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Research to Inform Policy and Practice   
on Migration-Related Issues
  
Policy-related reports, studies, and information about the challenge and promise of immigrant integration. Materials organized by collection topic.
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Civic Participation
National Academies of Science Task Force raises strong objections to the inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 census

Article critiques the seldom discussed but growing practice of granting immigrant visas and citizenship to "high value" foreign investors


Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration
Wharton paper calls attention to the role that immigrants play in stimulating foreign corporate investment in the United States

University of Pennsylvania paper finds that the 2013 Senate-passed immigration reform bill would produce substantially more economic benefits for the American people than the Trump-supported RAISE Act of 2017


Immigrant Employment and Labor Issues
Researchers challenge the inevitability of a low-wage, exploitive "secondary" labor market and cite examples of how "lateral" involvement on the part of civic sector organizations can complement and support the "vertical" labor law enforcement efforts of government

Welcoming Economies and Global Detroit release "Playbook" for communities interested in unlocking the full economic potential of immigrants and refugees

MPI convenes a meeting of experts on high-skilled immigration and produces a "state of the field" report


Immigrant Communities
MPI updates its profile of European immigrants in the United States, including European "diaspora groups"


Intergroup Relations
Paper argues for a more inclusive immigrant rights strategy that doesn't pit one group against another


Refugee and Asylee Policy
GCIR report suggests strategies that foundations can pursue to help refugees and asylum-seekers and the embattled organizations that work with them

CMS report details how refugees "help to define, strengthen, and revitalize the United States"


Global Perspectives
MPI reports on the "patchwork of responses" to the massive exodus of Venezuelans to other countries in Latin America
 
lcLatest Commentary
 
 
A selection of recent OpEds from immigration researchers and major opinion leaders




 

September 24, 2018
Trump is proposing a regulation that could change the face of legal immigration -- by restricting low-income immigrants
Dara Lind, Vox

September 16, 2018
Our policies on immigration should be forward-thinking
Ruth Ellen Wasem, The Hill

September 12, 2018
Repeating anti-immigrant screeds doesn't make them true
Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post

September 3, 2018
Immigrants, Fearing Trump Crackdown, Drop Out of Nutrition Programs
Helene Bottemiller Evich, Politico

August 31, 2018
Dean of Duke's Business School: Trump's Immigration Policy Could Make the U.S. an 'Economic Dinosaur'
John Byrne, Forbes

August 30, 2018
Who's Afraid of a White Minority?
Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times

August 29, 2018
Honor bipartisan legacy of John McCain with immigration reform
Matthew Soerens, The Hill

August, 2018
Through the Back Door: Remaking the Immigration System via the Expected "Public Charge" Rule
Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix, & Mark Greenberg, MPI Commentary

August 20, 2018
The Immigrant Grandparents America Needs
Stacy Torres & Xuemei Cao, The New York Times


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