Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

This report explores the projected job growth for the United States through extensive data. It finds that employment in professional and service occupations is expected to increase the fastest of all occupations as well as create the most jobs from 2004 to 2014. Office and administrative support occupations are projected to grow about half as fast as all occupations, and production occupations should decline slightly.

Many Americans are concerned about the social and economic impacts of immigration. Traditionally, immigrants have settled in “gateway” states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey, but in a demographic shift, new areas are becoming immigrant receiving communities in the Midwestern and Southern states. In some states the stream of immigrants is essential to population growth and maintaining the economy.

Synthesizes research on key contemporary race issues. In Volume 1, leading scholars address demographic changes, immigration trends, racial attitudes, racial and ethnic trends in education, and residential segregation; Volume 2 covers trends in the justice system, labor force and welfare, and health.

The second generation in New York City largely comes from non-European ethnic origins. This report is a look at how growing up in a "majority minority" city has affected their experiences in school and on the job, how they feel about their progress, and where they think they fit within American society.

The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), which serves the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and the surrounding multi-county regions, addresses four assumptions that have threatened to derail grantmaking efforts in new immigrant and refugee communities and offers strategies for funding immigrant and refugee artists and communities.

This study reports the results of a comprehensive, 18- month community planning effort in California’s Silicon Valley, where immigrants and their children comprise more than 60 percent of the population. The planning effort engaged multiple stakeholders, including immigrants and established residents, who identified 16 action areas. The detailed research findings, analysis, and policy recommendations cover wages and working conditions, housing, healthcare access, mental health, criminal justice, domestic violence, food, employment training, language access, child care, and legal services.

This publication offers a glimpse of the learning journey that took place for a group of GCYF members over an eight-month period. In this publication, we synthesized the collective learning that emerged and relayed some of the most important strategies for success that we uncovered. In an attempt to make the information presented in this publication as accessible as possible for funders, GCYF also developed a companion learning kit, which includes power point presentations on the subject, a planning guide, discussion guide and resource guide.

Documents causes and incidence of hate crimes in the United States, including backlash incidents after September 11; profiles six different major organized hate groups, including armed border vigilante groups, and examines effectiveness of federal and state law enforcement efforts.

Examining relationships among African-American, Jewish, and Korean merchants and their black customers in New York and Philadelphia, finds, contrary to frequent sensationalism of media coverage, that social order, routine, and civility are the norm. Illustrates how everyday civility is negotiated and maintained in daily interactions between merchants and their customers.

This publication examines anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States prior to September 11, analyzes the history and goals of major restrictionist groups, and explores how restrictionists took advantage of the terrorist attack to promote an anti-immigrant message.

This report provides an overview of nonprofit cultural heritage organizations in the United States and a snapshot of their structure, finances and programs. The monograph confirms that cultural heritage organizations are fundamentally community oriented, and that their primary intent to preserve and benefit youth, elders, immigrants, ethnic groups, neighborhoods, towns, and cities is both explicit and reflected in a broad programmatic range of activities beyond the arts.

This report examines the size, scope, and financial health of nonprofit cultural heritage organizations in the United States and their importance to our communities. The monograph confirms that cultural heritage organizations are fundamentally community oriented, and that their primary intent to preserve and benefit youth, elders, immigrants, ethnic groups, neighborhoods, towns, and cities is both explicit and reflected in a broad programmatic range of activities beyond the arts.

The study describes the history of African migration to the United States and how significant increases in contemporary migration from Africa are helping to bring diversity to black communities and bridge the gap between native and foreign-born populations.

Comprehensive review of high-quality, early childhood intervention programs documents that well-designed programs for disadvantaged children age four and younger can significantly benefit children's academic and social development and save money in later social program costs. Immigrant children are disproportionately affected by two of the four "childhood risk" factors that intervention programs are intended to counteract: living in poverty and having parents who do not speak English at home.

Uses the case of Mexico to make two broad arguments, one related to the importance of extra-economic dimensions of remittances, particularly the social and political meanings of remittances, and the other based on a disaggregation of remittances into family, collective or community-based, and investment remittances.

While children's quality of life improved from the mid-1990s through 2002, further progress has stalled, according to the Foundation for Child Development's 2007 Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI). This stall can be found across five of the CWI's seven domains. The exceptions are children's health, which continues its dramatic decline, and children's safety and behavior, which continues to improve.

This report describes the foreign-born population in the United States in 2003. It provides a profile of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, such as region of birth, geographic distribution in the United States, age, educational attainment, earnings, and poverty status. These characteristics are compared with those of the native population. The findings are based on data collected by the Census Bureau in the Current Population Suvey (CPS).

Provides information about hate crimes and how to report them; resource sheets include frequently asked questions; checklists for hate crime victims and community organizations; and information on working with law enforcement and the media. This toolkit is also available in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Urdu and available here.

This paper describes the response of the Arab-American community to the September 11 attacks, and examines backlash, civil rights issues, and efforts by Arab-Americans to educate and inform the larger community.

The Mexican population tripled in New York City between 1990 and 2000, but these new migrants mostly came from south central Mexico, a region that typically did not migrate to New York City. This study examines the growth of Hometown Associations (HTAs) among these new migrant communities, identifying 20 Mexican HTAs and six other HTAs in the larger metropolitan area. It finds the context of the development of Mexican HTAs in New York City to be unique compared to other parts of the United States.