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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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Adult Education and Workforce Training
Arguing that education and training can help immigrants close the "middle-skills gap," Urban Institute report highlights promising practices and effective strategies to upskill the immigrant population


Education (Pre-K to 12)
MPI produces a guide to help school systems design effective programs to serve English language learners


Civic Participation
In an addendum to an earlier report, National Partnership calls attention to the growing backlog of naturalization applications and worries that it may reflect a deliberate effort on the part of the Trump administration to suppress voting in the U.S.


Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration
Report calls attention to the impressive scientific contributions of the children of immigrants and identifies several factors accounting for their success

Study examines the differences and similarities between immigrant and native-born entrepreneurs and the businesses they create

National Immigration Forum releases fact sheet on the economic contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs


Immigrant Employment and Labor Issues
Paper argues that the U.S. has a long history of exploiting immigrant labor and identifies some of the factors that permit these "vestiges of chattel slavery" to persist


Intergroup Relations
Paper challenges the apparent journalistic consensus that there is an economic basis for anti-immigrant attitudes and finds that "racial resentment" is a much stronger predictive force producing such attitudes


Law Enforcement
Scholars produce summary of research on the topic of immigrants and crime, observe that there is a general inverse relationship between the two, and describe institutional forces that push a false narrative of immigrant criminality to advance their vested interests


Refugee and Asylee Policy
Report discusses how employers have taken steps to integrate refugees into their workforces and how their companies have benefitted in the process

Colorado study attempts to quantify the positive return on investment from state expenditures to resettle refugees

Written for a European audience, MPI report calls for an "analytical revolution," premised on the use of cost-benefit analysis, to determine the effectiveness of various approaches to the labor market integration of refugees


State-Specific Studies
Pew produces statistical portrait of immigrants in Philadelphia and notes their role in fueling the population resurgence of the city

  
 
lcLatest Commentary
 
 
A selection of recent OpEds from immigration researchers and major opinion leaders




 
August 15, 2018
How Trump Radicalized ICE
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic Magazine
August 14, 2018
Family Separation Isn't New: U.S. immigration policy has traumatized migrant children and parents for nearly a century
Natalie Escobar, The Atlantic
August 13, 2018
Stephen Miller is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle.
David S. Glosser, Politico
August 10, 2018
Trump's New War on Immigrants
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
August 6, 2018
Anti-immigration, like pro-immigration, is a legitimate political position
Yuval Noah Harari, The Economist
August 2, 2018
Neil Sedaka's 1975 song revived for anti-immigrant era
Robert Morrison, The Conversation
August 1, 2018
Why baby boomers need immigrants to fund their retirement
Alexia Fernandez Campbell, Vox
July 31, 2018
Forget the wall already, it's time for the U.S. to have open borders
Jeffrey Miron, USA Today
July 27, 2018
Trump's Immigration Trap
Christopher R. Hill, Project Syndicate
J uly 24, 2018
Watch What Happens When You Push Away Skilled Immigrants
Noah Smith, Bloomberg
July 20, 2018
Those who deny birthright citizenship get the Constitution wrong
Elizabeth Wydra, The Washington Post
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July 14, 2018
We Need to Offer More than Asylum
Roberto Suro, The New York Times
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July 11, 2018
How cities help immigrants feel at home: 4 charts
Ernesto Castaneda, The Conversation


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Young Children in Refugee Families and Early Childhood Programs: Ways to Mitigate the Effects of Trauma, Migration Policy Institute, Webinar, August 29, 2018, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT

15th International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, September 20-121, 2018

15th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference, Migration Policy Institute and others, Washington, DC, October 1, 2018

Citizenship in an Era of Record Migration and Growing Nationalism, Center for Migration Studies of New York, New York, NY, October 9, 2018


 International Metropolis Conference,  Metropolis Project, Sydney, Australia, Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 2018

 Global Initiatives in Refugee and Migrant Education, Refugee and Migrant Education Network, Bronx, NY, November 15-17, 2018


 New American Dreams:  National Immigrant Integration Conference 2018, National Partnership for New Americans, Arlington, VA, Dec. 9-11, 2018
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