Drawing on lessons from the Mariel Boatlift, this piece examines how welcoming policies and immigrant inclusion can strengthen local economies and communities during periods of increased migration.
“Hidden in Plain Sight” highlights demographics of black immigrants in the U.S. and uplifts the community organizations working to support, advocate for, and build community for Black immigrant populations.
A collaborative report from IRI and Boston Indicators examining how immigrants strengthen the Great Boston’s economy, workforce, neighborhoods, and long-term regional growth.
A significant increase in the number of asylum seekers and new immigrant families have arrived in United States since 2022. To better understand the long-term prospects for these newly arriving families,…
Two important proposals and to help address the lack of emergency housing for new immigrant arrivals and the longstanding unhoused and rent-burdened populations in New York City Since the spring…
“Let us work” is one plea from recent asylum seekers that a wide range of public officials and advocates seem eager to get behind. In this paper, Immigration Research Initiative…
Immigration Research Initiative has co-released a report with the Michigan League of Public Policy, Global Detroit, and Kids Count Michigan that revealed 300,000 kids in Michigan who have at least…
IRI’s report on Immigrants in the Long Island economy shows the important role immigrants are playing across the region. Click here for an interactive map to see more detail on…
The United States refugee resettlement program helps people from some of the most dramatically troubled situations around the world to find a home in the United States. Refugees are people…
Advocates and legislators in New York State are currently considering the widest-ranging program in the country to fill key gaps in its unemployment insurance system: the Unemployment Bridge Program. The…