M14: Migration & Economy

• Q&A Facts About Immigration and the US Economy

Jobs and Industries - What jobs do immigrants do?

• • Greico (2004) What Kind of Work Do Immigrants Do? Occupation and Industry of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States (downloads factsheet)

  • Immigrants don’t make up the majority of workers in any US industry

  • Industries of unauthorized workers (2016) and Occupations of unauthorized workers 

  • Immigrants in the Workforce-State by State and Industry by Industry

  • Cornelius, Wayne A. “The Mexican Presence in US Labor Markets” Mexican Migration to the United States: Origins, Consequences, and Policy Options 1, pp. 4-8 (W. Cornelius & J. Bustamante, eds, 1989). (http://tinyurl.com/j4ayxns)  (8pgs)

Working in the Shadows

• • Working in the Shadows: Undercover Writer Sheds Light on Immigrant Labor

    • https://youtu.be/Q0H-JuQXDqw (CNN interview)

  • [Video] Youtube playlist on Immigrants and Jobs

Impact on Natives - What Impact do Immigrants have on Native-Born Workers?

• • http://www.mig.professorpok.com/2016/11/immigrants-economic-impact.html 

  • Trump wants to pit black Americans against Latino immigrants. Don’t fall for it.

  • Immigrants and African Americans https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/asad/files/waters_etal_2014.pdf 

  • Borjas – 2016 – Yes, Immigrants Hurt American Workers (http://tinyurl.com/hol5pmp)

  • Crider: An Immigration Raid Aids Blacks -- For a Time

  • Media Run With Discredited Nativist Group's Research To Claim More Than Half Of Immigrant Households Receive "Welfare"

  • BLS Wage Estimates by Occupation

  • Immigration and African American wages and employment: critically appraising the empirical evidence (https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2014/retrieve.php?pdfid=205)

• SUGGESTED (NOT REQURED)

  • Ehrenreich - 2002 - Global Woman

  • Undercover in a Chicken Factory

  • America’s Worst Graveyard Shift is Grinding Up Workers

  • Movie - The Harvest (80 mins) ? (https://youtu.be/JYIZy3bHDZs) 

  • Movie - Maid in America ? (https://youtu.be/Qu7ROajsdJI)