Haitian Immigrants in the United States
The United States is the top global destination for Haitian migrants, who left Haiti in the wake of political instability and a series of natural disasters, including a 2010 earthquake that devastated...
View ArticleHaiti’s Painful Evolution from Promised Land to Migrant-Sending Nation
For more than a century, Haiti was considered a prime destination for migrants from the United States and around the world. In the wake of the Haitian Revolution, Haiti marketed itself to freed slaves...
View ArticleExcluding Millions: How Trump Administration Changes to the Decennial Census...
This MPI webinar, featuring a former U.S. Census Bureau director and other top experts, will focus on the many challenges facing the 2020 Census could affect the count and representation of immigrant...
View ArticleVenezuelan Migrants and Refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: A...
As Latin American and Caribbean countries face a dual challenge—managing large-scale Venezuelan arrivals alongside the COVID-19 pandemic—reliable data on the characteristics of newcomers are essential...
View ArticleUn perfil regional de los migrantes y refugiados venezolanos en América...
Los países de América Latina y del Caribe se están enfrentando a un desafío doble. Por un lado, deben manejar un flujo masivo de venezolanos entrando a sus países, mientras que, al mismo tiempo, deben...
View ArticleExcluding Millions: How Trump Administration Changes to the Decennial Census...
This conversation, featuring a former U.S. Census Bureau director and other top experts, examines how the many challenges facing the 2020 Census could affect the count and representation of immigrant...
View ArticleCollege-Educated Immigrants in the United States
Nearly 13 million immigrants have a four-year college degree or better. But these highly educated immigrants are not spread evenly throughout the labor market. They make up disproportionate shares of...
View ArticleImmigrant-Origin Students in U.S. Higher Education: A Data Profile
Immigrants and the children of immigrants make up a large and growing segment of students at U.S. colleges and universities—up from 20 percent in 2000 to 28 percent in 2018. This fact sheet offers a...
View ArticleIndian Immigrants in the United States
There are 2.7 million Indian immigrants in the United States, making them the second-largest immigrant group after Mexicans. This number has increased dramatically in recent years, growing 13-fold...
View ArticleNavigating the Future of Work: The Role of Immigrant-Origin Workers in the...
Immigrants and their U.S.-born children are key drivers of U.S. labor force growth. As some occupations grow and others decline, this report explores how these immigrant-origin workers fit within the...
View ArticleMexican Immigrants in the United States
The nearly 11 million Mexican immigrants in the United States represent almost one-quarter of the country’s entire immigrant population, and as such are the largest foreign-born group. But their...
View ArticleUnauthorized Immigrants in the United States: Stable Numbers, Changing Origins
After decades of growth, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has remained largely stable since the 2008–09 recession. The group's demographics are changing, though, with a...
View ArticleAnticipated “Chilling Effects” of the Public-Charge Rule Are Real: Census...
Researchers, service providers, and others have long predicted that sweeping revisions by the Trump administration to the definition of who constitutes a public charge would deter large numbers of...
View ArticleNearly 3 Million U.S. Citizens and Legal Immigrants Initially Excluded under...
The pandemic-recovery stimulus package that passed Congress in December rectified what many had viewed as a significant oversight in the earlier CARES Act: Its exclusion of U.S. citizens and legal...
View ArticleInternational Students in the United States
For the first time in a decade, fewer international students were studying in the United States during the 2019-20 school year than the year before. This decline, brought about in part by changing U.S....
View ArticleBack on the Table: U.S. Legalization and the Unauthorized Immigrant Groups...
With legalization of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population back on the table, this report offers estimates and characteristics for subgroups that have particularly strong equities, including...
View ArticleThe Eurasian Economic Union: Repaving Central Asia’s Road to Russia?
In recent decades Russia has been increasingly reliant on Central Asian migrant workers. Those workers, in turn, have sent back remittances that have been crucial for their countries of origin. Since...
View ArticleFrequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United...
Have a question about U.S. immigration trends and the country's immigrant population? This article collects in one place the most sought-after information about the world's largest immigrant population...
View ArticleA Deeper Look at the DREAMers Who Could Feature in the Legalization Debate in...
The DREAM Act of 2021 could represent one of the narrower legalization measures with better prospects for passage in a narrowly divided Congress. MPI's latest estimates of the DREAMers who could gain...
View ArticleImmigrants from Asia in the United States
Nearly one-third of all immigrants in the United States come from Asia, and Asian countries such as India, China, and the Philippines are the origin for a growing number of foreign-born U.S. residents....
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