Recent Articles
FEB 11, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Defining Environmental Migrants
As the world attempts to solve the growth in climate migrants and refugees, accurate and legally justifiable definitions will be a crucial first step.
FEB 9, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Obama's Grade on Trade: B
Beyond the uncertain fate of trade agreements left over from the Bush years, President Obama has yet to implement the promises for trade reform he ...
FEB 9, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: A Permaculture Strategy for Haiti
Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute discusses how to strategize and deploy sustainable local food production across Haiti as part of earthquake relief and ...
FEB 5, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Taking the Waves
An innovative tidal power installation off the coast of Scotland could help demonstrate the ocean's potential for delivering renewable energy.
FEB 3, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Immigration Administration Control in Japan
Japanese immigration policy seeks to balance the needs of migrants and refugees with the harmonious functioning of Japanese industry, society, and employment.
FEB 1, 2010 • Article
Obama and Democracy Assistance: Challenges and Responses
Although Obama has largely avoided the term democracy assistance, in fact he has delivered a considered and astute response to overcoming Bush's tarnished legacy--a response ...
JAN 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Managed Rights, Managed Migration
While international migration is yet to be seen as an international public good, the international regime for orderly movement of people may eventually become a ...
JAN 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Englishization of Higher Education in Asia and Migratory Flows of International Students
The Malaysian case of English-medium higher education represents what may be called a postcolonial pattern of English-mediated globalization wherein the old center-periphery arguments of linguistic ...
JAN 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Linking Ethics and Self-Interest in Human Mobility
The ethical and self-interested choice in migration policy is to seek liberalized and rationalized migration that combines positive incentives with clear and fair entry criteria ...
JAN 25, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Ethics of Undocumented Migration
Using fieldwork data through participant observation and interviews, this paper explains the causes of undocumented migration out of Fujian and explores the ethical frameworks within ...