Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reports on immigrant experiences and ability to resettle in United States, based on in-depth interviews with 230 immigrants in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, representing 19 countries. Combination of data and extensive quotes portrays danger of border crossing, difficulty of obtaining legal status, workplace discrimination, and lack of access to services. Recommends states and federal government work together to create paths to citizenship, strengthen worker protections, broaden opportunities for immigrants to become part of community life, and protect immigrants from discrimination.

Analyzes how different racial and ethnic groups have related to each other, both historically and today. Scholars trace the history of different perspectives of race and ethnicity, the shifting role of state policy, trends in intermarriage and residential segregation, and intergroup relations among Blacks, Asian-Americans, and Latinos.

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.

Explains sources and impact of American nativism which flourished during the great cycle of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Higham's analysis of the different strains of nativism, from anti-foreign to anti-radical and anti-Catholic, is considered masterful and is relied on by scholars today.

This book, which was one of two follow-up reports to the Ford Foundation’s Changing Relations Project from 1987 to 1991, placed multicultural research teams in a variety of U.S. cities. The research revealed that participation across groups in a shared task helps to reduce competition as well as build bonds of trust.