Jill Esbenshade, Ph.D.

Publications

An Assessment of DNA Testing for African Refugees

  • October 21, 2010

In March 2008, the Bureau of Population, Migration and Refugees (PRM)—the Department of State agency…

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Division and Dislocation: Regulating Immigration through Local Housing Ordinances

  • September 1, 2007

By Jill Esbenshade, Ph.D. In this Special Report, author Jill Esbenshade finds that ordinance initiatives are correlated with a recent and rapid increase in the foreign-born or Latino share of the population, which creates the perception of an immigration “crisis.” But undocumented immigration will not be “solved” by the local ordinances that are unconstitutional, deny due process rights to renters and landlords, and foster anti-immigrant and anti-Latino discrimination.

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