Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.
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People. The American Community Survey (www.census.gov/acs/www) estimated there were 38.1 million foreign-born US residents in 2007; 12.6 percent of the US population. They included 11.7 million people born in Mexico; 1.9 million born in China; 1.7 million born in the Philippines; 1.5 million born in India; 1.1 million each born in El Salvador and Vietnam; and a million born in Korea. The next leading countries of birth are Cuba, Canada and the Dominican Republic.
The ACS encompasses a population perhaps five million larger than is included in the Current Population Survey, which estimates the civilian noninstitutional population. Estimates based on the CPS, such as those published by Pew (www.pewhispanic.org), report 37 million foreign-born. Pew adjusts CPS data for undercounts, which yields an estimate of 12.7 million Mexican-born US residents.
Of the 16.2 million foreign-born US residents, 42 percent were naturalized US citizens in 2007. About 47 percent of the foreign-born men, and 53 percent of the foreign-born women, had naturalized.
Migration News, produced with support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the John D. and Catherine T. MacAurther Foundation, and the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, provides a summary and analysis of the most important immigration and integration developments of the preceding quarter.
Rural Migration News, produced with the support of the Farm Foundation and the Giannini Foundation, provides a summary and analysis of the most important migration-related affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter.
This network of researchers hosts seminars on labor and immigration issues affecting science and engineering workers, compiles and distributes information on these issues, and cooperates closely with the NBER's SEWP.
The Changing Face project assesses the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities.
Include Opinion Leader Seminars, the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and Transatlantic Migration Policy Issue seminars.