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January 28, 2010One More (Insurmountable?) Challenge for Haitian ReconstructionPosted by Todd Moss in Fragile States, Human Rights, Latin America, News, Poverty Tags: Disaster, Haiti, ImmigrationAs the international response to Haiti’s earthquake shifts from emergency rescue to longer term reconstruction, things are inevitably going to get harder. There are some very good ideas floating out there, not least Michael Clemens’ golden door visa proposal and Jeff Sachs’ urging for a recovery trust fund (It’s too bad he couldn’t resist swathing the idea in jabs at the donors and the United States). But as the donor community starts making that shift and planning projects, Joshua Nadel, a professor of Caribbean history, has this very good reminder: Read More… 3 Comments »January 26, 2010Migration and Haiti Updates: Senegal Opens Doors as Washington Commuters VotePosted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Development, Immigration, Inequality, Migration, U.S. Foreign Aid Reform Tags: Haiti, Immigration, MigrationSenegal, the ancestral home of many Haitians, has offered to accept for resettlement as many Haitians as want to come.
According to the World Bank, Senegal has an annual per capita income of $1,772, about $600 more than Haiti. Per capita income in the U.S., according to the same 2008 World Bank table, is $46,716. Meanwhile, in Washington, the Express, a commuter tabloid owned by the Washington Post and distributed for free at Metro stations, is asking readers to vote today on this question:
Keeping in mind that such polls have no statistical validity, because of the sample selection bias, it’s nonetheless diverting to see how the answers stack up (“No” is currently at about 70%, with “Yes” at 30%). Washington Metro riders may enjoy seeing how people at their stop voted. Unsure of your answer? Read Michael Clemens’ “Reactions to my proposal for a new visa to the United States” and his Op-Ed in Sunday’s Washington Post and then vote! 1 Comment »January 25, 2010Reactions to My Proposal for a New Visa to the United StatesPosted by Michael Clemens in Global Development, Immigration Tags: ImmigrationMore Fresh Ideas for Haiti
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Yesterday in the Washington Post I proposed a new kind of visa, a Golden Door Visa. It would ensure that at least a few of our immigration slots go to people from the poorest countries, such as Haiti, people who need opportunity the most. Predictably, I’ve been flooded with vicious personal attacks, both private and public. My inbox has burst with emails like this one, whose author concealed his or her identity: 11 Comments »January 11, 2010Development in the Year of Immigration Reform: New VideoPosted by Michael Clemens in Global Development, Migration Tags: Immigration, MigrationHow can someone outside Haiti raise the income of a person who is very poor in Haiti? The fastest, surest, biggest way is simply to let that person work outside Haiti for some period, in a rich country. My co-authors and I document that a 35 year old urban male with some secondary schooling, born and educated in Haiti, earns a standard of living at least six times greater on average in the United States than the same person earns in Haiti. Read More… 1 Comment »December 10, 2009Prescription for Hypocrisy: The Tough Ethics of International Doctor MigrationPosted by Michael Clemens in Global Development, Migration, Migration and Development, Migration and Labor Mobility Tags: Immigration, labor mobility, MigrationThe British Medical Association just released a new statement on the international migration of health workers. Sadly, it repeats a common, self-contradictory, profoundly unethical position on international high-skill migration. It starts off well. The Association states that “every health professional has a right to migrate to seek work wherever they wish for professional or personal reasons”, and thus “measures to restrict the movement of health personnel may be unethical.” How magnanimous for a professional guild to seemingly favor competition from abroad! Read More… 1 Comment »June 22, 2009One Small Way to Fix the World: Welcome Guest WorkersPosted by Michael Clemens in Global Development, Migration Tags: Guest Workers, H1 Visa, Immigration, Migration and Population, Visas
1 Comment »June 4, 2009Beyond the Fence: Fresh Ideas on How Immigration Policy Shapes Global DevelopmentPosted by Michael Clemens in Global Development, Migration, Regions Tags: Guest Workers, H1 Visa, Immigration, Migration and Population, VisasNext week, President Obama will meet with Congress to begin discussing changes in the way that the United States regulates who can enter this country and what they can do here. The elephant in the room: global development. U.S. immigration policy transforms the lives of low-income people from all over the world, but you won’t hear much about them. Read More… 2 Comments »May 7, 2009Senate Hearing Kicks Off Immigration Reform Debate in 2009Posted by Paolo Abarcar in Global Development, Migration Tags: Immigration, Migration and Population, On the HillThis is a joint post with Joel Meister. Efforts in the U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform kicked off last Thursday with a hearing convened by Senator Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security. Though conventional wisdom may hold that prospects for reform would only dim in times of economic decline, the hearing, entitled, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?”, brought together eight panel witnesses offering diverse perspectives but an underlying consensus that Congress should act on immigration this year. And with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s testimony yesterday before the full Senate Judiciary Committee, the stage is being set for President Obama to address the issue of comprehensive reform later this month. Read More… 2 Comments »March 20, 2009Wal-Mart and the AFL-CIO Agree: The U.S. Can (and Must) Do a Better Job Fighting Poverty, Disease, and Lack of Opportunity in the Developing WorldPosted by Steve Radelet in Globalization, Trade Tags: Foreign Aid Reform, Immigration, Trade, USAIDThis is a joint posting with David Beckmann, originally appearing on the Huffington Post Web site on March 17, 2009. In the face of big global challenges, President Obama has rightly called for a new, smarter U.S. foreign policy that focuses on bolstering our long-term security, building our alliances, and expanding global prosperity. A central element of his new approach is elevating U.S. support for global development and balancing it with defense and diplomacy, which in practice means strengthening U.S. foreign assistance and other programs that fight poverty, disease, and lack of opportunity in developing nations. Read More… Comment »February 17, 2009Solve the Crisis by…Kicking Out the World’s Best and Brightest?Posted by Michael Clemens in Financial Crisis, Global Development, Immigration Tags: ImmigrationThe global economic crisis is already creating pressure for the United States to further restrict skilled migration. The economic stimulus act that President Obama signs today limits the ability of many companies receiving stimulus money to freely employ highly skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas. (Read the Act yourself here.) In other words: If we can just kick out of the United States enough bright and highly skilled workers, many of them top U.S.-trained students from developing countries, the crisis will somehow ease. 8 Comments » |
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