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Citizenship and Civic Engagement |
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The
Redesigned Citizenship Test: High Stakes
MPI Backgrounder No. 6, September 2008
More than a decade in the making, the redesigned citizenship test required for
use after October 1, 2008 is supposed to provide a more meaningful opportunity
for applicants to demonstrate knowledge about US history and civics, and allow
the government more standardized test administration. This MPI Backgrounder details
the redesign process, examines whether the government met its goals, and provides
policy recommendations.
Fact
Sheet | Press
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Behind the Naturalization Backlog
By Claire Bergeron and Jeremy Banks
Fact Sheet No. 21, February 2008
Citizenship Fee Increases in Context
By Julia Gelatt
Fact Sheet No. 15, February 2007
New Americans: Facts on Naturalization and Birthright
Citizenship
By Mary Helen Ybarra Johnson, Michael Fix, and Julie Murray
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
From Immigrant to Citizen
By Janet Murguía and Cecilia Muñoz
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
(Originally published in The American Prospect,
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Education |
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Gambling
on the Future: Managing the Education Challenges of Rapid
Growth in Nevada
 By
Aaron Terrazas and Michael Fix
Nevada, the fastest growing state in the United States, is experiencing a population
boom – driven in part by immigration – that has key implications
for its school system and labor market. Immigrants represent one in five Nevada
residents and their children account for one in three Nevadans under age 18.
Yet even as schools have experienced a surge in enrollment, federal and state
investments in the state's failing education system haven't kept pace.
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Report | Press
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Educating the Children of Immigrants
By Julie Murray, Jeanne Batalova, and Michael Fix
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
New
Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status under the DREAM Act
Backgrounder by Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix
October 2006
The DREAM Act, incorporated into the current Senate bill, would
immediately make about 360,000 young people aged 18 to 24 who
have graduated from high school or obtained a GED eligible
for conditional legal status. Those who qualify and then attend
college or join the military within six years would become
eligible for permanent legal status – an arrangement unprecedented in US history.
The New Demography of
America's Schools
By Randolph Capps, Michael Fix, Julie Murray,
Jason Ost, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Shinta Hirontoro
Urban Institute, September 2005
Immigrant
Children, Urban Schools, and the No Child Left Behind Act
By Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute
Randy Capps, The Urban Institute
Migration Information Source, November 1, 2005
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Fiscal Impacts |
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Designing an Impact Aid Program
for Immigrant Settlement
By Deborah L. Garvey
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
Federal Spending on Immigrant Families' Integration
By Julia Gelatt and Michael Fix
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
Civic
Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington,
DC, Metropolitan Area
By Randy Capps and Everett Henderson, The Urban Institute;
Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Hispanic Center; and Michael Fix,
Migration Policy Institute
Urban Institute, June 2006
The Washington, DC, metropolitan area is home to over 1 million
immigrants, who composed one-fifth of the area’s total
population in 2004. An Urban Institute study finds that
migrants’ share of all taxes paid by metro area residents
was virtually the same as their share of the population.
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General Integration Policy |
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Los
Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators
and Their Policy Implications
By Michael Fix, Margie McHugh, Aaron Matteo Terrazas, and Laureen Laglagaron
April 2008
As Los Angeles makes the transition from being a city of immigrants to one dominated
by their US-born children, it can serve as a policy laboratory for other cities
facing the need to better integrate immigrants into US classrooms, workplaces,
and civic life. MPI’s report details the imperative for integration policies
that will benefit immigrants and the broader US society alike.
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Report | Press
Release
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
Michael Fix, Editor
This volume sketches the contours of a national integration policy
and includes a discussion of key integration issues raised by
the current debate around immigration reform, including impact
aid to state and local governments and financing health care
for legalizing immigrants.
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Leaving Too Much to Chance: A Roundtable on Immigrant Integration Policy
By Michael Fix, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Betsy Cooper
November 2005
Fifty of the nation's leading experts gathered at MPI to discuss
three critical areas of integration policy: PreK - 12 education;
work and work supports for immigrant families; and civic engagement
and citizenship, with the aim of identifying major policy changes
and opportunities and to begin mapping an agenda for policy change
regarding immigrant integration.
Migration Information Source Special Issue on Integration
October 2003
Policy
Considerations for Immigrant Integration
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Migration Information Source Special
Issue on Immigrants and Integration
October 2003
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Integration in Other Countries |
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Managing
Integration: The European Union's Responsibilities towards
Immigrants
Rita Sussmuth and Werner Weidenfeld, Editors
Bertelsmann Foundation and the Migration Policy Institute, Fall 2005
Managing immigration and integration is one of the most vital and challenging
tasks that the European Union is facing today. Since the Union's enlargement
to include 25 members, the issue has become even more pressing. This book analyzes
approaches, strategies, and best practices from EU Member States that could contribute
to a sustainable integration policy. It provides European, national, regional,
and local decision-makers with instruments they can draw on in establishing a
European framework for integration.
Europe
and Its Immigrants in the 21st Century: A New Deal or a Continuing Dialogue of
the Deaf?
Edited by Demetrios G. Papademetriou
MPI and the Luso-American Foundation, March 2006
In this volume, the Migration Policy Institute has gathered
some of the leading European thinkers to offer insightful counsel
and, wherever possible, solutions to Europe’s immigration challenges. The book’s contributors piece
together the puzzle of a well-managed, comprehensive immigration regime, tackling
issues ranging from immigration’s economic costs and benefits, to effective
selection systems, citizenship, the welfare state, and integration policies that
work.
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information | Order
online
The
Challenges of Integration for the EU
By Sarah Spencer
Migration Information Source Special Issue on Immigrants and Integration
October 2003
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State and Local Immigration Regulation |
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Testing
the Limits: A Framework for Assessing the Legality of State
and Local Immigration Measures
By Cristina Rodríguez, Muzaffar Chishti, and Kimberly Nortman
Report, December 2007
In 2007 alone, the 50 state legislatures have considered over 1,000 pieces of
legislation regulating immigrants and immigration. This paper provides a framework
for assessing the legal validity of five of the most common or high-profile measures
that address unauthorized immigration specifically.
Blurring the Lines: A Profile of State and
Local Police Enforcement of Immigration Law Using the National
Crime Information Center Database, 2002-2004
By Hannah Gladstein, Annie Lai, Jennifer Wagner and Michael Wishnie
Report, December 2005
In almost 9,000 cases from 2002 to 2004, police officers checking
the names of individuals stopped or detained against records
in the nation's main criminal database received an initial "hit" for
an immigration violation that, upon further investigation,
the Department of Homeland Security could not confirm. The
rate of false positives was 42 percent overall, and some individual
law enforcement agencies had error rates as high as 90 percent. |
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