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Thursday, November 30, 2017

The "Chain Migration" Effect of DREAMers Is Apt to be Small

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Chain migration is a process whereby someone moves to another country, gets established, and then is able to help others make the same move....
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Can Venezuela Handle a Higher Birth Rate?

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The birth rate has gone down a lot in Venezuela in recent years. According to the UN demographers, it was nearly 3 children per woman only a...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Turkey Tries to Leverage the Syrian Refugees

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You may recall that the EU is paying Turkey a fairly large amount of money to effectively warehouse 3.5 million refugees from the Syrian ci...
Monday, November 27, 2017

A New Form of Election "Fraud" in the US

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Michael Wines has a very interesting article in the NYTimes detailing the way in which the attempt to "clean up" lists of voters ...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Doing a Better Job of Feeding Africans

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As the most rapidly growing region on earth, sub-Saharan Africa needs to figure out ways to feed itself, even as it fends off land grabs fr...
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I am Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University.
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