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The United States has a long history of immigration. But what do we know about social,
economic, and political integration outcomes of immigrants and their children?
How do current trends compare with earlier years? Across states?
Visit MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration
Policy and the
Migration Information Source for the most up-to-date research and policy papers
on immigrant integration in the United States and other countries.
Further resources on the Hub:
 New
Data Guide On Finding, Using the Most Accurate, Recent Immigration Data Resources
The
Immigration: Data Matters guide shows where to locate some
of the most credible, up-to-date US and global immigration-related
data compiled by government and non-governmental sources.
The online guide, also available in hard copy, includes clickable
links to resources that offer immigrant population estimates;
the size of the unauthorized immigrant population; English
proficiency rates; the share of immigrants in the workforce;
education, health, and income and poverty statistics relating
to immigrants; and other data.
Data
Guide | Press
Release
For video and audio of the event, click here
Purchase a hard copy at the MPI bookstore: US | International
 State
Responses to Immigration: A Database of All State Legislation
The
State Responses database is a unique, searchable online tool
that catalogues all 1,059 immigration-related bills introduced
in state legislatures in 2007, and allows users to search
legislation by state, geographic region, subject area, bill
status, and legislative typology. The database includes a
synopsis of each bill and is accompanied by a report, Regulating
Immigration at the State Level: Highlights from the Database
of 2007 State Immigration Legislation and the Methodology.
Role
of Foreign-born Voters in Elections
MPI election profiles for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, examining
voter registration by nativity, providing breakdowns for foreign-born citizens
as a share of total state population, and detailing their turnout in the 2004
general election, and by ethnicity.
 Language
Portal: A Translation and Interpretation Digital Library
NCIIP's Language Portal is a digital library of nearly 600 resources relating
to the use of language access services in social services and public safety
agencies. The Portal includes legal guidelines, service models, master contracts
for service providers, hourly translation and interpretation rates for different
languages in key areas of the United States, pay differentials for multilingual
staff, and sample translated documents.
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