RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Justin Vaïsse, January 12, 2010, Esprit Magazine
In this review essay, Justin Vaïsse rebutts the main claims made by Christopher Caldwell in his recent Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. While Caldwell depicts a continent on its way to lose its Western identity to Muslim immigration, Vaïsse argues that he gets many of his facts wrong and misrepresents a complex situation in which successes of integration coexist with enduring – but not existential – problems. Read More
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Justin Vaïsse, January 06, 2010, Foreign Policy
“Eurabia” – a new, mostly American genre of political literature – predicts that Europe will soon lose its Western identity to the growing population of Muslim immigrants. Justin Vaïsse challenges the “Eurabia” thesis, arguing that its proponents rely chiefly on anecdotes and distortions of Europe’s demography and social dynamics, while misrepresenting Muslim identity. Read More
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Audrey Singer, January 04, 2010, CNN
As the U.S. Census Bureau begins the 2010 Census, Andrey Singer highlights the largest challenges that the Bureau faces: ensuring that everyone is counted regardless of where they live, whom they live with, and—perhaps most controversially—whether or not they are authorized to live in the United States. Read More
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William H. Frey, December 29, 2009, The Brookings Institution
New census estimates provide the first real glimpse of how migration and population growth may be responding to the housing slowdown, job losses, and broader recession. William Frey says that the past decade has seen a topsy-turvy pattern of migration movement that has now ended with the greatest migration slowdown since World War II. Read More
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Audrey Singer and Jill H. Wilson, December 10, 2009, Loudoun County Department of Planning
Audrey Singer and Jill Wilson gave a presentation on demographic and economic trends in Metropolitan Washington with a focus on Loudoun County to that jurisdiction’s Department of Planning, which highlighted how the region is growing and decentralizing while at the same time becoming more diverse through immigration and other demographic change. Read More
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Jill H. Wilson and Audrey Singer, November 19, 2009, The Brookings Institution
With U.S. unemployment at a 26-year high Americans will be feeling the economic downturn for some time. Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer identify the major shifts in U.S. immigration trends that have been impacted by the economic recession. Read More
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Andrew Reamer and Audrey Singer, November 06, 2009, The Brookings Institution
The Senate voted 60-39 to approve cloture on the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, effectively blocking the controversial amendment that would bar the 2010 Census, unless it collected data on citizenship and immigration status. Andrew Reamer and Audrey Singer respond to this news, and show that though the Census will continue, the issue still remains. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William A. Galston, Noah Pickus and Peter Skerry, October 21, 2009, Roll Call
In a recent op-ed in Roll Call, the Brookings and Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable offered substantive recommendations on how to usher in immigration reform, including enhanced enforcement of workplace laws, new legalization standards, the establishment of an independent standing commission and engagement with the Mexico on cross-border population issues. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer and Andrew Reamer, October 12, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Preparations for April’s 2010 census are well underway but a last-minute amendment introduced by Sens. David Vitter (R-LA) and Robert Bennett (R-UT) threatens to derail it. In order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the apportionment process, the Senators want to bar the Census Bureau from moving ahead unless it adds questions on citizenship and immigration status. Audrey Singer and Andrew Reamer say that the Senate should reject this amendment because it would result in inaccuracy, increased costs, and ironically disrupt the apportionment process. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
On October 6, the Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable released a report proposing six policy changes to break the immigration reform stalemate, including emphasizing enforcement at the workplace, setting standards for the legalization of illegal immigrants and establishing an independent Standing Commission on Immigration. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
The Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable, October 06, 2009, The Brookings Institution, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
The immigration debate is exceedingly difficult given the challenges to the rule of law, exploitation of vulnerable newcomers, and real and perceived competition with Americans for jobs and public resources. The Immigration Policy Roundtable, a joint undertaking of Brookings and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, agreed on a set of recommendations that address the most vexing and controversial obstacles to immigration reform. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, August 09, 2009, American Sociological Association
The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented growth of the foreign-born population in new destination areas across the United States. At a session of the American Sociological Association annual meeting in San Francisco, Audrey Singer tackled the issue of immigrant incorporation in new U.S. destinations: its form and pace, variations by place, and varying responses by localities. Read More
VIDEO
Audrey Singer, July 22, 2009
As part of a new “Brookings Immigration Series,” Audrey Singer describes the new geography of immigration in the United States. She discusses how many more states and municipalities have a stake in the passage of federal immigration reform.
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Russell Wheeler, July 21, 2009, The Brookings Institution
The Obama administration announced plans to restructure how immigrants—most of whom have no criminal records—are detained. Immigration presents courts and administrative agencies tremendous challenges due to a lack of consensus and resources for total enforcement of laws governing entry to and status in the country. Russell Wheeler has explained why crafting better policies for institutions most responsible for enforcing the laws fairly should be part of the broader immigration reform effort. Read More
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Darrell M. West, July 21, 2009, Real Clear Politics
With the new political landscape, the importance of immigration for the American economy and new policy ideas that address concerns regarding low-skill workers and border security, the ingredients are in place for comprehensive immigration reform. What are required are bold leadership, a new narrative and a commitment to overcome old stereotypes. History does not have to repeat itself on immigration policy, writes Darrell West. Read More