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Title: Investing in Effective Employment & Training Strategies for English Language Learners

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: The rapid increase in immigration has left many states and localities scrambling to employ strategies to successfully integrate immigrants into their local communities. While the federal government sets immigration policy (dealing with the admission, entry, legal status and deportation of immigrants), it naturally falls to states and localities (the communities where immigrants reside) to develop immigrant policy that is, policy that assists or hampers immigrants in their ability to adapt to living in the United States. The integration of immigrants has many facets. According to the Washington new americans Policy Council, integration requires more than just citizenship and a voter registration card, it must also include: training and employment at ones highest potential; the ability to communicate in English; the opportunity to increase personal wealth through greater access to mainstream financial services; and the ability to meaningfully engage ones government.

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Authors: Kaz, David

Publisher: Seattle Jobs Initiative

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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