National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
The National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy serves as a crossroads for policymakers, community and system leaders, and others looking to understand ways to support successful integration of immigrants and their children into U.S. classrooms, workplaces, and civic spaces.
It produces evidence-informed, nonpartisan policy research and data, and provides technical assistance and cross-state learning opportunities for state and local leaders. By engaging with stakeholders across the early childhood, education, workforce, health, and civic sectors, the Center builds a more coherent, knowledge-driven field. It shines a spotlight on integration issues often overlooked in national debates and promotes solutions that can lift the integration trajectories of immigrant families while also fueling the vibrancy of the communities and local economies where they live. For more about the Center, click here.
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Uneven Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Brain waste leaves many college-educated immigrants in the United States underemployed, as foreign credentials and limited English ability block access to skilled jobs.
Regulating Immigration at the State Level: Highlights from the Database of 2007 State Immigration Legislation and the Methodology
All 50 U.S. states for the first time introduced immigration legislation in 2007, enacting 240 laws focused primarily on employment verification and local enforcement.
High Stakes, More Meaning: An Overview of the Process of Redesigning the U.S. Citizenship Test
The 2008 U.S. citizenship test overhaul left key questions unanswered and an inability to measure its impact given the lack of sharing of comparative passage-rate data.
Gambling on the Future: Managing the Education Challenges of Rapid Growth in Nevada
Rapid demographic change has left Nevada reliant on immigrant workers while schools struggle to prepare a new, diverse generation.
Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and their Policy Implications
Immigrants in Los Angeles face persistent labor market, language, and health-care integration gaps that call for more proactive policy across the public and private sectors.
Testing the Limits: A Framework for Assessing the Legality of State and Local Immigration Measures
This report provides a framework for assessing the legal validity of state legislative measures that address unauthorized immigration, including when they are pre-empted by federal authority.
Adult English Language Instruction in the United States: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
Adult English instruction in the United States is severely underfunded. Closing the gap requires curriculum reform, federal investment, and stronger instructor standards.
Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce
Between 2000 and 2005, immigrants grew as a share of the U.S. low-wage workforce, but evidence of native worker displacement remains mixed.
Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners
Adolescent students in the United States who are Limited English Proficient (LEP) show persistent achievement gaps. There is broad variation in how states test them.
Immigration Fee Increases in Context
A 2007 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plan to raise naturalization fees by 80 percent and green card fees by 178 percent risks pricing out lower-income immigrants.