Expertise
Immigrant Integration
Workforce/Economic Impact
State & Local Fiscal Impacts
Benefits Usage
Children & Family Policy
Citizenship & Naturalization
Education (Pre-K/Adult)
US Immigration Policy
Social Cohesion & Identity
Employment Verification
His work focuses on immigrant integration, citizenship policy, immigrant children and families, the education of immigrant students, the effect of welfare reform on immigrants, and the impact of immigrants on the US labor force.
Mr. Fix, who is an attorney, previously was at the Urban Institute, where he directed the Immigration Studies Program (1998-2004). His research there focused on immigrants and integration, regulatory reform, federalism, race, and the measurement of discrimination.
Mr. Fix is a Research Fellow with IZA in Bonn, Germany. He served on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Redesign of US Naturalization Tests. In 2005, Mr. Fix was a New Millennium Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
His recent publications include Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs (co-author), Immigrants and Welfare (editor), Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and Their Policy Implications, Adult English Language Instruction in the United States: Determining Need and Investing Wisely, Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners, and Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader (editor). His past research explored the implementation of employer sanctions and other reforms introduced by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.
Mr. Fix received a JD from the University of Virginia and a bachelor of the arts degree from Princeton University. He did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics.
MPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies Michael Fix leads a discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing immigrant integration, including potential legalization legislation, the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act and/or No Child Left Behind Law, and implementation of the new health care reform law.
Immigrants & the Economy: the role of immigrants in economic growth. Discussion with Governor Deval Patrick, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute; Esther Lopez, United Food & Commercial Workers; Kevin McCarthy, Dunkin’ Donuts Independent Franchisees Organization.
The winners of the Migration Policy Institute’s 2011 E Pluribus Unum Prizes honoring exceptional immigrant integration initiatives discuss immigrant integration and the shared responsibility at the federal, state, and local level to ensure that immigrants become full participants in the economic and civic life of the United States. The panel is moderated by MPI Senior Vice President Michael Fix, Co-Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. Speaking on the panel are the 2011 Prize winners: Bernardo Ramirez, Executive Director, Hispanic Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City; Bob Montgomery, Executive Director, International Rescue Committee in San Diego; Patience Lehrman, Director, Temple University Intergenerational Center’s Project SHINE (Students Helping In the Naturalization of Elders); José Ramón Fernández-Peña, Founder and Director, Welcome Back Initiative; M. Andy Chaves, Corporate Senior Manager, Marriott International.
During this presentation, Assistant US Secretary for Postsecondary Education Eduardo Martín Ochoa and Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce Director Anthony P. Carnevale join Michael Fix and Margie McHugh, Co-Directors of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Immigration Policy, to discuss findings from the MPI report, Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs. The report, which examines immigrant employment in the US workforce overall and four key sectors (IT, health care, construction, and hospitality), finds that the fastest growth in immigrant employment since 2000 has occurred in middle-skilled jobs. Read the report at migrationpolicy.org/pubs/sectoralbrief-Sept2010.pdf.
The Migration Policy Institute examines key indicators of English language learner (ELL) students' performance on standardized tests, and offers national and state-by-state data.
In this video, the Migration Policy Institute discusses the geographic distribution of students who are English language learners (ELLs), their growth in enrollment, and academic performance.
Michael Fix, Vice President, Migration Policy Institute (Moderator), with Muzaffar Chishti, Director, Migration Policy Institute Office at New York University; Cristina Rodriguez, Associate Professor, New York University School of Law; Laura Valera, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project Director, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, on the discussion around the devolution of immigration policy.
The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of
migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.
Michael Fix Article in Health Affairs magazine