Emilio Parrado - University of Pennsylvania
Immigration enforcement policies, the economic recession, and the size of local Mexican immigrant populations
Date: 09/08/2011 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Rhodes Conference Rm. Sanford School of Public Policy
Organizer: M. Giovanna Merli
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All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
11:00am - arrives RDU
11:30am - Lunch with Sociology Faculty (organized by Phil Morgan)
12:00pm - lunch (cont'd)
12:30pm - lunch (cont'd)
1:15pm - Meeting with DuPRI students (RH 240); Childers, Farfan, Genoni, Doxilly
1:45pm - Jacob Vigdor (RH 240)
2:15pm - Elizabeth Frankenberg (RH 240)
2: 45pm - Asia Maselko (RH 240)
3:15pm - Seminar preparation
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
5:30pm - Merli (will drive to hotel to check in and then to dinner)
6:45pm - Dinner (Parrado, Merli, Frankenberg, Hamoudi, Sanders)
Additional Comments: Abstract: There is growing evidence that local conditions, particularly economic considerations, shape the geographic dispersion of immigrant groups. Yet our understanding of the impact of local variation in public policies on immigrants internal settlement patterns remains rudimentary. This paper takes advantage of local area variation in immigration policies and economic conditions to estimate their unique impact on changes in the size of local Mexican immigrant populations between 2007 and 2009. Specifically, we relate the implementation of the 287(g) program, which involves local authorities in immigration control and changes in employment patterns by industry and education level to changes in the size of the Mexican immigrant population after the 2007 recession.