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Show Me the Money (and Opportunity): Why Skilled People Leave Home — and Why They Sometimes Return
April 22 — Five factors, including wages and professional development, drive skilled people to migrate, and three reasons encourage them to return. Laura Chappell and Alex Glennie of ippr in London look at all of these factors and how motivations vary across different contexts and groups of migrants.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Indigenous Migrants, Their Movements, and Their Challenges
March 31 — The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues estimates there are more than 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries worldwide. Carlos Yescas of the New School for Social Research looks at the definition of indigenous people, the three types of indigenous-people flows, and how indigenous migrants maintain ties with their home communities.
In Mexico, Mother's Education and Remittances Matter in School Outcomes
March 29 — Remittances would seem to boost the chances that children in Mexico complete high school. But money alone does not improve schooling outcomes in the educationally marginalized, migrant-sending regions of southern Mexico, as Adam Sawyer of the Harvard Graduate School of Education reports.
Wedding Bells Are Ringing: Increasing Rates of Intermarriage in Germany
Intermarriage is considered a test of integration: the higher the rate, the more integrated the group. Olga Nottmeyer of DIW Berlin finds that while immigrants from Turkey, by far Germany's largest immigrant group, have had low rates of intermarriage in the first generation, intermarriage rates among second-generation Turkish men are increasing.
Supreme Court Rules that Attorneys Must Inform Criminal Defendants of the Immigration Consequences of Pleading Guilty
April 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on Padilla v. Kentucky, Arizona's passage of a controversial immigration bill, Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham's immigration reform blueprint, the latest H-1B application numbers, and more.
Filipino Immigrants in the United States
April 7 — The 1.7 million Filipino immigrants in the United States made them the country's second-largest immigrant group in 2008. MPI's Aaron Terrazas and Jeanne Batalova use the latest federal data to explore the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics.
Of the 46.9 million people in 2008 who identified themselves as having Hispanic or Latino ancestry, 62 percent were native-born US citizens and 38 percent were immigrants. See our Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States for more details.
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