New Neighbors: A User's Guide to Data on Immigrants in U.S. Communities

Author: 
Capps, Randy, Jeffrey S. Passel, Daniel Perez-Lopez, and Michael Fix
Year: 
2003
Publisher: 
Urban Institute
Publication Location: 
Washington, D.C.
Description: 

This guidebook is Ddesigned to help local policy makers, program managers, and advocates use U.S. Census and other data sources to identify characteristics, contributions, and needs of immigrant populations in their local communities. It Iidentifies national trends that provide a context for understanding immigration to local communities; provides detailed information on relevant data sources, what information they contain, and how to use them; presents a sample immigrant profile (for Rhode Island) to show how data can inform policy options.

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