The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration

Electoral concerns, special interests and illegal immigration

In 2006 illegal immigrants represented four percent of the total number of US residents, and comparable figures hold also for other advanced destination countries. If governments are not able or willing to stick to their “official” immigration policy, why do they set such policies in the first place? The purpose of this paper is to address this apparent puzzle, by developing a political agency ...

National Security and Immigration

This paper considers the relationship between economic factors and national security. While considering a broad number of issue areas, the principal theme of the course is the way in which economic factors (as immigration) fundamentally influence the national security of the region, and the way in which those factors shape and constrain the strategies chosen to pursue that security. South-South...

Who Should Watch Over Refugee Law?

Concerns continue over mercury and autism.

Stehr-Green et al. have misrepresented my work and confused the debate over autism and mercury exposure with ecologic data from Sweden and Denmark. Their report has many flaws. Four stand out. Their description of the California data promotes complacency regarding autism rates. For an Institute of Medicine (IOM) review, I presented an ecologic analysis of autism rates and mercury exposure demon...

Concerns over predictability of supply and quality

Concerns over Predictability of Supply and Quality Invited Abstract Carl Bowen AMD Adaptive test seems a logical solution to address the challenge of increasing IP complexity and shrinking test time budgets. Might slow adoption be a consequence of the Engineering community focus on technical implementation methods, at the expense of addressing the emotional concerns of the Quality and Supply Ch...