Pragmatic Measure of Immigrant Integration

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

The Immigration Policy Lab of Stanford and ETH-Zurich recently published a proposed measure for immigrant integration in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is now available at http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/45/11483.full.pdf. The premise of the paper was that the plethora of academic and government evaluations of immigrant integration lacked a common metric to compare results of policies and environments on immigration success. The goal of the paper was to create a valid but pragmatic measure that could serve as a component of any survey conducted on immigrant populations. The authors therefore seek disciplinary “buy-in” of the measure they created. David Laitin, a co-author of the study and co-director of Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab will serve as chair.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 52: Migration and Citizenship

Chair

• David D. Laitin Stanford University

Presenters

• Zoltan L. Hajnal University of California, San Diego

• Michael Jones-Correa University of Pennsylvania

• Taeku Lee University of California, Berkeley