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Center for Migration Studies of New York

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is an educational institute/think tank devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees and newcomers (www.cmsny.org). CMS was established in 1964 and formally incorporated in 1969 by the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, Scalabrinians, an international community of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people dedicated to serving migrants and refugees. CMS is a member of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), a global network of more than 270 entities that provide services to migrants, including shelters along migrant corridors and welcoming (integration) centers in receiving communities.
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• January 11, 2023 Ten Years of Democratizing Data: Privileging Facts, Refuting Misconceptions and Examining Missed Opportunities
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• September 28, 2022 Migrating through the Corridor of Death: The Making of a Complex Humanitarian Crisis
  By: Priscilla Solano, Douglas S. Massey
• July 21, 2022 2020 American Community Survey: Use with Caution, An Analysis of the Undercount in the 2020 ACS Data Used to Derive Estimates of the Undocumented Population
  By: Robert Warren
• July 21, 2022 Examining the Impact of Community Sponsorship on Early Refugee Labor Market Outcomes in the United States
  By: Emily Crane Linn
• March 30, 2022 Education as an Opportunity for Integration: Assessing Colombia, Peru, and Chile's Educational Responses to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis
  By: Katharine Summers, Jessica Crist, Bernhard Streitwieser
• February 23, 2022 Child Maltreatment & Child Migration: Abuse Disclosures by Central American and Mexican Unaccompanied Migrant Children
  By: Susan Schmit
• December 08, 2021 Extraregional Migratory Flows in Transit as Complex Unbounded Emergency (Risk): Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Lessons in Costa Rica
  By: Juan C. Mendez
• November 19, 2021 Applying Concepts and Tools in Demography for Estimating, Analyzing, and Forecasting Forced Migration
  By: Ryan Muttarak
• November 19, 2021 Resilience within Communities of Forced Migrants: Updates and the Path Forward
  By: Sofia Curdumi Pendley, Mark Jennings Van Landingham, Nhu Ngoc Pham, Mai Do
• November 19, 2021 Modeling and Simulation as a Bridge to Advance Practical and Theoretical Insights About Forced Migration Studies
  By: Erika Frydenlund
• November 11, 2021 Promoting Voice and Agency Among Forcibly Displaced Children and Adolescents: Participatory Approaches to Practice in Conflict-Affected Settings
  By: Michael Wessells
• November 11, 2021 Ethics in Forced Migration Research: Taking Stock and Potential Ways Forward
  By: Christina Clark-Kazak
• October 30, 2021 Can You Hear Me Now? Attorney Perceptions of Interpretation, Technology, and Power in Immigration Court
  By: Maya P. Barak
• September 17, 2021 When Internal Migration Fails: A Case Study of Central American Youth Who Relocate Internally Before Leaving Their Countries
  By: Angel Alfonso Escamilla Garcia
• September 02, 2021 Tax Equality for Immigrants: The Indispensable Ingredient for Remedying Child Poverty in the United States
  By: Roberto Suro, Hannah Findling
• June 03, 2021 A Virus Without Papers: Understanding COVID-19 and the Impact on Immigrant Communities
  By: Elizabeth Kiester, Jennifer Vasquez-Merino
• May 17, 2021 Migration Management and Changes in Mobility Patterns in the North and Central American Region
  By: Lauren Faret, Maria Eugenia Anguiano Tellez, Luz Helena Rodriguez-Tapia
• April 05, 2021 Migrant Detention and COVID-19: Pandemic Responses in Four New Jersey Detention Centers
  By: Kenneth Sebastian Leon, Ulla Dalum Berg, Sarah McIntosh
• March 08, 2021 In 2019, the US Undocumented Population Continued a Decade-Long Decline and the Foreign-Born Population Neared Zero Growth
  By: Robert Warren
• December 22, 2020 Caught in the Crossfire: Challenges to Migrant Protection in the Yemeni and Libyan Conflicts
  By: Danielle Flanagan
• December 22, 2020 The Household Financial Losses Triggered by an Immigration Arrest, and How State and Local Government Can Most Effectively Protect Their Constituents
  By: Geoffrey Alan Boyce, Sarah Lanius
• September 02, 2020 Revisiting the Refugee–Host Relationship in Nakivale Refugee Settlement: A Dialogue with the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
  By: Ingunn Bjorkhaug
• September 02, 2020 International Migration amid a World in Crisis
  By: Joseph Chamie
• August 31, 2020 More than a Wall: The Rise and Fall of US Asylum and Refugee Policy
  By: Ruth Ellen Wasem
• June 02, 2020 Statelessness in the United States: A Study to Estimate and Profile the US Stateless Population
  By: Donald Kerwin, Daniela Alulema, Michael Nicholson, Robert Warren
• April 27, 2020 Implementation of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration: A Whole-of-Society Approach
  By: Kevin Appleby
• April 22, 2020 A Study and Analysis of the Treatment of Mexican Unaccompanied Minors by Customs and Border Protection
  By: Kiera Coulter, Samantha Sabo, Daniel E. Martinez, Katelyn Chisholm, Kelsey Gonzalez, Edrick Villalobos, Diego Garcia, Taylor Levy, Jeremy Slack
• April 15, 2020 Promoting Human Security: Planned Relocation as a Protection Tool in a Time of Climate Change
  By: Elizabeth Ferris, Sanjula Weerasinghe
• March 18, 2020 Building Blocks and Challenges for the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees in Africa
  By: Sergio Carciotto, Filppio Ferraro
• March 03, 2020 Not for Adults Only: Toward a Child’s Lens in Migration Policies in Asia
  By: Maruja M. B. Asis, Alan Feranil
• March 03, 2020 The Use of Executive Orders and Proclamations to Create Immigration Policy: Trump in Historical Perspective
  By: Michele Waslin
• February 26, 2020 Reverse Migration to Mexico Led to US Undocumented Population Decline: 2010 to 2018
  By: Robert Warren
• February 26, 2020 What’s Wrong with Temporary Protected Status and How to Fix It: Exploring a Complementary Protection Regime
  By: Bill Frelick
• January 20, 2020 Empathic Humanitarianism: Understanding the Motivations behind Humanitarian Work with Migrants at the US–Mexico Border
  By: Ricardo Gomez, Bryce Clayton, Sara Vannini
• January 20, 2020 Statelessness in West Africa: An Assessment of Stateless Populations and Legal, Policy, and Administrative Frameworks in Ghana
  By: Raymond Atuguba, Francis Xavier, Vitus Gbang
• December 19, 2019 DACA and the Supreme Court: How We Got to This Point, a Statistical Profile of Who Is Affected, and What the Future May Hold for DACA Beneficiaries
  By: Daniela Alulema
• December 11, 2019 Putting Americans First: A Statistical Case for Encouraging Rather than Impeding and Devaluing US Citizenship
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• August 21, 2019 Venezuelan Migration and the Border Health Crisis in Colombia and Brazil
  By: Shannon Doocy, Kathleen Page, Fernando de la Hoz, Paul Spiegel, Chris Beyer
• August 19, 2019 Universal Representation: Systemic Benefits and the Path Ahead
  By: Lindsay Nash
• August 14, 2019 An Overview and Critique of US Immigration and Asylum Policies in the Trump Era
  By: Paul Wickham Schmidt
• July 29, 2019 Paradoxes of Protection: Compassionate Repression at the Mexico–Guatemala Border
  By: Rebecca Galemba, Katie Dingeman, Kaelyn DeVries, Yvette Servin
• July 02, 2019 Do Immigrants Threaten US Public Safety?
  By: Pia Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny
• June 12, 2019 The Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Faith-Based Organizations: An Analysis of the FEER Survey
  By: Donald Kerwin, Mike Nicholson
• May 21, 2019 Fixing What’s Most Broken in the US Immigration System: A Profile of the Family Members of US Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents Mired in Multiyear Backlogs
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• March 06, 2019 Bodily Inertia and the Weaponization of the Sonoran Desert in US Boundary Enforcement: A GIS Modeling of Migration Routes through Arizona’s Altar Valley
  By: Geoffrey Alan Boyce, Samuel Chambers, Sarah Launius
• January 01, 2019 Is Regular Migration Safer Migration? Insights from Thailand
  By: Maryann Bylander
• January 01, 2019 US Undocumented Population Continued to Fall from 2016 to 2017 and Visa Overstays Significantly Exceeded Illegal Crossings for the Seventh Consecutive Year
  By: Robert Warren
• November 01, 2018 Proposed Public Charge Rule Would Significantly Reduce Legal Admissions and Adjustment to Lawful Permanent Resident Status of Working Class Persons
  By: Donald Kerwin
• November 01, 2018 Communities in Crisis: Interior Removals and Their Human Consequences
  By: CMS
• November 01, 2018 Perspectives on the Content and Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration
  By: CMS
• November 01, 2018 Proposed Public Charge Rule Would Significantly Reduce Legal Admissions and Adjustment to Lawful Permanent Resident Status of Working Class Persons
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren, Mike Nicholson
• September 01, 2018 Perspectives on the Content and Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration
  By: Kevin Appleby
• June 01, 2018 The US Refugee Resettlement Program — A Return to First Principles: How Refugees Help to Define, Strengthen, and Revitalize the United States
  By: CMS
• June 01, 2018 Responsibility Sharing for Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants in Need of Protection
  By: CMS
• January 01, 2018 Immigration and the War on Crime: Law and Order Politics and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
  By: Partisia Macias-Rojas
• January 01, 2018 Refugees, Development, Debt, Austerity: A Selected History
  By: Leah Zamore
• January 01, 2018 DREAM Act-Eligible Poised to Build on the Investments Made in Them
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• January 01, 2018 Twenty Years After IIRIRA: The Rise of Immigrant Detention and Its Effects on Latinx Communities Across the Nation
  By: Melina Juarez, Sonia Bettez
• January 01, 2018 Immigration Governance for the Twenty-First Century
  By: Ruth Ellen Wassem
• January 01, 2018 From Right to Permission: Asylum, Mediterranean Migrations, and Europe’s War on Smuggling
  By: Maurizio Albahari
• January 01, 2018 Predicting Unauthorized Salvadoran Migrants’ First Migration to the United States between 1965 and 2007
  By: Karen Pren, Nadia Flores-Yeffal
• January 01, 2018 Immigration Detention, Inc.
  By: Denise Gilman, Luis A. Romero
• January 01, 2018 The Case for a National Legalization Program without Legislation or Executive Action
  By: Jeanne M. Atkinson, Tom Wong
• January 01, 2018 Family Matters: Claiming Rights across the US-Mexico Migratory System
  By: Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt, Alyssa Peavey, Deborah Weissman
• January 01, 2018 An Examination of Wage and Income Inequality within the American Farmworker Community
  By: Marianne L Bowers, Daniel Chand
• January 01, 2018 The US Refugee Resettlement Program — A Return to First Principles: How Refugees Help to Define, Strengthen, and Revitalize the United States
  By: Donald Kerwin
• January 01, 2018 Communities in Crisis: Interior Removals and Their Human Consequences
  By: Donald Kerwin, Daniela Alulema, Mike Nicholson
• June 01, 2017 Point of No Return: The Fear and Criminalization of Central American Refugees
  By: CMS
• June 01, 2017 Mission to the Middle East 2017: The Plight of the Displaced
  By: Kevin Appleby
• June 01, 2017 Building Structures of Solidarity and Instruments of Justice: The Catholic Immigrant Integration Surveys
  By: Donald Kerwin
• June 01, 2017 Point of No Return: The Fear and Criminalization of Central American Refugees
  By: Center for Migration Studies of New York
• April 01, 2017 Mission to the Middle East 2017: The Plight of the Displaced
  By: Kevin Appleby
• February 01, 2017 The DACA Era and the Continuous Legalization Work of the US Immigrant-Serving Communit
  By: Donald Kerwin
• February 01, 2017 The DACA Era and the Continuous Legalization Work of the US Immigrant-Serving Community
  By: Donald Kerwin, Roberto Suro, Tess Thorman, Daniela Alulema
• January 01, 2017 Immigration Policy and Agriculture: Possible Directions for the Future
  By: Philip Martin
• January 01, 2017 You are Not Welcome Here Anymore: Restoring Support for Refugee Resettlement in the Age of Trump
  By: Todd Scribner
• January 01, 2017 National Interests and Common Ground in the US Immigration Debate: How to Legalize the US Immigration System and Permanently Reduce Its Undocumented Population
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• January 01, 2017 Separated Families: Barriers to Family Reunification After Deportation
  By: Deborah Boehm
• January 01, 2017 Working Together: Building Successful Policy and Program Partnerships for Immigrant Integration
  By: Els de Graauw, Irene Bloemraad
• January 01, 2017 US Immigration Policy and the Case for Family Unity
  By: Zoya Gubernskaya, Joanna Dreby
• January 01, 2017 The 2,000 Mile Wall in Search of a Purpose: Since 2007 Visa Overstays have Outnumbered Undocumented Border Crossers by a Half Million
  By: Robert Warren, Donald Kerwin
• January 01, 2017 Weeping in the Playtime of Others: The Obama Administration’s Failed Reform of ICE Family Detention Practices
  By: Dora Schriro
• January 01, 2017 Seeking a Rational Approach to a Regional Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Summer 2014 “Surge” of Central American Women and Children at the US-Mexico Border
  By: Karen Musalo, Eunice Lee
• January 01, 2017 Is Border Enforcement Effective? What We Know and What It Means
  By: Edward Alden
• January 01, 2017 Creating Cohesive, Coherent Immigration Policy
  By: Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny
• January 01, 2017 A Statistical and Demographic Profile of the US Temporary Protected Status Populations from El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti
  By: Robert Warren, Donald Kerwin
• January 01, 2017 The Human Cost of IIRIRA — Stories From Individuals Impacted by the Immigration Detention System
  By: Saba Ahmed, Adina Appelbaum, Rachel Jordan
• January 01, 2017 Kidnapped, Trafficked, Detained? The Implications of Non-state Actor Involvement in Immigration Detention
  By: Michael Flynn
• January 01, 2017 Making America 1920 Again? Nativism and US Immigration, Past and Present
  By: Julia G. Young
• January 01, 2017 The “Right to Remain Here” as an Evolving Component of Global Refugee Protection: Current Initiatives and Critical Questions
  By: Daniel Kanstroom
• January 01, 2017 Mass Deportations Would Impoverish US Families and Create Immense Social Costs
  By: Robert Warren, Donald Kerwin
• January 01, 2017 Matching Systems for Refugees
  By: Will Jones, Alexander Teytelboym
• January 01, 2017 Critical Perspectives on Clandestine Migration Facilitation: An Overview of Migrant Smuggling Research
  By: Gabriella Sanchez
• January 01, 2017 Proposals for the Negotiation Process on the United Nations Global Compact for Migration
  By: Victor Genina
• January 01, 2017 The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
  By: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, F Nikolas Tan
• January 01, 2017 Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era
  By: Leisy Abrego, Mat Coleman, Daniel Martínez
• January 01, 2017 “They Need to Give Us a Voice”:1 Lessons from Listening to Unaccompanied Central American and Mexican Children on Helping Children Like Themselves
  By: Susan Schmidt
• January 01, 2017 The Mixed Motives of Unaccompanied Child Migrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle
  By: Matthew Lorenzen
• January 01, 2017 Responding to a Refugee Influx: Lessons from Lebanon
  By: Ninette Kelley
• January 01, 2017 Strengthening the Global Refugee Protection System: Recommendations for the Global Compact on Refugees
  By: Kevin Appleby
• January 01, 2017 Redefining American Families: The Disparate Effects of IIRIRA’s Automatic Bars to Reentry and Sponsorship Requirements on Mixed-Citizenship Couples
  By: Jane Lily López
• September 01, 2016 The Central American Humanitarian Crisis and US Policy Responses
  By: Kevin Appleby, Leonir Chiarello, Donald Kerwin
• March 09, 2016 Potential Beneficiaries of the Obama Administration’s Executive Action Programs Deeply Embedded in US Society
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• January 01, 2016 US Undocumented Population Drops Below 11 Million in 2014, with Continued Declines in the Mexican Undocumented Population
  By: Robert Warren
• January 01, 2016 Potential Beneficiaries of the Obama Administration’s Executive Action Programs Deeply Embedded in US Society1
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• November 17, 2015 The US Eligible-to-Naturalize Population: Detailed Social and Economic Characteristics
  By: Robert Warren, Donald Kerwin
• November 11, 2015 Piecing Together the US Immigrant Detention Puzzle One Night at a Time: An Analysis of All Persons in DHS-ICE Custody on September 22, 2012
  By: Donald Kerwin, Daniela Alulema, Siqi Tu
• July 13, 2015 The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Comparison of Responses by Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
  By: Nicole Ostrand
• July 13, 2015 Book Review: Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government: Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy By Josh DeWind and Renata Segura, eds. New York, NY: Social Science Research Council and New York University Press, 2014. 320 pages.
  By: Thomas Ambrosio
• July 13, 2015 Immigration Reform and Administrative Relief for 2014 and Beyond: A Report on Behalf of the Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation (CIRI), Human Resources Working Group
  By: Charles Kamasaki, Susan Timmons, Courtney Tudi, Amelia Collins, Jack Holmgren, Donald Kerwin, Kerry O'Brien
• June 22, 2015 The US Refugee Protection System on the 35th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980
  By: Donald Kerwin
• June 22, 2015 Unlocking Human Dignity: A Plan to Transform the US Immigrant Detention System
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• June 22, 2015 Humanitarian Protection for Children Fleeing Gang-Based Violence in the Americas
  By: Elizabeth Carlson, Ann Marie Gallagher
• June 22, 2015 In Harm’s Way: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement Programs and Security on the US-Mexico Border
  By: Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez, Scott Whiteford, Emily Peiffer
• March 05, 2015 California Dreaming: The New Dynamism in Immigration Federalism and Opportunities for Inclusion on a Variegated Landscape
  By: Roberto Suro
• March 05, 2015 On the Margins: Noncitizens Caught in Countries Experiencing Violence, Conflict and Disaster
  By: Sarah Drury, John Flanagan, Aaron Gregg, Pitchaya Indravudh, Abbie Taylor, Sanjula Weerasinghe
• March 05, 2015 Children's Migration to the United States from Mexico and Central America: Evidence from the Mexican and Latin American Migration Projects
  By: Katharine M. Donato, Blake Sisk
• March 05, 2015 Beyond DAPA and DACA: Revisiting Legislative Reform in Light of Long-Term Trends in Unauthorized Immigration to the United States
  By: Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren
• March 05, 2015 Structural Violence and Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona: Data from the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2013
  By: Daniel E. Martínez, Robin C. Reineke, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Bruce O. Parks
• March 05, 2015 Paths to Lawful Immigration Status: Results and Implications from the PERSON Survey
  By: Donald Kerwin, Tom K. Wong, Jeanne M. Atkinson, Mary Meg McCarthy
• March 05, 2015 Democratizing Data about Unauthorized Residents in the United States: Estimates and Public-Use Data, 2010 to 2013
  By: Robert Warren
• March 05, 2015 Reconfiguring the Law of Non-Refoulement: Procedural and Substantive Barriers for Those Seeking to Access Surrogate International Human Rights Protection
  By: Mark R. von Sternberg
• March 05, 2015 Problems Faced by Mexican Asylum Seekers in the United States
  By: J.Anna Cabot
• February 05, 2015 The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy
  By: Maryellen Fullerton
• February 05, 2015 There and Back Again: On the Diffusion of Immigration Detention
  By: Michael T. Flynn
• February 05, 2015 "Enemy Territory": Immigration Enforcement in the US-Mexico Borderlands
  By: Walter A. Ewing
• February 05, 2015 Reconceiving Citizenship: Noncitizen Voting in New York City Municipal Elections as a Case Study in Immigrant Integration and Local Governance
  By: Lauren Gilbert
• February 05, 2015 International Migration, US Immigration Law and Civil Society: From the Pre-Colonial Era to the 113th Congress (Edited by Leonir Mario Chiarello and Donald Kerwin, Scalabrini International Migration Network, 2014)
  By: Breana George
• January 05, 2014 Legalization Programs and the Integration of Unauthorized Immigrants: A Comparison of S. 744 and IRCA
  By: María E Enchautegui
• January 05, 2014 The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration
  By: Susan Gzesh
• January 05, 2014 Temporary Protected Status after 25 Years: Addressing the Challenge of Long-Term "Temporary" Residents and Strengthening a Centerpiece of US Humanitarian Protection
  By: Claire Bergeron
• January 05, 2014 Creating a More Responsive and Seamless Refugee Protection System: The Scope, Promise and Limitations of US Temporary Protection Programs
  By: Donald Kerwin
• January 05, 2014 Mrs. Shipley's Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists
  By: Susan Ginsburg
• January 05, 2014 Identifying and Measuring the Lifelong Human Capital of "Unskilled" Migrants in the Mexico-US Migratory Circuit
  By: Jacqueline Hagan, Jean Luc Demonsant, Sergio Chávez
• January 05, 2014 Unfulfilled Promises, Future Possibilities: The Refugee Resettlement System in the United States
  By: Todd Scribner, Anastasia Brown
• January 05, 2014 An Overview of Pending Asylum and Refugee Legislation in the US Congress
  By: Melanie Nezer
• January 05, 2013 Facing Immigration Fears: A Constructive Local Approach to Day Labor, Community, and Integration
  By: Sandra Lazo de la Vega, Timothy Steigenga
• January 05, 2013 Human Insecurity: Understanding International Migration from a Human Security Perspective
  By: Todd Scribner, Francesca Vietti
• January 05, 2013 The US Labor Standards Enforcement System and Low-Wage Immigrants: Recommendations for Legislative and Administrative Reform
  By: Donald Kerwin
• January 05, 2013 Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
  By: Maryann Bylander
• January 05, 2013 A Voice of the US Southwestern Border: The 2012 "We the Border: Envisioning a Narrative for Our Future" Conference
  By: Josiah McC. Heyman
• January 05, 2013 Citizen or Subordinate: Permutations of Belonging in the United States and the Dominican Republic
  By: Shaina Aber, Mary Small
• January 05, 2013 Global Trends in Immigration Detention and Alternatives to Detention: Practical, Political and Symbolic Rationales
  By: Robyn Sampson, Grant Mitchell
• January 05, 2013 Not Just the Facts: Adjudicator Bias and Decisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (2006-2011)
  By: Innessa Colaiacovo
• January 05, 2013 At the Edge of US Immigration's "Halt of Folly:" Data, Information, and Research Needs in the Event of Legalization
  By: Fernando Riosmena
• January 05, 2013 Housing and Quality of Life for Migrant Communities in Western Europe: A Capabilities Approach
  By: Dermot Coates, Paul Anand, Michelle Norris