Wednesday, January 6, 2016

BE INFORMED! Fight Back the Democrat Party's OPEN BORDERS Agenda and the American Tax-Funded Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA "The Race"

Placating Americans with Fake Immigration Law Enforcement

 How our leaders create fantasy 'solutions' for our immigration-related vulnerabilities.

 By Michael Cutler

 FrontPageMag.com, December 4, 2015
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Therefore the Visa Waiver Program should have been terminated after the terror attacks of 9/11 yet it has continually been expanded.

It is clear that the overarching goal of a succession of administrations and many members of Congress, irrespective of political party affiliation, is to keep our borders open and take no meaningful action to stop that flow of aliens into the United States.
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The obvious question is why the Visa Waiver Program is considered so sacrosanct that even though it defies the advice and findings of the 9/11 Commission no one has the moral fortitude to call for simply terminating this dangerous program.

The answer can be found in the incestuous relationship between the Chamber of Commerce and its subsidiary, the Corporation for Travel Promotion, now doing business as Brand USA.

The Chamber of Commerce has arguably been the strongest supporter of the Visa Waiver Program, which currently enables aliens from 38 countries to enter the United States without first obtaining a visa.

The U.S. State Department provides a thorough explanation of the Visa Waiver Program on its website.

Incredibly, the official State Department website also provides a link, “Discover America,” on that website which relates to the website of The Corporation for Travel Promotion, which is affiliated with the travel industries that are a part of the “Discover America Partnership.

 
much more here:

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/12/amnesty-hoax-to-keep-wages-depressed.html

 

 

Immigration Events, 1/5/16


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 1. 1/6, DC - Book discussion: The Economics of Immigration
2. 1/6-10, NYC - Immigration at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting
3. 1/7-10, Atlanta - Immigration at the American Historical Association annual meeting
4. 1/9, Cambridge, MA - Book discussion: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp - [New Listing]
5. 1/11, San Diego - Book discussion: Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
6. 1/12-3/3, DC - Certificate program course on global trends in international migration - [New Listing]
7. 1/13, NYC - CIS at debate on the admission of Syrian refugees - [New Listing]
8. 1/13-15, London - Conference on the changing face of global mobility - [New Listing]
9. 1/13-17, DC - Immigration at the Society for Social Work and Research annual meeting
10. 1/27-29, DC - Certificate program course on migration and development - [New Listing]

1.
The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy

4:00-5:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Cato Institute, Hayek Auditorium
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403
http://www.cato.org/events/economics-immigration-market-based-approaches-social-science-public-policy

Speakers:
Zac Gochenour, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Carolina University

Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Cato Institute

Commentator:
Neil Ruiz, Executive Director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Finance, George Washington University

Moderator:
Benjamin Powell, Director, Free Market Institute, and Professor of Economics, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University.

Description: In his new book The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy, editor and economics professor Benjamin Powell brings together several immigration scholars to discuss how immigrants affect the wages of American workers and government budgets, as well as how they assimilate into American culture. The book also presents different policy recommendations in light of the economic evidence—including proposals for a market in visas, open borders, and cuts in legal immigration. The authors and editor will be joined by Neil G. Ruiz, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Finance at George Washington University, who will offer his own comments and criticisms. Please join us as four economists discuss the economic impact of immigration.

If you can’t make it to the event, you can watch it live online at www.cato.org/live and join the conversation on Twitter using #CatoEvents. Follow @CatoEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute.

Register: https://ssl.cato.org:8443/catopublic/#MtgDetail/00000890

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2.
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting

Wednesday-Sunday, January 6–10, 2016
New York Hilton Midtown & Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
New York City, NY
http://www.aals.org/am2016/

Immigration-related session:

Saturday, January 9, 2016

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Immigration and the 2016 Presidential Election: Campaign Rhetoric, Minority Voting, and Policy Possibilities

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3.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Thursday-Sunday, January 7-10, 2016
Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, and Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/start.html#srch=words|migra|method|and|pge|1

Immigration-related sessions:

Thursday, January 7, 2016

1:00-3:00 p.m.
Caught in the Middle: The Politics of Migrant Labor in Mexico and the United States
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13501.html

Papers:
Between Two Nations: Organizing among Mexican Migrants in Los Angeles, California, 1920–35
Daniel Morales, Columbia University

The Making of the Unassimilable Mexican and Race as a Common US-Mexico History, c. 1920s
Jose Luis Ramos, Valparaiso University

A State’s Sovereign Right: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Maria E. Balandran, University of Chicago

Health Care and Deportation during the Bracero Program
Laura D. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

Chinese Mass Migrations: Convergences and Divergences
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13589.html

Papers:
The End of China’s Emigration Ban in 1893: A Non-event?
Shelly Chan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Reconciling the Open Door with the Closed Gate: Chinese Exclusion and US Imperialism
Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University

From Compradors to Hacendados: Toward an Asian Settler Colonial History of Chinese Migrations to Peru
Ana Maria Candela, Binghamton University (State University of New York)

Uncalculated Divergences: The Philippine-Chinese Community in the Turbulent 20s
Phillip Guingona, Marietta College

1:20 p.m.
The Making of the Unassimilable Mexican and Race as a Common US-Mexico History, c. 1920s
Jose Luis Ramos, Valparaiso University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19153.html

1:40 p.m.
Planting the Seeds: Women Voting on Immigration Policy
Erin Leary, University of Rochester
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19906.html

Friday, January 8, 2016

8:30-10:00 a.m.
Transnational Labor Migration, Globalization, and Ecological Integration in the Pacific World, 1800s-2000s
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13544.html

Papers:
Migrant Peoples, Migrant Natures: Tracing Economic and Ecological Changes in 19th-Century Polynesia
Gregory Rosenthal, Roanoke College

Contested Oceans: Maritime Labor, Anti-Colonial Politics, and Asian/Pacific Diasporas in the 20th-Century Dutch Empire
Kris Alexanderson, University of the Pacific

South American Workers in Japan: Migration, Inequality, and Global Capitalism
Tomoyuki Sasaki, Eastern Michigan University

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Women and Families sin Fronteras: New Directions in Gender in the United States/Mexico Borderlands
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13235.html

Papers:
Indian Women and the Creation of Mining Towns and Borderlands
Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego

Californiana Legacies: Family and Popular Memories in California’s Borderlands
Margie Brown-Coronel, California State University, Fullerton

Women, Labor, and Intermarriage in the Baja California Borderlands
Veronica Castillo-Munoz, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30 a.m.
Biatek Family: A Case Study in Polish Immigration History
Barbara D. Pulaski, Mount Ida College and Francis S. Wolenski, Cambridge, Massachusetts
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19797.html

2:30-4:30 p.m.
Empire City: Intersecting Diasporas and Migrant Neighbors in 20th-Century New York
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13552.html

Papers:
Atlantic Neighbors: Puerto Rican and Italian Intersecting Diasporas in 20th-Century New York
Simone Cinotto, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University

Crucial but Unheralded Actions: Puerto Rican Workers and the New York City Labor Movement, 1953–60
Aldo Lauria Santiago, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Trailblazers and Harbingers: Mexicans in New York before 1970
Julie Leininger Pycior, Manhattan College

3:10 p.m.
Trailblazers and Harbingers: Mexicans in New York before 1970
Julie Leininger Pycior, Manhattan College
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19546.html

3:30 p.m.
Notes on the Economic and Social Impact of Migrants in Belgium during the 20th Century
Paolo Tedeschi, University of Milan Bicocca and Pierre Tilly, Université Catholique de Louvain
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18503.html

3:30-5:30 p.m.
Empire and Nation in Contest: Chinese Migrants in a Globalizing World
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13155.html

Papers:
Forever Sojourning? Articulations Between Empire, Nation, and the Local in the Identities of the Yokohama Chinese
Eric Han, College of William and Mary

Reconsidering Chinese Nationalism in Republican China: Jinan University, Chinese Migrants, and Southeast Asia, 1911-41
Leander Seah, Stetson University

Experiencing “Empire” and “Nation” from Afar: Chinese Laborers and Students in Europe in the 1910s and 20s
Nagatomi Hirayama, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

“One Chinese Is a Dragon, Three Chinese Are a Worm”: An Investigation into the New Chinese Migrants in Africa
Haifang Liu, Peking University

Saturday, January 9, 2016

9:00-11:00 a.m.
Challenging Historiography: Connecting Empire and Migration Studies
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13295.html

Papers:
The Rise of Finance Capitalism and Role of Balkan Muslims in the Arabic-Speaking World’s Absorption of Euro-American Power
Isa Blumi, Georgia State University

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Synergy between Colonial History and Migration Studies and the Promise of International History
Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University

Transnational Ligatures of Empire: The “Atavistic” Syrian Migrant and the World's “Intermedium”
Bryan Garrett, University of Texas at Arlington

Migrants and Agents of Empire: 19th-Century German-Speaking Colonization and Settlement in the South Atlantic
Isabelle Rispler, Université Paris Diderot and University of Texas at Arlington

Citizens and Neighbors: New Research on the Legal Aspects of Global Migration
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13554.html

Panel:
Katherine A. Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University; Sam Erman, University of Southern California; Torrie Hester, Saint Louis University; Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University; and Larisa Veloz, Georgetown University

Contested Citizenship, Overlapping Authorities: New York’s Immigrant Catholics in Political, Religious, and Progressive Spheres
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13731.html

Papers:
“Battling Alone in My Own Peculiar Way”: Father Curry, Crusader of Cherry Hill
Adrienne deNoyelles, University of Florida

“This Is Not the America I Belong To”: Irish American and German American Responses to Immigration Restriction
Elizabeth Jane Stack, Fordham University

Austro-Hungarian Officials, Homeland Priests, American Bishops, and the Contest for Eastern European Immigrant Catholics, 1900–14
Kristina Poznan, College of William and Mary

Polish Immigrant and Polish American Ethnic Women
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13797.html

Papers:
Warsaw, East London, and Detroit: Ravensbrück Camp Inmates Searching for a Home
Anna Muller, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Women, Immigration, and Ethnicity: A Review of Sociological Studies
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University

Forbidden Desires: Women and Transgressive Sexuality in Polish American Fiction
Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College

Instrument of Empire: The Spanish Language and the Global Reach of Hispanism, 1910s–40s
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13445.html

Papers:
US Hispanism and the Enigmatic Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa
John Nieto-Phillips, Indiana University Bloomington

“Long Live Spain and Hispanoamericanism!” The Spanish Diaspora and the Promotion of Hispanism in Spain and the United States
Ana Varela-Lago, Northern Arizona University

Antifascist Networks in the United States: Félix Martí Ibáñez’s Postmodern Hispanic Humanism
Montserrat Feu, Sam Houston State University

Citizens and Neighbors: New Research on the Legal Aspects of Global Migration
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13554.html

Panel:
Katherine A. Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University; Sam Erman, University of Southern California; Torrie Hester, Saint Louis University; Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University; and Larisa Veloz, Georgetown University

9:20 a.m.
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Synergy between Colonial History and Migration Studies and the Promise of International History
Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19190.html

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session12753.html

Panel:
Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Toronto; Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin; Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University; and José C. Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Reimagining Latino Geographies: Historicizing Midwest and Southern (Im)Migration
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13429.html

Papers:
Becoming Pedro: Racial Play at South of the Border, 1950–61
Cecilia Marquez, University of Virginia

Negotiating Latinidad: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in West Michigan, 1950–72
Delia Fernandez, Ohio State University

Food, Culture, and Belonging in Mexican Chicago
Michael Innis-Jimenez, University of Alabama

11:50 a.m.
Transatlantic Migration under the Neutral Flag during World War I: A Business Perspective
Torsten Feys, Ghent University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18913.html

Sunday, January 10, 2016

8:30-10:30 a.m.
Global Migrations, Socio-Religious Networks, and State Formations from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13236.html

Panel:
Nathanael Andrade, University of Oregon; Bryan Averbuch, College of Staten Island, City University of New York; Rachel Mairs, University of Reading; Jason Neelis, Wilfrid Laurier University; and Roberta Tomber, British Museum

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
The Great War, Transnational Experience, and International Migration: Africa, Europe, and North America
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session12964.html

Papers:
War of Movement: Military and Labor Migration in France, 1914–18
Richard S. Fogarty, University at Albany, State University of New York

The Migration of Irish Nationalist Ideology in Postwar Europe, 1918–26
Justin Dolan Stover, Idaho State University

German Veteran Emigrants and the Long First World War
Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University

From Immigrant Radical to Pro-war Patriot: Onorio Ruotolo and the Italian American Response to World War I
Christopher M. Sterba, San Francisco State University

Between the Family and the Global: Managing Population Migration to Western Europe in an Age of Globalization, 1945–90
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Session13494.html

Papers:
Rethinking Postwar Migration through the Mediterranean, 1945–74
Michael Kozakowski, University of Colorado Denver

Can the Family Member Integrate? Family Migration and European Identity in West Germany, 1973–90
Lauren Stokes, University of Chicago

France, West Germany, and the Formation of a European Population Migration Regime, 1955–84
Emmanuel Comte, European University Institute

11:00 a.m.
From El Bajío to the Nuevo New South: Ideations of Race through Transnational Migration
Yuridia Ramirez, Duke University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19606.html

11:20 a.m.
We Were American All Along: US Virgin Island Migrants’ Claims to Citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s
Johnnie Tiffany Holland, Duke University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19075.html

11:40 a.m.
France, West Germany, and the Formation of a European Population Migration Regime, 1955–84
Emmanuel Comte, European University Institute
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper19126.html

German Veteran Emigrants and the Long First World War
Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18727.html

12:00 p.m.
Empire, Immobility, and Antagonism: The Australian Case
David C. Atkinson, Purdue University
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2016/webprogram/Paper18281.html

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4.
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Sponsored by MIT Center for International Studies

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Saturday, January 9, 2016
MIT Coop at Kendall Sq.
325 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=16475001

Speaker: Ben Rawlence

Description: Former Human Rights Watch researcher Rawlence (Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War, 2012) tells the distressing story of Kenya's vast Dadaab refugee camp, where nearly 500,000 people fleeing civil war in nearby Somalia live in a "teeming ramshackle metropolis" the size of Atlanta. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted during a series of extended visits to Dadaab since 2010, the author plunges readers into this hellish city of "mud, tents and thorns," where three generations of displaced persons have lived amid malnourishment and disease.

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5.
Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration

12:00–1:30 p.m., Monday, January 11, 2016
ERC Conference Room 115
University of California, San Diego
9450 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92092-0100
http://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/seminars.html

Speakers:
Frank D. Bean, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on International Migration, University of California, Irvine
Susan K. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

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6.
Certificate in International Migration Studies

XCPD-700 - Global Trends in International Migration

Course Description: Worldwide international migration is a large and growing phenomenon, with more than 230 million people now living outside of their home countries for extended periods. Understanding the complex dynamics behind international migration is essential to improved policies and programs to address the multiple causes and consequences of these movements of people. This course provides an overview of international migration numbers and trends, causes of population movements, the impact of international migration on source and receiving countries, and policy responses to population movements.

The course provides an introduction to the major theories underpinning the study of international migration, including the new economics of labor migration, dual labor market theory, world systems theory, cumulative causation, and migration networks theory. The course focuses attention on domestic and international legal regimes regarding migration, examining laws, major legal cases and regulatory frameworks. It also examines issues pertaining to the integration of immigrants in destination countries. The connections between migration and such other issues as security, development and environmental change are discussed.

Course Objectives:

At the completion of the course, a successful student will be able to:

* Assess the positive and negative impacts of international migration on source, transit, and destination countries;

* Describe the international legal frameworks that set out the rights of migrants and the responsibilities of states;

* Discuss and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the principal policy frameworks governing the admission of migrants, control of irregular migration, and protection of refugees and other forced migrants;

* Explain the importance of gender in understanding the causes and consequences of international migration; and

* Describe models for integration of immigrants in destination countries and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches.

ONLINE COURSE
http://scs.georgetown.edu/courses/1007/global-trends-in-international-migration#courseSection

Tuesday, January 12-Thursday, March 3, 2016

Section Notes: This course section is delivered online. Students can access the course content via Canvas. Course modules will be available every Tuesday and Thursday evening (EST) between January 12, 2016 and March 3, 2016.

Instructors: Susan Martin, Elzbieta Gozdziak, Becky Hoven, Lindsay Lowell

Tuition: $995.00, 16 Sessions, 32 Contact hours

Register: https://portal.scs.georgetown.edu/coursebasket/publicCourseBasket.do?method=addToCart

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7.
The U.S. Should Let in 100,000 Syrian Refugees

6:45-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street
(b/w Broadway and Amsterdam)
NY, NY 10023
http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/upcoming-debates/item/1492-the-u-s-should-let-in-100-000-syrian-refugees

Panelists:

For
Robert Ford, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria

David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee

Against
David Frum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies

Moderator
John Donvan, Author and Correspondent for ABC News

Description: Since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country, creating the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Most have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, but many have risked death to reach Europe and the possibility of a better life. Unlike Europe and Syria’s neighbors, the United States has had the advantage of picking and choosing from afar, taking in just over 2,000 Syrian refugees since the war’s start. The Obama administration has pledged to take another 10,000 in 2016, but there are some who suggest that we are falling well below the number that we can and should accept. What are our moral obligations, and what are the cultural, economic, and security issues that must be taken into account? Should the U.S. let in 100,000 Syrian refugees?

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8.
The Changing Face of Global Mobility
Wednesday-Friday, January 13-15, 2016
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events/the-changing-face-of-global-mobility/imi-conference-programme_final.pdf

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Keynote addresses

The global ‘Migration Crisis’: do we need to rethink the relationship between development, inequality and change?
1: Stephen Castles, University of Sydney

Refugees and asylum seekers, the crisis in Europe and the future of policy
2: Tim Hatton, University of Essex

2:00–3:45 p.m.
Parallel session 1 - Impact of migrants’ return

International emigration and the labour market outcomes of women staying behind - the case of Morocco
Audrey Lenoël, Institute National for Demographic Studies and Anda David (DIAL)

Return migration in the post-conflict context
Sonja Fransen, Maastricht University; Isabel Ruiz, University of Oxford; and Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Oxford

Remittances and expenditures of Peruvian households left behind: preliminary results
Gabriella Berloffa and Sara Giunti, University of Trento

Returning Home: Migrant Connections and Local Development in Rural Nepal
Jytte Agergaard and Ditte Rasmussen Broegger, University of Copenhagen

Parallel session 2 - Family relations

Why Men Migrate Relative Deprivation, Risk Attitudes and Migration in Thailand
Johanna Gereke, European University Institute

Migrant women, transnational relations and social change: how do Senegalese women combine migration with family life?
Nathalie Mondain, University of Ottawa

Beyond Trafficking Discourse: Entrepreneurial Endeavors Among Female Marriage Migrants in Germany
Julia Rushchenko, University of Hamburg, Utrecht University

Marriage Migration in Britain: a Gender Perspective
Zonca Elena Valentina, University of Trieste

4:15–6:00 p.m.
Parallel session 3 - Migration changing places

Lagos: Tracing mobilities and diversities within an African urban landscape
Naluwembe Binaisa, Max Planck

Belonging and the Built Environment: Transnational Spatial Influences on First-Generation Mexican Immigrants in Southern California
John Arroyo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

From expatriation to social promotion in the global South: intersection of Chinese SOE globalization and Chinese expats’ mobility trajectories in Ghana
Katy N. Lam, Baptist University and the Max Weber Foundation

Moving South: Understanding the development potential of the new Portuguese migration to Angola
Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg

Parallel session 4 - Diaspora engagement

Remittances and post electoral crisis in cote d'ivoire: a survey data analysis
Yao Silvère Konan, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

How do migration status changes influence remittances sending? An exploratory mixed-method approach for the case of Colombian and Ecuadorian migrants in Spain
Manuel Assner, Free University of Berlin

Juxtaposing Pakistani diaspora policy with migrants' transnational citizenship practices
Marta Bivand Erdal, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Diasporas and conflict
Marion Mercier, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Fabio Mariani; IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain; and Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics

Thursday, January 13, 2016

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Keynote session 2

1: Filiz Garip, Harvard University

2: Diverse mechanisms of international migration: the Mexico-U.S. case
Caglar Ozden, World Bank

11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Parallel session 5 - Aspirations and migration decisions

Exploring the relationship between migration aspirations and the capacity-to-aspire: a consideration of 'preference to stay' among young adults in Senegal
Kerilyn Schewel, University of Amsterdam

Returns to Somalia: Transformation and Agency in Return and Reintegration Processes
Nassim Majidi, Sciences Po Paris & Samuel Hall

Social networks and the intention to migrate
Sultan Orazbayev, University College and Nazarbayev University and Miriam Manchin, University College London

‘...because I hope for a better future’. Hopes, imaginaries and realities of Bulgarian migration to England
Polina Manolova, University of Birmingham)

Parallel session 6 - Labour migration

Mobile people, immobile structures – A study of labour migrants in India and access to social protection
Nabeela Ahmed, University of Sussex

From illegality to tolerance and beyond: irregular immigration as a selective and dynamic process
Maurizio Ambrosini, University of Milan

Labour market changes and human capital investment: evidence from migration boom in Nepal
Rashesh Shrestha, University of Wisconsin

South–South Migration: Reflections from the Cambodia-Thailand System
Maryann Bylander, Lewis and Clark College

1:45–3:30 p.m.
Parallel session 7 - Politics and migration decisions

Why Liberal States Restrict Wanted Immigration -Citizenship Regimes and the Politics of Highly-Skilled Immigration Policy
Melanie Kolb, University of Georgia

Between Populist Liberalism and a new Commitment to Human Rights: Recent Immigration and Asylum Policy Cycles in Latin America
Luisa Feline Freier, LSE and Universidad del Pacífico

Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit
Katie Kuschminder, Maastricht University

Determinants of Internal and International Migration in Rural Pakistan
Abdul Rehman, University of East Anglia

Parallel session 8 - High-skilled migration

Is there a “Pig Cycle” in the labour supply of doctors? How training and immigration policies respond to physician shortages
Yasser Moullan, University of Oxford and Xavier Chojnicki, University of Lille

The Rise of Singapore in the Global Academic Talent Race: Strategies and Effects
Lucie Cerna, University of Oxford and Meng-Hsuan Chou, Nanyang Technological University

The Globalisation of International Student Mobility: Assessing the Role of Policies and Networks
Mathias Czaika and Yasser Moullan, University of Oxford

Dynamics of internal mobility of nurses in the Gambian health system: prerequisites for international migration
Angele Flora Mendy, University of Lausanne

4:00-5:45 p.m.
Parallel session 9 - Role of states and policies

Maghreb emigration: Fifty Years of State Influence
Katharina Natter, University of Amsterdam

Sub-Saharan Migration to Europe in Times of Restriction: An Empirical Test of Substitution Effects
Marie-Laurence Flahaux, University of Oxford; Cris Beauchemin, Institut national d‘études démographiques; and Bruno Schoumaker, Université catholique de Louvain

States of Convergence and Change: A Data-Driven Typology and Analysis of Human Mobility Governance
Anna Boucher, University of Sydney and Justin Gest, George Mason University

Migration Outflows and Optimal Migration Policy: Rules versus Discretion
Ismael Issifouy, University of Orléans and Francesco Magris, University ‘François Rabelais’ of Tours

Parallel session 10 - Social remittances

Social remittances and the unintended social consequences of temporary migration from Poland
Izabela Grabowska, University of Warsaw and Godfried Engbersen, Erasmus University Rotterdam

The migration-home nexus: a new perspective on migrant transnational engagement over space and time
Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento

Understanding processes of political change and migration: Agency, desires, capacities and structures
Marieke van Houte, University of Oxford

Rumour and migration
Jørgen Carling and Tove Heggli Sagmo, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Friday, January 15, 2016

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Keynote session 3

1. Moving migrants: Journeys across space and time
Robin Cohen, University of Oxford

2. Popular Representations of Migrants: Shifting discourses of transnationalism, diaspora and identity
Uma Kothari, University of Manchester

11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Parallel session 11 - Challenging transnationalism

The boundaries of transnationalism: the case of assisted voluntary return migrants
Ine Lietaert, Ghent University

The new international migration: settlement and the decline of transnationalism
Richard Jones, University of Texas at San Antonio

Migrant integration and transnational linkages -- using a human security framing to move beyond nationalist presumptions
Giulia Sinatti, Free University of Amsterdam and Des Gasper, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Between a rock and a hard place. An Exploration of Romanians' In-between Lives
Claudia Paraschivescu, University of Leeds

Parallel session 12 - Policing the borders

Criminalization and Decriminalization of the Kurdish Diaspora in Germany: From the “1990s” to the Recent Developments in Kobane
Bahar Baser, Coventry University

From the American Dream to the Mexican Nightmare: How U.S. Border Control Enforcement and Migratory Policies are Fueling Violence in Mexico
Francisco Alonso, European University Institute

Policing the Sahara beyond War and Peace: the IOM and International Migration Control in Libya
Julien Brachet, University of Oxford

Making of "Skilled" Overseas Koreans: Transformation of Visa Policies on Co-ethnic Migrants in South Korea
Sohoon Lee, University of Sydney and Yi-Chun Chien, University of Toronto

1:45-3:30 p.m.
Parallel session 13 - Transnational politics

Hometown Transnationalism. Long distance villageness among Indian Punjabis and North African Berbers
Thomas Lacroix, Université de Poitiers

The Documented Community of the Nation? Bureaucratic Practices and Transborder Membership Politics in Korea and Beyond
Jaeeun Kim, University of Michigan

Migrants' Local and Transnational Political Actions
Ali R. Chaudhary, University of Oxford

Proximal Transnationalism: Proximity as a Salient Feature in Transnational Processes
Marcos Estrada, University of Warwick

Parallel session 14 - Changing identifications

A ‘soft-migration' approach to overseas resettlement: ‘Home and host' experiences, opportunities and challenges among Korean residents in New Zealand
Hong-Jae Park, The University of Auckland

The dynamics of ‘here’ and ‘there’ among three transnational ethnic communities in New Malden, London
HaeRan Shin, Seoul National University

Imagined communities? Relations of social identities and social organisation among Afghan diaspora groups in Britain and Germany
Carolin Fischer, Université de Neuchâtel

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Concluding panel discussion

Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas
Tayiwaa Manuh, Director, Social Development Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Helene Thiollet, SciencesPo
Raúl Delgado Wise, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

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9.
Society for Social Work and Research Annual Meeting

Wednesday-Monday, January 13-17, 2016
Renaissance Washington DC Downtown Hotel
999 9th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
http://secure.sswr.org/2016-conference-home/

Immigration-related sessions:

Friday, January 12, 2016

9:45-11:15 a.m.
Help seeking and service utilization
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7847.html

State Factors on Asian and Latino Immigrants' Preventive Care Use in the United States: Moderation of Citizenship Status and Race/Ethnicity
Pamela Pei-Ling Chiang, PHD, Eastern Connecticut State University

Deos Residence of State Matters? State Factors Influencing Immigrants' Use of Mental Health Care
Pamela Pei-Ling Chiang, PHD, Eastern Connecticut State University

Health Care Utilization Among Bhutanese Refugees: Exploring Culture, Access, and Needs
Jessica Euna Lee, MSS, Bryn Mawr College

3:30-5:00 p.m.
Justice for Forced Migrants Fleeing Violence in the Global South
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7375.html

Safety for Migrants Fleeing Domestic Violence?: The Limits of Refugee Protection for Mexican Women Seeking Refugee Status in Canada
Rupaleem Bhuyan, PhD, University of Toronto; Adriana Vargas, BA, University of Toronto; Margarita Pintin-Perez, MSW, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico

"Salía De Uno y Me Metí En Otro:” Exploring the Migration-Violence Nexus Among Central American Women
Laurie Heffron, LMSW, University of Texas at Austin

The Unsettling Resettlement of Refugee Women: An Analysis of Refugee Resettlement Submission Categories
Karin E. Wachter, MEd, University of Texas at Austin

5:15-6:45 p.m.
Diversity and Its Challenges: A Case for Balancing Culture-Specific and Universal Dimensions in Social Work Research
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7545.html

Language and Acculturation: Bilingualism Among Youth of Immigrant Backgrounds
Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, PhD, Rutgers University; Peter Guarnaccia, PhD, Rutgers University

Familismo in Mexican and Dominican-Origin Families: When Is It Protective?
Esther Calzada, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

The Interplay Between Family Dynamics, Culture, and Attempted Suicide Among Latina Teens
Lauren E. Gulbas, PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Luis H. Zayas, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Examining the Rise of Discrimination and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments

Variation in the Association of Discrimination and Mental Health By Place of Origin Among U.S. Latinos
Mary Lehman Held, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Sungkyu Lee, PhD, Soongsil University

How Does Latino Threat Narrative Affect Mexican Americans' Psychological Distress?
Kai Wei, MSW, University of Pittsburgh; Christina E. Newhill, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Words Can Hurt: Examining the Association Between the Prevalence of Latino Threat Narrative and Anti-Hispanic Hate Crime
Kai Wei, MSW, University of Pittsburgh; Jaime Booth, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Friends or Foes: The Impact of Political Ideology and Immigrant Friends on Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
Elizabeth Kiehne, MSW, Arizona State University; Cecilia Ayón, PhD, Arizona State University

Examining Patterns of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Violence Types Among IPV Survivors, Batterers, and Couples
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7633.html

Cumulative Victimization As a Predictor of Intimate Partner Violence over Time Among Young Mothers
Angie Kennedy, PhD, Michigan State University; Deborah Bybee, PhD, Michigan State University; Evangelina Palma Ramirez, MSW, Michigan State University

Examining the Relationship Between Cumulative Trauma and Batterer Intervention Program Outcomes
Mary Ann Priester, MSW, University of South Carolina; Shanti Kulkarni, PhD LCSW, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Expanding and Validating a Typology of IPV: Intersections of Violence and Control within Relationships
Annelise Mennicke, PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Saturday, January 13, 2016

8:00-9:30 a.m.
Acculturation and adolesence
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7849.html

An “Immigrant Paradox” for Adolescent Externalizing Behavior? Evidence from a National Sample
Lauren Terzis, MSW, Saint Louis University; Christopher P. Salas-Wright, PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Michael G. Vaughn, PhD, Saint Louis University; Seth Schwartz, PhD, University of Miami; David Cordova, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Exploring the Mechanism Between Acculturation-Related Stressors and Depressive Symptoms Among Immigrant Adolescents: A Multiple Mediation Analysis
Meng-Jung Lee, MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Janet M. Liechty, PhD, MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Deirdre Lanesskog, MPA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Xiaoling Xiang, MPhil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reexamining the Gap: Impact of the Bidimensional Parent-Adolescent Acculturation Gap on Latino Adolescent Maladjustment
Elizabeth Kiehne, MSW, Arizona State University; Flavio F. Marsiglia, PhD, Arizona State University; Stephanie Ayers, PhD, Arizona State University

Acculturation Gap, Family Conflict and Self-Esteem Among Korean American Adolescents
Yeddi Park, PhD, MSW, New York University

Ethnic minority health care

Health Effects of the Dream Act on Mexican Immigrant Families in the US
Neeraj Kaushal, PhD, Columbia University; Julia Shu-Huah Wang, MS, MSW, Columbia University

Health Care Decision Making Among African Americans Diagnosed with Diabetes and Depression
Julia F. Hastings, PhD, State University of New York at Albany; Cheryl Tien, BA, LifeLong Medical Care

Measuring and Tracking Integrated Health Care (METRIHC): Results from a Pilot Study of Latinas with Depression
Katherine Sanchez, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington; Michael Killian, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington

Envisioning Health: Outcome Findings from a Visual Intervention Trial Targeting Implicit Attitudes and Empathy of Healthcare Providers Toward Latino Adolescents
Mimi V. Chapman, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William J. Hall, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lifting the Veil: The Impact of Context and Timing on the Educational Outcomes of Latino Child Migrants
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Paper26511.html
Daysi Diaz-Strong, MSW, University of Chicago

Background: In spite of the strong presence of child migrants in the United States and that they migrate at varying stages of development, scholarship has not fully addressed their experiences, challenges and educational outcomes. A large body of literature has looked beyond adult immigrants and turned their attention to children; however, in large part it has done so by combining the first-generation and second-generation into the “children of immigrants”. I argue that differences in vulnerabilities and outcomes for child migrants are obscured when combining the first and second generation. Moreover, the interaction between development and context is ignored when not considering how the timing of migration impacts outcomes. Thus, fully understanding child migrant’s educational attainment requires teasing apart “children of immigrants”. Consequently, this study examined the effect of migration age on the high school completion of Latino child migrants and factors that intensify or attenuate the impact of age. This study also incorporated immigration status, which remains a largely unexamined variable in analyzing immigrant outcomes.

Methods

Data: The study uses data from Wave 1 of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS) and draws on the randomly selected native-born Latino adults and foreign-born Latino adults that migrated during childhood—Latino child migrants. (n = 977). To examine the impact of migration age, foreign-born Latinos were categorized into those migrating in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.

Measures: Educational attainment, measured by high school completion, was compared between native-born Latinos and Latino child migrants. In addition, individual characteristics, family background variables, and immigration status were examined in order to determine which intensify or attenuate the impact of age.

Approach: A two-step approach was utilized to compare the likelihood of high school completion between native-bon Latinos and Latino Child migrants. First, a set of logistic regression models compared all Latino child migrants to native-born Latinos. Second, another set of logistic regression models compared Latino child migrants by stage at development at migration to native-born Latinos.

Results: Latino child migrants were less likely to graduate high school than the native-born, however, once adjusting for individual characteristics, family background, and immigration status the differences disappeared. Moreover, both authorized and unauthorized were less likely to graduate highs school than U.S. citizens.

When analyzing high school completion by age at migration, individuals migrating during adolescence were at greatest risk of not completing high school. After controlling for all variables, teen migrants were 62 percent less likely to graduate high school than native-born Latinos. Compared to native-born Latinos there were no differences between early and middle childhood arrivals after including all variables.

Implications: In order to implement appropriate programs and policies it is necessary to understand the distinct challenges experienced by children migrating at different stages of development. This study points to increased vulnerability of teen migrants and to the importance of immigration status as a barrier to educational attainment both for authorized and unauthorized child migrants.

Ethnic minority health care
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7850.html

Health Effects of the Dream Act on Mexican Immigrant Families in the US
Neeraj Kaushal, PhD, Columbia University; Julia Shu-Huah Wang, MS, MSW, Columbia University

Health Care Decision Making Among African Americans Diagnosed with Diabetes and Depression
Julia F. Hastings, PhD, State University of New York at Albany; Cheryl Tien, BA, LifeLong Medical Care

Measuring and Tracking Integrated Health Care (METRIHC): Results from a Pilot Study of Latinas with Depression
Katherine Sanchez, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington; Michael Killian, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington

Envisioning Health: Outcome Findings from a Visual Intervention Trial Targeting Implicit Attitudes and Empathy of Healthcare Providers Toward Latino Adolescents
Mimi V. Chapman, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William J. Hall, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Schools and youth of color
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7851.html

Lifting the Veil: The Impact of Context and Timing on the Educational Outcomes of Latino Child Migrants
Daysi Diaz-Strong, MSW, University of Chicago

Factors Associated with Immigrant Youths' Perceptions of School Safety: An Application of the Social-Ecological Framework
Jun Sung Hong, PhD, Wayne State University; Gabriel J. Merrin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shantel D. Crosby, LMSW, Wayne State University; Debra Hernandez-Jozefowicz, PhD, University of Windsor; Jeoung Min Lee, MS, Wayne State University; Paula Allen-Meares, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Factors Associated with Immigrant Youths' Perceptions of School Safety: An Application of the Social-Ecological Framework
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Paper26847.html

Jun Sung Hong, PhD, Wayne State University; Gabriel J. Merrin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shantel D. Crosby, LMSW, Wayne State University; Debra Hernandez-Jozefowicz, PhD, University of Windsor; Jeoung Min Lee, MS, Wayne State University; Paula Allen-Meares, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Purpose: A safe school environment is paramount to youths’ academic success, but a recent survey reported that more youth are in fear of being harmed in school than outside of school. Currently, 25% of youth in the U.S. have at least one immigrant parent, and that proportion is estimated to increase to 33% in 30 years. U.S. school system has been perceived as an avenue for success and prosperity. However, immigrant youth are a neglected population, frequently confronted with discrimination and hostility, which are barriers to educational success and reinforces school-related fears. To our knowledge, no studies have investigated immigrant youths’ perceptions of their school. To fill this research gap, the goal of this study is to examine multiple level factors associated with perceptions of school safety among immigrant youth.

Method: Data were drawn from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, a dataset on immigrant parents and their adolescent children in San Diego and Miami. Adolescents of more than 70 countries-of-origins were interviewed. The CILS survey includes information on national origin, family relationships, and social and psychological adaptation of racially/ethnically diverse sample of immigrant youth in the U.S. (N=5,262) who were originally interviewed during 1992-1993 school year. Data were collected at three waves (Wave I=1992, Wave II=1995, and Wave III=2006). For the present study, Wave II data were used (N=4,118). Applying the social-ecological framework, variables representing individual (6 items - grade level, race/ethnicity, biological sex, residency status, English proficiency, and family SES), family (3 items - family time, close family, family togetherness), peer (1 item - close friend), and school contexts (7 items – crime victimization, cross-racial/ethnic friendships), were entered into four models. Models were estimated using multivariate regression analyses.

Results: In Model 1 (individual), we found that African Americans were 1.51 times more likely to report feeling unsafe at school compared to Whites. In Model 2 (family), we found that youth who reported that family togetherness is important once in a while or never had higher odds of feeling unsafe at school. In Model 3 (peer), we found that having more close friends and close friends whose parents were also immigrants were related to youths’ feeling safe. In Model 4 (school), we found that youth who reported having something stolen from them in school more than twice, being offered drugs more than twice at school, being threatened more than twice at school, having never gotten into a physical fight at school, witnessing fights between races occur at their school, and seeing many gangs at school had higher odds of feeling unsafe.

Implications: Our findings highlight the importance of understanding immigrant youths’ school perceptions. More specifically, given the multivariate nature, this study highlights the significance of the social-ecological perspective, a hallmark of school social work. Addressing policies and practices related to school safety can contribute to the overall well-being and school performance of immigrant youth. It is imperative that policymakers and practitioners assess and address risk and protective factors at various contexts to protect and support immigrant youth in schools.

9:45 AM-11:15 AM
Unaccompanied Migrant Children
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7692.html

Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth: Needs and Utilization of Community Services Among Uac
Jayshree Jani, PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Legal Representation or Refoulement? Unaccompanied Immigrant Children and Post-Release Legal Referrals
Breanne Grace, PhD, University of South Carolina

Data from a National Service Perspective: Impact of Service Delivery on Outcomes for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
Dawnya Underwood, MSW, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

Developing a New Approach: Effective Case Management Services for Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Benjamin Roth, PhD, University of South Carolina; Breanne Grace, PhD, University of South Carolina

10:15 a.m.
Legal Representation or Refoulement? Unaccompanied Immigrant Children and Post-Release Legal Referrals
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Paper27028.html

Breanne Grace, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Background and Purpose: A select group of unaccompanied immigrant children (UAC) who are detained upon entering the United State receive post-release services (PRS). PRS are case management support to connect children with services like health care, legal representation, mental health care, and education while they await deportation. PRS are provided through non-profits that contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). UAC who receive PRS are categorized as highly vulnerable in detainment. Implicit in the categorization of PRS is the need for additional humanitarian assistance; yet, UAC are not proactively screened or processed for humanitarian legal relief. Instead, they are put into deportation proceedings.

While PRS case managers are charged with providing children with information about legal providers, no other resources are guaranteed towards legal referrals. Even when legal referrals are made, there are significant obstacles towards obtaining legal counsel and constructing a case for humanitarian relief. This study examines organizational strategies used to identify legal representation in PRS and the consequent obstacles involved in constructing humanitarian relief cases. The current ORR PRS model assumes that legal referrals alone constitute the opportunity for legal representation, but does not consider potential obstacles to legal representation. This study addresses this assumption by identifying the material, social, and psychological processes that facilitate legal representation.

Methods: The initial sample for this project includes interviews with 30 case managers, supervisors, UAC, and sponsors with PRS contracted sites. Additional data are drawn from document analysis of PRS documentation from four PRS sites in four states. The sites were purposively selected based on size, years of experience providing post-release services, and geographic location. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed. Transcribed files and documents were coded in nVivo using a grounded theory approach.

Results: Findings suggest that despite ORR’s assumption of an isopomorphic organizational model for legal access for UAC across all sites, there is significant variation in the types and severity of obstacles that hinder legal access. Geography, sponsor resources, language skills, size of the local immigrant community, and the processing time of the local immigration courts all contribute to legal access – and PRS referrals can do little to alleviate these issues. Instead, children who meet the criteria of having a “legitimate fear of persecution,” the international legal threshold for humanitarian relief, risk refoulement, or being knowingly returned to a context of imminent danger and persecution in violation of international law.

Conclusions and Implications: While recent Department of Justice data suggest than 41% of all UAC have legal representation at trial, these data provide no insight into the complex social processes that hinder—or enable—legal representation and the variation across sites. This paper illustrates the social processes behind this number and the unevenness of legal service access by geography. Identifying these areas for intervention is crucial: UAC who attend court proceedings without legal representation are nearly uniformly deported. These children, an estimated 80% with legitimate humanitarian claims, are being deported and returned to areas of significant violence (refoulement) simply due to lack of representation.

2:00-3:30 p.m.
Refugee experiences in service use and outcomes
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Session7852.html

Beyond Trauma: Post-Resettlement Factors and Mental Health Outcomes Among Latino and Asian Refugees in the United States
Isok Kim, PhD, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Syrian Refugees' Traumatic Experiences and Mental Health in Jordanian Host Communities
Niveen Rizkalla, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Steven P. Segal, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Acculturation and Health Services Utilization Among Bhutanese Refugee Families
Jessica Euna Lee, MSS, Bryn Mawr College; Eunyoung Jang, MSW, University of Missouri-Columbia

Involvement of Refugee Children in Minnesota's Child Protection System
Kristine N. Piescher, PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Tonya Cook, MSW, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Patricia Shannon, PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Saahoon Hong, PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Beyond Trauma: Post-Resettlement Factors and Mental Health Outcomes Among Latino and Asian Refugees in the United States
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Paper25725.html

Isok Kim, PhD, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Background: War-related traumatic experiences receive major attention when addressing refugees’ mental health issues. In long-term refugee resettlement, however, a growing body of literature points to resettlement contextual factors as playing equally important roles in contributing to the mental health outcomes of resettled refugees. So far, there is limited empirical evidence to support this claim for resettled refugees in the United States. Thus, we used the social determinants of mental health (SDMH) framework to examine structural and sociocultural dimensions of the post-resettlement environment as critical factors in shaping long-term mental health outcomes among refugee populations in the United States. This study examined two research questions: (a) What structural, material, and psychosocial factors are associated with mental health outcomes among Latino and Asian refugees in the United States? and (b) Compared with other factors, how much impact do traumas (both pre- and post-resettlement) have on their overall mental health outcomes?

Methods: We conducted a secondary data analysis using a subsample of refugees (N=656) in the 2002-2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). The NLAAS is a nationally representative survey that targeted non-institutionalized Latino and Asian adults 18 years or older. Three mental health outcome measures (self-reported mental health (SRMH), mood and anxiety disorders) based on the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview were examined for this study. Linear and logistic regressions examined structural factors (racial background, discrimination, neighborhood environment), material factors (poverty status, employment status, insurance status), and psychosocial factors (pre-/post-resettlement traumas, length of U.S. residence, and English language proficiency (ELP)). The analyses controlled for four sociodemographic characteristics (sex, age, education, and reporting bias).

Results: Compared with Latino refugees, being an Asian refugee was significantly associated with lower SRMH scores (b=-0.44, SE=0.13), but had significantly lower odds (OR=0.35, CI=0.13-0.93) of being diagnosed with anxiety disorders. Everyday discrimination was significantly associated with higher odds (OR=2.59, CI=1.52-4.42) of being diagnosed with anxiety disorders. Neighborhood environment was significantly associated (b=0.22, SE=0.12) with SRMH scores. Compared with employed refugees, refugees who were not in the labor force had significantly higher odds (OR=6.48, CI=2.05-20.49) of being diagnosed with mood disorders measured in the survey. Compared with uninsured refugees, refugees with private insurance reported significantly better SRMH (b=0.33, SE=0.14). Post-migration traumas were significantly associated (b=-0.09, SE=0.04) with SRMH and with higher odds (OR=1.43, CI=1.06-1.95) of having mood disorders. Pre-resettlement traumas were not significantly associated with any mental health outcomes. English language proficiency was associated with significantly higher odds (OR=0.21, CI=0.07-0.66) of having mood disorders.

Implications: The results of this study suggest that pre-resettlement traumas experienced by Asian and Latino refugees may not always be the most robust indicator of their mental health outcomes. Sociocultural factors based on resettlement context significantly contribute to mental health outcomes for refugees, independent of pre-resettlement traumas. Therefore, future studies and intervention programs addressing the mental health issues of refugees must pay closer attention to structural and sociocultural factors after their resettlement.

Syrian Refugees' Traumatic Experiences and Mental Health in Jordanian Host Communities
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Paper26869.html

Niveen Rizkalla, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Steven P. Segal, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Background/Purpose: The Syrian Civil War has created a mass exodus of its citizens to the neighboring countries of Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. People seeking refuge have been exposed to atrocities and trauma beyond the comprehension of most. Human rights violations associated with political displacement, armed conflict, ethnic cleansing, genocide and cultural persecution have been recognized as extremely traumatizing events with major impacts to the mental health of civilian populations. This study seeks to document the extent of the traumatic experiences suffered by Syrian refugees who fled to Jordanian host communities and to assess their mental health, health and social service needs.

Methods: Between March and June 2014, structured interviews were completed with Syrian refugees seeking services from NGOs in Jordan. The interviewees reported on their current social circumstance, their exodus from Syria, and their conflict/war experiences, documented with the War Events Questionnaire. Interviewees were assessed on the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ), the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships (PAIR) scale, and the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). All questionnaires used were in Arabic and only oral consent was required. Univariate statistics were used to provide a descriptive overview of the refugee experience.

Results: The sample (N=270) included 48% males and 52% females; their mean age was 35.5 years; 60% were married, 24% single, 11% widowed and 5% divorced. 94% were Muslim. The mean years of education is 10.5 and mean children per family, 3.2.

19.2% described their physical health as poor. 57.4% experienced physical pain or discomfort, 46.8% reported having a medical condition; and 40.4% described their overall well-being as poor.

As to service in Jordan: 23.9% used emergency clinics, 68.6% general health clinics, and only 8% mental health clinics. 24.2% reported lack of clinic access/usage. 13.9% reported being content with the services provided in Jordan, 48.5% moderately content, and 37.6% discontent.

Regarding participants’ unmet needs: 84.4% reported economic needs; 38.5% survival/living necessities, 34.8% medical needs; 19.6% psychological and emotional support needs; 18.9% educational needs; and 14.1% social service needs.

The HTQ revealed that 84.4% experienced combat situations, 80.7% forced evacuation, 70.4% economic impoverishment, 69.3% forced separation from family members, 65.2% confiscation or destruction of personal property, 58.5% murder or death of a family member or friend, 55.2% witnessed beating to head or body, 54.4% were forced to hide, 52.6% lacked food or water, 49.6% suffered ill health without access to medical care, and 48.5% a lack of shelter.

According to the Harvard-PTSD case classification 38.1% suffer PTSD. The number of traumatic events experienced by refugees was associated with elevated Harvard-PTSD scores (r= .50), impaired PAIR-intimacy scores (r = -.33) and degraded PTGI scores (r = -.21). Encouragingly, stronger religious beliefs and more accepting attitudes towards mental illness were associated with lower PTSD scores respectively (r = -.14; r = -.21). All correlations were significant at the 0.01 level.

Implications for practice: It is essential to address the overwhelming needs of Syrian refugees and the demands that this population is placing on the host country and its humanitarian organizations.

Acculturation and Health Services Utilization Among Bhutanese Refugee Families
http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2016/webprogram/Paper26882.html

Jessica Euna Lee, MSS, Bryn Mawr College; Eunyoung Jang, MSW, University of Missouri-Columbia

Background and purpose: For the past 5 years, approximately 70,000 refugees are admitted to the United States annually. Refugees’ resettlement experiences are complex as they adjust to a new culture and life in the U.S. This adjustment process is referred to as acculturation. Acculturation has been defined as the changing processes in human behavior and values as a result of contact with a new culture. Acculturation has a profound impact on refugees in the United States and this study considers its role in health care utilization among Bhutanese refugees in one United States city. Many refugees retain much of the

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