Last Tuesday, a massive fire destroyed a thirty-six-unit apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio. Most of the complex’s residents were recently resettled refugees from Bhutan, with other residents originally from Somalia and Mexico. While the exact cause of the fire is still unknown, the Columbus Fire Department says that it appears to have been […]Continue Reading →
Today is Labor Day, which for the vast majority of Americans means little more than a three-day weekend and the end of summer. It seemed to me an appropriate occasion, though, to write about immigration. You see, most of immigration is explained by labor. While there are individuals who migrate because they are […]Continue Reading →
When I’m asked how I became interested in immigration, I sometimes mention that I grew up in a part of the country—Northeast Wisconsin—where there really aren’t many immigrants and that, as such, for lack of meaningful relationships, most of my opinions about the topic until a few years ago were formed by television and other […]Continue Reading →
