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Local Integration: The Forgotten Solution
Local refugee integration in first-asylum countries is a viable but underused alternative to camps, requiring host- government support and a shift in donor priorities.
French Government Revives Assimilation Policy
A 2003 French law revived assimilationism by requiring legal immigrants to sign an integration contract and complete French values training to obtain long-term residency.
The Foreign Born from Mexico in the United States in 2000
Numbering 9.9 million in 2002, Mexicans were the largest U.S. immigrant group.
Chicago's Immigrants Break Old Patterns
Immigration drove all of Chicago's net population growth in the 1990s, with immigrants increasingly settling in suburbs rather than the city.
African-born Residents of the United States in 2000
More than 881,000 African-born residents called the United States home in 2000, with more than half having arrived in the 1990s and 95 percent settling in metropolitan areas.
Family Reunification
Family reunification drives two-thirds of U.S. permanent immigration, but per-country limits and a 3.9 million-case backlog in 2001 forced some applicants to wait decades.
Iraqi Immigrants in the United States
The 2000 census counted roughly 90,000 Iraqi-born immigrants in the United States, double the 1990 figure.
Sex Ratios of the Foreign Born in the United States
The U.S. foreign-born population had a balanced sex ratio of 101 in 2002, but ratios ranged from 138 (India) to 64 (Germany), shaped by migration type and length of stay.
Hispanos nacidos en el extranjero que viven en los Estados Unidos
La población hispana de EE.UU. creció de 22 millones a 35,3 millones entre 1990 y 2000; los hispanos nacidos en el extranjero, el 40 por ciento del total, crecieron un 81 por ciento.
Foreign-Born Hispanics in the United States
Between 1990 and 2000, the U.S. foreign-born Hispanic population grew 81 percent.