Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant populations are often perceived as financially successful and well-educated, but this report reveals that poverty, overcrowded housing, and below-average high school graduation rates are also prevalent in the AAPI communities. This report profiles growth and settlement patterns of major Asian-American groups, along with tables on their ethnicity, education, age, housing, language, poverty, language, and immigration and citizenship status.

Presents a concise portrait of the immigrant population with 2002-03 data on sources and types of immigrants, their geographic concentrations, and educational, occupational, and income distribution.

This special issue, with pieces from many contributors, profiles the strengths and challenges of children growing up in immigrant families and the types of resources and supports they need to become engaged and productive citizens. In addition to articles describing the unique developmental and educational needs of children in immigrant families, this issue provides recommendations at the federal, state, and local levels.

Estimates that eight million LPRs were eligible to naturalize as of September 2004; provides tables by year admitted, country of birth, and state of residence.

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 Survey (CPS).

This paper puts contemporary demographic change into the historical context by synthesizing data and research on immigration patterns and policies since 1820. It also covers economic effects, naturalization, and migration from Mexico under NAFTA.

This article reviews research on how the 1986 legalization program affected the undocumented, including results of a large-scale, longitudinal study conducted in 1989 and 1992 with 4,000 immigrants who legalized. Although many arrived with low skill levels and took low-wage jobs, by 1992 the majority had moved up to better jobs as a result of legalization.

The study reports results of a multi-stakeholder task force, including key politicians and corporate and union leaders, convened to examine the importance of immigration to the Midwest. It documents how immigration helps prevent population decline, reinvigorates economic growth, and contributes to cultural diversity. It recommends a series of policy proposals to reform the U.S. immigration system, strengthen communities through an integration agenda, and provide infrastructure to implement the recommendations.

This report, part of a series that presents population and housing data collected in the 2000 Census, Ppresents data on language spoken at home and the ability of people ages five and over to speak English. I t describes population distributions and characteristics for the United States, as well as regions, states, counties, and selected places with populations of 100,000 or more.

This study documents the economic and social impact of the rapid influx of Latino immigrants in response to burgeoning economic growth in the south. It focuses on settlement patterns, economic context, and policy impacts on education and the housing stock of immigrants in the six states experiencing growth rates higher than the rest of the United States: Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

This paper documents the dramatic shift of immigrant settlement to new gateway areas in the 1990s, with a detailed analysis of the 2000 Census data on metropolitan settlement patterns. The publication compares and contrasts recent immigrant settlement in 45 metropolitan areas, ranging from historic centers to emerging gateways.

This study examines how changing demographics are affecting the national debate on race in five key dimensions: the black-white paradigm versus multiculturalism; diversity versus racial and social justice; universal strategies versus strategies for a particular group; national versus local responsibility; and structural factors versus individual initiative. The study recommends strategies to develop leaders with multi-ethnic, multi-racial perspectives.

The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that there are currently 11.5 to 12 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States. Using a well-established methodology, this report offers estimates for the size and certain characteristics, such as age and national origins, of the unauthorized population.

Describes undocumented population, with many graphics based on March 2004 Current Population Survey. In addition to migration trends and employment, reports on dispersal to different areas of United States, and gives detail on family composition, children, and poverty not covered in Passel's 2006 report on the unauthorized population.