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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?

Answer these questions by using our research tools that provide instant access to immigration and integration data. Also, scroll down for links to key research and policy papers on the topic available through MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy and the Migration Information Source.

2006 ACS/Census Data on the Foreign Born by State

Maps of the Foreign Born in the US

US Historical Trends

Global City Migration Map

Who's Where in the United States?

Country and Comparative Data

Country Resources

Further resources on the Hub:

NEW: Role of Foreign-born Voters in Elections
Election profiles for Texas and Ohio, as well as the 48 other states and the District of Columbia, examine voter registration by nativity, providing breakdowns for foreign-born citizens as a share of total state population, their turnout in the 2004 general election, and ethnicity.

NEW: 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.

Recent research from MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy:

• Testing the Limits: A Framework for Assessing the Legality of State and Local Immigration Measures
• Adult English Language Instruction in the United States: Determining Need and Investing Wisely
• Securing the Future: US Immigrant Policy – A Reader
  Volume edited by Michael Fix, February 2007
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• Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Language Learners
  A report to the Carnegie Corporation of New York by Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix, and Julie Murray
• New Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status under the DREAM Act
  Backgrounder by Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix, October 2006

For more information, go to Immigrant Integration Homepage

Read Source articles on immigration to the United States and other countries:

• Special issue on Integration and Immigrants
• Second-Generation Latinos in Nebraska: A First Look
• Assimilation Models, Old and New: Explaining a Long-Term Process

For more information, go to the Migration Information Source