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Family Obligation Among Children in Immigrant Families
Both first- and second-generation children's sense of obligation provides meaning in their lives as they attend school and adjust to American society.
Andrew Fuligni of the University of California, Los Angeles explains.
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The People Perceived as a Threat to Security: Arab Americans Since September 11
In recent years, Arab Americans have regularly been featured in the press as a group "of interest" to many federal agencies. Randa A. Kayyali of George Mason University takes a detailed look at the Arab-American population, trends in permanent and temporary migration from Arab countries, and the effects of US security policies on this group.
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Detailed Characteristics of the Caribbean Born in the United States
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The Caribbean born accounted for almost 10 percent of the total US foreign-born population in 2000. MPI's Julia Gelatt and David Dixon look at the social and economic profiles of the foreign born from this region.
Source Spotlights are often updated as new data become available. Please click here to find the most recent version of this Spotlight.
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Welcome to the July/August issue of the Source in which we examine the Arab-American population since September 11, family
obligation among immigrant children, and the foreign born from the Caribbean. We also profile the Central Asian country of Tajikistan and report on
the latest US immigration policy news. The next issue of the Source goes online September 1.
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Since the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel began July 12, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates 700,000 to 800,000 people have fled their homes and more than 150,000 people have crossed into Syria. We have rounded up some key articles:
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One of the poorest countries in Central Asia and a former Soviet Republic, Tajikistan has dealt with Afghan refugees, experienced outward flows of ethnic Russians since its independence, and seen thousands of ethnic Tajiks leave for temporary employment in Russia. MPI's Aaron Erlich investigates the migration issues facing this understudied country.
Tajikistan Resource Page
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MPI's Julia Gelatt reports on Congressional field hearings on immigration reform, the latest proposal for immigration reform, new regulations guiding implementation of Medicaid's new proof-of-citizenship requirements, Senate passage of a DHS appropriations bill for 2007, and the extension of the Voting Rights Act.
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Almost half of all the college-educated foreign born who came to the United States in the 1990s were from Asia, with India and China being the two largest sending countries.
Click here for more information.
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