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Format: 1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-280-22197-6 , 9786610221974 , 0-309-56795-5

Content: This book examines the needs for and availability of statistics concerning immigrants and immigration. It concentrates on the needs for statistics on immigrants, refugees, and illegal aliens for policy and program purposes, on the adequacy of the statistics that are produced and of the statistical systems that generate them, and on recommendations for improving these systems. Also, the history of immigration legislation and the estimates of the size of the illegal alien population are briefly reviewed.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , IMMIGRATION STATISTICS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Overview and Major Recommendations -- THE PROBLEM -- THE CHARGE TO THE PANEL -- PLAN OF THE REPORT -- WHAT WE FOUND -- SUMMARY OF MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS -- The panel recommends that Congress: -- 2 Immigration Policy: Past to Present -- HISTORICAL AND LEGISLATIVE OVERVIEW -- Before the Twentieth Century: Unrestricted Entry -- The Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of Restrictions -- The 1920s: The Flow is Stopped -- World War II and the Postwar Years: Concerns About Security -- From 1965 to 1984: Change and Proposed Change -- PRESENT LAW -- Numerical Limitations -- Refugees and Asylees -- Exclusion Grounds -- Temporary Admissions -- Deportable Classes -- Powers of Immigration Officers -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Needs for Statistics on Immigration -- DATA REQUIRED BY LAW -- Aliens Other Than Refugees -- Refugees -- DATA NEEDED FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- DATA NEEDED FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT -- COORDINATING POLICY AND PROGRAM DATA -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Immigration and Naturalization Service -- OVERVIEW: MANDATE AND PERFORMANCE -- INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE INS -- Categories of Migrants -- Permanent Resident Aliens -- Nonimmigrants -- Naturalizations -- Refugees, Parolees, and Asylees -- Border Crossers -- Deportable Aliens -- Records Control: The Alien File -- OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE INS -- Inspections -- Admissions -- Flows Into the United States Across Land Borders -- Adjudications and Naturalizations -- The Refugee, Asylum and Parolee Program -- Enforcement -- The Border Patrol -- Detention and Deportation -- Investigations -- Trial Attorneys -- THE WORK MEASUREMENT REPORT: FORM G-23 -- AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING -- Early ADP Systems -- The Master Index System -- The Nonimmigrant Document Control System -- Mid-Course Corrections -- Congressional Investigation. , The Scope of ADP Planning -- Interim Systems -- Recent Developments -- The Long-Range ADP Plan -- The Central Index -- The Nonimmigrant Information System -- The Immigrant Data Capture System -- Issues Raised by Automation -- INS RESOURCES FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- The Office of Plans and Analysis -- The Statistical Analysis Branch -- Branch Publications -- Statistics on the Resident Alien Population -- A Statistical Advisory Committee -- Evaluation of INS Statistics -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 5 Other Government Sources of Information on Immigration -- BUREAU OF CONSULAR AFFAIRS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE -- Responsibilities and Data -- Recommendations -- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR -- Division of Foreign Labor Certifications -- Program and Data -- Recommendation -- Other DOL Programs -- BUREAU OF REFUGEE PROGRAMS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE -- OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE -- The Decennial Census -- Value and Limitations -- 1980 Census Data -- Current Population Survey -- Other Bureau Sources -- Estimates of Illegal Immigration -- Recommendations -- TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CENTER, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION -- International Arrivals and Departures by Air -- Survey of International Air Travelers -- SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- Programs and Data -- Recommendations -- NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- Recommendations -- CUSTOMS SERVICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY -- Data Collected -- Recommendation -- GOVERNMENTWIDE ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- 6 The Role of Nongovernmental Activities in Immigration Studies -- DATA PRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS -- TYPES OF UNOFFICIAL DATA -- Ethnographic Data -- Survey Data. , Immigrant Case Records -- Potential Complementarities Among Unofficial Data Sources -- OBSTACLES TO DATA ANALYSIS -- SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 7 Collecting Data on Refugees and Asylees: An Illustration of a Complex Process -- REFUGEES -- Setting Admission Numbers and Allocations -- Counting Refugees -- Processing Refugees for Admission -- Prescreening by Voluntary Agencies -- INS Screening -- Sponsorship Assurances -- Travel and Entry to the United States -- Agency Coordination -- ASYLEES -- The Political Asylum Process -- Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals -- Data Insufficiencies and Gaps -- THE U.S. DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM -- Data Collection and Reporting -- Reports by State Agencies to the ORR -- ORR Reports -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 8 Data Gaps and Ways to Fill Them -- INTRODUCTION -- COSTS AND BENEFITS OF DATA IMPROVEMENTS -- Evaluating the Benefits of Better Data -- The Costs of Data Improvements -- Data Generation -- Data Linkages -- UNMET DATA NEEDS -- Immigrants -- Refugees -- Asylees -- Temporary Workers -- Illegal Aliens -- Program Needs -- APPROACHES TO DATA IMPROVEMENTS -- Improved Data Tabulation -- Processing of Data Already Collected -- Improved Record Linkage -- Modification of Existing Data Collection Procedures -- New Data Collection Initiatives -- IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9 Recommendations -- Glossary -- Selected Acronyms -- Appendix A SELECTED FORMS -- Appendix B SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ANALYZING DATA ON IMMIGRATION -- INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SIZE AND STRUCTURE OF THE NONLEGAL POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES -- ESTIMATING EMIGRATION OF RESIDENT ALIENS -- COMBINING ADMINISTRATIVE AND FOREIGN CENSUS DATA -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INTRODUCTION -- ESTIMATES OF NUMBERS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS. , Empirical Estimates of the Size of the Illegal Alien Population -- Goldberg (1974) -- Lancaster and Scheuren (1978) -- Robinson (1980) -- Heer (1979) -- Garcia y Griego (1980) -- CENIET (1982) -- Warren and Passel (1983) -- Bean, King, and Passel (1983) -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- Appendix C THE SETTLEMENT PROCESS AMONG MEXICAN MIGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES: NEW METHODS AND FINDINGS -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY DESIGN -- THE SOCIAL PROCESS OF INTEGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES -- THE SETTLEMENT PROCESS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Appendix D A REVIEW OF STATISTICAL ASPECTS CONTAINED WITHIN PENDING IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION: A LETTER REPORT TO THE INS, … -- Appendix E A SUMMARY OF PANEL ACTIVITIES -- WORKSHOP ON ESTIMATING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION -- SOCIAL SECURITY AND RELATED DATA: RESEARCH RESOURCES ON IMMIGRATION -- A SYMPOSIUM ON IMMIGRATION STATISTICS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? -- OTHER ACTIVITIES -- Appendix F BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- THE INS BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GUIDE TO SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- Statistical Sources -- Printed Indexes -- Online Data Bases -- Other Source -- Bibliographies -- SELECTED ABSTRACTS OF IMMIGRATION LITERATURE, 1978-1983 -- Selected References from the NTIS Data Base -- Bibliographies -- Employment and Labor Market Impact -- Federal Statistics -- Illegal Aliens -- Assimilation/Adaptation -- Miscellaneous References -- Selected References Prepared by Congressional Research Service: 1979-1982 -- General Sources -- Illegal Aliens -- Appendix G BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PANEL MEMBERS AND STAFF. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-309-03589-9

Language: English