Filiz Garip, professor of Sociology, writes in a Washington Post op-ed that "Immigration policy isn't just borders and fences. It's trade in aid, too."
“While it’s true Mexicans are not coming in large numbers anymore, that’s hardly thanks to President Trump’s administration,” writes Garip. “Since the Great Recession, more Mexicans have been leaving than coming to the United States, for reasons related to labor markets and demographics both north and south of the border.”
Garip writes about her research: to make sense of the factors that bring Mexican immigrants to the United States, she analyzed the largest survey data set available on Mexico-U.S. migration: more than 145,000 individuals in 143 communities in Mexico between 1982 and 2013. “My analysis revealed four groups among first-time Mexican migrants to the United States between 1965 and 2010,” she writes.
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
