About Migration Dialogue
Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.
Contact us at migrant@primal.ucdavis.edu.
Rural Migration News: DHS: CBP, ICE, USCIS
CBP. Customs and Border Protection encountered a record 2.5 million unauthorized foreigners at and between ports of entry on the Mexico-US border in FY23, up from 2.4 million in FY22, 1.7 million in FY21, and 460,000 in FY20. The peak month was September 2023, when there were 270,000 encounters.
Some 2.3 million migrants were released into the US since President Biden took office in January 2021, including almost 400,000 Venezuelans, over 300,000 Cubans, and over 200,000 each from Nicaragua and Honduras. Over four million unauthorized entrants were expelled to Mexico or otherwise removed from the US since Biden took office, including 2.5 million expelled under Title 42, which ended in May 2023.
Most Read
- Dust Bowl Migration
- Mexico: Voting Rights and Emigration
- New Zealand Agriculture and Labor
- Farm Labor in the 1930s
- Another Filipino Maid Sentenced to Death
- Big Six Produce Companies
- Africa: Zimbabwe, South Africa
- California Farm Employment and Farm Workers
- INS: Organization, Sanctions
- CA Farm Employment: Growing and Less Seasonal
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Rural Migration News
Rural Migration News summarizes the most important migration-related issues affecting agricultural and rural America, and is produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations.
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Rural Migration News Blogs
Rural Migration News blogs examine a particular farm labor, migration, or trade issue, and are produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations.
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Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports
The US imports over half of its fresh fruit and a third of its fresh vegetables, mostly from Mexico. This project, led by the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute and supported by the Walmart foundations, strengthens protections for Mexican workers employed throughout North America agriculture and works with stakeholders to implement evidence-based policies that improve worker protections.
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Migration News
Migration News was a monthly and later quarterly summary of the most important migration issues in the US, Europe, and Asia that was produced between 1994 and 2014 with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Sloan West Coast Program On S&E Workers
The Sloan Program on Science and Engineering Workers supported researchers interested in how affected US workers employed in IT-related occupations between 2007 and 2014 with the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Changing Face & UFW Contracts
The Changing Face project assessed the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities in California and other states between 1994 and 2016 with the support of the Farm and Rosenberg Foundations.
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Research & Seminars
Migration Dialogue organized seminars for opinion leaders to discuss comparative migration issues between 1993 and 2004 with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.