IMMIGRATION / MIGRATION:
What do we know?
What do we need to know?
Suggested reading & research from Ed Knox
Poll and a Quiz:
Book:
- "Perceptions are not reality: Things the world gets wrong," on Ipsos MORI, Oct 29, 2014
- Deshaies, Denise, The French-Canadians of Brunswick, Maine, 2003 - a monograph available at Curtis Memorial Library
- Klein, Ruth Bouchard, Je Me Souviens, 2014 - about a French-Canadian family in Brunswick
- Webb, Jim, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, 2004
- Woodard, Colin, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. New York: Viking Adult, 2011
- The Invisible People (2009) - a video by Christian Schneider based on the book, Je Me Souviens, by Ruth Bouchard Klein
- 2017 Camden Conference on "Refugees and Global Migration: Humanity’s Crisis," including "Highlights" and videos of the speakers' presentations
- "Does Immigration Lead to Right-Wing Terrorism?" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Feb 21, 2020
- "Trump administration restricts immigration on 6 additional countries" by Stef W. Kight on "Axios," Jan 31, 2020
- "Children of Poor Immigrants Rise, Regardless of Where They Come From" by Emily Badger in "The New York Times: The Upshot," Oct 28, 2019
- "The $90 Trillion Cost of Borders" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Nov 19, 2019
- "Migrants Are Trying to Survive" on Fareed's Global Briefing," Oct 23, 2019
- "In search of safe havens" on David Lawler's "Axios World," Sept 12, 2019
- "This isn't going away" on David Lawler's "Axios World," Sept 12, 2019
- "Economic Antidote for a Shrinking America: Immigrants" by Patricia Cohen in "The New York Times," Aug 22, 2019
- "Trump’s new immigration rule: Not just immoral — also stupid" by Yvonne Abraham in "The Boston Globe," Aug 17, 2019
- "Guatemala signs migration deal with US after Trump threats" on "BBC News," July 27, 2019
- "The Ugly Face of America" by Gordan Adams on Lobe Log," July 8, 2019
- "The World Faces a Refugee Crisis" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," July 2, 2019
- "More African migrants are trying to enter the US through the Mexican border"by Lekan Oguntoyinbo on "Quartz Africa," by June 23, 2019
- "Maine Needed New, Young Residents. African Migrants Began Arriving by the Dozens." by Kate Taylor in "The New York Times," June 23, 2019
- "Where the world's displaced end up" on David Lawler's "Axios World," June 20, 2019
- "Donations pour in, volunteers step up to help asylum seekers in Portland" by Peter McGuire in the "Portland Press Herald," June 15, 2019
- "A Century Ago, America Built Another Kind of Wall" by Daniel Okrent om "The New York Times," May 3, 2019
- "Remittances Hit a Record High—and an Industry Grows Around Them" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," April 9, 2019
- "ISIS and the Value of Citizenship" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Feb 26, 2019
- "A dangerous choice for Rohingya women" by David Lawler on "Axios World," Feb 7, 2019
- "Six charts on the immigrants who call the US home" by Kriston McIntosh, Ryan Nunn & Jay Shambaugh on "BBC News," Nov 29, 2018
- "Twilight of a Wall" by Janan Ganesh on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Dec 21, 2018
- "The Truth About the Migrant Caravans" by Elizabeth Oglesby on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Oct 23, 2018
- "But Don’t Call These People Migrants..." by Dany Bahar on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Oct 23, 2018
- "Where America's immigrants come from" by David Lawler on "Axios World," Aug 30, 2018
- "U.S. and Europe clamp down on migration even as arrivals drop" on "PBS News Hour," July 9, 2018
- "The Immigration Law No One Is Talking About" by snackdoodle on "Daily Kos," June 21, 2018
- "Implementation of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of RefugeesImplementation of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees" by UNHCR, July 7, 1989
- "Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times, Aug 13, 2018
- "Can I Ruin Your Dinner Party?" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Aug 7, 2018
- "Supreme Court’s Decision Affirms Trump’s Animus Toward Muslims" by Emile Nakhleh on "Lobe Log," July 2, 2018
- "Of Course, It Could Not Happen Here" by Rogert Cohen in "The New York Times," June 29, 2018
- "Europe's migration crisis: Could it finish the EU?" by Katya Adler on "BBC News," June 28, 2018
- "A Children’s Gitmo on the Border" by Karen J. Greenberg on "Lobe Log," June 26, 2018
- "The Rise of the Amnesty Thugs" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," June 18, 2018
- "The Immigration Law No One Is Talking About" on "The Daily Kos," June 21, 2018
- "World to Refugees: Go to Hell" by John Feffer on "Lobe Log," June 21, 2018
- "The Millionaires Are Fleeing. Maybe You Should, Too." by Ruchir Sharma in "The New York Times," June 2, 2018
- "Convergence in the Tale of Two Cities" by Ginia Bellafante in "The New York Times," June 1, 2018
- "US officials plan to limit visas for Chinese tech students" from the AP on "CNBC," May 30, 2018
- "Venezuela’s Misery Fuels Migration on Epic Scale" by Juan Forero in "The Wall Street Journal," Feb 13, 2018
- "'Things Could Get Very Ugly' Following Europe's Refugee Crisis" by Annabelle Timsit in "The Atlantic," Oct 27, 2017
- "The US Role in Turning Countries into Shitholes and Provoking Immigration" by Juan Cole on Informed Comment," Jan 12, 2018
- "At Least 50 Migrants Drown as Smuggler Throws Them Into Sea" by Somini Sengupta in "The New York Times," Aug 9, 2017
- "Canada's Ruthlessly Smart Immigration Policy" by Jonathan Tepperman in "The New York Times," June 28, 2017
- "Remember the Population Bomb? It’s Still Ticking" by Eugene Linden in "The New York Times," June 15, 2017
- "To Be Great Again, America Needs Immigrants" by Ruchir Sharma in "The New York Times," May 6, 2017
- "Fearmongering at Homeland Security" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," April 21, 2017
- "How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration" by Jessica Benko in "The New York Times Magazine," April 19, 2017
- "The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl" by Ben Taub in "The New Yorker," April 10, 2017
- "Girl Guides of Canada cancelling trips to the U.S., citing travel concerns" on "CBC News," March 13, 2017
- "The Camp of the Saints - French apoclyptic novel by Jean Raspail" on "Wikipedia" [undated]
- "AIPAC Gave $60K to Architect of Trump’s Muslim Ban" by Eli Clifton on LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 15, 2017
- "This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World" by Paul Blumenthal on "The Huffington Post," March 6, 2017
- "Must It Be the Rest Against the West?" by Matthew Connelly & Paul Kennedy on "The Atlantic Online," December 1994
- "Somebody Else's Babies" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," March 14, 2017
- "In a Refugee's Bags, Memories of Home" by Stephanie Saldana in "The New York Times," March 11, 2017
- Donald Trump's travel ban: President facing new legal threat as FBI investigate 300 refugees for links to Isil" by Harriet Alexander in "The Telegraph," March 7, 2017
- "How Trump Will Hurt My Border Town" by Veronica Escobar in "The New York Times," March 1, 2017
- "Indians Used to Dream of America. No Longer" by Sandip Roy in "The New York Times," Feb 28, 2017
- "Are U.S. Immigration Centers the Next Abu Ghraib?" by Thomas E. Ricks in "The New York Times," Feb 27, 2017" by
- "The Immigration Facts Donald Trump Doesn't Like" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Feb 25, 2017
- "Immigration Agents Discover New Freedom to Deport Under Trump" by Nicholas Kulish, Caitlin Dickerson & Ron Nixon in "The New York Times," Feb 25, 2017
- "Trump endangering rest of Us to hunt down the Law-Abiding Undocumented" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 22, 2017
- "The Social Scientific Case Against a Muslim Ban" by Sarah Lyons-Padilla & Michelle J. Gelfand in "The New York Times," Feb 18, 2017
- "Breaking the Anti-Immigrant Fever" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Feb 18, 2017
- "How to Make America Greater: More Immigration" by Eduardo Porter in "The New York Times," Feb 7, 2017
- "An Apology to Muslims for President Trump" by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," Feb 2, 2017
- "Left Protests While Trump Junks Obama’s Global Immigration Plan" by Neil Munro on "breitbart.com," Jan 30, 2017
- "How Trump Has Taken Away Our Homes" by Masha Gessen & Martina Navratilova in "The New York Times," Feb 1, 2017
- "Trump Can’t Make America Great Again without Immigrants" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 1, 2017
- "Trump administration circulates more draft immigration restrictions, focusing on protecting U.S. jobs" by Abigail Hauslohner & Janell Ross in "The Washington Post," Jan 31, 2017
- "Science Will Suffer Under Trump's Travel Ban, Researchers Say" by Henry Fountain in "The New York Times," Jan 30, 2017
- "German Ambassador 1933: 'Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants''” by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 30, 2017
- "Trump Scores a Ruinous ‘Own Goal’ in the Middle East" by Paul Salem in "Middle East Institute Monday Briefing," Jan 30, 2017
- "The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 29, 2017
- "Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 28, 2017
- "Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy" by Phyllis Bennis on "Informed Comment," Jan 28, 2017
- "In Defense of a Liberal Order" by Justus de Visser on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Jan 27, 2016
- "The Closing of Trump's America" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Jan 27, 2017
- "How to Lose the War on Terror" by Robin Wright in "The New Yorker," Jan 25, 2017
- "What’s really pushing politics to the right? Immigration." by Fareed Zakaria in "The Washington Post," Dec 8, 2016
- "'Brexit' Ruling Could Cause Britain to Drag Its Feet, Muddying E.U. Plans" by Steven Erlanger in "The New York Times," Nov 4, 2016
- "British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say" by Griff Witte in "The Washington Post," Nov 3, 2016
- "Geert Wilders, Dutch Politician, Distracts From Hate-Speech Trial With More Vitriol" by Nina Siegal in "The New York Times," Oct 31, 2016
- "Michel Aoun Rises to Lebanese Presidency, Ending Power Vacuum" by Thanassis Cambanis in "The New York Times," Oct 31, 2016
- "Miri Regev's Culture War" by Ruth Margalit in "The New York Times Magazine," Oct 20, 2016
- "'Brexit,' Migration, Trade: E.U.'s List of Crises Keeps Growing" by James Kanter & Stephen Castle in "The New York Times," Oct 20, 2016
- "Monday Briefing: Huge Humanitarian Challenges in Mosul" by Randa Slim on "Middle East Institute," Oct 17, 2016
- "The United Nations: What’s the Point?" by Uri Friedman in "The Atlantic," Sept 2, 2016
- "Turkey Uses Post-Coup Emergency Decrees to Purge Mayors and Teachers" by Ceylan Yeginsu in "The New York Times," Sept 9, 2016
- "Playing With Fire in Ukraine" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Aug 19, 2016
- "Monday Briefing: Chilcot Report, French FM in Lebanon, Iran Economy" by Daniel Serwer, Alex Vatanka on Paul Salem at "Middle East Institute," July 11, 2016
- "'Brexit' and Russia Loom Over Obama's final NATO Summit Meeting" by Mark Landler in "The New York Times," July 7, 2016
- "Overwhelmed by 'Brexit'? Here Are the Basics" by Niraj Choksi, Daniel Victor & Sewell Chan in "The New York Times, June 24, 2016
- "The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after `voting to leave it" by Brian Fung in "The Washington Post," June 24, 2016
- "Britain's Dangerous Urge to Go It Alone" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times, " June 17, 2016
- "Crisis and Climate Change Driving Unprecedented Migration" by Manipadma Jena on "Informed Comment," June 7, 2016
- "Why Britain is Edging Toward 'Brexit'" by Peter Eavis in "The New York Times," June 7, 2016
- "How long will we ignore Syria’s suffering?" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," June 2, 2016
- "Jordan’s Syrian Refugee Economic Gamble" by Taylor Luck on "Midle East Institute," May 24, 2016
- "China’s Twilight Years" by Howard W. French in "The Atlantic," June 2016
- "Afghans, the Refugees' Refugees" by May Jeong in "The New York Times," May 30, 2016
- "Sending the Wrong Signal to Turkey" by "The New York Times" Editorial Board, April 19, 2016
- "Erdogan and Merkel's Comic Comeuppance" by Anna Sauerbrey in "The New York Times," April 15, 2016
- "Out of Africa" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," April 13, 2016
- "Reviving the Mediterranean’s Lost Cosmopolitanism" by Iason Athanasiadis on "Refugees Deeply," March 29, 2016
- "The Necessity of an Afghan Resettlement Program in the U.S." by Robert Crews in "The New York Times," April 6, 2016
- "The North Goes South Or The South Comes North" by Graham E. Fuller on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 2, 2016
- "A Little Reality on Immigration" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 19, 2016
- "NATO to Expand Military Presence in Europe to Deter Russians" by Michael S. Schmidt in "The New York Times," Feb 10, 2016
- "The End of the Merkel Era" by Anna Sauerbrey in "The New York Times," Feb 10, 2016
- "Syria, already a catastrophe, seems on the verge of an uncontrollable disaster" by Karen DeYoung & Liz Sly in "The Washington Post," Feb 9, 2016
- "Erdogan Threatened Europe with Refugees, now Demanding US abandon Syrian Kurds" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 9, 2016
- "Who Are the True Heirs of Zionism?" by Steven Erlanger in "The New York Times," Feb 4, 2016
- "Syrian Forces Press Aleppo, Sending Thousands Fleeing" by Anne Bernard in "The New York Times," Feb 5, 2016
- "Europe's Huddled Masses" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Feb 4, 2016
- "An Exile in the Corn Belt: Israel’s funniest Palestinian writer decamps to the Midwest" by Ruth Margalit in "The New Yorker," Sept 7, 2015
- "How to Polarize People" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," Dec 11, 2015
- "The Deadly Collateral Damage from ISIS" by Graham E. Fuller on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Dec 4, 2015
- "What Saudi Arabia is (and isn’t) doing in the fight against the Islamic State" by Adam Taylor in "The Washington Post," Nov 25, 2015
- "Syrian Refugee Crisis: Another Perspective" by Wayne White on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Nov 20, 2015
- "Paris and Europe’s Anti-Refugee Backlash" by Anna Saubrey in "The New York Times," Nov 16, 2015
- "Powerful Gestures: America's Apathy About the Syrian Refugees" by George Packer in "The New Yorker," Nov 9, 2015
- "A Mass Migration Crisis, and It May Yet Get Worse" by Rod Nordland in "The New York Times," Oct 31, 2015
- "Putting Out the Syrian Fire: Can Diplomacy Do What War Couldn’t?" by Jo Comerford & Mattea Kramer on "TomDispatch.com," Oct 18, 2015
- "Ottomans saved Hungarian PM Orban’s Ancestors; now he says Islam never part of Europe" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Oct 17, 2015
- "The Imam’s Curse: A family accused of financing terrorists" by Evan Osnos in "The New Yorker," Sept 21, 2015
- "The generators of ISIS still remain" by Rami G. Khouri in "The Daily Star (Lebanon)," May 13, 2015
- "The siege of Damascus: Everyday life in Syria’s savage war" by Peter Osborne on "Middle East Eye," Sept 28, 2015
- "EU refugee summit in disarray as Tusk warns 'greatest tide yet to come'" by Ian Traynor in "The Guardian," Sept 23, 2015
- "Little Syria in Lesbos" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Sept 17, 2015
- "The Roots of the Current Refugee Crisis" by Shireen Hunter" on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Sept 17, 2015
- "Over 150,000 migrated to Europe by sea in 2015 so far, report says" by Sarah Aridi in "The Christian Science Monitor," July 10, 2015 (See also accompanying photo gallery, "A Journey of Hope and Hardship for Refugees")
- "An Egyptian billionaire wants to buy an island to house refugees" by Adam Taylor in "The Washington Post," Sept 4, 2015
- "Battered Greece and Its Refugee Lesson" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Sept 21, 2015
- "Walls, Borders, a Dome and Refugees" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Sept 9, 2015
- "Ugly Attacks on Refugees in Europe" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Aug 15, 2015
- "The Migrant Crisis in Calais Exposes a Europe Without Ideas" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Aug 3, 2015
- "Want a Green Card? Invest in Real Estate" by Julie Satow, in "The New York Times," May 15, 2015
- "Migrants Face Fortress Europe’s Deadly Moat" by Kenan Malik in "The New York Times," April 21, 2015
- "Who Had It Easier, Reagan or Obama?" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Sept 27, 2014
- "Far Right in Eastern Europe Makes Gains as Syrians Arrive" by Andrew Higgins in "The New York Times," Dec 14, 2013
- "Borderline Insanity at the Fence in Nogales" by Lawrence Downes in "The New York Times," Dec 7, 2013
- "Afghan Migrants in Iran Face Painful Contradictions but Keep Coming" by Rod Nordland in "The New York Times," Nov 20, 2013
- "24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians" by Nicholas Wade in "The New York Times," Nov 20, 2013
- "Border Patrol International: The American Homeland Is the Planet," post by Todd Miller on TomDispatch.com, Nov 19, 2013
- "The Dream Boat: the Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island" by Luke Mogelson in "The New York Times Magazine," Nov 17, 2013
- "Scores of Migrants From Niger Found Dead in Sahara" by Adam Nossiter in "The New York Times," Oct 31, 2013
- "Violent Anti-Migrant Protests Rock Moscow," article from Reuter in The New York Times, October 13, 2013
- "Beyond the Fence," and opinion piece by David Brooks in The New York Times, May 6, 2013
- "Immigration Myths and Facts," a post on aclu.org, April 11, 2008
Book:
- Raspail, Jean, The Camp of the Saints, 1973 (1975 translation)
- "Why We Need Immigration Reform Now: 5 Numbers That Can’t Be Ignored," a U.S. Chamber of Commerce publication, Aug 27, 2011
- "Immigration Myths and Facts," a U.S. Chamber of Commerce publication, May 1, 2011