STEP OUT Migration

A New Review for the New Year

We just found out a review of our book has been published in Update, a publication of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.  More on the review later (it is, after all, New Year's Eve); for now, we'll just note that the review is quite complimentary (and, therefore, quite on the mark).  A good sign for 2008!

P.S.  The review is on pages 25-27 of the link.

Skilled Workers on the March

Here's an interesting story about how skilled migrants are increasingly becoming politically engaged.  The article highlights a march in Washington taking place today and the formation and increasing activity of several skilled immigrant lobbying groups.  It's a sad and economically self-defeating truth that the immigration system is unnecessarily difficult to navigate even for skilled workers and the companies who employ them.  But the fact that the immigrants themselves have formed groups to address the issue illustrates a point we make in our book -- that the development of the internet has made the organization of diasporas much much easier than it was previously.  This has implications for U.S. policy, but perhaps the bigger impact occurs when organized diasporas turn their attention towards home.