Immigration

Recent Awards

Katherine Fennelly, University of Minnesota
Gordon Hanson, The University of Michigan
Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University
Douglas S. Massey, The University of Pennsylvania
Marta Tienda, Princeton University

"New Immigrant Destinations: A pilot Project for a Multi-Site, Mixed-Methods Study"
February 2008, $355,552
Project Description

Kay Deaux, City University of New York

"The Psychological Foundations of Membership in Ethnically-Relevant Organizations"
December 2007, $9,230

Susan Brown, University of California, Irvine

"Intergenerational Spatial Assimilation Among the Descendents of Mexican Immigrants in Metropolitan Los Angeles"
November 2007, $34,986
Project Description

Katharine M. Donato, Rice University
Melissa Marschall, Rice University

"Supplementary Appropriation - Immigrants and Schools: Contextual Factors in Parents' School and Community Involvement"
November 2007, $28,000

Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley

"Learning Civic Engagement: Political Socialization in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Mexican-Origin Families with Mixed Citizenship Status"
November 2007, $136,836
Project Description

Dina Okamoto, University of California, Davis
Kimberly Ebert, University of California, Davis

"The Civic and Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Non-Traditional Destinations"
November 2007, $165,835
Project Description

Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles

"Cross-Border Connectivity and Collectivity"
November 2007, $89,539
Project Description

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
Maurice Crul, University of Amsterdam

"Second Generation Immigrants in the European Union and the United States"
June 2007, $34,280
Project Description

Janelle Wong, University of Southern California
Jane Iwamura, University of Southern California

"Immigrants, Religion, and Conservative Politics in the United States"
June 2007, $30,932
Project Description

Neeraj Kaushal, Columbia University
Robert Kaestner, University of Illinois, Chicago

"Effect of Nurse Immigration on Employment and Earnings of U.S. Nurses"
June 2007, $139,868
Project Description

Raphael Sonenshein, California State University, Fullerton
Mark Drayse, California State University, Fullerton

"Urban Coalitions in an Age of Immigration"
June 2007, $65,263
Project Description

Elaine Howard Ecklund, University of Buffalo, SUNY
Michael Emerson, University of Buffalo, SUNY

"Religion and the Changing Face of American Civic Life"
June 2007, $190,149
Project Description

Douglas S. Massey, The University of Pennsylvania
Eli Dutton, University of Strathclyde

"Public Use Data on Mexican Migration"
June 2007, $100,000
Project Description

Deborah Reed-Danahay, University of Texas, Arlington
Caroline B. Brettell, Southern Methodist University

"Supplemental Appropriation - Practicing Citizenship in a New City of Immigration: An Ethnographic Comparison of Asian Indians and Vietnamese""
June 2007, $6,000

Mary M Kritz, Cornell University
Douglas T Gurak, Cornell University

"Non-Traditional Immigrant Destinations: Who Is Moving Where and Why?"
November 2006, $192,243
Project Description

Jen'nan Ghazal Read, University of California, Irvine

"Doubly Disenfranchised? How Race/Ethnicity and Religiosity Shape Muslim American Political Incorporation"
November 2006, $142,600
Project Description

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation
Mary J. Fischer, University of Connecticut, Storrs

"Emerging Immigrant Destinations"
November 2006, $35,000
Project Description

Mark Ellis, University of Washington
Marcia Meyers, University of Washington

"Conference and Volume On New Immigrant Settlement Patterns"
November 2006, $34,875
Project Description

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University

"Transnational Organizations and the Political Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States - Phase Two"
June 2006, $122,078
Project Description

Paula D. McClain, Duke University

"What's New About the New South? Race, Latino Immigration, and Intergroup Relations"
June 2006, $140,631
Project Description

Chandra Muller, University of Texas

"The Roles of Language and Education in Adolescent Immigrants' Civic Integration during the Transition to Adulthood"
June 2006, $150,000
Project Description

Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute
Demetrios Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute

"Immigrant Children and Families on the 10th Anniversary of Welfare Reform"
June 2006, $40,000
Project Description

Gerald Holton, Harvard University

"Immigrant Assimilation Lessons from Central European Refugees Fleeing Nazism"
March 2006, $17,220
Project Description

Katharine M. Donato, Rice University
Melissa Marschall, Rice University
Audrey Singer, Brookings Institution

"Immigrants and Schools: Contextual Factors in Parents' School and Community Involvement"
November 2005, $151,763
Project Description

Jose J. Escarce, University of California, Los Angeles
Leo S. Morales, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Health of Second Generation Mexican-Americans: Is Generational Decline Real?"
November 2005, $128,717
Project Description

Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine
Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles

"Becoming "Ethnic," Becoming "Angeleno," and/or Becoming "American": The Multi-Faceted Experiences of Immigrant Children and the Children of Immigrants in Los Angeles"
November 2005, $210,554
Project Description

Krista Perreira, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Southern Immigrant Academic Adaptation Study"
November 2005, $195,795
Project Description

Jamie Winders, Syracuse University

"Latino Migration, Race, and Urban Transformation in the U.S. South: A Qualitative Study"
November 2005, $110,609
Project Description

Joel Perlmann, Bard College

"The Intermingling of Peoples in the United States: Intermarriage and the Population History of Ethnic and Racial Groups Since 1880"
November 2005, $185,280
Project Description

Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute

"Disseminating RSF Immigration Research through the Migration Information Source"
November 2005, $87,433
Project Description

Bruce Cain, University of California, Berkeley
Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley

"Learning Civic Engagement: Political Socialization in Mexican-Origin Families with Mixed Citizenship Status"
October 2005, $34,983
Project Description

Jeffrey Prottas, Brandeis University

"Immigrant Political Incorporation through Grassroots Organizing"
August 2005, $34,978
Project Description

Richard Alba, SUNY Albany

"New Immigrants in the Hudson Valley"
June 2005, $49,019
Project Description

Lisa Garcia Bedolla, University of California, Irvine

"The Political Socialization of Immigrant Youth: A Pilot Study"
June 2005, $30,612

Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Zoltan Hajnal, University of California, San Diego

"Immigrant Incorporation and Party Identification among Latinos and Asian Americans"
June 2005, $33,257
Project Description

Caroline B. Brettell, Southern Methodist University
Deborah Reed-Danahay, University of Texas, Arlington

"Practicing Citizenship in a New City of Immigration: An Ethnographic Comparison of Asian Indians and Vietnamese"
June 2005, $148,840
Project Description

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside

"The Civic Roots of Political Participation among Immigrants in the United States"
June 2005, $97,521
Project Description

Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine
Leo Chavez, University of California, Irvine
Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles

"Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles: A Qualitative Study"
February 2005, $30,000
Project Description

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York

"Immigrants and Politics in New York and Los Angeles: Civic Engagement and Political Influence"
February 2005, $89,334
Project Description

Raphael Sonenshein, California State University, Fullerton
Mark Drayse, California State University, Fullerton

"Immigrant Political Incorporation and Electoral Coalitions"
February 2005, $33,957
Project Description

Rodney Hero, University of Notre Dame
Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University

"Latino Immigrants in New Receiving Areas"
November 2004, $149,937
Project Description

Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania

"Academic Readiness and School Outcomes among Second Generation Pre-School and Kindergarten Children"
November 2004, $89,845
Project Description

John R. Logan, Brown University

"Immigrant Pathways to Political Incorporation"
November 2004, $149,988
Project Description

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University

"Transnationalism and the Political Incorporation of Latin American Immigrants in the United States"
November 2004, $150,000
Project Description

Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley

"Organizing for Political Voice: The Role of Community Organizations in Immigrant Political Incorporation"
November 2004, $34,895
Project Description

Jane Junn, Rutgers University

"Mobilizing Political Identity: Ethnic Consciousness and Immigrant Political Participation"
November 2004, $28,240
Project Description

Paul Ong, University of California, Los Angeles

"Voting Patterns of Naturalized Chinese Immigrants"
November 2004, $34,999
Project Description

Mara Sidney, Rutgers University

"Making Citizens or Strangers? New Immigrants and the Governance of Housing and Schools"
November 2004, $34,779
Project Description

Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles

"Pathways to Political Incorporation: Exploring the Relationship Between "Here" and "There""
November 2004, $34,000
Project Description

Judith Treas, University of California, Irvine

"Older People in America’s Immigrant Families"
November 2004, $39,918
Project Description

Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine
Frank D. Bean, University of California, Irvine
Leo Chavez, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine
Susan Brown, University of California, Irvine
Louis DeSipio, University of California, Irvine
Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles

"Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles"
November 2003, $1,701,789
Project Description

Francine D. Blau, Cornell University
Lawrence Kahn, Cornell University

"Immigration, Gender, and the Labor Market: 1970-2003"
November 2003, $172,076
Project Description

Deborah Schildkraut, Oberlin College

"Twenty-first Century Americanism"
November 2003, $195,720
Project Description

Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
Salvador Oropesa, Pennsylvania State University

"Context, Identities, and Economic Outcomes: A Pilot Study of Dominicans in Reading, Pennsylvania"
October 2003, $35,000
Project Description

Una Osili, Indiana University
Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

"The Financial Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S."
August 2003, $34,919
Project Description

Ralph Sell, American University in Cairo

"The U.S. Diversity Immigration Lottery"
July 2003, $34,919
Project Description

Vilma Ortiz, University of California, Los Angeles
Edward E. Telles, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Mexican American People: A Generation Later"
June 2003, $122,229
Project Description

Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University

"Reshaping the American Dream: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Politics of the New Suburbs"
November 2002, $118,693

Regina Cortina, New York University
Emily Rosenbaum, Fordham University

"The Schooling of Immigrants in New York"
October 2002, $35,000

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

"The Immigrant Second Generation in Comparative Perspective"
October 2002, $30,000

Douglas S. Massey, The University of Pennsylvania
Magaly Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania

"Transnational Identities and Behavior: An Ethnographic Comparison of First and Second Generation Latino Immigrants"
May 2002, $50,000

Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine
Frank D. Bean, University of California, Irvine
Leo Chavez, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine
Susan Wierzbicki, University of California, Irvine
Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles

"Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles"
February 2002, $135,951

Richard Alba, SUNY Albany

"Socioeconomic Attainments of Second Generation in Immigration Societies: An Analysis of Canada, Germany, and the U.S."
November 2001, $196,344
Project Description

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine

" Supplemental Appropriation for "The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Study"
November 2001, $142,992

Jacob L. Vigdor, Duke University
David M. Cutler, University of Wisconsin
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University

"The Residential Segregation of Immigrant Groups in the United States, 1910-2000"
November 2001, $188,194
Project Description

Jose Itzigsohn, Brown University

"Ethnic and Racial Identities Among Second Generation Domincan Americans"
November 2001, $34,995
Project Description

Ewa Morawska, University of Pennsylvania

"Transnationalism and Assimilation as Conterminous Processes: A Comparative Study of New East European Immigrants in New York and Philadelphia"
August 2001, $22,750
Project Description

Frank D. Bean, University of California, Irvine

"Immigration, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, and Multiracial Identification"
June 2001, $264,701

Krista Perreira, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Health, Education, and the Economic Well-Being of Adolescent Immigrants"
June 2001, $231,651

John Garcia, University of Arizona

"Race/Ethnicity Identity Formation Patterns for Latinos in the 21st Century"
June 2001, $74,210

Michael Rosenfeld, Stanford University

"Intermarriage in the United States: Trends and Implications"
June 2001, $33,582

Gabriel Kuperminc, Georgia State University

"Bicultural Identity and Filial Responsibility in the Social, Psychological, and School Adjustment of Immigrant Latino Youth"
April 2001, $29,870

Katherine Fennelly, University of Minnesota

"Immigrants in Rural America: Immigrant-Host Society Relations and Identities in a Changing Environment"
March 2001, $34,993

Mark Ellis, University of Washington
Steven Holloway, University of Georgia
Richard Wright, Dartmouth College

"‘Marrying Out' and Fitting In: Interracial Households, Residential Segregation, and the Identity of Multiracial Children"
November 2000, $294,767

Mia Hui Chi Tuan, University of Oregon
Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon

"Asian Immigrants in White Families: Korean Adoptees in America"
November 2000, $145,752

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine

"The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study"
November 2000, $720,762

Lisa Catanzarite, University of California, San Diego

"Earnings Penalties in ‘Brown Collar' Occupations in Local Labor Markets"
October 2000, $30,000

Ingrid Ellen, New York University
Amy Schwartz, New York University
Leanna Stiefel, New York University

"Immigrants and School Segregation in New York City"
October 2000, $34,988

Eugene Hammel, University of California, Berkeley

"Digitization of Historical Immigration and Naturalization Service Data"
October 2000, $15,050

Stephen Trejo, University of Texas, Austin

"Ethnic Choices and the Intergenerational Progress of Mexican Americans"
October 2000, $34,835

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York

"The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York"
November 1998, $230,000

John R. Logan, Brown University

"Generations of Immigrants and Minorities in New York"
June 1998, $80,247

Joel Perlmann, Bard College
Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles

"Second Generations: Past and Present"
June 1998, $174,177

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

"The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York (May 1998)"
May 1998, $475,000

Lydio Tomasi, Center for Migration Studies

"Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans: A Special Issue of International Migration Review"
February 1998, $10,000

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

"The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York (November 1997)"
November 1997, $701,232

Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University

"Governing American Cities: Immigrants and Interethnic Coalitions"
August 1997, $20,444

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York

"Second Generation Pilot Project"
July 1997, $28,911

Vilma Ortiz, University of California, Los Angeles
Edward E. Telles, University of California, Los Angeles

"Mobility and Ethnic Change Among Mexican Immigrants and Their Children in Los Angeles: 1965-1996"
June 1996, $159,030

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

"The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York: Phase One (1996)"
June 1996, $35,000

John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

"The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York: Phase One (June 1995)"
June 1995, $175,035

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