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Headings: !!Resources for Courses on International Migration !!!!Data !!!!Using data in the classroom !!!!Previous syllabi of sociology undergraduate courses related to international migration

Resources for Courses on International Migration ^

Data ^

• Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. From the U.S. Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Detailed statistics and tables can be downloaded in Excel format.

• Migration information source is a comprehensive resource on migration and migration data. See their Global Data Center, which provides migration-related data organized by country. Their Data Tools Page offers, among other things, the option to create comparative migration graphs for a limited number of countries and years, a list of country-specific graphs and tables, country profiles, and a specialized page devoted solely to international migration to the U.S..

• The European Migration Center offers useful resources for students of international migration including a searchable database of migration statistics organized by country and topic. Be careful when using these statistics as they may differ in quality.

• UN high commissioner for refugees - worldwide data on refugees: provides an overview of refugee statistics, trends in the last 10 years, and summary reports. Statistical yearbook on refugees includes detailed statistics of refugee characteristics by age, sex, country of origin and more.

• Mexican Migration Project is an international US-Mexican multidisciplinary research project studying migration from Mexico to the U.S. It includes an annual survey both in the U.S. and Mexico that began in 1982. The Data overview provides a good introduction. Data are available for download in SAS and SPSS formats, codebook and other documentation are available as well. The research project has a qualitative component including oral histories of migrants and a photo gallery.

• The Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurs Project (CIEP) of Princeton University is a quantitative survey of immigrant transnational activities. The coverage includes Colombians in Queens, NY; Dominicans in Washington Heights (Upper Manhattan) and Providence, RI; and Salvadorans in the Washington DC metro area (the Adams Morgan section of DC and Alexandria, Virginia) and Los Angeles (Pico Union). Data are available for download in SPSS and Stata format. The codebook is also freely available.

• Portes and Rumbaut's Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey data are now freely available for download. The survey collected data from large samples of second-generation children attending the 8th and 9th grades in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale in Florida and San Diego, California in 1992 and followed them for several years. These data have been used for two influential books: Portes and Rumbaut's Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (University of California Press 2001); and an edited volume by Rumbaut and Portes Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (University of California Press 2001). You can consult the codebook and download the data in SPSS, SPSS portable and Stata formats.

• Migration & Immigration in Los Angeles & Long Beach is a report provided by CensusScope that shows residence 5 years prior to the 1990 and 2000 census. It is easy to read and requires no statistics beyond the ability to read percentages. The CensusScope page produces graphs for out metro areas and states. This is useful for short papers analyzing trends over time in one location, comparing multiple locations, or trends in multiple locations. See also Migration & Immigration in California, and Migration & Immigration in the US.

• Nativity and Citizenship in the US shows nativity and citizenship status in the 1990 and 2000 census data. It is easy to read and requires no statistical knowledge beyond the ability to read percentages and raw counts. These data can be compared with data on Nativity and Citizenship in California, and Nativity and Citizenship in LA and Long Beach. All data are from the same source.

• Historical US Census Data
  • Report on historical US Census data on race (1790-1990) and Hispanic origin (1970-1990). The report includes tables for the entire country as well as for specific regions and states in Excel format. See, for example, a summary table on race and Hispanic origin, or historical data on the Asian and Pacific Islander population by country of origin. Note that this latter file has several different worksheets in the same file.

Using data in the classroom ^

• The Impact of Immigration . In this assignment, we provide compiled data on the US population and the region or country of origin of immigrants from 1900 to 2000. The original data , are from the Census Bureau's Mini Historical Statistics page: (Immigration to the United States: fiscal years 1820-2000 and Immigrants admitted by selected class of admission and region and country of last permanent residence: fiscal year 2000

• SSDAN Teaching Modules (use the StudentCHIP software or WebCHIP freeware, read more about the software).
  • Immigration in the U.S. . In this module, students compare the characteristics of native and foreign born residents. In particular, the goal is to assess the degree of assimilation by measuring the magnitude of immigration, patterns of geographic settlement, the distribution of income earnings and English language facility. The exercise takes both a temporal and cross-sectional perspective, however, the emphasis is on forming hypotheses rather than exploring or testing the data. The module includes good questions about the conceptual limitations of the indicators used (i.e. proxy measures).
    • Note: SSDAN has recently updated all the data set available for their assignments to include 2000 Census data. If you want students to use the updated data sets, instruct them to the go to the WebCHIP launcher and select the “cen2000” category. The names of the newer data files are “popusa2k.dat”, immusa2k.dat”, wkin2k-35.dat”, “engasn2k.dat” and “englat2k.dat” (file names are in the same order as they appear in the exercise).

• Roger Waldinger's class on "The Children of the Immigrants" was a combination of lab sessions using Stata and classroom discussions. Students used Stata to complete five homework assignments. Data came from Portes and Rumbaut's Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey. The assignments were designed to replicate and evaluate the findings from the Portes and Rumbaut book.

Previous syllabi of sociology undergraduate courses related to international migration ^

• Comparative Immigration, Hernandez-Leon, w04
• Comparative Immigration, Hernandez-Leon, w03
• Comparative Immigration, Light, f02
• Comparative Immigration, Light, f01
• Comparative Immigration, Waldinger, s01
• Comparative Immigration, Light, f00
• Comparative Immigration, Waldinger, s00

• Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation, Waldinger, w04
• Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation, Telles, w03
• Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation, Waldinger, s02

• Chinese Immigration, Zhou, f02
• Chinese Immigration, Cheng, f02

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