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.

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• 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• Hard-fought Utah immigration laws may be repealed: Need federal waiver » Without action by Congress, sponsor says repeal may be best by Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, February 24, 2014.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.

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Conversation with Howard Adelman, academic and activist on issues related to refugees in Canada. Other participants in the conversation were Carl Shulman and Nick Beckstead. The conversation is listed on Nick Beckstead’s conversations page.
• No, Immigrants Won’t Make Welfare State Bigger by Alex Nowrasteh and Zachary Gochenour, Investors Business Daily, February 14, 2014. It is based on their Cato Working Paper The Political Externalities of Immigration: Evidence from the United States (released January 15, 2014). See also Ilya Somin‘s post Increased immigration is unlikely to increase the size of the welfare state, February 18, 2014, Volokh Conspiracy, The Washington Post.
• Leviathan on the Border by Shikha Dalmia, Reason, February 11. 2014.
• ‘Pro-Freedom’ Parties That Aren’t on Immigration by Matthew Feeney, Reason, February 13, 2014.
• A Bad Argument Against Immigration by Fernando Teson, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, February 15, 2014.
• Remittances and vulnerability in developing countries: Results from a new dataset on remittances from Italy by Giulia Bettin, Andrea F Presbitero, and Nikola Spatafora, VoxEU, February 10, 2014.
• Votum „Gegen Masseneinwanderung“: Eine ungute Gemengelage [The Vote “Against Mass Immigration”: An uneasy hodgepodge – in German] by Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Novo Argumente, February 2014.
• Ausländer in der Schweiz sind wütend und verunsichert [Foreigners in Switzerland are angry and alienated – in German] by Simone Schmid, Tagesanzeiger, February 12, 2014.
• Einwanderung: Grenzenloser Lebensstandard [Immigration: Living Standards Without Borders/Limits – in German] by Alexander Fink, Novo Argumente, February 2014.
• The whole point of detention for asylum seekers is horror, whether it is acknowledged or not by Waleed Aly, The Age (Australia), February 21, 2014.

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• He’s on the prowl in Africa as lions stalk poor refugees by Bob Braun, N. J. News, September 17, 2007.
• Why ‘Brain Drain’ Can Actually Benefit African Countries: A new study reveals that the farther African migrants move, the more they increase exports in their home countries. by Shaun Raviv, February 11, 2014, The Atlantic.
• Posts on the Swiss referendum:
  • The Swiss vote for immigration curbs: how much immigration is possible without a backlash? by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, February 10, 2014.
  • What the Swiss Vote Really Shows by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, February 10, 2014.
  • Swiss immigration controls are directed against those who are like the Swiss by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, February 11, 2014.
  • Immigration Restriction on a Kuznets Curve: Switzerland and Arizona by Alex Nowrasteh, Cato at Liberty, February 12, 2014.
• Conversation between GiveWell, Good Ventures, and Michael Clemens, conversation November 13, 2013, published February 12, 2014. See also:
  • Our page on Michael Clemens for a list of Clemens’ key contributions to the study of migration and advocacy of freer migration.
  • GiveWell conversations page (has a section on conversations with migration scholars).
  • An Open Borders blog post about an earlier conversation between Clemens and GiveWell.
• Practical vs. Moral Objections to Open Borders by Jason Brennan, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, February 10, 2014. This was in response to the first of Cowen’s posts about the Swiss referendum.
• Why cosmopolitanism is utopian but useful nonetheless by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, February 14, 2014. This was in response to Bryan Caplan’s post about the Swiss referendum, and included a general discussion of cosmopolitanism in contrast with the citizenism advocated by Steve Sailer.

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• A Special Path To Citizenship Is Not Necessary by Matthew Kolken, Fox News Latino, February 4, 2014.
• Behind the Numbers, a report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), December 17, 2013, that attempts to estimate the number of deaths experienced by migrants while trying to cross borders.
• Israel’s Asylum Seekers by Natasha Roth, London Review of Books blog, February 3, 2014.
• It’s Time to Learn More about How Poor Families Use Migration by Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development blog, January 27, 2014.
• Robots Undercut the Case for More Immigrants: With technology destroying jobs for humans, adding tens of millions of new immigrants to America will only deepen inequality and poverty. by David Frum, February 4, 2014.
  • See also Nathan Smith’s blog post Robots or Immigrants?
• Barack Obama, deporter-in-chief, The Economist, February 8, 2014.
• Do Most of Us Favor or Oppose Immigration?, by Hanspeter Wyss, People Move (World Bank), February 4, 2014.
• FERDI conference on “International Labor Mobility and Inequality Across Nations”, by Çağlar Özden, People Move (World Bank), February 6, 2014.

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• The Political Externalities of Immigration: Evidence from the United States, a Cato Working Paper by Alex Nowrasteh and Zachary Gochenour about political externalities and the welfare state/fiscal burden objection.
• The asylum seekers who frightened Elizabethan England, by Susan Broomhall, The Conversation, January 21, 2014.
• Hispanics prioritize legalization for unauthorized immigrants over citizenship by Mark Hugo Lopez and Anna Brown, Pew Research Center, Januray 23, 2014.
• How Would the World Change if Everyone Could Live Where They Wanted? by Joshua Keating, Slate, January 23, 2014. See also:
  • The Open Borders blog post A Thought Experiment: Haitian Migration by Chris Hendrix, July 25, 2013.
  • Our background page about polling data on migration.
• Italy moves towards decriminalizing clandestine migration by Reuters, January 21, 2014. See also:
  • Open Borders blog posts tagged amnesty.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Intersection of Immigration and Civil Rights by Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact, January 18, 2014. See also:
  • The Open Borders blog post “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” by John Lee, October 11, 2012.
  • The Open Borders blog post Martin Luther King Jr and open borders by Paul Crider, June 20, 2013.
• Police, Banks Help Undocumented Workers Shake ‘Walking ATM’ Label by Laura Sullivan, NPR, January 20, 2014.