About Migration Dialogue

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.

Contact us at migrant@primal.ucdavis.edu.

Rural Migration News: Global: Covid, Trade

Death rates from Covid are much higher in richer than in poorer countries. As of March 2021, there were almost 1,900 deaths per 100,000 residents in the UK and 1,600 per 100,000 in Italy and the US, compared to less than five deaths per 100,000 residents in China, Thailand and Vietnam.

Analysts seeking explanations for why death rates from Covid are higher in rich countries point to data issues, such as underreporting deaths in poorer countries, demographics that mean poorer countries have more younger residents, and more outdoor activities in poorer countries. Some scientists believe that closer proximity to animals and microbes in poorer countries mean more residents have acquired immunity to viruses.

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1. Farm Labor in the 1930s
2. Dust Bowl Migration
3. Big Six Produce Companies
4. Mexico: Dual Nationality, Politics
5. Braceros: History, Compensation
6. Overtime and California Farm Workers
7. Kosovar Refugees
8. Pros and Cons of Guest Workers
9. German Immigration and Integration Challenges
10. China: Migrants, Students, Taiwan

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  Rural Migration News

  Rural Migration News summarizes the most important migration-related issues affecting agricultural and rural America, and is produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations.

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  Rural Migration News Blogs

  Rural Migration News blogs examine a particular farm labor, migration, or trade issue, and are produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations.

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  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 that improve worker protections.

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  Migration News

  Migration News was a monthly and later quarterly summary of the most important migration issues in the US, Europe, and Asia that was produced between 1994 and 2014 with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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  Sloan West Coast Program On S&E Workers

  The Sloan Program on Science and Engineering Workers supported researchers interested in how affected US workers employed in IT-related occupations between 2007 and 2014 with the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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  Changing Face & UFW Contracts

  The Changing Face project assessed the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities in California and other states between 1994 and 2016 with the support of the Farm and Rosenberg Foundations.

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  Research & Seminars

  Migration Dialogue organized seminars for opinion leaders to discuss comparative migration issues between 1993 and 2004 with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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