Tag: immigration
Immigration: Bringing Backgrounds to the Foreground
Immigration is one of the most complex phenomena...
Bringing Backgrounds to the Foreground
Immigration is one of the most complex phenomena of our current century. There are many reasons why people, either voluntarily or involuntarily, leave their...
House Passes DREAM Act
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the American Dream and Promise Act by 228-197 in its first push on immigration reform under the...
Radical Re-Thinking Required
According to the Migration Policy Institute, the U.S. meets the educational needs of less than 4% of its adult immigrant population—more than 20 million...
Progress on Migrant and Refugee Education Worldwide
UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, Migration, displacement and education, shows that the number of migrant and refugee school-age children around the world today...
Children of Immigrants Better Off in North America
According to a new comparison by the OECD, "entrenched disadvantage is less common among the children of immigrants in North America" than in Austria,...
Society-wide Benefits of DACA
According to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has had a "significant impact" on...
Texas Bill SB4 Threatens Vulnerable Students
With the recent approval of Texas Senate Bill 4, many of the state's most vulnerable students will face new obstacles accessing the education they need to become contributors to our society. The bill, which was signed into law during a Facebook Live broadcast on Sunday afternoon by Governor Greg Abbot, puts a startling halt to "sanctuary cities" and the security they provide to the parents of documented and undocumented children in Texas.
Canada Considers Immigration for International Students
Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum says his government will be looking at ways to make the immigration process easier for international students. "International students...
GOP Supports Immigration Reform in Spanish Only
For the third year in a row, the Republican Party delivered a Spanish-language response to the President’s State of the Union address. However, for...
Tell the President how to improve US immigration
President Obama has issued a new directive for his Administration to seek out ways to modernize and streamline the U.S. immigration system within existing...
Immigration ‘Raising Academic Standards’
The British education minister, Nick Gibb, is insisting that immigration is raising academic standards in the UK because pupils who speak English as a...
