Book: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Author: David Reich Reviewed by: Glenn P. Hendrix, Chair, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP I’m fascinated by prehistory. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 200,000 years, but the earliest recorded history dates back only a […]
Books 2019: How and Why ‘My Fellow Americans’ Resounds Across the Pacific
Book: How to Hide an Empire: A History of The Greater United States Author: Daniel Immerwahr Reviewed by: Christopher N. Smith, Attorney at Law and Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark in Georgia A global quest for guano. The need for coal fueling stations for a growing navy. An ascendant global power wishing to […]
After Trump Order, Atlanta Mayor Sends Letter in Support of Welcoming Refugees
The City of Atlanta will continue to host refugees within its borders following an executive order requiring states and local governments to give expressed consent for the resettlement of such immigrants in their jurisdictions. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms underscored the city’s consent in a Dec. 10 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, noting […]
MP: Immigration Crisis Helped Revive Germany’s Populist Right
A few years back, Germany’s far-right party was on the ropes after the euro-zone’s recovery proved the value of the common currency. The Alternative for Germany, known by its German acronym AfD, had lost the primary issue it used to drive an anti-European agenda. Its poll numbers started to drop. Then came the refugees, […]
Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Winning Essay Tells Timely Story of Immigrant Legacy
Perhaps more than ever, this year’s Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Parade Essay Contest winner found the perfect audience for her work. Diaspora and heritage are often themes of winning essays, but when 17-year-old Mary Lauren Golden read hers to the Irish Chamber of Atlanta’s annual breakfast, Ireland’s minister for immigration was in the crowd. Of course, […]
Pro-Immigrant Clarkston Mayor Launches Petition to End Shutdown Over ‘Racist’ Border Wall
The mayor of the metro Atlanta city known as the “Ellis Island of the South” has launched a petition urging President Trump to end the record-long federal government shutdown over the border wall, decrying what he called the politics of fear and racism. Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, a Democrat who took office in 2014 and […]
Did Foreign Graduates Help Lure Amazon Away From Atlanta?
Greater availability of recent foreign graduates in Washington and New York may have played a role in Amazon’s decision put its second and third headquarters operations in those cities, passing over other top-20 metro hopefuls like Atlanta. Reports have speculated that the expected challenge of finding talent drove Amazon’s last-second decision to split its planned 50,000-job […]
Honduras Consul General: Cutting Off Aid Not the Answer to Illicit Migration
Just as a migrant caravan now numbering in the thousands set out from Central America to the U.S. two weeks ago, Honduras’ top diplomat in Atlanta was discussing the factors driving emigration from her country — and ways the U.S. can help address it. Maria Fernanda Rivera Fiallos spoke with Global Atlanta during an Oct. 16 Consular Conversation, […]
Commentary: Fast Track No Longer: Talent-based Green Cards Face Unprecedented Delays
Editor’s note/disclosure: This sponsored commentary piece was written by an attorney at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP under an advertising arrangement with Global Atlanta. Historically, foreign national employees who meet the lofty threshold for qualifying as individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors or researchers, or multinational managers have enjoyed a fast track to […]
Commentary: Crunched for Technical Labor? Many Employers Are Hiring Foreign STEM Grads
Editor’s note: This is a sponsored post written by Justin Russo, an associate in the Atlanta office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP. With unemployment at a near all-time low, the pressure is on for employers of all stripes to find skilled workers, but the crunch is especially pronounced in technical fields.
