Arguing that “immigration is not a program to be administered” but rather “a phenomenon to be managed,” Ruth Ellen Wasem, former immigration specialist for the Congressional Research Service and now a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Texas, reviews the “checkered past” of immigration policy over the last century and, despite numerous […]
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Scholar Laments the Fact that Many Policy Makers Disregard Social Science Expertise in Developing Immigration Policy
Why is social science expertise important in policymaking, and why is such expertise noticeably shunned in immigration policymaking, an area of governance often swirling in a sea of misinformation, prejudice, and political posturing? These are two questions that the author of this paper seeks to answer. She begins by reviewing the history of the “administrative […]
Easily Accessible Online Data Sources Providing a Broad Range of Information on the Foreign-born and Immigration
This report contains a long list of easily accessible online data sources providing a broad range of information on the foreign-born and immigration, including demographic characteristics, English proficiency, health and health care access, labor force characteristics, annual immigration admissions, undocumented immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, temporary humanitarian statuses, immigration enforcement, state-based policies, public opinion about […]
Previous Winners of the Immigrant Entrepreneur Award of the Year
2014 Awardee: Mario Casabona, Founder and CEO, TechLaunch Mario emigrated from the town of Cerami in Sicily, Italy when he was five. His father was a barber and his mother a seamstress, and they both instilled in him a strong work ethic that only an immigrant can understand. You work harder, better, longer than anyone […]
3rd Annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Award Winners Chosen
Ewing, NJ (October 5, 2015) — A broad-based coalition of New Jersey business and trade organizations will be presenting the third annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards on October 13, 2015 at the MIDCED International Business Expo at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) luncheon from 12:30-2:00 PM, The Awards program was created to recognize […]