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General discussion of the ethics and philosophy of migration law

• Assessing immigration policy as if immigrants were people too by Open Borders guest blogger Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Washington Post, March 2, 2014.
• Migration and Human Rights (49): Rights and Non-Rights Based Reasons to Favor Open Borders by Open Borders guest blogger Filip Spagnoli on his own blog, March 1, 2014.

Migration in the news around the world

• United Kingdom: What’s wrong with selling visas to rich immigrants at £2.5m a pop? The money raised would solve a lot of economic problems and quell political scaremongering about immigration by Will Hutton, The Observer (The Guardian), March 1, 2014.
• Israel: Petros Tesfagherghis: Distressed refugees in Israel are calling for help, Migrant Voice (undated).
• Australia: Scott Morrison has 66 spin doctors by Bianca Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia).
• United States: The Walls That Hurt Us by Marcello Di Cintio, The New York Times, January 23, 2014.
• Africa: Are Chinese immigrants undermining African progress? There are now 1 million Chinese living and working on the African continent, but while some are investing in employing and training locals, others have hauled most of their profits back to China by Henry Hall, Christian Science Monitor, February 26, 2014.

Research, policy analyses, recommendations, and long-run forecasts

• Less poverty, more emigration: understanding migrant flows from developing countries by Henry Telli, Migration and Development, September 11, 2013.
• United States: The Economic Gains from Eliminating U.S. Travel Visas by Robert A. Lawson, Saurav Roychoudhury and Ryan Murphy, Cato Institute (Economic Development Bulletin No. 19), February 6, 2014.
• United States: Border Patrol’s use of deadly force criticized in report. An independent review of U.S. Border Patrol shootings criticizes the agency for ‘lack of diligence’ in its investigations and suggests that agents’ tactics sometimes create a pretext to open fire by Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2014.
• United States: A Treacherous Journey: Child Migrants Navigating the U.S. Immigration System, a joint report by the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) and Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), released February 2014.
• Singapore: The Singaporean Path to Cosmopolitanism by Open Borders guest blogger Bryan Caplan, EconLog, February 26, 2014.

Here’s our Friday link roundup. See here for all link roundups. As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

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• Why Republicans should support immigration reform by Robert Held, The Hill, February 24, 2014.
• The Labor Market Effects of Reducing Undocumented Immigrants by Andri Chassamboulli, Giovanni Peri (published as NBER Working Paper), February 2014.
• Time to fix our immigration courts by John Gossart Jr., The Hill, February 26, 2014.
• Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy? by David Brady and Ryan Finnigan, last updated January 29, 2014. Also mentioned by Tyler Cowen in Does immigration undermine public support for social policy?, February 26, 2014, Marginal Revolution.
• Why Development Economics is Failing the Poor by Dalibor Rohac, The Umlaut, February 26, 2014, reviewing William Easterly’s new book The Tyranny of Experts.
• A note on an argument about open borders by Chris Bertram, Crooked Timber, February 28, 2014.

Some other links of lower relevance, but still potentially interesting to our readers:

• Libre Initiative reaches out to Hispanics with free-enterprise message by Georgia Pabst, Journal Sentinel, February 23, 2014.
• Are Mexicans the Most Successful Immigrant Group in the U.S.? The American Dream Doesn’t Just Belong to Those With the Most Money and the Fanciest Degrees. It Also Belongs to the Strivers Who Achieve More Than the Generation Before Them. by Jennifer Lee, Zócalo Public Square, February 24, 2014.
• Local’s husband caught in immigration snafu by Heidi Rice, Post Independent, February 23, 2014.
• Will Florida Grant In-state Tuition to Undocumented Students? by Juan Escalante, Huffington Post, February 25, 2014.

We’re experimenting with switching the frequency of our link roundups from weekly to biweekly (twice a week). The current plan is to publish link roundups every Tuesday and Friday.

See here for all link roundups. As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• World Press 2014: Signals from Djibouti by Kim Hubbard and John Stanmeyer, Proof, National Geographic, February 19, 2014. The post is about an award-winning photograph of people in Djibouti, a small country near Somalia, trying to catch inexpensive cellphone signals from nearby Somalia in order to be able to talk with their relatives. The photographer writes: “Speaking to many of them, the stories were always the same: the desire to reconnect to family, asking for remittance or updates on emigration papers from family living in Europe.”
• Migration, Security and Development: Understanding the Linkages by Khalid Koser and Jerome Elie, People Move blog (World Bank), February 18, 2014.
• Immigration bill contains a state power-grab over marriage by Ian Dunt, politics.co.uk, October 22, 2013.
• Ethics Watch: Alien Status and Bar Admission by Megan Zavieh, attorneyatwork.com, February 24, 2014.
• Students launch selfie campaign to protest against immigration bill: Students and staff at the University of Sheffield take selfies to oppose government policy on immigration by Abby Young-Powell, The Guardian, February 24, 2014.
• Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012:
  U.S. top sending country; India top receiving country by Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends, February 20, 2014.
• Laura Ingraham’s Poor Response to George Will on Immigration by Alex Nowrasteh, Cato at Liberty, February 24, 2014. This was in response to an article by Laura Ingraham critical of a column by George Will about immigration (specifically, Hispanic immigration) to the United States.
  • See also the Open Borders blog post The Tanton memo and restrictionism among US Republicans by Vipul Naik.
• Mexican Emigration and a Failed State: The self-defense groups in Michoacán, Mexico by Peter Andrews, Center for Immigration Studies, February 2014. See also a Twitter discussion in response, started by Alex Nowrasteh.
• Hard-fought Utah immigration laws may be repealed: Need federal waiver » Without action by Congress, sponsor says repeal may be best by Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, February 24, 2014.
• Review: Bad News for Refugees by Lee Bunce, Post Magazine, February 25, 2014. This is a review of the book Bad News for Refugees by Greg Philo, Emma Briant, and Pauline Donald, based on research by the Glasgow Media Group.