of Florida State University discusses how the close ties between Lesotho (ethnically, almost wholly Basotho)
and South Africa (with an even larger Basotho population) are expressed in a history of economic migration, and how new immigrants from China are changing the face of modern-day Lesotho.
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Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States and Europe: The Use of Legalization/ Regularization as a Policy Tool May 9 —Legalization of unauthorized immigrants in the United States and Europe ("regularizations" in the European context) have been used repeatedly for broad and discrete groups.
These programs seek to balance the goal of bringing unauthorized immigrants into the mainstream of society for economic and humanitarian reasons with the public
and political pressures to stem illegal migration in the long term. A look at the differences between these sometimes contentious policy tools and their use, both historically and in recent years.
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