As Congress nears a deadline next week to approve a new budget or budget extension, the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hangs in the balance. Shannon Gleeson, a Cornell University professor of labor relations and an expert on immigrant labor, has been working on a three-year long collaborative project to study how the DACA policy is implemented at the local level in Houston, New York City, San Francisco and San Jose.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Authorities in Beijing have started an extensive 40-day campaign to inspect and demolish cheap housing in the city’s outskirts and forcibly evict residents, mostly migrant workers communities. Eli Friedman, a professor of international and comparative labor at Cornell University and author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China, says the evictions reveal the regime’s moral vacuum and cautions that if replicated in other cities, they could lead to a real humanitarian tragedy.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Mona Krewel, assistant professor of government at Cornell University, is an expert on elections and campaigning in Europe and author of the recently published book “Modernization of German Election Campaigns?” She says Emmanuel Macron will need more than a victory on Sunday’s elections to govern effectively.

Arts and Sciences

Industrial and Labor Relations

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