Jeanne Batalova
Jeanne Batalova is a Senior Policy Analyst at MPI and Manager of the Migration Data Hub, MPI's flagship resource providing user-friendly access to the most current U.S. and global immigration data and maps in interactive formats.
Her areas of expertise include U.S. immigration, demographic, and workforce trends; the impacts of immigration and immigrant integration policies on the supply of health-care professionals and demand for health-care services; highly skilled immigration and international student policies and trends in the United States and internationally; and postsecondary credentials and upskilling of first- and second-generation immigrant youth and young adults.
She was a 2023 Bertelsmann Foundation Fellow on the Future of Work.
Dr. Batalova earned her PhD in sociology, with a specialization in demography, from the University of California-Irvine; an MBA from Roosevelt University; and bachelor of the arts in economics from the Academy of Economic Studies, Chisinau, Moldova.
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Will Dreamers Crowd U.S.-Born Millennials Out of Jobs?
Dreamers make up less than 1 percent of millennial workers and are concentrated in different states and industries than U.S.-born peers, weakening job displacement claims.
Cuban Immigrants in the United States
In 2016, nearly 1.3 million Cubans lived in the United States, with arrivals surging as migrants anticipated the end of preferential U.S. immigration protections.
A Profile of Current DACA Recipients by Education, Industry, and Occupation
DACA holders are a largely middle-skilled, economically integrated population. Under the Trump DACA termination, they would lose work permits at an average pace of 915 per day starting March 2018.
MPI Estimates of Potential Beneficiaries under the 2017 DREAM Act and the Recognizing America’s Children Act
These MPI estimates provide a sense of the unauthorized populations that could potentially gain legal status under proposed legislation.
MPI Estimates of Unauthorized Populations That Could Benefit under Different DREAM Legalization Bills
These estimates offer insight into who could potentially gain legal status under the various DREAM Act-type bills introduced in Congress in 2017.
Differing DREAMs: Estimating the Unauthorized Populations That Could Benefit under Different Legalization Bills
The five DREAM Act-type bills introduced in 2017 differed sharply in scope, with MPI estimating eligible pools ranging from 2 million to 3.6 million, depending on each bill's requirements.
Protecting the DREAM: The Potential Impact of Different Legislative Scenarios for Unauthorized Youth
The 2017 legislative proposals to grant status to Dreamers could cover up to 2.1 million conditional status holders and 1.7 million eventual green-card recipients, MPI estimates.
Chinese Immigrants in the United States
Chinese immigrants were the third-largest foreign-born group in the United States in 2016 and were the leading source of international students on U.S. college campuses.
Indian Immigrants in the United States
Indian immigrants, who made up the second-largest foreign-born group in the United States in 2015, tend to be younger and more highly educated than immigrants overall.
Haitian Immigrants in the United States
The Haitian immigrant population in the United States tripled between 1990 and 2015, to reach 676,000.
