Show Me the Money (and Opportunity): Why Skilled People Leave Home — and Why They Sometimes Return April 22 — Five factors, including wages and professional development, drive skilled people to migrate, and three reasons encourage them to return. Laura Chappell and Alex Glennie of ippr in London look at all of these factors and how motivations vary across different contexts and groups of migrants. Hidden in Plain Sight: Indigenous Migrants, Their Movements, and Their Challenges March 31 — The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues estimates there are more than 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries worldwide. Carlos Yescas of the New School for Social Research looks at the definition of indigenous people, the three types of indigenous-people flows, and how indigenous migrants maintain ties with their home communities. In Mexico, Mother's Education and Remittances Matter in School Outcomes March 29 — Remittances would seem to boost the chances that children in Mexico complete high school. But money alone does not improve schooling outcomes in the educationally marginalized, migrant-sending regions of southern Mexico, as Adam Sawyer of the Harvard Graduate School of Education reports. Emigration, Immigration, and Diaspora Relations in India The world's second most populous country also has a vast diapora spread across nearly every continent. Daniel Naujoks provides a broad overview of Indian migration flows and major populations worldwide, and discusses India's diaspora policies, refugees and asylum seekers from the region, and illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Supreme Court Rules that Attorneys Must Inform Criminal Defendants of the Immigration Consequences of Pleading Guilty April 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on Padilla v. Kentucky, Arizona's passage of a controversial immigration bill, Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham's immigration reform blueprint, the latest H-1B application numbers, and more. Filipino Immigrants in the United States April 7 — The 1.7 million Filipino immigrants in the United States made them the country's second-largest immigrant group in 2008. MPI's Aaron Terrazas and Jeanne Batalova use the latest federal data to explore the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics. Korean Immigrants in the United States Jordan: A Refugee Haven Hidden in Plain Sight: Indigenous Migrants, Their Movements, and Their Challenges Climate Change and Migration: Sorting through Complex Issues without the Hype Intelligence Reformed and Homeland Security Department Overhauled Mexican Immigration to the US: The Latest Estimates Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States France's New Law: Control Immigration Flows, Court the Highly Skilled New Estimates of the Undocumented Population in the United States Spotlight on Refugees and Asylees in the United States Climate Change and Migration: Sorting through Complex Issues without the Hype Mexican Immigration to the US: The Latest Estimates The US Refugee Resettlement Program Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States New Estimates of the Undocumented Population in the United States Haitian Immigrants in the United States Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America Time to Temper the Faith: Comparing the Migration and Development Experiences of Mexico and Morocco Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Men The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: New Findings from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study

Of the 46.9 million people in 2008 who identified themselves as having Hispanic or Latino ancestry, 62 percent were native-born US citizens and 38 percent were immigrants. See our Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States for more details.

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