Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians describes this report as "a first-of-its-kind portrait about mobile technology usage among immigrants." The report is based on a non-randomized sample of 118 adult immigrants in the Philadelphia area who responded to the Center's survey on cellphone use. Their responses were compared against data on general cellphone use in the U.S. as reported by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.  

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Welcoming_Center_-_digital_diaspora.pdf

Cities and Immigration: Local Policies for Immigrant-Friendly Cities (click to view)

Authors Gary Painter and Zhou Yu discuss demographic shifts of immigrants in metropolitan and rural areas that have experienced the depths of the recession. Using 2006 and 2009 American Community Survey microdata, Caught in the Housing Bubble: Immigrants' housing outcomes in traditional gateways and newly emerging destinations assesses how the recent economic crisis has affected immigrants with respect to three housing outcomes (residential mobility, homeownership, and household formation) to compare housing outcomes at two important time points in the recent economic cycle.

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CSII_-_Caught_in_the_Housing_Bubble.pdf

"College-Educated Immigrants in the United States" (click to view)

Contrary to a widely held view, immigrants in the United States have an expansive range of education levels with about one in three immigrants having obtained a college degree.  

A Profile of the Marshallese Community in Arkansas, Volume 3 (click to view)