American Immigrant Policy Portal Update, February 2022

American Immigrant Policy Portal

Newsletter

February, 2022

Research to Inform Policy, Practice, and Advocacy on

Migration-Related Issues

Reports, studies, and information about immigration policy

and the challenge and promise of immigrant integration

Materials organized by collection topic.

Click on headlines for abstracts and links to original research.

New Public Policy Research and Reports

Civic Participation

Are there lessons to be learned from immigrants who choose not to become U.S. citizens? Paper explores this possibility

Human Services (General)

MPI report examines language access laws and policies in 40 states and jurisdictions around the country, analyzing key approaches and identifying model programs

Study argues that legislation to reduce childhood poverty in the U.S. will not achieve its goal if unauthorized immigrants and their citizen family members are denied eligibility for benefits

Special issue of Migration Policy Practice focuses on the plight of migrant children seeking to cross the southern border of the U.S., including how race, class, and gender shape their experiences and treatment

Study finds that anti-money laundering and other policies have unduly restricted remittances by immigrants to family members in other countries

Human Services (Health Care)

Symposium papers analyze adherence to 14 principles developed by a group of migration and legal scholars to ensure equal access to health care by migrants, refugees, and other displaced people during the pandemic

Immigration Demographics

CMS paper provides estimates of the number of people eligible for legal status under pending congressional bills

Intergroup Relations

Paper from the Urban Institute decries the lack of attention to race and racism in immigration policy research -- a gap that obscures the experience of particular immigrant groups and hides the policies and structures that produce racialized outcomes

Study examines trends in media immigration coverage over a four-year period and finds a preponderance of reporting on detention, enforcement, border issues, and asylum to the exclusion of other topics

Refugee and Asylee Issues

Report from Human Rights First documents thousands of kidnappings and violent attacks directed at migrants and asylum seekers, and faults the Biden administration for continuing the "illegal and deadly" policies of the Trump administration

LATEST NEWS AND COMMENTARY

Featuring a selection of recent Op-eds from

Immigration researchers and major opinion leaders

February 16, 2022

Immigrants could help the US labor shortage -- if the government would let them

Nicole Narea, Vox

February 10, 2022

GOP bill highlights Republican rift on immigration

Rafael Bernal & Mike Lillis, The Hill

February 9, 2022

Immigration agency reverses Trump-era changes to its mission statement

Rafael Bernal, The Hill

February 8, 2022

GOP bill would legalize migrants in exchange for border security, E-Verify

Julian Resendiz, Border Report

February 7, 2022

Time to press pause on decades of immigration trench warfare

C. Steward Verdery, Jr., The Hill

February 5, 2022

Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth

Miriam Jordan & Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times

February 3, 2022

Refugees in U.S. struggle to find long-term work

Julie Greco, Cornell Chronicle

January 31, 2022

Immigration Reform in "The America Competes Act" of 2022

Whitney Appel & Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum

January 31, 2022

State Department Continues to Fight Diversity Visa Immigrants in Court

Stuart Anderson, Forbes

Our Mission

"'Closing the Knowledge to Action Gap"

As the United States struggles to build an immigration system for the 21^st century, the Portal enables advocates and policy-makers to use evidence-based research to guide their work.

Our goal is to preserve and disseminate the findings of leading researchers who are seeking answers to questions critical to the future of the country.

To date, our team of volunteers has produced over 2,000 research summaries grouped into 19 different subject collections.

These summaries, as well as links to original research, are available at the Portal website and at the website of the Public Education Institute of the Immigrant Learning Center.

Please write us with any thoughts or suggestions you might have at: mail@usdiversitydynamics.com