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American Immigrant Policy Portal
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Research to Inform Policy and Practice
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Migration-Related Issues
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Policy-related reports, studies, and information about the challenge and promise of immigrant integration. Materials organized by collection topic.
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Featured Research
Researchers offer suggestions on how to advance a progressive state and local immigrant integration agenda
Authors: Allan Colbern & Karthick Ramakrishnan
This paper focuses on actions being taken by states, counties and municipalities that bolster immigrant integration. The authors believe that since comprehensive immigration reform is stalled at the federal level, these sub-federal level activities are growing in importance and influence. Drawing on research and the input of participants in several focus group discussions, the authors review findings in four specific domains: policymaking, implementation, organizational capacity and community-engaged research. For each topic, they provide examples from multiple locales and provide suggestions for best practices. A key theme that emerges as part of the discussion is the need to think carefully about how immigrant integration efforts should be framed. The authors suggest that advocates should draw on a broader sense of community, rather than focusing on the needs of one segment of society. For example, they believe that themes of public safety, workforce development and the ideals of non-discrimination are likely to generate support for immigrant integration policies. The authors also argue for a strategy of incremental policy change, rather than comprehensive reform packages. They believe that this approach is less likely to generate backlash and creates precedents that can be built on. In keeping with this approach, the authors stress the importance of long-term planning and see the value of investing time and resources in network building, especially coalitions connecting groups working on related issues. They believe that anti-immigration forces are well coordinated, so all of those in favor of immigrant integration must work together
(Erik Jacobson, Montclair State University).
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New Public Policy Research and Reports
MPI report examines the pivotal role played by immigrants in the health care industry
M
ichigan leaders worry that Trump immigration policies threaten to undermine the state's economic recovery
National Perspectives/Immigration Policy
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Latest Commentary
A selection of recent OpEds from immigration researchers and major opinion leaders
September 16, 2017 How to End the Immigration Wars
Eric Cantor, The New York Times
September 13, 2017 Trump could deliver immigration reform
Allan Wernick, New York Daily News
September 7, 2017 DACA, The 1924 Immigration Act and American Exclusion
Ben Railton, Huffington Post
September 11, 2017 Why Your Economic Argument Against Immigration is Probably Wrong
Benjamin Harris, Fortune
September 7, 2017 The Birth of 'Illegal' Immigration
Becky Little, History
September 6, 2017 Immigrants Shouldn't Have to Be 'Talented' to Be Welcome
Masha Gessen, The New York Times
September 5, 2017 Trump's Move to End DACA and Echoes of The Immigration Act of 1924
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
August 18, 2017 We Need Immigrants With Skills. But Working Hard Is a Skill
Jeff Flake, The New York Times
August 17, 2017 How Democrats Gave Us Trump's Immigration Nightmare
Clio Chang, The New Republic
August 17, 2017 Donald Trump is winning on immigration
Joshua Green, The Boston Globe
August 12, 2017 How Trump is Stifling Entrepreneurship
Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal, & Jeff Oster, Fortune
August 9, 2017 Right and Left Don't Trust Each Other on Immigration -- and They're Right
Matt Lewis, Daily Beast
August 7, 2017 Antiracism Backfires
Dennis Saffran, City Journal
August 6, 2017 The Real History of American Immigration
Joshua Zeitz, Politico
August 5, 2017 West Virginia's immigration 'problem'
Walter D. Kamphoefner, Houston Chronicle
August 3, 2017 There's no evidence that immigrants hurt any American workers
Michael Clemens, Vox
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Immigration Law and Policy Conference, CLINIC, Migration Policy Institute, & Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, September 25, 2017
Statue of Liberty: Changing and Contested Meaning, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, New York, NY, September 25, 2017
Whither Immigration? New Directions in Research and Policy in an Era of Nationalism, Center for Migration Studies of New York, New York, NY, October 3, 2017
Leading the Way: A New Approach to American Immigration, National Immigration Forum, Washington, DC, October 5, 2017 Catholic Immigrant Integration Initiative, The Center for Migration Studies of New York and others, Los Angeles, CA, October 12-13, 2017
Welcoming Economies Convening, WE Global Network, Syracuse, NY, October 23-25, 2017 National Immigrant Integration Conference, National Partnership for New Americans, Phoenix, AZ, December 10-12, 2017
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