Immigration statistics [[electronic resource] ] : a story of neglect / / Daniel B. Levine, Kenneth Hill, and Robert Warren, editors ; Panel on Immigration Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1985 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 353.0081/7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LevineDaniel B
HillKen <1945-> WarrenRobert <1942-> |
Soggetto topico | Emigration and immigration |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-22197-6
9786610221974 0-309-56795-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455793803321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1985 | ||
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Immigration statistics : a story of neglect / / Daniel B. Levine, Kenneth Hill, and Robert Warren, editors ; Panel on Immigration Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1985 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
Disciplina | 353.0081/7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LevineDaniel B
HillKen <1945-> WarrenRobert <1942-> |
Soggetto topico | Emigration and immigration |
ISBN |
1-280-22197-6
9786610221974 0-309-56795-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778680103321 |
Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1985 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Immigration statistics : a story of neglect / / Daniel B. Levine, Kenneth Hill, and Robert Warren, editors ; Panel on Immigration Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1985 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
Disciplina | 353.0081/7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LevineDaniel B
HillKen <1945-> WarrenRobert <1942-> |
Soggetto topico | Emigration and immigration |
ISBN |
1-280-22197-6
9786610221974 0-309-56795-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813259703321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1985 | ||
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