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Research Publications

Research Publications

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Policy Briefs
November 2005

Immigration Enforcement at the Worksite: Making it Work

This policy brief examines the flaws in the United States’ existing employer sanctions regime and proposes six types of reform that could strengthen the system: improvements to document security, document consolidation, mandatory use of employment databases, increased enforcement staffing, a revised penalty structure, and better worksite access for investigators.

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Fact Sheets
November 2005

Legal Immigration to United States Up from Last Year

This fact sheet is an overview of U.S. immigration based on Fiscal Year 2004 data released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics in 2005.

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Reports
November 2005

Leaving Too Much To Chance: A Roundtable on Immigrant Integration Policy

This report provides a summary of issues discussed during a meeting convened by the Migration Policy Institute in which 50 senior experts explored the current policy agenda on immigrant integration.

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Fact Sheets
November 2005

Immigration Enforcement Spending Since IRCA

This report closely examines the rapid growth of government appropriations directly targeted to immigration enforcement activities since the passage of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986 (IRCA). Focusing primarily on data between 1985 and 2002, authors highlight trends in the overall immigration enforcement spending as well as in specific activities.

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Books
October 2005

Managing Integration: The European Union’s Responsibilities Towards Immigrants

This book analyzes approaches, strategies, and best practices from EU Member States that could contribute to a sustainable integration policy. It thus provides European, national, regional, and local decisionmakers with instruments they can draw on in establishing a framework for integration.

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Books
October 2005

Emigration, Brain Drain and Development: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

This volume finds that while emigration may be beneficial in some cases, unhindered high-skilled emigration, particularly in the case of sub-Saharan Africa, can have disastrous consequences. The author, Arno Tanner, recommends specific policies where carefully targeted development measures could be used to mitigate the negative consequences of brain drain.

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Fact Sheets
October 2005

United States-Canada-Mexico Fact Sheet on Trade and Migration

This report examines the trilateral relationship between the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the decade since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and provides facts and figures relating to trade and migration among the three countries.

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Reports
September 2005

The New Demography of America's Schools

This report examines how immigration is changing the demographic profile of the United States’ elementary and secondary student population, framing the analysis within the context of the nationwide implementation of No Child Left Behind.

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Reports
September 2005

Education and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Canada

This volume of essays looks at the education and immigrant integration efforts in both the United States and Canada.

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Policy Briefs
September 2005

The 'Regularization' Option in Managing Illegal Migration More Effectively: A Comparative Perspective

This policy brief explores the often neglected migration management potential of “regularization” or “legalization” programs, arguing that properly conceived and carefully executed “earned” regularization programs can not only prevent the number and flow of unauthorized migrants from building to unacceptable levels, but can also set the stage for smarter use of enforcement resources and improvements in labor market and social policy development.

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