A new article highlights how legal uncertainty, weak institutional support, and limited access to care contribute to high rates of mental health issues for migrants in the transit countries of Albania & Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Authors Elsida Sinaj, Ilir Xhebexhia, and Kristaq Xharo from the European University of Tirana argue that integrated psychosocial support should become a central part of how countries handle asylum and migration.
Why are more women migrating to the US from Central America?
A new study by @AbbyCordova0411, Jonathan Hiskey, Mary Malone, & @DianaOrces uncovers how gender-based violence (GBV) is pushing women from Northern Central America to seek safety up north.
🔗 https://t.co/LzWvrgCkuF
In a new JMHS article, Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab @jasminldiab@lebamericanuni examines how “temporary” evacuations in South #Lebanon became de facto exile, leaving internally displaced persons without legal protection or a path home.
https://t.co/ildrFZ3G59
📢 One day left to submit paper proposals to JMHS!
We are still seeking proposals on the effects of recent U.S. immigration, development, humanitarian, and refugee policies. Submit your 1 to 2 paragraph idea 👉 https://t.co/2f0EjX4QhB
#ImmigrationPolicy
Authors Diego F. Leal and Natalie L. Cadwalader lay out the key findings of this first-of-its-kind study, as well as policy recommendations to mitigate and prevent continued enforced disappearances in #BorderPatrol custody. @uarizona@UArizona_BMI
A recent JMHS article provides evidence of enforced #disappearances targeting international migrants and asylum seekers on U.S. soil. https://t.co/mc3Gt35zY5
Call for papers! JMHS is now accepting abstract submissions for upcoming special collections on 1) US immigration policies and 2) the right to stay, migrate, and return.
Find out more here: https://t.co/z8d5RINFul
Read Professor Halyna Lemekh's article: Fear as a Group Emotion in Mixed-Status Immigrant Ecuadorian Community in Queens, New York @SFCNY
https://t.co/sBnfSEvE5L
In this week’s #MigrationUpdate: DHS to suspend bond hearings for #undocumented immigrants; international support needed for 1.3 million #Sudanese citizens; and a #JMHS article on fear in mixed-status immigrant #Ecuadorian communities.
Read the update ➡️ https://t.co/BhRergJVWI
NY’s 2019 Green Light Law cut deportations via traffic stops. And the DOJ currently claiming it enables identity fraud.
Learn more about what the data says about the impact of this policy from our piece on research in @JMHSjournal.
🔗https://t.co/WbNuh53MR1🔗 (4 min read)
@BostonGlobe@huiiiiiyee Read the @JMHSjournal article, "Statelessness in the United States: A Study to Estimate and Profile the US Stateless Population", here. https://t.co/FwE6eWCZh9
"In the United States, official estimates are that about 4,000 residents are stateless, but experts say thousands more go uncounted — the Center for Migration Studies estimates there could be as many as 218,000".
@BostonGlobe@huiiiiiyee
https://t.co/ndOyd1r9vk
A new article rethinks language interpretation at the Asylum Office, and identifies 5 policy recommendations to enhance language access for immigrants. Read @hillaryallison_ and @ProfDadhania's findings: https://t.co/SwugLuaxaG
The first effort to assess unaccompanied migrant children’s access to free and low-cost attorneys in the US finds an overall lack of immigration attorneys for unaccompanied children, with only one attorney for every 137 children nationally.
https://t.co/XrsPBbxujH
Join CMS and @HHHSchool tomorrow for a webinar presenting the latest fact-based estimates of the undocumented population size in the United States. #demography#undocumentedimmigrants
https://t.co/RBEVbMiVNy
We urgently need policies that advance the right to stay, migrate & return and center local projects of thriving. My Central American colleagues and I develop this argument in the latest volume of @JMHSjournal, analyzing the US Root Causes Strategy. https://t.co/fJIJ8XFokN