Thursday, July 01, 2010

[IWS] Public Agenda: A PLACE TO CALL HOME: WHAT IMMIGRANTS SAY ABOUT LIFE IN AMERICA

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor----------------------
Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Public Agenda with support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York

A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say Now About Life in America

http://www.publicagenda.org/files/pdf/Immigration.pdf

[full-text, 76 pages]

Special Web page on this subject [1 July 2010]

http://www.publicagenda.org/pages/immigrants

[excerpt]

Views from Legal and Illegal Immigrants

This report was based on six focus groups and a national telephone survey of 1,138 foreign-born adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent, although the margin is higher when comparing subgroups. There are plenty of methodological hurdles intrinsic to interviewing this population. As in our prior study, we limited our definition of immigrants to people born outside the United States and, in order to capture their recollections of coming to America, we excluded anyone who emigrated under 5 years of age. And as before, we conducted the telephone survey in English and Spanish.

This time, we wanted to take a closer look at particular ethnic groups that are often overlooked because of their relatively small size in the United States, including Middle Easterners, South and East Asians, as well as Central and South Americans. In order to do so, we supplemented our random digital dialed (RDD) sample with a list of phone numbers of those likely to identify with one of these ethnicities. The list was provided by Ethnic Technologies, ,a leading provider of multicultural lists. Within each household, an adult member was chosen randomly and screened to ensure that they match our immigrant criteria.



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