ChangingAID

Multi-disciplinary research hub on international aid, humanitarian crises, migration & forced displacement. American University's Signature Research Initiative.

[Chicano Marine 🇲🇽🇺🇸💙 @elchicanomarine]

Ice is going after people who are here legally.

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

"Everyone is misunderstanding what happened to USAID"

Good piece from @TimH_B on why Musk killed USAID
- it wasn't about poll numbers
- it had plenty of GOP allies pre-DOGE
- it wasn't about efficiency or making aid better
- it wasn't even about saving money

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

And CNN removed it from the broadcast‼️
VERY DECEPTIVE JOURNALISM on their part‼️

[SIS Office of Research @research_sis]

Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day, and a new edited volume from @AU_SIS Professors @MariaDeJesus_AU and @DrErnestoCast explores the connection between migration and mental health.

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

"Reunidos: Separación familiar y migración de menores" ahora disponible en Audible. 
Facil de entender incluso para gente aprendiendo español. Libro con Daniel Jenks.
Escuchalo en Spotify, Applebooks o aqui:
https://t.co/A7XfMX6csw

[ImmigrationLab @Immigration_Lab]

For Afghan migrants in the US, acculturation is more than learning a new language and celebrating their traditions. It is also about navigating legal precarity and confronting exclusion, while holding hope. Read more here: https://t.co/9dXuVQYXED

[Center for Latin American & Latino Studies @AU_CLALS]

Fleeing hunger, corruption, and violence, Venezuelans seek safety—only to face new barriers in the U.S. Firsthand accounts from D.C.-area migrants reveal how U.S. immigration policy continues to fail those most in need. Read more here: https://t.co/HwoNxbmBoA

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

Expats in Mexico City, despite recent protests, All Immigration is Good for Cities read this blog to see why: https://t.co/NXvIj0kSJt

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

The Big Bill for Billionaires & Against Americans & Immigrants taxes cash remittances at 1%. This is unjust & shortsighted. Further, with the new super-funded ICE, immigrants may be criminalized for not paying taxes on remittances sent informally in cash https://t.co/C86JGuS8Vp

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

Speaking -about restaurant and other food sector workers as well as the detention of NYC Conmptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander after an immigration hearing- with Cesar Miguel Rondon June 18, 2025. In Spanish. @cmrondon
https://t.co/eSooYmuGYX

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

"Immigration in Focus" Panel 1: Community-based orgs. Panel 2 on legal and policy analyses. Join us this Thursday, April 22, in DC. Open to the public, but you need to register here:
https://t.co/BWtJmzd1ay

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

Talk on immigration realities, challenges, and updates on June 3 in Bethesda, Maryland. You can buy tickets here:
https://t.co/UXoUkTjCe6

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded https://t.co/AU4XjT1mpT

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

IMPORTANT! Please learn more about this young asylum seeker with a work permit who was detained during an ICE check-in in North Carolina and then disappeared from the U.S. Flown to El Salvador on March 15. Found on the list leaked on March 20.
https://t.co/w6Gmx1pi1T

[ImmigrationLab @Immigration_Lab]

Migrants give more than they take, and it isn’t even close.

Our calculations show New York City is just beginning to reap the benefits of this influx of hardworking people. We project that they will contribute $8.6 billion annually to the local economy.

https://t.co/ULQWgevqEV

[Tom Hart @Tom_InterAction]

My thoughts in @WashPost on the foreign aid freeze:

“As of today, nothing has changed on the ground for those who are so deeply impacted: Medicines are still sitting on shelves without nurses to distribute; clean water projects are still stopped.”
https://t.co/YaV2p3voBz

[Contexts Magazine @contextsmag]

New blog! In "Youth Migrants and Long-Delayed Family Reunification," @drernestocast (@AU_CLALS @Immigration_Lab) and @Jenks_D_ (@sociologyatpenn) consider "unaccompanied" minors' U.S. integration experiences: https://t.co/rKwoFZOhoG
#sociology #immigration

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

Very worth watching segment about the causes behind the LA fires. With his deep wisdom that, "every once in a while there is nothing we can do. It is not within our human power" to stop it. Watch ICYMI LawrenceO'Donnell a couple nights ago.
https://t.co/XCjgYlvDVq

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

I told Newsweek: "Trump's promised mass deportations would impact Mexico negatively in the short term because of a decrease in the money Mexicans working in the US send to their families in Mexico. Remittances to Mexico in 2024 surpassed 68 billion,  But
https://t.co/B9WbfgrNxA

[Ernesto Castañeda @DrErnestoCast]

This short blog summarizes the arguments and findings of the paper.
https://t.co/Apr8zi2VfJ