New Immigration Articles from SSRN

Here are some new immigration articles from the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com): 

“Alien Fears: Politics and Immigration Control” Dialogue, Forthcoming Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/73 MARY ELIZABETH CROCK, University of Sydney – Faculty of Law.  ABSTRACT:  This article explores the way that fear of the alien outsider has shaped the law and the national character in Australia. The ‘price of fear’ in the area of immigration control is particularly acute in managing the phenomenon of asylum seekers and irregular migrants presenting as ‘boat people’. The article critiques key aspects of policies introduced to deter and contain these people – namely mandatory detention, temporary protection visas and offshore processing. It considers also the broader impact of exclusionary policies in a multicultural and polyglot society like that of Australia – where one in four people are either overseas born or have an overseas born parent.

“AMultilayered Jurisdictional Patchwork: Immigration Federalism in the United States” MONICA VARSANYI, City University of New York.  PAUL G. LEWIS, Arizona State University (ASU); DORIS MARIE PROVINE; SCOTT DECKER, Arizona State University (ASU).  ABSTRACT:  This paper focuses on the immigration-related demands currently being placed on local police in the United States, and the emergence of what we call a “multilayered jurisdictional patchwork” (MJP) of immigration enforcement. The evolving relationship between layers of government involved in enforcing immigration laws, sometimes dubbed “immigration federalism,” has so far received more attention from legal scholars than from social scientists. Against this backdrop, we report results from nationwide surveys of city police chiefs and county sheriffs and intensive fieldwork in three jurisdictions. The enforcement landscape we describe is complicated by the varying and over-lapping responsibilities of sheriffs and city police, and by the tendency for sheriffs to maintain closer relationships with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities. We highlight the contradictions inherent in this patchwork through case studies of Mesa, Arizona; New Haven, Connecticut; and Raleigh, North Carolina. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of the MJP – for immigrants, for their communities, and for the evolving relationship between levels of government in the federal system.

“When Drains and Gains Coincide: Migration and International Football Performance” LICOS Discussion Paper No. 265 RUXANDA BERLINSCHI, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE). LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance; JEROEN SCHOKKAERT, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) – Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE); JOHAN F. M. SWINNEN, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) – LICOS Center for Transition Economics, European Commission, DG.  ABSTRACT:  We analyze the effects of football player migration to foreign leagues on the performance of their home country national teams. We provide a theoretical model predicting a positive effect of migration on international football performance due to superior skills acquired by players choosing to migrate to foreign leagues. We test this prediction using recent cross country data on international football performance. In order to accurately measure the effect of skill acquisitions by migrating players, we construct a weighted migration index that takes into account the quality of the foreign league and the division in which national team players are employed. We find strong and robust support for the prediction that migration of players to foreign leagues improves international football performance of their home countries.

KJ