The Urban Institute has been studying immigration for almost a decade and a half. In recent years, the Institute's focus has widened to include immigration integration. Unlike immigration policy, which is a federal responsibility, policies regarding immigrant integration have been left in the hands of states and localities and vary widely by region. This book focuses on the 1980-1990 experience of a high-immigrant state whose immigrant population matches the race and ethnic composition of the US population as a whole more closely than any other state. 'New Jersey's experience with immigration is not necessarily typical of outcomes in other high-immigration states, but it may be replicable on a broader scale. As a new century approaches and as debate over immigration legislation reaches a fever pitch, it is important to analyze, in the fashion of this volume, instances of successful immigration that can serve as examples for other states, the United States as a whole and other nations...' (Thomas Espenshade).
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Contents: New Jersey in Comparative Perspective. Demographic Context: Comparing Demographic and Labor-Market Characteristics of New Jersey and US Foreign Born; Undocumented Immigrants in New Jersey: Numbers, Impacts and Policies; Taking the Pulse of Public Opinion towards Immigrants. Economic, Social and Political Impacts: Immigration and the Wages and Employment of US-Born Workers in New Jersey; State and Local Fiscal Impacts of New Jersey's Immigrant and Native Households; Immigrant Education in New Jersey: Policies and Practices; Effects of Parents' Place of Birth and Ethnicity on Birth Outcomes in New Jersey; Migrants and Settlers: Political Opportunities and Political Behaviours among New Jersey Immigrants. Processes of Immigrant Adaptation: Immigration and Fertility in New Jersey: A Comparison of Native and Foreign-born Women; Immigrants' Earnings and Labor-Market Assimilation: A Case Study of New Jersey; Homeownership Attainment of New Jersey Immigrants; Segregation by Ethnicity and Immigrant Status in New Jersey; Migrants and the Linguistic Ecology of New Jersey.
