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National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy

National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy

Immigrant Profiles & Demographics
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Immigrant Integration
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Policy Briefs
April 2024

Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Families through Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services

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Infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) services can offer vital support for young children’s healthy development. Yet, young children in immigrant and refugee families often do not benefit, due in part to lower levels of health-care coverage and limited cultural responsiveness in the field. This issue brief explores the benefits and barriers to supporting these children via IECMH services, and some ways to close key gaps.

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Reports
January 2024

Refining State Accountability Systems for English Learner Success

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State accountability systems are designed to identify and close student achievement gaps. Yet most do not report and interpret English Learner (EL) outcomes in a way that paints a full picture of how different instructional services have contributed to academic development. This report sketches a vision for reimagined accountability systems that can support better understanding of ELs’ learning and inform school improvement strategies.

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Reports
November 2023

The Unmet Potential of Community Consultations in U.S. Refugee Resettlement

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As humanitarian migrant arrivals in the United States increase, via refugee resettlement and channels such as temporary parole, communication between the national, state, and local actors involved in supporting their reception and integration is critical. This report examines the goals and design of quarterly resettlement consultations, as well as opportunities to refine these processes to boost their impact and relevance in a changing policy landscape.

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Fact Sheets
October 2023

Recent Immigrant Children: A Profile of New Arrivals to U.S. Schools

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A significant increase in the number of immigrant children in U.S. schools over the last decade has challenged K-12 educators to expand their capacity to serve students with different backgrounds and educational needs. This fact sheet sketches a profile of recently arrived immigrant children, presenting data on top states of residence, national origins, household characteristics, and more.

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Policy Briefs
October 2023

Leveraging Data to Ensure Equitable and Effective Adult Skills Programming for Immigrants

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Immigrants make significant contributions to the U.S. economy and social fabric, but many also face barriers to integration. Adult education and workforce development programs offer services intended to help address such challenges yet can be mismatched to immigrants' needs. This issue brief sketches a profile of U.S.-born and immigrant adults, highlighting key similarities and differences relevant to the design of adult skills programs.

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Policy Briefs
July 2023

ESSER: Moving the Needle on Equitable and Adequate Education Funding for English Learners

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The pandemic and move to remote learning affected students across the United States, and certain groups—including the nation’s 5 million English Learners (ELs)—were hit particularly hard. At the same time, the federal government made unprecedented investments in public K-12 education to counter the pandemic’s adverse impacts. This issue brief explores the ways school districts have invested these funds to support ELs.

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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes a number of new requirements for the education of English Learners (ELs), including standardized criteria for identifying EL students and inclusion of English proficiency as a measurement of school quality. Resources on this page can help inform decisions such as how quickly schools must improve and how states can intervene with struggling districts.

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The English Language Learner (ELL) Information Center provides informative fact sheets, maps, and state-level data resources that chronicle the demography and trends of immigrant families and their children.

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Reports
March 2007
Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners
By  Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julie Murray
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Policy Briefs
March 2007
Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce
By  Randy Capps, Michael Fix and Karina Fortuny
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Books
February 2007
Securing the Future: U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
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Fact Sheets
February 2007
Immigration Fee Increases in Context
By  Julia Gelatt and Margie McHugh
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Policy Briefs
October 2006
New Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status under the DREAM Act
By  Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix
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Reports
July 2006
Civic Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC, Metro Area
By  Randy Capps, Jeffrey S. Passel , Michael Fix and Everett Henderson
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Reports
November 2005
Leaving Too Much To Chance: A Roundtable on Immigrant Integration Policy
By  Michael Fix, Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Betsy Cooper
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Reports
September 2005
Education and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Canada
By  Philippa Strum and David Biette

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Policy Briefs
March 2007

Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce

This brief investigates the relationship between immigration and the decline in both the overall number and share of native-born workers in the low-wage and lower-skilled labor force.

Reports
March 2007

Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners

This report provides a demographic profile of adolescent limited English proficient students in the United States, examines how these students are faring on standardized tests, and breaks down the assessment data further for a comparison of 6th to 8th grade LEP students California, Colorado, Illinois, and North Carolina.

Books
February, 2007

Securing the Future: U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader

Securing the Future seeks to define what policymakers and scholars mean by integration while attempting to sketch the contours of U.S. integration policy. The volume reviews evidence of immigrants’ integration by examining the progress of the second generation, as well as trends in education, health, the workforce, and citizenship.

Fact Sheets
February 2007

Immigration Fee Increases in Context

This fact sheet briefly summarizes the background and implications of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ proposal to increase immigration fees during the summer of 2007.

Policy Briefs
October 2006

New Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status under the DREAM Act

This report discusses the major features of the proposed 2006 DREAM Act and provides MPI’s estimates of the number of young persons likely to be eligible for immigration relief if the DREAM Act is signed into law.

Reports
July 2006

Civic Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC, Metro Area

This report provides an estimate of the taxes paid by immigrants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, which encompasses the federal district and portions of Maryland and Virginia. It compares the tax payments of immigrant households with the contributions of native households between 1999 and 2000.

Reports
November 2005

Leaving Too Much To Chance: A Roundtable on Immigrant Integration Policy

This report provides a summary of issues discussed during a meeting convened by the Migration Policy Institute in which 50 senior experts explored the current policy agenda on immigrant integration.

Reports
September 2005

The New Demography of America's Schools

This report examines how immigration is changing the demographic profile of the United States’ elementary and secondary student population, framing the analysis within the context of the nationwide implementation of No Child Left Behind.

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