Feature Articles
Showing 371–380 of 757 results
Visas for Entrepreneurs: How Countries Are Seeking Out Immigrant Job Creators
Entrepreneur visas have spread across the industrialized world, but identifying who will succeed is difficult and programs have admitted a relatively small number of people per year.
Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States and Europe: The Use of Legalization/Regularization as a Policy Tool
The United States and the European Union have both repeatedly turned to legalization as a policy tool, even as political opposition to it has grown on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Under-Registration of Births in Mexico: Consequences for Children, Adults, and Migrants
More than 7 million Mexicans lack birth certificates, denying children basic rights and leaving unauthorized immigrants in the United States stateless.
Capitol Verite: Inside Immigration Policymaking
Six years of filming U.S. congressional immigration debates revealed that reform hinges less on policy design than on context, luck, and political will.
Backstage Pass: Q&A with Makers of Acclaimed, Fascinating Documentary on U.S. Immigration Debate
U.S. public opinion shifted from broadly pro-immigration to deeply suspicious over six years of filming, gradually squeezing out the space for congressional compromise.
Here, There, and Back Again: A New Zealand Case Study of Chinese Circulatory Transmigration
Among Chinese migrants in New Zealand, younger people identify more strongly with their homeland, contradicting classical theories of acculturation.
Living In Between: The Chinese in South Africa
South Africa is home to three distinct communities of Chinese, whose levels of integration vary sharply by time of arrival, language, and legal status.
China's Young Rural-to-Urban Migrants: In Search of Fortune, Happiness, and Independence
Survey data from 2006 and 2007 found that school fatigue and the lure of city life rivaled economic need as top drivers for young Chinese rural-urban migrants.
Arab Spring and Fear of Migrant Surge Expose Rift in EU Immigration Policy Circles
Europe feared a mass migrant surge from the Arab Spring, but those fears were largely overblown in 2011.
Caught between Two Migration Realities, Mexico Passes New Immigration Legislation
Mexico's its landmark new migration law in 2011 faced skepticism amid concerns about corruption and incomplete implementation.