Economics of Immigration blog

The youngest asylum seekers at our southern border have something to say about “Return to Mexico”, a policy that has left them homeless in one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Children in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, separated by the border wall from El Paso, Texas, paint their responses to the question: What do you think about the border? Their images reveal rejection, loss, fear, and hope. Paintings by the young artists are on display at Colgate University’s 100…

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Come observe powerful and impactful artwork made by asylum seeking children taking shelter in Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. The artists, ages 4 – 18, are children who, either alone or with parents, are among more than 17,000 asylum seekers stranded in Ciudad Juárez under the Migration Protection Protocols.  The artists are awaiting their asylum hearings. The childrens’ paintings depict how they feel about their conditions and their futures. The exhibit is from…

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Post by Domen Xu Jinwen. Colgate Class of 2022. “How Governments Use Immigration to Boost Their Economies” by Michelle Jamrisko, Jason Clenfield, Sandrine Rastello, and Matthew Bristow from New Economy Forum. In this article, a number of writers report how individuals immigrate to Japan and Canada, and how these destination countries adjust their immigration policies to better suit their needs. Jason Clenfield argues that immigrants to Japan may act as complements instead of competitors of native workers. Japan has a…

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Post by Sahil Lalwani. Colgate Class of 2022. On Friday, September 27, we traveled to St Lawrence University to understand immigration trends related to the US-Canada border and their broader implications on the communities and populations surrounding the region as well as the immigrants themselves. The weekend trip was really an opportunity for us to engage with professionals from diverse backgrounds, including academia, law, community leadership and immigrant advocacy, on various aspects related to immigration. It was also interesting to…

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Post by Vanessa Lam. Colgate Class of 2023. “Immigrant Population Growth in the U.S. Slows to a Trickle”, The New York Times, September 26, 2019 by Sabrina Tavernise This article covers the stock of the immigrant population in the United States. It uses data provided by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to show how the population has changed over the past year, as well as statistics on geography of income and poverty. In 2018, the United States immigrant population…

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Post by Bonnie Chin. Colgate Class of 2022. “Immigrants help the economy – even 100 years later”, MarketWatch, Nicole Lyn Pesce, March 12, 2019 Amidst the debate over the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, Oxford researchers released a new study[1] suggesting that immigration boosts the economy in both the short-run and the long-run. After studying the effects of European immigration to the U.S. during 1850 and 1920 (the Age of Mass Migration) on economic prosperity, they found that areas with more…

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Post by Elizabeth Shaw. Colgate Class of 2022. The majority of our class visited a nearby sheep farm on October 18, 2019 to learn about their two H-2A employees. The H-2A visa program offers seasonal employment for workers for up to 10 months out of a year.  There are 140,000 such workers in the U.S. and almost all of them are horticultural laborers, which makes Alex and Yobani, the sheep farm employees, exceptional. According to the owner, the majority of…

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