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Hometown
Associations: An Untapped Resource for Immigrant Integration?
By Will Somerville, Jamie Durana, and Aaron Matteo Terrazas
Hometown associations, the organizations that immigrants create for social, economic
development, and political empowerment purposes, play an important – and
underexamined – role in immigrant integration. Though policymakers focus
chiefly on the associations’ development potential, this MPI Insight recommends
cooperative interventions to strengthen their immigrant integration capacity.
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Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators
and Their Policy Implications
By Michael Fix, Margie McHugh, Aaron Matteo Terrazas, and Laureen
Laglagaron
April 2008
As Los Angeles makes the transition from being a city of immigrants
to one dominated by their US-born children, it can serve as a
policy laboratory for other cities facing the need to better
integrate immigrants into US classrooms, workplaces, and civic
life. MPI’s report
details the imperative for integration policies that will benefit
immigrants and the broader US society alike. |
