demographics

Whom Have We Welcomed?: The Adequacy and Quality of United States Immigration Data for Policy Analysis and Evaluation

The title of the present work, Whom Have We Welcomed?, gives promise of exploring what has happened under the Immigration Act of October 3, 1965, but actually the work is better described by its subtitle, for it looks more toward...

Italian Americans in the ’80s: A Sociodemographic Profile

On the basis of published and unpublished U.S. census data, this volume offers for the first time a comparison between immigrants and native-born, and Italians of early and late generation. Four specialists analyze in detail: demographic and cultural aspects, education,...

From Steerage to Suburb: Long Island Italians

From Steerage to Suburb represents the first major effort to analyze the social history of one of the major immigrant groups in American suburbia. Demographic and economic data on Long Island Italians used here were culled from available public records...

The Demographics of Immigration: A Socio-Demographic Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in New York State

Based on aggregate macro-level data on all reported foreign-born persons, The Demographics of Immigration highlights shifts in the character of immigration into New York State since 1965; draws a demographic and socio-economic profile of its foreign-born residents; compares and contrasts...

The Pastoral Challenges of the New Immigration

This paper includes descriptions of the historical link between religion and the immigrants’ culture and mobility, key issues in today’s ministry of immigrants, and practical steps that can be indicated in response to the pastoral needs of newcomers. These steps...

Pastoral and Canonical Innovations of Pastoralis Migratorum Cura

This paper examines the innovations of the new document, Pastoralis Migratorum Cura. Major areas of change include the shift in trends, volume, and characteristics of the migratory phenomenon; and the appearance of new structures and pastoral methods in the post-conciliar...

A New Parish Every Four Days: U.S. Immigration and its Catholic Component

This paper emphasizes that the United States is a nation of immigrants and provides a brief history of U.S. immigration laws. Based on this brief history, it seeks to estimate the numbers of Catholic immigrants coming to the United States...

Migration-Development Interrelationships: The Case of the Philippines

The paper examines the magnitude and demographics of the Philippine Migration, including its geographical distribution, social and economic characteristics, as well as Filipino participation in the US labor market. It also looks at the impact of migration on development and...

The Poverty Status of Italian Americans in the City of New York

The report describes the poverty status of Italian Americans in New York City and compares it to that of the white non-hispanic population in the same area using the 1980 census. The data indicates that the year of the census,...

New Immigrants to Brooklyn and Queens: Policy Implications Especially with Regard to Housing

The article discusses migration patterns in New York City with emphasis on the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It also examines the characteristics of the housing market in New York with regard to the issue of race and ethnicity as...