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Spotlight on Naturalization Trends
August 5 —Over one million immigrants — one-third from Mexico, India, and the
Philippines — became US citizens in 2008. MPI's Jeanne Batalova takes a detailed
look at the latest naturalization trends in the United States.
Source Spotlights are often updated as new data become available. Please click here to find the most recent version of this Spotlight.
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Spotlight on Refugees and Asylees in the United States
July 13 — In 2008, the United States raised the ceiling on refugee admission by 10,000, admitted
more than 60,000 refugees for resettlement, and granted asylum to nearly 23,000 people. MPI's Jeanne Batalova takes a detailed look at refugee and
asylum statistics in the United States.
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Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region
July 10 — International migration from Asia grew dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the 1990s, migration
within Asia has risen. Stephen Castles of the University of Oxford and Mark Miller of the University of Delaware examine regional
trends in this article based on their book Age of Migration.
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Central Americans and Asylum Policy in the Reagan Era
Not long after the United States passed the 1980 Refugee Act, thousands of people began fleeing civil war in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Their treatment in the United States, linked to US foreign policy, spurred the Sanctuary Movement and efforts to grant them refugee status, as Susan Gzesh of the University of Chicago explains.
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