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Research Publications

Research Publications

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Fact Sheets
June 2007

How Changes to Family Immigration Could Affect Source Countries' Sending Patterns

This fact sheet examines proposed changes to the United States’ family based immigration system under The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

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Policy Briefs
May 2007

Proposed Points System and Its Likely Impact on Prospective Immigrants

This report offers a series of original charts that depict the characteristics of recent immigrants who are representative of those likely to be affected by the proposed merit-based points system for selecting permanent immigrants to the United States.

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Policy Briefs
May 2007

The Phenomenal Rise in Remittances to India: A Closer Look

This report captures India’s exceptional growth in reported remittances over the 15-year period between 1990 and 2005. It explores the relative importance of these remittances in India’s economy, and then identifies factors responsible for this exponential gain.

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Fact Sheets
May 2007

Annual Immigration to the United States: The Real Numbers

While official measures of annual permanent immigration levels simply account for those who obtain lawful permanent resident status in a particular year, this report offers a more complex approximation by including estimates of certain forms of temporary immigration and unauthorized immigration in the calculus.

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Policy Briefs
May 2007

Immigration and the 2007 French Elections

This report examines the political context surrounding the 2007 French presidential election as it relates to immigration. It provides an overview of immigration to France and highlights notable demographic trends since 2000.

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Policy Briefs
April 2007

Circular Migration and Development: Trends, Policy Routes, and Ways Forward

This report draws from the existing body of knowledge surrounding circular migration to identify: research gaps, shortcomings of common policy routes, innovative circular migration policies, and critical considerations for policymakers seeking to design and implement positive circular migration schemes.

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Reports
March 2007

The Age of Mobility: How to Get More Out of Migration in the 21st Century

More countries are now significant players in the international migration system than at any time in history. For the biggest such players, migration is sufficiently large to be fueling rapid, profound, and highly visible social and cultural change. The vast majority of advanced industrial democracies are such players and the resulting transformation is happening almost literally before people’s eyes.

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Policy Briefs
March 2007

Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce

This brief investigates the relationship between immigration and the decline in both the overall number and share of native-born workers in the low-wage and lower-skilled labor force.

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Reports
March 2007

Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners

This report provides a demographic profile of adolescent limited English proficient students in the United States, examines how these students are faring on standardized tests, and breaks down the assessment data further for a comparison of 6th to 8th grade LEP students California, Colorado, Illinois, and North Carolina.

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Fact Sheets
February 2007

Immigration Fee Increases in Context

This fact sheet briefly summarizes the background and implications of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ proposal to increase immigration fees during the summer of 2007.

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