A steady increase of new immigrants to the United States has sparked a great debate on the financial impact the foreign born population has on public services. While the United States government has an extensive history ...

The Mexican 3x1 Program for Migrants is a matching fund scheme that seeks to direct the money sent by hometown associations abroad (collective remittances) to productive uses. The federal, state and municipal governments ...

As Europe has struggled to adapt to the modern reality of mass migration in recent decades, the question of citizenship has emerged as an increasingly salient political topic across the continent. Numerous scholars have ...

El artículo analiza el fenómeno de la diáspora en relación con el exilio y el carácter más general del nomadismo que parece caracterizar la cultura contemporánea en la etapa de la denominada globalización. El razonamiento, ...

A common theme in immigration studies in the United States is that the discourse around immigration has changed over time. Once a bipartisan issue where unlikely coalitions and partners were common, recent research has ...

"Media cold warriors of Operation Pedro Pan" is a case study in which I examine the impact of 1960s Cold War rhetoric on contemporary U.S.-Cuba policy. In my report, I contextualize the 1960s covert U.S. endeavor Operation ...

Children who experience toxic levels of stress may be more likely to develop chronic disease in adulthood, as shown by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Model. The children of undocumented immigrants may be vulnerable ...

What effects policy choice, especially when the policy chosen is widely held to be unpopular? This dissertation aims to answer why and when certain policy solutions are chosen over others by focusing on a specific policy ...