Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America April 30 — Traditional gateways like New York and Los Angeles still attract immigrants. But metro areas including Atlanta, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Austin, Texas, have become new destinations for immigrants as Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell explain. How are the Costs and Impacts of Migration Policies Evaluated? April 9 — The impact and costs of migration policies are often unknown. Solon Ardittis of Eurasylum and Frank Laczko of the International Organization for Migration look at the obstacles to evaluation and how governments should evaluate their migration policies.    How Los Angeles Deflected Mexican Immigrants to the American Heartland In the 1990s, Mexican immigrants began to leave California, Texas, and Illinois for the so-called new settlement states where they had not previously resided. As Ivan Light of UCLA explains, their reasons for leaving or bypassing Los Angeles were both economic and political..

Mexican Immigrants in the United States April 23 — In 2006, more than 11.5 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States, accounting for 30.7 percent of all US immigrants. MPI's Jeanne Batalova examines the number of Mexican immigrants in the United States, their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the Mexican-born unauthorized population. USCIS Receives 163,000 H-1B Applications for Fiscal Year 2009 April 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on H-1B visas, Real ID regulations, proposed guest worker programs in Arizona and Colorado, and more. North Korea January 7 — Economic, social, and political conditions have pushed North Koreans to illegally leave their country and migrate to South Korea, China, Russia, and elsewhere. MPI's Hiroyuki Tanaka examines humanitarian and economic migration flows from North Korea, and the situation of North Koreans living abroad. North Korea Resource Page. Past Week Past Month Mexican Immigrants in the United States Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants in the United States USCIS Receives 163,000 H-1B Applications for Fiscal Year 2009 Mexican Immigration to the US: The Latest Estimates Ecuador: Diversity in Migration Foreign-Born Wage and Salary Workers in the US Labor Force and Unions North Korea: Understanding Migration to and from a Closed Country Central Americans and Asylum Policy in the Reagan Era Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America

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