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Preparing the Children of Immigrants for Early Academic Success
Despite outperforming expectations set by family socioeconomic disadvantage, the children of immigrants enter U.S. school at greater risk than peers, and early intervention is key to reversing that.
Skills, Professional Regulation, and International Mobility in the Engineering Workforce
Engineering credential recognition remains fragmented worldwide, and mutual recognition initiatives have made slow progress, with poorly understood impacts on mobility.
Tackling Brain Waste: Strategies to Improve the Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Qualifications
Foreign professionals remain excluded from licensed occupations by real skills gaps—not just poor information—demanding more affordable and flexible retraining in immigrant-receiving countries.
Shaping Our Futures: The Educational and Career Success of Washington State’s Immigrant Youth
Washington State's immigrant youth show a stark achievement gap: college attainment is high in some groups, but only 53 percent of English Learners graduate on time.
Health Care for Immigrant Families: Current Policies and Issues
Low-income immigrants use health care far less than U.S. -born peers even when insured. Proposed reform would bar legalizing immigrants from coverage for up to a decade.
Remaking the U.S. Green Card System: Legal Immigration under the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013
The Senate's 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill would grow skills-based green cards nearly fourfold while preserving family admissions.
Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: Leveraging Migration & Human Capital in the U.S., Mexico, and Central America
Shifting demographics and slowing emigration from Mexico and Central America demand a new U.S. regional strategy, this final report of the Regional Migration Study Group makes clear.
Credential Recognition in the United States for Foreign Professionals
The patchwork U.S. credential recognition system places the steepest barriers on foreign-trained physicians, wasting human capital as doctor shortages intensify.
Migration and Environmental Change: Assessing the developing European approach
Climate-linked migration should be contextualized within broader migration frameworks, rather than treating it as a category requiring separate legal protections.
A Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Health Coverage Profile of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States
Unauthorized immigrants are predominantly low-income, working adults, yet 71 percent of adults lacked insurance in 2011.
