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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

19. Sourcing Compassionate Migration Policies: Searching for Venues of Humanity

Author : Steven W. Bender

Published in: Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

Building on the demonstrated need for compassionate migration policy detailed in the rest of this volume and the sources of compassion suggested in Chapters 16–18, this concluding chapter summarizes and examines the suitable venues and blueprints of compassionate migration policy. These range from traditional immigration policymaking venues like the U.S. Congress to new interventions in compassion such as desert Samaritans. This chapter briefly surveys the landscape of the potential immigration venues in the hopeful search for compassion and sites of humanity in migration policy for the Americas, and supplies a detailed blueprint for those local governments, U.S. states, and civil society organizations (CSOs) willing to embrace and practice compassionate migration policy at the subnational level.

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Footnotes
1
Podger, Pamela J. and Michael, Doyle “War of Worlds,” Fresno Bee, January 9, 1994, A1 (remarks of Barbara Coe). For a recent example of hostility toward child migrants, see “California City Rejects Shelter for Unaccompanied Migrants,” October 16, 2014, https://​www.​theguardian.​com/​us-news/​2014/​oct/​16/​california-city-rejects-shelter-unaccompanied-child-migrants (Escondido, California denies proposal to turn vacant nursing home into a shelter for arrested unaccompanied minors, most of them from Central America).
 
2
Texas v. United States, 809 F.3d 134, 170 (5th Cir. 2015), aff’d, U.S. v. Texas, 579 U.S. __ (June 23, 2016) (a 4-4 split affirming the lower court) (see discussion in Chapters 3, 4, and 5).
 
3
See Cade (2015, 661) (discussing Congressional amendments in the 1990s that both broadened grounds for removing immigrants from the U.S. and near eradicated the immigrant’s chances for discretionary relief to avoid deportation).
 
4
This includes the Hazleton Integration Project in a Pennsylvania city once at the forefront of exclusionary laws targeting Latina/o immigrants, as described by John Shuford in Chapter 16 of this volume. See also Gordon (2015) for a description of educational, housing, health, and policing initiatives to integrate Latina/o migrants in the community of Greenport, New York.
 
6
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, art. 21. Some commentators have questioned the efficacy of bilateral negotiations to address migration, with one arguing for unilateral U.S. policy embedded within a multinational ICMW (FitzGerald and Alarcón 2013, 111, 133, “Historical experience suggests it is unlikely that a bilateral treaty with Mexico would lead to effective supervision of migrant workers’ rights by the Mexican authorities, and such a policy would indirectly discriminate against potential migrants from other countries.”).
 
7
For the most part in this volume we have not addressed the role and venues of industry in prompting compassionate migration reform, as those industry-led efforts, such as FWD.us founded by technology leaders, tend to work toward reforms that open migration to the so-called “best and brightest,” which may leave vulnerable economic migrants and survival migrants from the Americas behind.
 
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Metadata
Title
Sourcing Compassionate Migration Policies: Searching for Venues of Humanity
Author
Steven W. Bender
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55073-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-55074-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55074-3_19