| Immigrants and the Current Economic Crisis: Research Evidence, Policy Challenges and Applications
Papademetriou, Demetrios G.; Terrazas, Aaron
Migration Policy Institute (MPI), January 2009, 35p (PDF)
The report finds that the recession may produce differing results for legal and illegal immigration flows. It cites a growing body of evidence suggesting there has been a measurable slowdown in the historic growth of immigration in the United States, largely because there has been no significant growth in the unauthorized immigrant population since 2006. It also examines the effects of the economic crisis and factors such as immigration enforcement on the immigrant population already in the United States.
Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of international migration. Aaron Terrazas is New Media Director at BlueMango Creative Group.
Go to the report at:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/lmi_recessionJan09.pdf
E9/02-09, March 18, 2009
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