Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Russian Federation Sweden United Kingdom United States Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Men A great deal has been said and written about both mass immigration and mass imprisonment, but carefully researched connections are rarely made between these two trends. Rubén G. Rumbaut and associates at the University of California, Irvine examine the role of ethnicity, nativity, and generation in relation to crime and imprisonment. Rethinking the Last 200 Years of US Immigration Policy Contrary to popular belief, the United States actively devised policies and laws that shaped the country's population from the colonial period onward. Aristide Zolberg of the New School University highlights the key historical moments in this article, based on his new book A Nation by Design. The US-Mexico Border With so much political attention focused on the southern border, the MPI staff has updated this guide to regional population numbers, border crossings, border enforcement, and the economic ties between the United States and Mexico. Europe: Population and Migration in 2005 In Western Europe, every country has more people entering than leaving, and the same is true for many of the Central European countries that joined the European Union in 2004. Rainer Muenz of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics takes a detailed look at the latest European population data. Spotlight on the Iranian Foreign Born The size of the Iranian born population in the United States has more than doubled since Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979. MPI's Shirin Hakimzadeh and David Dixon provide background and statistics.

This month we reexamine popular notions about both US immigration policy and immigrants and criminality, plus we report stats on the Iranian foreign born, update our guide to the US-Mexico border, and provide an overview of the Senate's immigration bill. In Europe we look at the continent's latest population figures and Sweden's migration challenges. Sweden Although Sweden was once open to labor migrants from across Europe and refugees from all over the world, its policies have become increasingly restrictive over the last 35 years. Today, the country is wrestling with integration issues, as Charles Westin of the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Stockholm University, explains. Sweden Resource Page MPI's Julia Gelatt reports on the Senate's passage of historic immigration legislation; President Bush's plan for deploying the National Guard at the border; and the waiver of the material support bar for refugees from Burma, plus other immigration news. Full Story Morocco: From Emigration Country to Africa's Migration Passage to Europe A source for Europe's labor needs since the 1960s, Moroccan migrants and their remittances are central to the economy back home. But as Hein de Haas of Radboud University Nijmegen explains, Morocco is also becoming a transit and immigration country for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

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