Prof. (em.) Dr. Philip Martin, University of California, Davis: "Trump 2.0 and Migration"

Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 6:15-7:45 p.m., U2/01.33
(The room is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.)

This lecture takes place in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Daniel G?ler (Chair of Geographical Migration and Transformation Research) as part of the lecture series "Geographical Colloquium"

Trump 2.0 marks a dramatic change in US migration policies. After a few months of Trump in office, unauthorized migration over the Mexico-US border has almost stopped, temporary legal status for four million foreigners is being reviewed and ended, and a campaign to detect and remove the 11-12 million unauthorized foreigners inside the US is underway. This talk will explore what Trump has and is planning to do, and the implications for migrants in the US and around the world.

Philip Martin, professor emeritus of the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, focuses on immigration, farm labor, and economic development in his research. He has earned a reputation as an effective analyst who can develop practical solutions to complex and controversial migration and labor issues. In the U.S., he was the only academic appointed to the Commission on Agricultural Workers to assess the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. He assessed the prospects for Turkish migration to European Union between 1987 and 1990, and evaluated the effects of immigration on Malaysia’s economy and its labor markets in 1994-95. In 2001-02, he assessed the options for dealing with unauthorized migration into Thailand. Prof. Martin received UC Davis’ Distinguished Public Service award in 1994, and was a member of the Binational Study of Migration between 1995 and 1997. (Link)