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Useful Links Links About Immigration       Links About Language Links About Immigration  Metro-Chicago Immigration Seminar: http://immigrationseminar.uchicago.edu/ The Metro-Chicago Immigration Seminar provides a venue for scholars from across Chicago to share their intellectual concerns about immigrants and immigration. The seminar meetings have been attracting graduate students and faculty members from the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, DePaul University and other schools. US Census: http://www.census.gov/ US Citizenship and Immigration Services: http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm Office of Immigration Statistics, US Department of Homeland Security: http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/index.htm International Organization for Migration (IOM): http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC-San Diego: http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/ “The Center is an interdisciplinary, multinational research and training program devoted to comparative work on international migration and refugee movements. Its primary missions are to conduct comparative (especially cross-national) and policy-oriented research, train academic researchers, students, and practitioners, and disseminate research conducted under its auspices to academics, policymakers, and NGOs through research seminars, conferences, publications, the internet, and the mass media.” Topical Priorities: The causes, dynamics, and consequences of international migration; The determinants and outcomes of laws and policies to regulate immigration and refugee flows; Transnational relationships between immigrant sending and receiving countries; The impact of international migration on citizenship, national identity, and ethnic relations; Immigrant rights, advocacy, and social services; immigrant political mobilization and participation; The interactions of immigrants and refugees with native-born residents of receiving countries and their long-term settlement and social integration. Center for Immigration Studies: http://www.cis.org/index.cgi “The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.” Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University: http://cmd.princeton.edu/ “The Center for Migration and Development (CMD) promotes scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange among faculty and students with an interest in international migration and national development. Of particular interest to CMD research is the relationship between immigrant communities in the developed world and the growth and development prospects of the sending nations.” Topical Priorities: Transnational organizations and their effects on immigrant incorporation and sending societies; Immigration and health; The adaptation process of the second generation; Neoliberal adjustment and its effects on civil society; The economic sociology of immigration. Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop - UC Berkley: http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/immigration/index.html The Workshop was founded to provide such a venue and to serve as a forum for intense, personalized discussion of members’ current research project. The goals of the workshop are three-fold: (1) To provide an interdisciplinary forum for workshop members to get intense, personalized feedback on their immigration-related research projects; (2) To serve as a venue for information dissemination among members; and (3) To provide a forum for inviting guest speakers to talk about immigration matters to the Berkeley campus and interested community members. The Workshop's Web site is designed to provide researchers, instructors and interested citizens with substantive content pertaining to immigration issues. It also supports Workshop activities via a virtual private network for resource sharing and communication. Migration Dialog, UC - Davis: http://migration.ucdavis.edu/ “Migration Dialogue promotes an informed discussion of the issues associated with international migration by providing unbiased and timely information on immigration and integration issues. Migration Dialogue supports four major activities: Migration News, Rural Migration News, Changing Face, and several Research & Seminars. Archives, data, seminar reports and links are found under each of these heading.” Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/ “Founded in 1965, the IHRC promotes research on migration with a special emphasis on immigration to the U.S. It brings scholar-specialists from the University into dialogue with university and high school students and their teachers, with print and non-print media workers, and with communities of immigrants, ethnic Americans, and concerned citizens. The IHRC especially seeks to enrich contemporary debates—so often heated and so often emotional when the subject is immigration—with historical and scholarly perspectives.” Migration Information Source: http://www.migrationinformation.org/ “Working with a team of international correspondents, we chronicle global migration movements, provide perspectives on current migration debates, and offer the tools and data from numerous global organizations and governments needed to understand migration. We do this in a way that is accessible to researchers, policy makers, journalists, and other opinion shapers.” Migration Policy Institute: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/ “The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think-tank in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels. It aims to meet the rising demand for pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, presents to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world.” Topical Priorities: Migration Management, Refugee Protection and International Humanitarian Response, North American Borders and Migration Agenda, Immigrant Settlement and Integration The New Americans Series (PBS): http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/ “Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century.” Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/ “We analyze policies, evaluate programs, and inform community development to improve social, civic, and economic well-being. We work in all 50 states and abroad in over 28 countries, and we share our research findings with policymakers, program administrators, business, academics, and the public online and through reports and scholarly books.” Links About Language  Modern Language Association Language Map http://www.mla.org/map_main “The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The census data are based on responses to the question, "Does this person speak a language other than English at home?" The Language Map illustrates the concentration of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides census data about over three hundred languages spoken in the United States, including actual numbers and percentages of speakers.” U.S. Census Bureau Web-page on Language Use Data http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/lang_use.html This site includes links to reports, summary tables and technical information for language use questions in 2000 and 1990. Language Use and Linguistic Isolation: Historical Data and Methodological Issues by Paul Siegel, Elizabeth Martin, and Rosalind Bruno, U. S. Census Bureau, February 12, 2001 http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/language/li-final.pdf Report prepared using the 1980 and 1990 U. S. Census data about language use and linguistic isolation. National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs http://www.ncela.gwu.edu “OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.” James’ Crawford’s Language Policy Website and Emporium http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD “This site is designed to encourage discussion of language policy issues, expose misguided school "reforms" – such as No Child Left Behind – and their impact on language-minority students, follow current developments, such as Census 2000 data on language usage, report on pending language legislation, illuminate the policy debates over bilingual education, by publicizing the latest research findings, flush out canards about bilingualism, track the continuing struggles against Proposition 227, California's anti-bilingual education initiative (1998) and against Proposition 203, Arizona's anti-bilingual education initiative (2000), highlight links to other sources of information and, to be totally candid, promote my own publications.” Languages of the World http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/languageList.html “The main purpose of this website is to provide information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members, including their history, status, their linguistic characteristics, and their writing in as simple and concise a way as possible. We base this website on the belief that all languages have evolved from the need of human beings to express their thoughts, beliefs, and desires, that all languages meet the social, psychological, and survival needs of people who use them. In this sense, all languages, no matter how small and remote, are equal. All equally deserve study because all of them provide valuable insights into human nature.”