Immigrants and the New Brain Gain: Ways to Leverage Rising Educational...
A recent MPI study reveals that 48 percent of recent immigrants to the United States were college graduates, a sharp increase over earlier periods. How can the United States better leverage this brain...
View ArticleProtecting the DREAM: The Potential Impact of Different Legislative Scenarios...
With the DACA program's future cloudy, Congress is facing growing calls to protect unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children. This fact sheet examines pending DREAM Act bills in...
View ArticleThe Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population
The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is uncertain, amid skepticism from the Trump administration about its merits and the promise of legal challenge from ten state...
View ArticleAll Eyes Turn to Congress, Following Trump Decision to Terminate DACA Program
By winding down DACA over six months, President Trump may have addressed a short-term political dilemma. But this action ensures debate will rage on in search of a lasting solution, as many in Congress...
View ArticleProtecting the DREAM: The Potential Impact of Different Legislative Scenarios...
With the Trump administration having announced the end of the DACA program, Congress is facing growing calls to protect unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. This fact sheet...
View ArticleDiffering DREAMs: Estimating the Unauthorized Populations that Could Benefit...
2017 saw the introduction of several bills—two of them by Senate Republicans in the weeks following the Trump administration’s announcement that it would terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood...
View ArticleA Profile of Current DACA Recipients by Education, Industry, and Occupation
An average of 915 DACA recipients every day will lose their work authorization and protection from deportation once the phaseout of the program moves into full force in spring 2018, MPI estimates. This...
View ArticleMainstreaming 2.0: How Europe’s Education Systems Can Boost Migrant Inclusion
Rising numbers of young immigrants and refugees entering European schools following the 2015–16 migration crisis strained system capacity and injected new urgency into debates about how to support...
View ArticleThe Diversity Visa Program Holds Lessons for Future Legal Immigration Reform
On paper, the Diversity Visa Program is not set up to bring in the highly skilled; applicants need only a high school diploma (or equivalent) or two years of mid-level work experience. Yet as this...
View ArticleImmigration Data Matters
This useful online guide links users directly to the most credible, high-quality data on immigrants and immigration in the United States and internationally. The easy-to-use guide includes more than...
View ArticleInternational Students in the United States
The United States has long been the top choice for international students from around the world, hosting about 1.1 million foreign students in higher education institutions in 2016-17. However, U.S....
View ArticlePreparing Newcomers for the Jobs of Today and the Labor Markets of Tomorrow
This Migration Policy Institute Europe webinar examines possible scenarios for how social, economic, and technological trends could affect jobs, labor market policy, education and social policies, and...
View ArticleSettling In: A Profile of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the...
This fact sheet and accompanying interactive data tools provide characteristics of the estimated 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States, using a unique MPI methodology that assigns...
View ArticleUpskilling the U.S. Labor Force: Mapping the Credentials of Immigrant-Origin...
This webinar will feature the release of the first-ever profile of the 30 million immigrant-origin adults in the United States who lack a postsecondary credential such as a college degree,...
View ArticleCredentials for the Future: Mapping the Potential for Immigrant-Origin Adults...
As the U.S. workforce ages and the economy becomes ever more knowledge-based, policymakers face a key question: Do workers have the skills to meet tomorrow's demands? This report examines how...
View ArticleMore Than a DREAM (Act), Less Than a Promise
The first bill introduced in the 116th Congress to offer a path to legal status to DREAMers, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, could legalize nearly 2.7 million unauthorized immigrants...
View ArticleFrequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United...
Immigrant arrivals to the United States and the makeup of the foreign-born population have been changing in significant ways: Recent immigrants are more likely to be from Asia than from Mexico and the...
View ArticleMexican Migration to Canada: Temporary Worker Programs, Visa Imposition, and...
Mexicans migrate to Canada in much smaller numbers than to the United States, yet over the last 30 years the country has become an increasingly attractive destination. Canada prioritizes highly...
View ArticleImmigrant-Origin Adults without Postsecondary Credentials: A 50-State Profile
With immigrants and their U.S.-born children poised to be the main source of labor-force growth, these adults are an important target for efforts to build the skills of the U.S. workforce to meet the...
View ArticleA Mirror for the Nation? The Changing Profile of Mexican Immigrants in Texas
At this event, experts from MPI and Southern Methodist University’s Texas-Mexico Center offer an overview of immigration trends and key characteristics of highly skilled Mexican immigrant adults at the...
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