Note: Materials are listed in reverse chronological order, organized by sub-topic.

Immigrant and refugee demographics & key statistics

• Refugee Statistics (UN High Commissioner for Refugees website, updated regularly)

Immigrant women and girls in the United States (published online by Migration Policy Institute, March 2020)

The share of immigrant workers in high-skill jobs is rising in the U.S. (published online by Pew Research Center, February 2020)

• Origins and destinations of the world’s migrants, 1990-2017 (interactive tool from Pew Research Center, February 2018)

• Immigration projected to drive growth in U.S. working-age population through at least 2035 (published online by Pew Research Center, March 2017)

• Facts on U.S. immigrants, 2017 (published online by Pew Research Center, June 2019)

Citizenship and naturalization

• Naturalize Now, Vote Tomorrow: New Americans vote 2020 (report by National Partnership for New Americans, February 2020)

• Naturalized citizens make up record one-in-ten U.S. eligible voters in 2020 (published online by Pew Research Center, February 2020; see p.12 for Mass.-specific data))

Paths to Citizenship: Using data to understand and promote naturalization (report by USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute report, January 2019; includes interactive map with state-by-state analysis)

Undocumented immigrants

Undocumented Immigrants Health Care Roles and Settings (Center for American Progress, February 2021)

Undocumented Immigrants in the Care Economy (Center for American Progress, February 2021)

Undocumented Immigrants in the Food Supply Chain (Center for American Progress, February 2021)

Undocumented Immigrants in Construction (Center for American Progress, February 2021)

Reverse migration to Mexico led to U.S. undocumented population decline: 2010 to 2018 (Center for Migration Studies, February 2020)

• Mexicans decline to less than half the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population for the first time (published online by Pew Research Center, June 2019)

• U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level in a Decade (report by Pew Research Center, November 2018)

• Undocumented Immigrants’ State & Local Tax Contributions (report by Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, March 2017)

• Immigration myths – crime and the number of illegal immigrants (published online by Cato Institute, March 2017)

Immigration policy and enforcement

How states can improve America’s immigration system (Brookings Institution, September 2019)

Under the Radar: The Trump Administration’s Stealth Attack on the U.S. Immigration System (policy-oriented report from U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey’s office, May 2019)

• The Facts on Immigration Today2017 Edition (report from Center for American Progress, April 2017)

• The effects of sanctuary policies on crime and the economy (published online by Center for American Progress, January 2017)