Massachusetts reports & data

• An Uncertain Future – How the Immigration Crackdown Threatens Massachusetts’ Labor Force (report by Boston Indicators and Mass INC Policy Center, June 2026) Examines how federal immigration restrictions could affect Massachusetts’ labor force and economy, particularly healthcare, life sciences, and construction

• “Iced In: The Actions and Impacts of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts in 2025” — Leah Zallman Center, 2026. Documents experiences of Massachusetts immigrant families and institutions during increased ICE enforcement in 2025. It analyzes 100 stories and discusses detention, fear, institutional impacts, and community safety

• The Impact of Immigration Enforcement and Anti-Immigrant Policies on K-12 Schools, Educators, and Immigrant Youth and Families (National Immigration Law Center NILC, 2026)

• Massachusetts 2025 Labor Day Report Focuses on the diversity of the state’s workforce, including the work of immigrants

• Brazilians in the Great Boston Region, ( The Latino Equity Fund, October 2024) Examines the Brazilian immigrant community in Massachusetts, including migration histories

• Global Greater Boston: Immigrants in a Changing Region (report by Boston Indicators and Immigration Research Initiative, February 2024)

• Massachusetts immigration data profile (Migration Policy Institute, updated periodically)

• Immigrants and the economy in Massachusetts (Partnership for a New American Economy, updated periodically)

• Quick Immigration Statistics: Greater Boston (The Immigrant Learning Center, January 2021)

• Changing Faces of Greater Boston (report by Boston Indicators and UMass Boston, May 2019)

• Profile of the unauthorized population: Massachusetts (Migration Policy Institute, using 2014 data)

• U.S. unauthorized immigrant population estimates by state, 2016 (online tool by Pew Research Center)

• Latinos in Massachusetts: Brazilians (Gastón Institute, April 2020)

• Latinos in Massachusetts: Dominicans (Gastón Institute, April 2020)

• Second generation immigrants in Massachusetts have among the highest incomes in the country (Boston Indicators research snapshot, October 2019)

• The Growing Wave of Federal Immigration Restrictions: What’s at Stake for Massachusetts? (policy-oriented report by Boston Indicators and the Boston Foundation, June 2019)

• Refugees in Massachusetts (Partnership for a New American Economy, November 2019)

• Immigrants and the economy in the Boston Metro Area (Partnership for a New American Economy, updated periodically; data also available for other metro areas and by Congressional district)

• Boston’s Immigrant Labor Force (Boston Planning & Development Agency, July 2018)

• The Importance of Immigrants to Boston’s Continued Prosperity (slides by Alvaro Lima, Director of Research, Boston Planning & Development Agency, presented at a Boston Foundation forum, April 2017)

• Immigrants in Boston: Enriching our Region (research highlights from The Boston Indicators Project, April 2017)

• The Economic Impact of Immigration on the U.S. (Mass. Technology Leadership Council, June 2017, with companion report on DACA published in November 2017)

• Sociodemographic Portrait of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Parents of Young Children in Massachusetts (factsheet by the Migration Policy Institute, December 2016; see also national report)

• Refugee Arrivals to Massachusetts by Country of Origin (Mass. Office for Refugees & Immigrants; latest data from 2016)

• Dual Language Learners: A Demographic and Policy Profile for Massachusetts (Migration Policy Institute, October 2017; note a large share of DLLs are the U.S.-born children of immigrants)