Reports
The Silent Shortage: How Immigration Can Help Address the Large and Growing Psychiatrist Shortage in the United States
Nearly a third of all psychiatrist positions in 2015 were filled by doctors who graduated from a foreign medical school, according to this NAE study using data from the American Medical Association. Roughly 60 percent of all counties lack a single psychiatrist. The study suggests that immigrant psychiatrists represent an… Read More
The Silent Shortage: How Immigration Can Help Address the Large and Growing Psychiatrist Shortage in the United States
Nearly a third of all psychiatrist positions in 2015 were filled by doctors who graduated from a foreign medical school, according to this NAE study using data from the American Medical Association. Roughly 60 percent of all counties lack a single psychiatrist. The study suggests that immigrant psychiatrists represent an… Read More
Power of the Purse: Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in America
While migration from Latin America has been at the forefront of the immigration debate during the last fifty years, AAPI immigrants have constituted an increasing share of newcomers arriving to the United States. In fact, almost 40 percent of all newly arrived immigrants came from Asia or the Pacific Islands… Read More
Power of the Purse: Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in America
While migration from Latin America has been at the forefront of the immigration debate during the last fifty years, AAPI immigrants have constituted an increasing share of newcomers arriving to the United States. In fact, almost 40 percent of all newly arrived immigrants came from Asia or the Pacific Islands… Read More
Outside the Wire: How Barring the DACA-Eligible Population from Enlisting Weakens our Military
Executive Summary Current debates about how to handle the population of Dreamers in the United States frequently focus on either humanitarian or rule-of-law concerns. Advocates for this population, which includes the 1.9 million undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, frequently argue that it is wrong to penalize or… Read More
Deportations in the Dark
Mexican migrants suffer a host of violations, abuses, and ill treatment while in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities. Read More
Our Latest Research on DACA
Recent attention has turned to the question of the 800,000 young people who have received DACA status since the program’s creation in 2012. To help paint a more complete picture of the impact of winding down DACA, New American Economy has completed research into several factors that deserve examination and… Read More
One Collateral Risk of Eliminating DACA: Angering an Important Pool of Voters
With the announcement last week that the administration planned to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, much of the media attention turned to the roughly 800,000 young people who have received DACA status since the program’s creation in 2012. Brought to the country as children,… Read More
One Collateral Risk of Eliminating DACA: Angering an Important Pool of Voters
With the announcement last week that the administration planned to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, much of the media attention turned to the roughly 800,000 young people who have received DACA status since the program’s creation in 2012. Brought to the country as children,… Read More
Capitalizing on the Economic Potential of Foreign Entrepreneurs
This fact sheet describes the legal avenues in the United States available to promising entrepreneurs, as well as some of the barriers they face securing immigration status through these paths. Read More
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