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Recent MPI Analyses |
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Changing Demography and Circumstances for Young Black Children in African and Caribbean Immigrant Families
By Donald J. Hernandez
This report, the first in a trio of reports from the Young Children of Black Immigrants research initiative, finds that the 813,000 children under the age of 10 who have Black immigrant parents generally fall in the middle of multiple well-being indicators, faring less well than Asian and white children but better than their native-born Black and Hispanic peers. The report examines their family structure, citizenship status, English proficiency, parental characteristics, poverty, housing, and access to social supports.
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DREAM vs. Reality: An Analysis of Potential DREAM Act Beneficiaries
Slightly more than 2.1 million unauthorized immigrant youth and young adults could be eligible to apply for legal status under the DREAM Act legislation pending in Congress, though perhaps fewer than 40 percent would obtain legal status because of barriers limiting their ability to take advantage of the legislation's educational and military service routes to legalization. This MPI analysis offers the most recent and detailed estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries by age, education levels, gender, state of residence and likelihood of gaining legalization.
Updated Estimates | Download Report | Press Release
Today’s Second Generation:
Getting Ahead or Falling Behind?
By Roger Waldinger and Renee Reichl
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
Knight Community Profiles on Young Children of Immigrants
By David Dixon, Julia Gelatt, and Afshin Zilanawala
February 2007
MPI provides an overview of characteristics of young children (under age 9) of immigrants living in 14 communities throughout the United States.
The Second Generation in the United States
Migration Information Source Special Issue
October 2006
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Did you know? |
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More than one in five children in the United
States, and more than one in four low-income children, is the
child of an immigrant.
Three-fourths of the children of immigrants are citizens.
Two out of three children with an undocumented parent are citizens
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What’s Happening |
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The president’s budget for fiscal
year (FY) 2008 would slightly reduce funding for No Child Left Behind
Language Acquisition State grants under Title III to $671 million
(the same amount appropriated in FY 2006), down from $678 million
in FY 2007.
The president’s budget would eliminate federal funding
for the Even Start program, which provided reading education
to both children and parents. A share of national Even Start
funding had been set aside for serving migrant workers and
their families.
The budget calls for sustained funding for Head Start. A portion
of Head Start funding is allocated for children of migrant
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New Research in the Field
(List Under Development) |
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Health Care for Children of Immigrants
Annotated Bibliography, National Conference of State Legislatures, Health Care and Children in Immigrant Families Project, January 2007
Young Children in Immigrant Families:
The Role of Philanthropy
By Kinsey Alden Dinan
Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty, May 2006
Reaching All Children: Understanding Early Care and
Education Participation among Immigrant Families
By Hannah Matthews and Daniel Ewen
Center for Law and Social Policy, January 2006
Undercounted. Underserved. Immigrant and Refugee Families
in the Child Welfare System
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2006
The New Demography of America’s Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act
By Randy Capps, Michael Fix, Julie Murray, Jason Ost, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Shinta Herwantoro Hernandez
Urban Institute, September 2005
The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development
By William T. Gormley Jr., Ted Gayer, Deborah Phillips, and Brittany Dawson
Developmental Psychology 41, No. 6 (2005): 872-884.
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Selected Readings
(List Under Development) |
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"Leveling the Playing Field: Supporting Immigrant Children from Birth to Eight"
By Ruby Takanishi
The Future of Children, 14(2): 61-79, 2004
The Health and Well-Being of Young
Children of Immigrants
By Randy Capps, Michael Fix, Jason Ost, Jane Reardon-Anderson, and Jeffrey S. Passel
Urban Institute, 2004
Federal Policy for Immigrant Children: Room for
Common Ground?
By Ron Haskins, Mark Greenberg, and Shawn Fremstad
Brookings Institution, 2004
Demographic Change and Life Circumstances of Immigrant
Families
By Donald J. Hernandez
Future of Children 14, No. 2 (2004): 17-47 |
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There are 1.3 million children in Black immigrant families in the United States, most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean. Children in these families account for 11 percent of all Black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the US population. Yet despite these demographic changes, children in Black immigrant families remain neglected by research studies. To address this important gap in knowledge, MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, with support from the 
Slightly more than 2.1 million unauthorized immigrant youth and young adults could be eligible to apply for legal status under the DREAM Act legislation pending in Congress, though perhaps fewer than 40 percent would obtain legal status because of barriers limiting their ability to take advantage of the legislation's educational and military service routes to legalization. This MPI analysis offers the most recent and detailed estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries by age, education levels, gender, state of residence and likelihood of gaining legalization.