Immigration
The Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable, October 06, 2009
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.
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Immigration, Migration, Justice and Law, Labor Markets
In Focus: Peace Mediation

Reuters - Internally displaced people stand near temporary structures in Arunachalam camp at Manik Farm in northern Sri Lanka.
Andrew Solomon, September 23, 2009
The need to protect the rights of persons displaced by conflict and find durable solutions to their displacement is inextricably linked to achieving a viable, sustainable peace. Therefore, as Andrew Solomon argues, no realistic plan for peace and reconciliation should ignore the rights and interests of internally displaced persons.
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Internal Displacement, Human Rights, Migration
SPOTLIGHT: U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY

Reuters/Shannon Stapleton - A swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. citizens on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
By calling lawmakers to the White House, President Obama appears to be making good on his campaign pledge for comprehensive immigration reform. A new Brookings Immigration Series defines the landscape of the upcoming public debate and explains why federal policy will require a new immigration narrative.
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SPOTLIGHT: Immigration

Brookings Institution - Public library, Montgomery County, MD
Audrey Singer, Jill H. Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis, February 25, 2009
The failure of federal immigration reform in 2007 has reverberated in some fast-growing local areas, including in Virginia’s Prince William County—where community leaders and residents successfully organized to pressure county government to crack down on illegal immigration. Following these trends for a year, Audrey Singer, Jill Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis have completed a case study of the local, regional, and ultimately, national factors that led Prince William County to adopt new policies toward unauthorized immigrants.
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Immigration, Washington DC, Demographics, Social Issues, Race