The New Immigrant Survey

新移民调查

• 批准号: 0096867
• 负责人: James Smith
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Rand Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0096867&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Immigrant; Survey

Immigration has a major impact on American society, but there is a large gap between information needs and existing data. The fundamental questions concerning the short run and long run prospects for immigrant children and the children of immigrants, changes in the health and skill composition of entry cohorts of immigrants over time, the transitions between legal and illegal statuses, the contributions of immigrants to the economy and their assimilation remain unanswered. This project addresses these information needs by conducting for the first time, a comprehensive, multi-cohort longitudinal survey of new legal immigrants to the United States based on nationally representative samples of the administrative records, compiled by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), pertaining to immigrants newly admitted to permanent residence. The New Immigration Survey is a follow-up to a pilot project, which received co-funding from NICHD, NIA, NSF and INS, that has attempted to evaluated the cost and feasibility of fielding the full survey proposed here. The results obtained from the pilot project have informed all elements of the design for the full New Immigrant Survey.To monitor changes across cohorts, new samples will be drawn periodically. To monitor adaptation over time, each sample will be interviewed at regular intervals over the life cycle. To assess the immigrants' legacy, information will also be obtained about and from their children, both the immigrant children they brought with them and the U.S. citizen children born to them. The project also puts into the public domain public-use databases from these surveys that provide an important source of information to assess U.S. immigration laws, the assimilation and experiences of immigrants, and the impact of immigration in the United States. These data provide prospective and retrospective information about pre- and post-immigration education, work, health, migration, marriage, and fertility for new immigrants. They also provide useful data on health, on economic status, on schooling, and on children's well being from a population heterogeneous in English and native languages.

移民对美国社会有着重大影响，但信息需求与现有数据之间存在很大差距。关于移民儿童和移民子女的短期和长期前景、入境移民群体的健康和技能构成随时间的变化、法律的和非法身份之间的过渡、移民对经济的贡献及其同化等基本问题仍然没有答案。该项目通过首次对美国新的法律的移民进行全面、多队列的纵向调查来满足这些信息需求，调查的依据是美国移民和归化局（INS）汇编的有关新获准永久居留的移民的行政记录的全国代表性样本。新的移民调查是一个试点项目的后续行动，该项目得到了NICHD、NIA、NSF和INS的共同资助，该项目试图评估进行此处提议的全面调查的成本和可行性。 试验计划所得的结果，已为新移民统计调查的设计提供参考。为监察各组别的变化，统计处会定期抽取新样本。 为了监测一段时间内的适应情况，将在生命周期内定期对每个样本进行访谈。为了评估移民的遗产，还将从他们的子女那里获得有关他们的信息，包括他们带来的移民子女和他们所生的美国公民子女。 该项目还将这些调查中的公共数据库纳入公共领域，这些数据库为评估美国移民法、移民的同化和经历以及移民在美国的影响提供了重要的信息来源。这些数据提供了关于移民前和移民后教育、工作、健康、移民、婚姻和新移民生育率的前瞻性和回顾性信息。他们还提供了有用的数据，健康，经济状况，学校教育和儿童的福祉，从人口异质的英语和母语。