Migration Dialogue
Jan 7, 2025 · Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.
Europe, Asia - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue
Pact. The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum approved in April 2024 aims to reduce the arrival of illegal migrants who request asylum. The 10-section Pact aims to “secure European borders…implement faster and more efficient procedures for asylum and return…and enhance solidarity with Member States at external borders.”
Labor: H-1B, - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue
The US added 2.2 million jobs in 2024, an average of 183,000 a month; ¾ were in healthcare and education, leisure and hospitality, and government. The unemployment rate ended 2024 at 4.1 percent. Employer return-to-in-person work suggest that …
Historic | Migration Dialogue - UC Davis
Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports. The US imports over half of its fresh fruit and a third of its fresh vegetables, mostly from Mexico. This project, led by the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute and supported by the Walmart foundations, strengthens protections for Mexican workers employed throughout North America agriculture and works with stakeholders to implement evidence-based policies ...
H-2A: FY24, Courts - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue
6 days ago · DOL certified almost 385,000 jobs to be filled by H-2A employers in FY24, up two percent from 378,000 in FY23: 16 states including Florida, California, and Michigan had fewer H-2A jobs certified in FY24 than FT23. Some 22,200 employer applications were certified for an average 17 jobs. Many ...
Canada, Mexico - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue
President-elect Trump in November 2024 threatened 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico because they allow migrants and fentanyl to enter the US. Trump’s threat suggests that he will include immigration, China investment …
US Immigration in 2025 - Rural Migration Blog | Migration Dialogue
Jan 14, 2025 · The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than Germany (16 million), Saudi Arabia (13 million), and Russia (12 million). The US admits over a million legal immigrants a year, two-thirds because they have family members already in the US ...
Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue - UC Davis
Los Angeles county, the most populous in the US with 10 million residents, was ravaged by wildfires in January 2025. Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other cities were in the path of a ring of fires spread by strong Santa Ana winds from eastern Nevada deserts that push to the ocean through passes in ...
The H-2A Program: GAO and AEWRs, - Rural Migration Blog
Jan 13, 2025 · GAO . The GAO released a report (25-106389) in November 2024 that called for more oversight of the H-2A program and enforcement of H-2A regulations. The number of H-2A jobs quadrupled between FY13 and FY24 to almost 400,000 a year. DOL, DHS, and DOS were generally able to process H-2A applications ...
Migrants and the Mexico-US Border - Rural Migration Blog
Apr 3, 2024 · Q.42 (SPLIT A) A bipartisan group of Senators and the White House recently proposed a bill to make it harder for migrants to get asylum in the U.S., to increase the number of border agents, and give the President the power to limit the number of migrants coming into the country if immigration goes above a certain limit.