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In-depth analysis and long-run speculation

• Would (Our) Open Borders Lead to (Their) Closed Borders? by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, March 19, 2014.
• Want to see the future? Open borders. by Daniel Bier, The Skeptical Libertarian, March 17, 2014.
• Morocco: Morocco: Setting the Stage for Becoming a Migration Transition Country? by Hein de Haas, March 19, 2014.
• India: Internal Labor Migration in India Raises Integration Challenges for Migrants by Rameez Abbas and Divya Varma, Migration Policy Institute, March 3, 2014.
• United States: The Little Agency that Won’t (SEVP) Needs a Literate, Honest Budget Writer by David North, Center for Immigration Studies, March 20, 2014.
• United States: Children Deported: The Real Victims of America’s Broken Immigration System, According to Report [WATCH] by Nicole Akoukou Thompson, Latin Post, March 19, 2014.
• United States: New Report Analyzes Immigration Cases Clogging Federal Courts by Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact (the blog of the Immigration Policy Center), March 21, 2014.

Migration in the news

• United States: Eight Year Old Reportedly Committed Suicide After Deportation by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress, March 21, 2014.
• United States: Can immigration reform be achieved this year?, Fox News video segment featuring Ali Noorani and Lou Dobbs, March 19, 2014.
• United States: Immigration Reform News 2014: National March in Favor of Immigrants in U.S. Announced; Date, Cities by Jorge Calvillo, Latin Post, March 21, 2014.
• Why Technology Donors May Give The Cold Shoulder To A Top House Republican by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress, March 21, 2014.

Bonus (not directly related to migration): United Kingdom: Saving the curry, Financial Times video, March 21, 2014. Description: In the final part of a video series on the UK’s skills shortage, the FT’s Helen Warrell explores whether government-backed ‘curry colleges’ are helping to produce much-needed chefs of Britain’s favourite dish – the curry.

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Philosophy and ethics of migration

• Being Sendhil Mullainathan by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, March 13, 2014.

Research and in-depth analysis

• United Kingdom: Reply to the Report ‘An Assessment of the Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK’ by Migration Watch by the CEntre for Research and Analysis of Migration, March 12, 2014.

Migration in the news

• United States: Obama: Will He Cut Deportations, or Stand Idle? by Ryan Campbell of DRM Action, Huffington Post, March 13, 2014.
• United States: House GOP Passes Immigration-Related Bill That Goes After Dreamers by Elise Foley, Huffington Post, March 12, 2014.
• United States: Mixed-status families highlight immigration issues by Michael Matza, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 13, 2014.
• World: U.N. refugee chief warns world powers not to forget Syria conflict by Lesley Wroughton, Reuters, March 12, 2014.
• United States: Politico’s inconsistent clarifications By Jeremy Beck, NumbersUSA, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
• United Kingdom: Public more confident that we can and do talk about immigration – new findings by Sunder Katwala, British Future, March 13, 2014.

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Research and in-depth analysis and discussion

• United States and Mexico: AJAM Presents: Borderland, a forthcoming series on Al Jazeera America (AJAM) where six people follow in the footsteps of three people who died trying to cross the Mexico-US border.
• United Kingdom: Migrants’ Rights Network: Brokenshire vs. Cable – Is immigration good or bad for the economy? by Don Flynn, Migrant Tales.
• United States: The Legal Argument for Expanding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) by DRM Action Coalition, September 27, 2013.
• India and Nepal: Nepal-India Open Border: Prospects, Problems and Challenges by Vidya Bir Singh Kansakar, Ph.D., Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, based on papers presented in 2001.

Migration in the news

• United States: Immigration detainees continue hunger strike by Associated Press, March 9, 2014 (link to Washington Post version).
• United States: Right-left immigration alliance fraying by Seung Min Kim, Politico, March 10, 2014.
• Australia and Papua New Guinea: Report from Manus Island Detention Centre by xborderoperationalmatters.wordpress.com, March 10, 2014.
• Australia: Data breach: asylum seeker claims she was told to sign waiver: Woman says immigration officers threatened to ‘force me on to the plane’ if she refused to sign papers by Paul Farrell, The Guardian, March 10, 2014.
• India and Nepal: Locals suffer due to crackdown on Indo-Nepal cross-border trade, The Hindu, December 7, 2013.

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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.

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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.