scholarly journals Snapshot Models of Undocumented Immigration

Risk Analysis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Rodilitz ◽  
Edward H. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Undocumented Immigration

Adult Beliefs About the Migration Motives of Unaccompanied Honduran Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 073998632110356
Author(s):  
Amy L. Clark ◽  
James L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Undocumented Migration ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Dummy Variable ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Adult Beliefs

A number of researchers have examined undocumented migration from Central America. This literature lacks information about adult beliefs regarding the motivations of minors who journey from Central America unaccompanied and undocumented. Using data from a recent survey conducted in Honduras, we examine adult Hondurans’ beliefs about why unaccompanied minors leave the country unaccompanied. The dependent variable is a dummy variable that measures “why children leave the country.” Predictor variables are attitudes toward smuggling, willingness to leave without documentation, deportation experience, age, income, and residence in the northern part of Honduras. Using multinomial logistic regression, we find support for four of the eight hypotheses. Findings indicate that adults from the northern region are most likely to believe minors would leave for reasons associated with undocumented immigration. Those who are younger, with lower incomes, and with less access to sanitation are more likely to believe minors would leave without documentation.

Building Fences: Undocumented Immigration and Identity in a Small Border Town

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Adriana E. Martinez ◽  
Susan W. Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Border Town

scholarly journals A Theoretical Note on the Relationship between Documented and Undocumented Migration

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Peter V. Schaeffer ◽  
Mulugeta S. Kahsai
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Undocumented Migration ◽  
Integrated Policy ◽  
Legal Immigration ◽  
Waiting Line ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Borders

Undocumented migration is a (inferior) substitute to documented migration. Hence, policies affecting documented migration also affect undocumented migration. This paper explores this relationship from a theoretical perspective. The implications of this exploration are that lax enforcement of visa rules and national borders, combined with a very long waiting line (small annual quotas) for immigrant visas, can make illegal immigration a preferred option over legal immigration or, more generally, that for policy purposes all types of migrations should be regarded as interdependent. Therefore, policies aimed solely at, say, undocumented immigration will generally be less effective than an integrated policy approach.

scholarly journals Flipping Our Scripts about Undocumented Immigration

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Mica Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Learning Curve ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Steep Learning Curve ◽  
Immigration History ◽  
New Information

This critical family history explores a common script about undocumented immigration: that undocumented immigrants unfairly have refused to “stand in line” for official, sanctioned immigration and instead have broken rules that the rest of “our” families have followed. Noting a hole in her knowledge base, the author put herself on a steep learning curve to “clean her lenses”—to learn more information about opportunities past and present, so she could see and discuss the issue more clearly. The author sought new and forgotten information about immigration history, new information about her own family, and details about actual immigration policy. She wrote this piece to share a few script-flipping realizations, in case they can shortcut this journey for others.

The Politics of Refuge: Sanctuary Cities, Crime, and Undocumented Immigration

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien ◽  
Loren Collingwood ◽  
Stephen Omar El-Khatib
Keyword(s):  
Property Crime ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Matching Strategy ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
The City ◽  
Discernible Difference

This article assesses the claim that sanctuary cities—defined as cities that expressly forbid city officials or police departments from inquiring into an individual’s immigration status—are associated with post hoc increases in crime. We employ a causal inference matching strategy to compare similarly situated cities where key variables are the same across the cities except the sanctuary status of the city. We find no statistically discernible difference in violent crime, rape, or property crime rates across the cities. Our findings provide evidence that sanctuary policies have no effect on crime rates, despite narratives to the contrary. The potential benefits of sanctuary cities, such as better incorporation of the undocumented community and cooperation with police, thus have little cost for the cities in question in terms of crime.

On Removing Migrant Labor in a Right-to-Work State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Allegro
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Local Law

This chapter explores the anti-immigrant bill known as The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act (HB 1804), which sought to criminalize undocumented labor after a decade-long corporate recruitment strategy that solicited migrant labor under the premise of right-to-work. Of particular interest is the emphasis on the weak policy controls the legislation placed on employers while disproportionately penalizing migrants and their families. In this way it disentangles the inconsistent position of the “anti-illegals” narrative that espouses draconian measures penalizing undocumented migrants but has an unenforceable strategy for controlling the workplace, arguably the greatest draw of migrant labor. Such selective application of the rule of law demonstrates the veiled racism of the anti-illegals narrative and the dishonest nature of the professed goal of holding all parties responsible for the increase in undocumented immigration. Resulting from these paradoxes has been an increase in local law enforcement disciplining migrant bodies and lives in public spaces.

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