Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

This publication by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) highlights some of the issues, challenges, and concerns facing Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities in the United States that have been greatly impacted by societal anger and severe government actions since the tragic events of September 11th.

Promising Practices in Equal Treatment and Opportunity

Part of GCIR's Immigrant Integration Toolkit.

Newcomers in the American Workplace is a joint publication of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and the Neighborhood Funders' Group's Working on Labor and Community. This report responds to the dramatic growth in the immigrant population over the past decade and calls attention to the crucial role that immigrants play in the U.S. economy. Today, immigrants comprise almost one in eight workers and one in four low-wage workers.

An estimated 1,200 unaccompanied immigrant minors are in custody at any given time in the United States, with the vast majority of them between the age of 12 and 17, though 10 percent are not even 12 years of age. In this article, Bob Glaves explains their access to legal support, explores the policies affecting them, and outlines the role that funders can play.