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Limited English Proficient Workers and the Workforce Investment Act: Challenges and Opportunities
Limited English Proficient adults made up 39 percent of all low-skilled U.S. workers in 2010 but received just 2 percent of federal workforce training services.
Australia's Boat People: Asylum Challenges and Two Decades of Policy Experimentation
Australia remained locked in two decades of policy experiments over how to deal with asylum seekers known as boat people.
Foreign-Born Health Care Workers in the United States
In 2010, the foreign born accounted for 16 percent of all U.S. health-care workers.
Challenges Ahead on Implementing Executive Action to Prevent Deportation of Unauthorized Youth
President Barack Obama's plans of deferred action for unauthorized youth could benefit 1.4 million people, but capacity constraints and unresolved policy gaps may limit its scope.
Visas for Entrepreneurs: How Countries Are Seeking Out Immigrant Job Creators
Entrepreneur visas have spread across the industrialized world, but identifying who will succeed is difficult and programs have admitted a relatively small number of people per year.
Chile: A Growing Destination Country in Search of a Coherent Approach to Migration
Even as Chile's foreign-born population topped 352,000 by 2009, its migration framework remains based on a 1975 Pinochet-era security law.
Senior Immigrants in the United States in 2010
Nearly 5 million immigrants age 65 and older lived in the United States in 2010.
Long-Term Impact of the Supreme Court Ruling on Key Provision of Arizona's SB 1070 May Hinge on Political Calculus
Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court rules on SB 1070, the long-term impact may depend less on law than on who wins the November presidential election.
Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States and Europe: The Use of Legalization/Regularization as a Policy Tool
The United States and the European Union have both repeatedly turned to legalization as a policy tool, even as political opposition to it has grown on both sides of the Atlantic.
Lesotho: From Labor Reserve to Depopulating Periphery?
Remittances amounted to 29 percent of Lesotho's GDP in 2010, the second highest in the world.