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Creating Cultural Bridges: The Art of Edgar Endress

by Peter Certo | Oct 15, 2010

Chilean-born Edgar Endress is a Virginia-based artist, professor, and founding member of the Floating Lab Collective. Endress’ work stresses a context-dependent blend of media that both forges and illustrates an integration of art and social engagement. For Endress and his Floating Lab Collective, the opportunities for social interaction afforded by his work are every bit as integral to the performance as whatever audio or visual elements he uses to stimulate them. Endress recently met with Foreign Policy In Focus to discuss his recent work on immigration, his theories of social engagement, and his travels to the Balkans.

Busting the Myth That Immigrants Drive Down Wages

by Mark Engler | Sep 23, 2010

Surprise, surprise: immigrants neither take Americans’ jobs, nor drive down their wages.

Immigration Economics: An Interview with Professor Giovanni Peri

by Mark Engler | Sep 16, 2010

Facts or no facts, many people simply do not want to believe that undocumented immigrants coming to this country don’t steal jobs and undermine the American economy. When economic studies come along that challenge their preconceptions, they don’t take kindly to the troublesome conclusions.

Manufacturing a Border Crisis

by Kent Paterson | Jun 11, 2010

Unlike Mexican border states where drug-fueled violence has been on the upswing, violent crime rates in U.S. states bordering Mexico have been decreasing for the last several years. El Paso and San Diego are rated among the safest cities in the United States. Since 9-11, no terrorist has been detected crossing from Mexico. Even detentions of border-crossers are way down, up to 90 percent in the New Mexico corridor alone, according to media reports.

Racism and Recession in Europe

by Jayati Ghosh | Jun 10, 2010

Of the many undesirable effects of the ongoing — and increasingly policy-induced — recession in Europe, has received relatively less public attention: the resurgence of racist and xenophobic attitudes. This was already something of a problem, especially in Western Europe in the past decade, when right-wing political forces demanded major restrictions on immigration and sporadic episodes of violence broke out against migrant and Roma groups.

Arizona Rising

by Christine Ahn, Linda Burnham | May 13, 2010

Summer is always hot in Arizona, but the summer of 2010 may be hotter than any in recent memory.

Going Beyond Immigration Policy

by Timothy A. Wise | May 5, 2010

Democratic Party leaders recently introduced their latest proposal to reform U.S. immigration policy. The proposal, which is given little chance of passage in a polarized election year, offers carrots and sticks in an attempt to bring some semblance of order to a broken and outdated policy that has left nearly 12 million people in the United States without legal documents.

Can Migrants Save the Global Economy?

by Debayani Kar | Dec 18, 2009

The global economic crisis has devastated workers around the world, none more than migrants whose daily wages are dependent on the whims of global financiers. Witness Dubai. Even before the meltdown of Dubai World, migrants whose labor literally built Dubai from the ground up suffered serious job losses with the onset of the global recession in 2008.

Siding with the Barbarians

by John Feffer, Niels Van Tomme | Jun 15, 2009

EU Green Card Lottery: Registration Office, installation view, exhibition “The Embassy / Apocalypse Now”, Paris, 2007

Review: Broken Immigration System

by Emily Schwartz Greco, Michele Wucker | Sep 25, 2008

Immigration reform advocates still disagree over the Senate’s failed 2007 attempt to push through legislation that would have provided a path to legalization for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Unions and big business had briefly allied in supporting a legalization program combined with an increase in visas. But the partnership collapsed after an ill-begotten attempt to secure the bill’s passage, which added so many noxious provisions that it lost many of its supporters while failing to win over implacable opponents.