http://www.hispanictips.com Essential Hispanic & Latino News :: Relevant, Trusted, Comprehensive and Useful Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/18/the-center-for-comparative-immigration-studies-announces-the-publication-of-the-first-fieldwork-based-study-of-the-impacts-of-the-u-s-economic-crisis-on-mexican-migration-to-the-united-states/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/18/the-center-for-comparative-immigration-studies-announces-the-publication-of-the-first-fieldwork-based-study-of-the-impacts-of-the-u-s-economic-crisis-on-mexican-migration-to-the-united-states/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:12:52 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=67536 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=67536 0 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second annual Index of Immigrant Assimilation authored by Duke University professor Jacob Vigdor. The index provides the most detailed estimates to date of the assimilation levels of immigrant groups in the United States and also serves to analyze what impact the recession has had on immigrants in the United States.

Last year, USA TODAY called the first edition’s calculations “among the most detailed so far to measure how well immigrants fit in with native-born Americans on three fronts: economic, cultural and civic.” This year’s edition provides more in-depth analyses of immigrant English language acquisition and the rates of naturalization in recent years.

The assimilation index is a quantitative measure based on a combination of decennial Census Bureau Data and the annual American Community Survey. It measures the degree of similarity or distinction between the native-born and foreign-born populations of the United States on a 0 to 100 scale. The index is recalculated annually with up-to-date data.
Key findings include:

* The economic downturn has contributed to the slowdown of the rate of immigration and has had a disproportionate impact on immigrants relative to natives. While average immigrant growth since 1970 had been in the range of 3-4%, between 2006 and 2007 it was only 1.4%. In 2007, the increase in foreign born population was only 500,000 compared to 2.1 million in 2006. The economy slowed immigration rates, and caused a decline in cultural and civic assimilation.
* Mexicans immigrants continue to be the least assimilated ethnic group. The English skills of Mexican immigrants are worse than the immigrant population as a whole though there is some evidence that their rate of English acquisition may be higher. Relative to Mexican immigrants, Vietnamese arrived with a linguistic advantage and maintained that advantage over time.
* Changes in policy have placed new hurdles on path to citizenship but immigrants remain just as likely to pursue this path – illegal immigrants are a clear exception to the pattern. Indications are that immigrants from the late 1990s or early 2000s will have historically low rates of naturalization. There are several explanations, including a higher proportion of recent immigrants ineligible for citizenship. Relative to the whole immigrant population, naturalization rates for Mexicans are low while the rate for Vietnamese is high.
* Assimilation declined in the four largest destination areas – LA, NYC, Chicago, and DC. This might be another effect of the economic slowdown. Assimilation increased in two other centers of Latin American and Caribbean immigration – Miami and Houston.
* The rate of English learning among immigrants without any English skills appears lower than a century ago. The immigrants of a century ago, arrived with poorer English skills, but acquired them at a significantly more rapid rate than today’s immigrants.

Howard Husock, Manhattan Institute vice-president for policy research, said that the Institute has commissioned the report because “it is important, as we consider any change in immigration policy, that we have reliable, neutral information about the contemporary immigrant experience. The United States has, historically, been successful at incorporating immigrants, economically and culturally; this Index will allow us to compare the present situation with that of previous generations of immigrants.”

To read the report visit http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_59.htm. To speak with Jacob Vigdor, please contact Kasia Zabawa at (646) 839-3342 or by email at kzabawa@manhattan-institute.org.

Jacob Vigdor, Ph.D is professor of public policy and economics at Duke University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in the broad areas of education policy, housing policy, and political economy. Within those areas, he has published numerous scholarly articles in outlets such as The Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, and The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He received a B.S. in Policy Analysis from Cornell University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1999.

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In a new report, Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake?, MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy offers the first-ever estimates of the size of uninsured immigrant populations in major immigrant-destination states, the number of immigrant workers covered by employer-provided plans and the share of immigrants employed by small firms likely to be exempted from employer coverage mandates. The report, based on MPI's analysis of Census Bureau data, also examines health coverage for immigrants by legal status, age and poverty levels.

Of the estimated 12 million lawful permanent residents in the United States, 4.2 million are uninsured and more than 1 million would be excluded from Medicaid coverage or insurance subsidies if Congress does not remove the five-year waiting period for eligibility. Thirty-eight percent of legal immigrants work at small firms of 25 workers or less, which are likely to be exempted from employer mandates. Just 32 percent of legal immigrant workers at these small firms have insurance compared with 71 percent for U.S.-born workers.

If denied eligibility for Medicaid and insurance subsidies but subjected to mandates requiring them to purchase coverage, as contemplated by some legislative proposals, many legal immigrants (who have the same tax and Selective Service responsibilities as citizens) would face a significant burden.

"Leaving large numbers of legal immigrants out of health care reform would defeat the core goal of the legislation, which is to extend coverage to the nation's 46 million uninsured," said MPI Senior Vice President Michael Fix, who co-authored the report. "Congress recently restored some of the public benefit cuts imposed on legal immigrants by the 1996 welfare reform law, so excluding them now from health care reform would reverse this policy trajectory."

The report also examines eligibility screening proposals, and questions whether the benefits of insurance reform could be reduced by expensive and badly designed verification requirements to ensure unauthorized immigrants aren't getting health care benefits for which they are ineligible.

"Past experience with Medicaid suggests fraudulent use by unauthorized immigrants is very rare, raising questions about the value of an expensive pre-screening verification system that would impose clear burdens on many vulnerable Americans," said MPI Senior Policy Analyst Marc Rosenblum, a co-author of the report. "Document checks would be especially costly, and would have the biggest impact on U.S. citizens who cannot produce birth certificates or other forms of ID, leading to lost or delayed coverage."

Among the report's other findings:

* 38 percent of legal immigrant children and 31 percent of unauthorized immigrant children have employer-provided coverage, compared to 61 percent of U.S.-born children.
* 23 percent of the uninsured in California are legal immigrants, who account for more than 10 percent of the uninsured in Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. States with large immigrant populations could see expanded use of emergency rooms and public clinics if health care reform results in legal immigrants (and the unauthorized as well) being dropped from employer-sponsored insurance.
* The share of legal immigrant adults who are uninsured ranges from 54 percent in Texas, 45 percent in Florida and 44 percent in North Carolina to 28 percent in New York.
* Unauthorized immigrants represent 15 percent of the nation's 46 million uninsured, while legal immigrants account for 9 percent.

"The budget projections for health care reform assume substantial savings by excluding many immigrants, but do not factor in the costs associated with leaving so many people uninsured. Denying coverage does not eliminate the need for health care, and uninsured immigrants will head to emergency rooms or may postpone necessary medical attention – ultimately shifting costs to taxpayers and other health care consumers," said MPI Senior Policy Analyst and report co-author Randy Capps.

The full report is available at www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/healthcare-Oct09.pdf.

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The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national and international levels. For more on MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, visit: www.migrationpolicy.org/integration/. Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=63273 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/02/literanista-bill-of-rights-for-people-of-mixed-heritage/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/02/literanista-bill-of-rights-for-people-of-mixed-heritage/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:16:44 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=63061 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=63061 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/28/how-smart-growth-disadvatages-african-americans-hispanics/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/28/how-smart-growth-disadvatages-african-americans-hispanics/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:09:36 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=62308 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=62308 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/21/sources-of-information-for-e-verify/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/21/sources-of-information-for-e-verify/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:53:40 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=61727 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=61727 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/17/data-and-resources-country-of-origin-profiles-pew-hispanic-center/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/17/data-and-resources-country-of-origin-profiles-pew-hispanic-center/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:25:17 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=61457 Country of Origin Profiles

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