Author: Michael Fix / Topic: Human Welfare

Author:: Katherine Lotspeich, Michael Fix, Dan Perez-Lopez, and Jason Ost
Publication Date:: 10-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Urban Institute
Abstract:: The Building the New American Community demonstration project is an experiment in refugee and immigrant integration in which the cities of Lowell, Massachusetts; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon formed coalitions to identify integration challenges in their com m unities and address them collaboratively. These cities were assisted by a national team of policy analysts, advocates, and researchers from the Nation al Conference of State Legislatures, the National Immigration Forum, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, The Urban Institute, and the Migration Policy Institute.
Topic:: Demographics, Human Welfare, and Migration
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Randy Capps, Michael Fix, Dan Perez-Lopez, Jeffrey Passel, Leighton Ku, Chris Furgiuele, Rajeev Ramchand, and Scott McNiven
Publication Date:: 02-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Urban Institute
Abstract:: In 1996, debates about welfare reform and immigration converged and reshaped federal policies about the eligibility of legally admitted immigrants for means-tested public benefits programs, including the Food Stamp Program (FSP), Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Before the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) was enacted in 1996, legal immigrants were eligible for benefits on terms similar to those of native-born citizens. The new law significantly limited the eligibility of legally-admitted immigrants for means-tested federal benefit programs, particularly immigrants entering the United States after the welfare reform law was passed in August 1996.
Topic:: Government, Human Welfare, and Migration
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Randy Capps, Michael Fix, and Jame Reardon-Anderson
Publication Date:: 11-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Urban Institute
Abstract:: Children of immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under age 18 (Van Hook and Fix 2000). One in five children in the United States is the child of an immigrant, evidence of the demographic impact of recent rapid immigration. In addition, one in four low income children is an immigrant's child (Fix, Zimmermann, and Passel 2001). But despite their demographic and policy significance, children of immigrants and their well-being are rarely studied on a national scale. In this brief, we present a number of key indicators—both positive and negative—of child well-being. The measures fall within three areas: (1) family environment, (2) physical and emotional health, and (3) access to needed services.
Topic:: Human Welfare, Migration, and Poverty
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Randy Capps, Michael Fix, and Jeffrey Passel
Publication Date:: 11-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Urban Institute
Abstract:: The U.S. immigrant population grew rapidly during the 1990s, with growth rates especially high across a wide band of states in the Southeast, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain regions. In many of these states, the foreign-born population more than doubled between 1990 and 2000.
Topic:: Demographics, Human Welfare, and Migration
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Michael Fix and Jeffrey Passel
Publication Date:: 01-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Urban Institute
Abstract:: For immigrants, welfare reform went well beyond conditioning access to cash benefits on work. Rather, the law set out a comprehensive scheme for determining immigrant eligibility for a wide range of social benefits that are provided by governments at all levels. Reform represented a major departure from prior policy by making citizenship more central to the receipt of benefits, by granting the states rather than the federal government the power to determine immigrant eligibility for benefits, and by drawing a sharp distinction between immigrants arriving before and after PRWORA's enactment on August 22, 1996.
Topic:: Government, Human Welfare, and Migration
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Michael Fix, Wendy Zimmermann, and Jeffrey Passel
Publication Date:: 07-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Urban Institute
Abstract:: What do we know about the integration of immigrant families within the United States—the progress these families are making and their reception in the communities where they settle? How are immigrants affected by the nation's integration policies or lack thereof? What directions might immigrant integration and the policies governing it take in the future?
Topic:: Government, Human Welfare, and Migration
Political Geography:: United States

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