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Ivana Tú Nhi Giang
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Ivana Tú Nhi Giang

Ivana Tú Nhi Giang is a former Program and Research Assistant with the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, where she provided administrative and programmatic support and produced qualitative and quantitative analyses across several of the Center’s projects.

Prior to joining MPI, Ms. Giang completed an English teaching fellowship in Vietnam with Princeton in Asia. She interned with an education policy team in the U.S. Senate, researched education development while studying in Nicaragua, and interned with a grassroots development organization in Uganda. During her undergraduate studies in South Central Los Angeles, Ms. Giang worked in local middle and high schools with students from Latino immigrant families and participated in migration-focused service learning at the U.S.-Mexico border.

She holds a bachelor of science in public policy with an international development concentration and a bachelor of arts in global studies with a Latin America regional concentration from the University of Southern California, where she graduated as the class valedictorian.

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Policy Briefs
October 2022
Overlooked but Essential: Language Access in Early Childhood Programs
By  Maki Park, Jacob Hofstetter and Ivana Tú Nhi Giang
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Fact Sheets
October 2022
Dual Language Learners: Key Characteristics and Considerations for Early Childhood Programs
By  Ivana Tú Nhi Giang and Maki Park
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Expert Q&A, Audio
November 5, 2021

Immigrant Integration: Essential to the Success of Immigration Policy

In this World of Migration podcast episode, Margie McHugh, director of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, chats with Ivana Tú Nhi Giang about the important role of integration, for immigrants themselves and the broader society, and the varying degrees of intentionality in integration policy design around the world.

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Fact Sheets
October 2022

Dual Language Learners: Key Characteristics and Considerations for Early Childhood Programs

How many Dual Language Learner (DLL) children live in your state, and what share do they comprise of all children under age 5? What languages are most commonly spoken in their households? Answers to these and other questions that are critical to the design and implementation of early childhood programs that reach all children equitably are presented in a series of state-level data fact sheets.

Policy Briefs
October 2022

Overlooked but Essential: Language Access in Early Childhood Programs

Dual Language Learners (DLLs)—young children with a parent who speaks a language other than English at home—benefit greatly from early childhood programs, but they also enroll at lower rates than their peers. This policy brief looks at federal and state language access policies that aim to make such programs more accessible to DLLs’ families. It also examines persistent gaps in participation and ways to address them.

Expert Q&A, Audio
November 5, 2021

Immigrant Integration: Essential to the Success of Immigration Policy

In this World of Migration podcast episode, Margie McHugh, director of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, chats with Ivana Tú Nhi Giang about the important role of integration, for immigrants themselves and the broader society, and the varying degrees of intentionality in integration policy design around the world.