Selected Organizations
- ANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)Links to organizations and resources pertaining to Immigration & Migration by region and country.
- Migration Policy Institute<MPI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. Includes information on related research programs such as the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, authoritative data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends.
- National Conference of State LegislaturesA bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues, including immigration.
- National Immigration ForumEstablished in 1982. A leading immigrant advocacy organization in the country with a mission to advocate for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation. Provides information on legislative and policy updates, community resources and research reports and papers.
- Pew Research Center: ImmigrationA nonpartisan “fact tank” that provides information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Periodically fields major surveys on the news media, social issues and international affairs. Immigration is a major “topic” focus, featuring selected Pew Research Center reports (since 2005) on trends and analysis of their impact.
- Social Science Research NetworkSocial Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). These networks encourage the rapid distribution of research by publishing submitted abstracts and soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. Journals, publishers, and other cooperating institutions provide working papers for distribution. The SSRN eLibrary consists of an abstract database containing abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format.
- United States Citizenship and Immigration ServicesUSCIS is the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. A searchable website that provides many links to news, resources, laws, regulations, outreach programs, handbooks, fact sheets and guides.