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Randy Capps

Senior Policy Analyst and Demographer
rcapps@migrationpolicy.org | (202) 266-1938

Randy Capps is a demographer and Senior Policy Analyst with MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. His areas of expertise include immigration trends, the unauthorized population, immigrants in the US labor force, and children of immigrants.

Prior to joining MPI, Dr. Capps was a researcher in the Immigration Studies Program at the Urban Institute (1993-96 and 2000-08).

His published works include New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States (co-author); Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement (co-author); Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs (co-author); Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What’s Really at Stake? (co-author); Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children; A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Integration in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods; Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force 2000-2005; and Immigration and Child and Family Policy.

Randy Capps Article in Health Affairs magazine
Immigration Reform and the Affordable Care Act: A Long Road to Citizenship and Insurance Coverage.

He has also published widely on immigrant integration at the state and local level, including a profile of the immigrant workforce and economic impact of immigrants in Arkansas; a study of immigrant workers and their integration in Louisville, KY; a description of the unauthorized labor force in California and Los Angeles; a study of tax payments by immigrants in the Washington, DC metropolitan area; an assessment of immigrants in the Connecticut labor force; and an analysis of the immigrant workforce and recommendations for immigrant integration in Maryland.

Dr. Capps received his PhD in sociology from the University of Texas in 1999 and his master of public affairs degree, also from the University of Texas, in 1992.

Research by Randy Capps

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Book: Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing Faces

Report: Profile of Immigrants in Napa County

Report: Diverse Streams: African Migration to the United States

Report: Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement

Report: Earned Legalization: Effects of Proposed Requirements on Unauthorized Men, Women, and Children

Report: Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs

Report: A Program in Flux: New Priorities and Implementation Challenges for 287(g)

Report: Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake?

Report: Mandatory Verification in the States: A Policy Research Agenda

Report: Taking Limited English Proficient Adults into Account in the Federal Adult Education Funding Formula

Multimedia

Immigrant Legalization: Assessing Labor Market Effects from Migration Policy Institute on Vimeo.

In this briefing at the Migration Policy Institute, Public Policy Institute of California researchers Magnus Lofstrom and Laura Hill discuss their research examining the potential labor market outcomes and other possible economic effects of a legalization program.

The release of an MPI report and a discussion to assess implementation and US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) oversight of the nation's 72 active 287(g) programs, examining whether local enforcement matches up with ICE's articulated priorities.

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