Michael Fix
As Vice President and Director of Studies, Mr. Fix's work focuses on immigrant integration, citizenship policy, immigrant children and families, the education of immigrant students, the effect of welfare reform on immigrants, and the impact of immigrants on the US labor force.

Margie McHugh
Ms. McHugh is the Co-Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy at MPI. Prior to joining the institute in August 2006, Ms. McHugh served for 15 years as the executive director of The New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella organization for more than 150 groups.

Demetrios Papademetriou
As President of the Migration Policy Institute, Dr. Papademetriou advises more than 20 governments on immigration and integration policies, including MPI's collaboration with The Netherlands' EU presidency to host the November 2004 EU ministerial conference on the integration of immigrants in Europe.

The goals of this research pillar are to better understand the process of incorporating immigrants and refugees into countries' social and political fabric and devise ways to effectively address this civic engagement challenge. MPI's research on immigrant and refugee settlement and integration has three components:

• Immigrant Integration
• Building the New American Community
• The Comparative Citizenship Project

Fifty of the nation's leading experts gathered at MPI to discuss three critical areas of integration policy: PreK - 12 education; work and work supports for immigrant families; and civic engagement and citizenship, with the aim of identifying major policy changes and opportunities and to begin mapping an agenda for policy change regarding immigrant integration. The conference represented a first step toward the creation of a new Center for Integration Policy at MPI that will link discourse over the nation's immigration policies with its integration policies and will serve as a resource to governments and the nonprofit sector on policies and investments that promote immigrant integration.

Managing Integration: The European Union's Responsibilities Towards Immigrants
Rita Süssmuth and Werner Weidenfeld, Editors
Published by the Bertelsmann Foundation and MPI, Fall 2005

Managing immigration and integration is one of the most vital and challenging tasks that the European Union is facing today. Since the Union's enlargement to include 25 members, the issue has become even more pressing. This book analyzes approaches, strategies, and best practices from EU Member States that could contribute to a
sustainable integration policy. It thus provides European, national, regional, and local decision-makers with instruments they can draw on in establishing a European framework for integration.
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The New Demography of America's Schools
and
Who's Left Behind?
Urban Institute, September 2005
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) is a federal law that, among other things, holds schools accountable for the academic performance of limited English proficient (LEP) students. Many of these LEP children are immigrants or children of immigrants. The law's stringent requirements, which converge with rapid demographics-driven change in the US immigrant population, necessitate renewed attention to how immigrant children and the children of immigrants are educated in the United States.

Building the New American Community Initiative
December 2004
A unique pilot project conducted in America's small and medium-sized cities shows that broad-based community coalitions can proactively integrate the newcomers who are increasingly transforming Main St., USA. In the first project of its kind, a consortium of leading organizations in three mid-sized metropolitan areas undertook inclusive community-building. The project's final report contains valuable findings for policymakers, funders and organizations collectively approaching the challenge of helping newcomers adapt to their new communities and local communities welcome newcomers.
Full Report | Executive Summary

Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America: An Examination of Nativity, Socio-economic Status and Place
By Brian Ray, Demetrios Papademetriou and Maia Jachimowicz
April 2004
This new study focuses on the top 100 US metropolitan areas where immigrants live. The authors find key factors that influence homeownership among immigrants include availability of affordable housing, length of residence in the country, and English proficiency. While noting that immigrants are far from a homogenous group, the authors identify strategies that may increase immigrants' chances for homeownership.
This report was also published in a shorter form as a Fannie Mae Paper, "From Homeland to a Home: Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America," April 2004

Comparative Citizenship Series
By T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Douglas Klusmeyer
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2000-2002)

October 2003 Special Issue of the Migration Information Source on Immigrants and Integration

• Policy Considerations for Immigrant Integration
  By Demetrios G. Papademetriou
• Local Integration: The Forgotten Solution
  By Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University
• The Role of Cities in Immigrant Integration
  By Brian Ray
• The Challenges of Integration for the EU
  By Sarah Spencer
• Integration: The Role of Communities, Institutions, and the State
  By Rinus Penninx

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