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North America

North America

United States
Canada
Mexico

North America is a dynamic migration region, with the United States home to more immigrants than any other country in the world, the Mexico-U.S. corridor the globe's top migration corridor, and Canada a leading destination for migrants. Research collected here focuses on everything from visa policy and border management to immigrant integration, national identity, the demographics of immigrants in the region and their educational and workforce outcomes, and ways to more effectively use migration policy as a lever for national and regional competitiveness.

Aerial view of Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas
Reports

Building a New Regional Migration System: Redefining U.S. Cooperation with Mexico and Central America

Addressing regional cooperation around migration will be among the immigration challenges and opportunities facing the incoming Biden administration. This report examines how movement between the United States, Mexico, and Central America has evolved in recent decades, and lays out a four-part strategy to expand opportunities for legal migration, address humanitarian protection needs, improve enforcement, and mitigate some of the forces driving people to emigrate.

Recent Activity

Reports
April 2004
Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America: An Examination of Nativity, Socio-Economic Status and Place
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Brian Ray and Maia Jachimowicz
Articles
April 1, 2004
U.S. Industrial Transformation and New Latino Migration
By William Kandel, Emilio Parrado
Articles
April 1, 2004
Policy Changes Target Border Security
By Sarah Margon, Maia Jachimowicz
Reports
March 2004
De la casa natal a la casa propia: inmigración y la posibilidad de ser propietario de vivienda en las zonas urbanas de los Estados Unidos
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Brian Ray
Reports
March 2004
Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration
By  Philippa Strum and Andrew Selee
Reports
March 2004
The Department of Homeland Security's First Year: A Report Card on Immigration
By  T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Articles
March 1, 2004
From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration Policies
By Jorge Durand
Articles
March 1, 2004
The Mexico Factor in U.S. Immigration Reform
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou

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Recent Activity

Articles
April 1, 2004

Policy Changes Target Border Security

Cap on H-2B Visas Reached... Border Initiative to Use Predator Drones... Border Restrictions Eased for Some Mexicans... DHS Issues Rules for Safe Third-Country Agreement...
Articles
April 1, 2004

U.S. Industrial Transformation and New Latino Migration

William Kandel of the USDA and Emilio Parrado of Duke University take stock of the complex interaction between migration and the U.S. meat-packing industry.
Reports
April 2004

Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America: An Examination of Nativity, Socio-Economic Status and Place

This report analyzes the housing status of immigrants in the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with respect to homeownership. In addition, it examines the factors that appear to influence homeownership among immigrants, and the programs and initiatives that can encourage homeownership among these groups.

Articles
March 1, 2004

From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration Policies

Jorge Durand examines Mexico's long history of and ambivalent attitude toward migration to the U.S..
Articles
March 1, 2004

U.S. Temporary Worker Programs: Lessons Learned

MPI Senior Fellow and former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner examines the challenges and opportunities, past and present, posed by temporary migrant labor programs.
Articles
March 1, 2004

Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Force in 2000

MPI’s Elizabeth Grieco and Brian Ray outline the characteristics of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce.

Articles
March 1, 2004

Bush Boosts Immigration Enforcement in FY2005 Budget

Bush Proposes $40.2 Billion FY2005 DHS Budget... Judge Faults Adjustment Delays for Approved Asylees... H-1B Cap Reached Months Before End of FY2004... Fee Increase Proposed for Immigration Applications and Services...
Articles
March 1, 2004

Mexican Immigration to the U.S.: The Latest Estimates

Jeffrey Passel of the Urban Institute provides a context for understanding the presence of roughly 5.3 million unauthorized Mexican immigrants in the United States.

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