Portrait: Audrey Singer

Audrey Singer is a senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her areas of expertise include demography, international migration, U.S. immigration policy, and urban and metropolitan change. She has written extensively on U.S. immigration trends, including immigrant integration, undocumented migration, naturalization and citizenship, and the changing racial and ethnic composition of the United States. | View Full Bio

  • In the News

    The question is, can we come up with a mechanism [for immigration] that allows us to have a more adjustable system over time and have more flexibility?

    April 13, 2013, Audrey Singer, Los Angeles Times
  • Article | Cities of Migration

    Migration and the Metropolis

    April 2013

  • Book Chapter | Emerald Group Publishing

    Metropolitan Washington: A New Immigrant Gateway

    April 2, 2013

  • In the News

    It seems like the stars are aligning and that this is best chance that we've seen in years [for immigration reform]. In particular, the signaling comes from people and places where there has been resistance before: Top Republican leaders are talking about legalization for people who are in the United States without status for the first time. Many businesses, labor, religious, and political leaders are voicing their concerns about not fixing our immigration and the harm that would do. I see this as a very ripe time.

    February 23, 2013, Audrey Singer, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
  • In the News

    What we haven’t really achieved in our system after decades of thinking about [immigration policy] is how to adjust the admissions policy to better suit our economic needs in something closer to real time. That is going to be part of the discussion in the next couple of months. Do we make changes based on some market demand, and how do we measure that? Do we set out knowing what we want and then adjust our policies?

    February 19, 2013, Audrey Singer, Bloomberg
  • In the News

    It’s always been a really contentious issue—what to do about people who are here without legal status. There are a lot of people who have really well-formulated opinions about the border and illegal immigration, and it’s really hard to change their points of view, and so [legalization] is seen as contributing to the problem rather than contributing to a solution.

    February 4, 2013, Audrey Singer, The Town Talk
  • In the News

    [The Obama Administration's new visa policy is] a potentially significant feature of immigration law going forward because it removes this Catch-22 that people were subject to before.

    January 3, 2013, Audrey Singer, Washington Post

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