Choose the country you are interested in: Australia Austria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Italy Netherlands Norway Russian Federation Sweden United Kingdom United States Features The Roma of Eastern Europe: Still Searching for Inclusion Over one million Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority, became EU citizens in May 2004 when eight former communist states joined the EU. But their second-class status persists, as Arno Tanner of the Finnish Directorate of Immigration explains. The US Refugee Program in Transition In addition to post-September 11 security concerns, the US is dealing with less predictable refugee flows. David Martin of the University of Virginia School of Law reports. Spotlight The Foreign Born in the Armed Services The foreign born in the armed forces represent approximately five percent of the total on active duty. Jennifer Yau from the Migration Policy Institute updates data on the foreign-born members of the military. Have You Read... Settlement Patterns of the Foreign Born in the United States: Results from Census 2000 Although the foreign born remain concentrated in certain states, many immigrants are moving into "non-traditional" areas. Elizabeth Grieco outlines their settlement patterns.

New This Issue - May 2005 The May 2005 Source explores the US Refugee Program's responses to changing world trends, the Roma in an expanding Europe, and immigrants in the US military. We offer two country profiles on the UK and Norway, and continued coverage of US immigration policy developments. Click here for more from Managing Editor Kim Hamilton. Country Profiles Norway Since the 1970s, Norway has become home to thousands of non-European immigrants and refugees. MPI's Betsy Cooper takes a detailed look at how the country seeks to control migration while keeping the door open to labor from an expanding Europe. United Kingdom With immigration a hot political topic, the UK government is trying to prove it is meeting labor market needs while tightly controlling flows, according to Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah and Francesca Hopwood Road of the Institute for Public Policy Research in this updated UK profile. Policy Beat MPI's Betsy Cooper reports on the new US passport requirements, the Arizona Minuteman project, the latest REAL ID Act developments, and more. Full Story

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