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: Asylum
The UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees was signed in August 1951 to protect persons fleeing Nazi and Soviet persecution, and was extended in 1967 to all persons fleeing their country of citizenship due to a “well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.” Signatory countries including the US promise not to refoul or return persons who arrive within their borders to persecution at home.
Asylum seekers or asylees arrive in a country and ask to be recognized as refugees and allowed to resettle as immigrants and eventually citizens. Refugees, on the other hand, are outside their countries of citizenship, and some are resettled in Canada, the US or other countries. Relatively few refugees are resettled each year, fewer than 250,000, while the number of asylum seekers is rising, topping one million in Germany and Sweden in 2015.
Most Read
- Pros and Cons of Guest Workers
- US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
- Dust Bowl Migration
- Farm Labor in the 1930s
- Fruit: Global Production and Trade
- H-2A: Growth and FLCs from 2010-19
- Immigration and Welfare in Canada
- Mexico: Dual Nationality, Politics
- Mexico: Growth Slows, Export Ag Booms
- BLS Projections: 2030 to 2040
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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.
