Recently, Brookings Senior Fellow Audrey Singer gave a presentation on “U.S. Immigration Demographics and Immigrant Integration” at the National White House Convening on Immigrant and Refugee Integration. In her presentation, Singer focused on trends in immigrant demographics, settlement patterns, and education and workforce characteristics. She also highlighted the contributions of the foreign-born population, showing how immigration has profoundly transformed the demography of the United States over the past several decades.
Singer reported that since 1990, the immigrant population has doubled in size to over 40 million, rising to nearly a 13 percent share of the U.S. population. As Singer points out, one-in-four children have at least one foreign-born parent.
The implications of this growing immigrant population are promising. Singer shows that during the next four decades, immigrants and their descendants will be responsible for nearly all of the growth in the U.S. labor force, along with starting new businesses, inventing new technologies, and contributing to the overall prosperity of their cities, the country, and the global economy.
U.S. Immigration Demographics and Immigrant Integration from The Brookings Institution
For more on immigration, visit the links below:
Immigration Policy: Is Federalism the Answer?
What Brookings Scholars Are Saying about the Surge of Unaccompanied Children at the U.S. Border
U.S. Immigrants and Prospects for Immigration Reform
The Constraints of Executive Action on Display in Immigration Fix
The Surge in Unaccompanied Children from Central America: A Humanitarian Crisis at Our Border
Thomas Young contributed to this post.
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See the Immigrant Demographics Presentation that Audrey Singer Gave to the White House
July 23, 2014