Publications

Occasional Papers

The Foundation publishes Occasional Papers on important immigration issues facing the United States. Click on a link below to download an Occasional Paper in PDF format.

Bean, Brown, Leach and Bachmeier, Mexican Immigrant Integration, August 2007

Anderson: Economics of Immigration, June 2006

Bolin: Public Opinion of Immigration in America, July 2005

Anderson: The Contribution of Legal Immigration to the Social Security System; February 2005

Bolin: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration; October 2004

Gottfredson: Crime, Immigration, and Public Policy; March 2004

American Dream Newsletters

We publish our semiannual American Dream newsletter in which we report on the recent activities of the Foundation and our Fellows. The newsletters also feature summaries of our new Occasional Papers.

American Dream Newsletter, Issue 7, Volume 1

American Dream Newsletter, Issue 6, Volume 1

American Dream Newsletter, Issue 5, Volume 1

American Dream Newsletter, Issue 4, Volume 1

Publications on Attracting Talent:  The Need for Foreign Scientists and Engineers 

This Special Initiative of the Foundation seeks to help present policy options to increase the ability of the United States to attract scientists and engineers from other nations in order to prosper in an increasingly competitive global economy. The following publications describe our efforts and our partners’ efforts on this initiative: the “Attracting Talent” newsletter on policies affecting foreign scientists and engineers; periodic updates to this newsletter; and the report on the Merage/UCI National Leadership Forum on International Graduate Students in Science and Engineering and International Scientists and Engineers: A National Need and a National Opportunity (October 2005).