It has been more than a quarter century since the U.S. immigration system was last overhauled. The 1990 Immigration Act aimed to tilt the visa allocation system more toward answering the demands of the U.S. economy. Much of this paper is dedicated to reviewing changes made by the 1990 Immigration Act and assessing their effects.
Deportation without Representation: The Access-to-Justice Crisis Facing New Jersey's Immigrant Families argues for an expansion of access to free and low-cost legal services for low- income New Jersey residents who are facing deportation proceedings.
Papademetriou & Banulescu-Bogdan begin with the assumption that anxiety about immigration is not inevitable and that governments can take action to reduce it. They note that anxiety around immigration is a complex phenomenon and that it cannot be attributed to any single factor.
Prosecutorial Discretion Power at its Zenith: The Power to Protect Liberty asserts that "there are clear dangers in allowing a president to wield excessive prosecutorial discretion power."
The discussion of immigration reform within a faith-based framework can be a contentious issue because of the principle of the separation of Church and state.
Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Evidence from Survey Experiments suggests that the dissemination of accurate information about immigration can help to reduce biased attitudes and change policy preferences.
The mission of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, since its founding in 1993, has been to build stronger bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West. Since the late 1990s, it has also studied the emergence and impact of Islamophobia.
Playing the Trump Card: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in Immigration Law grew out of a 2011 European conference on "The ‘others' in Europe and Beyond" and will eventually be published in revised form in a book featuring papers from the conference.
How Immigration and Concerns about Cultural Change are Shaping the 2016 Election reports on a survey of a large sample of Americans in all 50 states, conducted in the spring of 2016.
