The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across the globe. The integration of immigrants and their children contributes to our economic vitality and our vibrant and ever changing culture. We have offered opportunities to immigrants and their children to better themselves and to be fully incorporated into our society and in exchange immigrants have become Americans - embracing an American identity and citizenship, protecting our country through service in our military, fostering technological innovation, harvesting its crops, and enriching everything from the nation's cuisine to its universities, music, and art.
Today, the 41 million immigrants in the United States represent 13.1 percent of the U.S. population. The U.S.-born children of immigrants, the second generation, represent another 37.1 million people, or 12 percent of the population. Thus, together the first and second generations account for one out of four members of the U.S. population. Whether they are successfully integrating is therefore a pressing and important question. Are new immigrants and their children being well integrated into American society, within and across generations? Do current policies and practices facilitate their integration? How is American society being transformed by the millions of immigrants who have arrived in recent decades?
To answer these questions, this new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine summarizes what we know about how immigrants and their descendants are integrating into American society in a range of areas such as education, occupations, health, and language.
Table of Contents
|2 Legal and Institutional Context for Immigrant Integration||59-92|
|3 Legal Status and Immigrant Integration||93-158|
|4 Political and Civic Dimensions of Immigrant Integration||159-206|
|5 Spatial Dimensions of Immigrant Integration||207-246|
|6 Socioeconomic Dimensions of Immigrant Integration||247-302|
|7 Sociocultural Dimensions of Immigrant Integration||303-344|
|8 Family Dimensions of Immigrant Integration||345-376|
|9 Health Status and Access to Care||377-412|
|10 Data on Immigrants and Immigrant Integration||413-436|
|Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff||437-444|
Mary C. Waters, chair of the Panel on the Integration of Immigrants into American Society, discusses the findings of the report.
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