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Special thanks to my colleagues on the APA Presidential Immigration Task Force for their
contribution of slides
Michael Zaráte, Ph.D.
Dina Birman, Ph.D.
Usha Tummala-Narra. Ph.D.
J. Manuel Casas, Ph.D.
Nadine Nakamura, Ph.D
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NEARLY THREE QUARTERS OF IMMIGRANT POPULATION
ARE EITHER NATURALIZED OR AUTHORIZED NON-
CITIZENS
EWI’s (60%) Largely Latino
Overstayers (40%) UN—extremely diverse
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With the exception of our northern neighbor Canada, by 2009, 9 of the top
10 leading countries of origin, are in Asia, Latin America, or the Caribbean.
DIVERSITY—Racially and Ethnically
LINGUISTICALLY --460 languages are spoken at home (Kindler, 2002)
62% speak Spanish; 19% speak another Indo-European language; 15%
speak an Asian and Pacific Island language, and the remaining 4% speak
another language (Shin & Komiski, 2010).
RELIGIOUSLY—Catholic; Evangelic; as a result of new immigrant
populations, from 1970 to 2000, the non-Judeo Christian religions in the
United States (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) grew from 0.8% to 2.6%
combined (Eck, 2001; Pew Forum on Religious Life, 2008).
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Immigrant adults and children arrive in the United States with varied levels of education.
At one end of the spectrum are highly educated immigrant adults (Portes & Rumbaut, 2006) ¼
of all U.S. physicians, 24% of science and engineering workers with BAs, and 47% scientists
with doctorates; it is likely that as the 2010 Census data are released these percentages will be
higher (Kerr & Lincoln, 2010).
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After nearly every war, we can trace a subsequent movement of people (Zolbberg, 1989). For
example, following the ending of the Spanish American war in 1898, migration began out of
Philippines and Puerto Rico to the U.S.; likewise migration flows began out of Korean after the
Korean War ended in 1953 and out of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia when the Vietnamese war
ended in 1975. Today, current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are resulting in large-scale
displacement and substantial flows to the U.S. (U.N. High Commission on Refugees, 2010).
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Approximately 25 million people are now “environmental refugees.”
Environmental migration is a fairly new domain to be recognized in
scholarship and thus there is limited data available; yet according to
some estimates, environmental degradation, especially deforestation
and rising sea levels, is projected to cause 200 million people to
become refugees by 2050 (UNEP, 2010).
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ABOVE ALL– Family and family re-unification is what motivates most migrations.
An estimated 2/3rds of migrations are motivated by family reunifications
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~Today, nearly One in Four (23%) of Children in the U.S. is the Child of an Immigrant
~Fastest Growing Sector of U.S. Child Population
~In 1970 just (6%) and they are projected to account for One in Three children by
2020
~ These over 16 million kids are arriving not to just the usual receiving centers like NYC, LA,
Chicago, & Miami, but also to the heartland and suburbs not used to serving these kids
~86% are citizen children
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END WITH A REMINDER:
While the absolute number of immigrant adults and children in the United
States is at an all-time high, the rate of immigration today is actually lower
than during the last era of mass migration when Europeans began a
massive exodus from the Old World. In 1910, the rate of immigration
reached a peak of 14.7%; in comparison in 2009 we were at a rate of
12.5%.
As a nation, we have managed large proportions of immigrants in the past.
At the time, there were similar concerns about who these newcomers
were and whether the nation should and could absorb them. Then the
worries were whether a predominantly Protestant nation could absorb the
Catholic and Jewish immigrants (Stop for a moment and consider that ALL
of the Supreme Court Judges today are either Jewish or Catholic…)
Clearly, we are a stronger and more interesting nation for having gone
through this process.
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The Namesake
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Real Women Have Curves
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All too much of our current research is done through a middle
class American framework.
Does not separate out immigrant generation or country or
immigrant origin. Lumps together all Latinos or Asians as if thy
were a monolith
Lot of gaps in our knowledge
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All too much of our current research is done through a middle
class American framework.
Does not separate out immigrant generation or country or
immigrant origin. Lumps together all Latinos or Asians as if thy
were a monolith
Lot of gaps in our knowledge
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