Product Description: This book examines the well-being and development of children in black immigrant families (most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean). There are 1.3 million such children in the United States. While children in these families account for 11 percent of all black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the U...read more

Product Description: Immigration policy has once again risen near the top of America's political agenda. Securing the Future discusses why integration needs to be central to debates over immigration reform in the United States. The authors are participants in the Task Force on Immigration and America's Future convened by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Manhattan Institute...read more

Product Description: Immigration is changing the face of rural America, from Florida to Washington and from Maine to California. Migrants arrive, many from Mexico, to fill jobs on farms and in farm-related industries, usually at earnings below the poverty...read more

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Product Description: This book examines the socioeconomic links among farm employment, immigration, and welfare use not only within California's Central Valley, but also along the state's Central Coast and in its southern regions. Using U.S. Census data and information collected from extensive community-level site visits, the authors find that immigration, largely from rural Mexico, is changing the face of rural California, increasing levels of population, poverty, and public service demands...read more

Product Description: Book by Fix, Michael, Passel, Jeffrey S.

Product Description: "Chapter 1" is part of a US federal education policy which provides support for children with limited English proficiency (LEP). This book examines the claims of LEP populations on Chapter 1 resources, the extent to which these claims have been exercised, and the policy implications for reform...read more

Product Description: Presents the methodology, results, and policy implications of testing for discrimination using the technique of auditing. The concept of auditing is straightforward. Two individuals are matched on all relevant characteristics except the one presumed to lead to discrimination...read more

Product Description: Has the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) been successful in reducing the flow of undocumented immigrants to the United States? Urban Institute and RAND analysts under the joint Program for Research on Immigration Policy, and other immigration experts from the U...read more

Product Description: Recent decisions of the Supreme Court take as their point of departure the belief that American society is well on the way to becoming color-blind. This study calls that belief into question. A hiring audit in two cities sent pairs of job seekers, matched in terms of job-readiness but one black and one white, to apply for the same jobs...read more

Product Description: One of the achievements of this book is to place the mandating issue within three larger contexts: the policy goals that intergovernmental regulations are intended to achieve (e.g., a cleaner environment or safer communities), the inevitable tensions among the three planes of government in the American federal system, and the evolving assessment of regulations as a tool of government policy...read more

Product Description: Among many other provisions, the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act forbade employers to hire illegal aliens, and established a public information and regulatory apparatus both to help employers comply with the law and to detect and punish violators...read more