RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, Alan Berube, Audrey Singer and Jill H. Wilson, March 2009, The Brookings Institution
Changing demographics—where people live, educational attainment, aging of boomers, diversity in population growth, poverty rates—raises key policy and program issues for the new government in Washington. In view of that, the Metropolitan Policy Program has compiled and detailed important trends that are shaping the nation’s engines of economic growth and opportunity. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Washington, DC
On June 23, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings hosted an event that examines a new report by McKinsey Global Institute on changing employment and income that informs the debate on what has driven the dispersion in incomes across industries and occupations. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, May 17, 2009, The Birmingham News
Audrey Singer points out that Alabama has historically had very low levels of immigration, but within the past decade it has experienced a significant growth and change in immigrant populations. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
On April 1, Brookings hosted a panel discussion on the upcoming Summit of the Americas and the recently released book, The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), edited by Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Abraham F. Lowenthal, Brookings Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Foreign Policy Theodore J. Piccone and University of Oxford Fellow Laurence Whitehead. Read More
BOOK
Abraham F. Lowenthal, Ted Piccone, Laurence Whitehead and Foreword by Strobe Talbott, April 01, 2009
The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges. The Obama Administration and the Americas, however, argues that the new administration should focus early and strategically on Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jill H. Wilson, March 24, 2009, American Society of Public Administrators National Conference
At the American Society of Public Administrators’ national conference, Jill H. Wilson outlined the major trends in U.S. immigration, including its size, growth, geographic spread, and the changing origins and characteristics of immigrants. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David A. Martin, March 10, 2009, The Brookings Institution, Georgetown University Law Center and the Hoover Institution
The federal government relied heavily on immigration laws in its immediate response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, largely because they were available, flexible, and could be directed toward targets deemed immediate and urgent. In a Brookings paper, David Martin suggests how to refine immigration law’s role in counterterrorism, which have clouded a traditional American stance of openness and welcome that has been valuable to diplomacy, business and the successful integration of immigrant populations. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, March 05, 2009, Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre
At Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, Audrey Singer outlined major immigration trends, federal policy reform elements, and discussed how the American immigration debate has moved from the federal level into the states and localities. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, February 26, 2009
2:00 PM to 4:00 pm
Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Policy Program and Greater Washington Research at Brookings hosted a discussion on a new report that examines the local, regional and national factors that led Prince William County, an outer suburb of the nation’s capital, to adopt tough measures against unauthorized immigrants. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, Jill H. Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis, February 25, 2009, The Brookings Institution
The failure of federal immigration reform in 2007 has reverberated in some fast-growing local areas, including in Virginia’s Prince William County—where community leaders and residents successfully organized to pressure county government to crack down on illegal immigration. Following these trends for a year, Audrey Singer, Jill Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis have completed a case study of the local, regional, and ultimately, national factors that led Prince William County to adopt new policies toward unauthorized immigrants. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, February 20, 2009
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
The Justice Department’s immigration courts have been the object of attention not only for how their judges have been selected but also for their heavy caseloads and shortage of resources, including the inadequacy of legal representation available to aliens. On February 20, Russell Wheeler moderated a discussion on these issues with Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and other immigration law experts. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, December 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution
New census estimates provide the first real glimpse of how migration and population growth may be responding to the housing slowdown, job losses, and broader recession. William Frey concludes that this economic downturn is not isolated to specific regions with slumping industries. Both Michigan and Florida lost migrants, while other states saw dramatic one-year drops in persons moving in. "We seem to be in a land of transitory limbo," he writes. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, David Park, Michael Katz and Domenic Vitiello, November 13, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Immigration to metropolitan Philadelphia has been rising recently after several stagnant decades. This paper examines recent trends in immigration to the region with attention to the varied immigrant groups, the opportunities they bring, and the challenges for policymakers, service providers, and communities across the area. The report argues for the development of a Regional Council on Immigration to best address the needs of the area’s newcomers. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, October 20, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
On October 20, Brookings hosted a discussion of the key demographic trends that are decisively reshaping the political landscape of the United States and their impact on the 2008 election. A new book from Brookings Press, Red, Blue and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics (2008), edited by Brookings Visiting Fellow Ruy Teixeira, puts these trends in context. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, September 25, 2008
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC
Brookings and the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California released a report examining the new media’s role in the U.S. immigration debate, and explored how the media conditioned public opinion and the policy landscape. Read More