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: Immigration Reform, Unauthorized
There are few prospects for major immigration reforms in 2023-24. The Republican-controlled House announced plans to focus on unauthorized migration over the Mexico-US border and to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for not enforcing US immigration laws that aim to prevent unauthorized migration.
Restrictionist House Republicans introduced a bill in January 2023 that would empower DHS to bar unauthorized foreigners from the US if DHS is unable to process them via normal procedures. Admissionist Senate Democrats introduced bills to allow the 600,000 unauthorized foreigners who arrived in the US before the age of 16 and graduated from US high schools, and who are currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program launched in June 2012, to become immigrants and eventually US citizens. Bipartisan bills to legalize unauthorized farm workers and make it easier to employ H-2A guest workers are unlikely to be enacted in 2023-24.
Most Read
- FLOC Goes to North Carolina
- Italy, Albania Take Measures to Control Illegal Immigration
- Kosovar Refugees
- US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
- Farm Labor in the 1930s
- Big Six Produce Companies
- Dust Bowl Migration
- Mexico: Dual Nationality, Politics
- Lettuce Production and Trade
- Census: Hispanics Outnumber Blacks
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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.
