1. MIGRATION, PUBLIC POLICY, and LATINO COMMUNITIES

2. DEADLINES! February 22 [today]: submission of optional take-home exams March 1 [next week]: deadline for analytical papers

3. NEWS FLASHES ALBA Summit (Havana) Statements by Fidel and Raúl Struggle for relevance (what with Obama) Issues: Colombia, Honduras Present: Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, “several” Caribbean nations Unity Summit for LAC (Cancún) Alternative to OAS Exclusion of USA and Canada (!) Issues: Honduras, Haiti, Falkland/Malvinas Islands

4. READING Smith, Talons, ch. 8 Jorge Castañeda, ExMex: From Migrants to Immigrants, ch. 8 (Course Reader 6)

5. I. PATTERNS OF MIGRATION INTRODUCTION THE NUMBERS GAME(S) Flows Stocks Proportions Costs and benefits Rates of assimilation

6. EMOTIONAL ISSUES AND POLITICAL DEBATES Ethnicity vs. melting pots Diversity vs. tradition Fairness vs. efficiency NAFTA AND MEXICAN MIGRATION Claims and expectations Preliminary realities Hypotheses and prognostications

7. Mexican-Origin Population in United States, 1900-2003 Mx-born (9.9)

8. Regional Origin of Mexican Migrants

9. Geographical Concentration of Mexican Migrants

10. Deaths at the Border 2001 = 528 2002 = 470 2003 = 478 2004 = 460 2005 > 500

12. Remittances to Mexico, 1990-2003

15. MIGRATION AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS Context: joblessness everywhere New entries down (not due to border enforcement, since 95% of migrants without papers get through) Return migration stable (despite concern in Mexico about major increase) Within USA, unemployment among Latino men > Anglo men

16. II. QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY DIMENSIONS ~12 million illegal immigrants in U.S. 55-60% from Mexico 25% of Mexico’s able-bodied male workforce now in U.S. U.S.-Mexican wage ratio ~ 8:1 or 10:1

17. PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS Economic threat? Cultural threat? Societal threat?

19. THE RANGE OF POLICY CHOICE: LEGAL MIGRATION Revise legal quotas Revise criteria for entry THE RANGE OF POLICY CHOICE: ILLEGAL MIGRATION Strategies for restriction: Building fences Blocking corridors (e.g., Operation Gatekeeper) Withdrawing incentives and benefits (e.g., Prop 187) Punishing employers

20. Strategies for opening: Augmenting quotas Guest-worker programs Eliminating barriers Strategies for reduction: Targeting economic development Circulating information Additional steps?

21. Bush on Migration: Phase 1: The Whole Enchilada (January-September 11, 2001) Phase 2: Focus on Security Phase 3: The Second Term Temporary amnesty for those here and employed Guest-worker program Eventual path to citizenship

22. What Would You Do?