Shikha Dalmia | How Immigration Can Solve U.S. Slowing Birthrates and Declining Workforce

09/02/21 • 28 min

Shikha Dalmia is a Fellow with the Mercatus Center’s Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange. She's a former Senior Analyst at Reason Foundation and writing columnist for The Week, and writing contributor for the Reason Magazine, Bloomberg view USA Today, and The New York Times.

We discuss:

Her professional background as it relates to immigration and populist authoritarianism
A portrait of the state of demographic decline in the United States, and how immigration can solve it
Immigration policies undertaken by Canada, and the U.S. can emulate

We discuss:

Her professional background as it relates to immigration and populist authoritarianism
A portrait of the state of demographic decline in the United States, and how immigration can solve it
Immigration policies undertaken by Canada, and the U.S. can emulate

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Jennifer Chacon | Our History of Policing Migration Through the Criminal Justice System

UC Berkeley School of Law professor Jennifer Chacon joins Immigration Nerds. Her area of research focuses primarily on immigration, constitutional law, and criminal law and procedure.

Note: Unfortunately there are moments of audio crackling during the interview that was not detected at the moment of recording. We find the content still very valuable however we apologies for any listening inconvenience.

We discuss:

The legislative history of policing immigrants through the criminal justice system
A more humane alternative to manage migration
Confronting explicit bias in the legal system
Ways to provide adequate deterrents to unlawful immigration policing practices.

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Vivian Zavataro | En Medio: An Artistic Exhibit of the Immigration Experience

Vivian Zavataro is the Director of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art at the University of Nevada. She specializes in contemporary art and mediation, traveling the world working on installations, museums, and galleries that teach onlookers the value of Diversity, inclusion, and creativity in the work she presents. Joined by Lead Researcher, Luke Bianco.

We discuss:

How the En Medio exhibit came to be, an installation that focuses on the travels to the US-Mexico border expressed through music, photography, painting, video, and performance art
A discussion of some of the noteworthy pieces/artists featured within the exhibit
Ways we can engage with immigration art and expression