Children

Resettlement at Risk: Meeting Emerging Challenges to Refugee Resettlement in Local Communities

Report Author: 
Melanie Nezer
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Feb

Commissioned by the J.M. Kaplan Fund, "Resettlement at Risk: Meeting Emerging Challenges to Refugee Resettlement in Local Communities" explores the impact of resettlement on local communities and looks at the current rise of anti-refugee sentiment through case studies in three states: Tennessee, New Hampshire and Georgia.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
Resettlement_at_Risk.pdf

Overcriminalizing Immigration

Report Author: 
Jennifer M. Chacon
Original Date of Publication: 
2012 Dec

"Overcriminalizing Immigration" seeks to bring immigration law into the broader conversation about overcriminalization. The author contends that state and local governments are creating "too many crimes and criminaliz(ing) things that properly should not be crimes." Immigration law is part of this pattern.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
Chacon_Overcriminalizing_Immigration.pdf

Going to the Back of the Line: A Primer on Lines, Visa Categories and Wait Times

Report Author: 
Claire Bergeron
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Mar

The concept of an immigration "line" has been a contentious point in the immigration reform debate. This brief, "Going to the Back of the Line:  A Primer on Lines, Visa Categories and Wait Times," examines the family- and employment-based immigration channels to dispel the myth of a single immigration line. The author outlines the current visa categories for family and employment and their annual caps and describes the two-step application and approval processes for legal permanent residence (LPR).

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
MPI_Going_to_the_Back_of_the_Line.pdf

Bride and Prejudice: How the U.S. Immigration Law Discriminates Against Spousal Visa Holders

Report Author: 
Sabrina Balgamwalla
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Feb

This article argues that U.S. visa law, rooted in antiquated, 19thcentury notions of spousal relations, has had "devastating consequences for the day-to-day lives of H-4 spouses."  These are the spouses of H-1B visa holders, who are coveted by high tech firms for their technical skills.  Unable to legally work in the U.S., spouses are effectively confined to their homes.  They are unable to obtain a divorce, maintain custody of their children, and escape relationships of domestic violence.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
Bride_and_Prejudice.pdf

Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in Post-Recession America

Report Author: 
Jacob L. Vigdor
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Mar

Less noticeable economic and cultural differences between the foreign-born and native-born in the U.S. suggest a level of successful immigrant integration never before seen in U.S. history.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
Manhattan_Institute_Measuring_Immigrant_Assimilation.pdf

Immigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform on the Horizon

Report Author: 
Faye Hipsman and Doris Meissner
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Apr

This article provides a sweeping portrait of U.S. immigration history,  with special attention to post-1965 developments, as well as a succinct but comprehensive overview of the U.S. immigration system. Topics covered include: family and employment-based immigration, refugee admissions, temporary visitors, unauthorized immigrants, immigration enforcement, citizenship, and immigrant integration. The authors also probe today's economic, social and political issues as they relate to proposed comprehensive immigration reform. In looking at U.S.

Conundrum of an Immigrant: Assimilation versus Cultural Preservation

Report Author: 
Joanna Diane Caytas
Original Date of Publication: 
2012 Dec

Noting that "the discourse about the cost and benefits of cultural diversity is intense" both in Europe and North America, this paper reviews the different approaches to diversity, including the traditional model of assimilation, multiculturalism in all its variations, hybrid models,  and structuralism. The author also examines the role of religion in identity formation, as well as the effects of intermarriage.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
Assimilation_versus_Cultural_Preservation.pdf

What Makes the Family Special?

Report Author: 
Kerry Abrams
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Jan

As Congress debates future immigrant admission criteria, this paper makes the case for the continuation of family-based immigration.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
U_Virginia_What_Makes_the_Family_Special.pdf

Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: Leveraging Migration and Human Capital in the U.S., Mexico and Central America

Report Author: 
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Doris Meissner and Eleanor Sohnen
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 May

This is the final report of the Regional Migration Study Group, convened by the Migration Policy Institute and the Wilson Center. Scholars and public officials from the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala participated in the project. The report depicts regional migration less as a problem to be managed and more as a resource to be developed to enhance the competitiveness of North America in the global economy.

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
MPI_Thinking_Regionally_to_Compete_Globally.pdf

Information on Small Populations with Significant Health Disparities: A Report on Data Collected on the Health of Asian Americans in Massachusetts

Report Author: 
Carolyn Wong, Hannah Hosotani and John Her
Original Date of Publication: 
2012 Nov

Information on Small Populations with Significant Health Disparities: A Report on Data Collected on the Health of Asian Americans in Massachusetts (Download or view online)  

Report File: 
application/pdf icon
IAAS_Information_on_Small_Populations_with_Health_Disparities.pdf
Syndicate content