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Title: The Integration Outcomes of U.S. Refugees: Successes and Challenges

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The U.S. refugee resettlement program is the world's largest, accepting two-thirds of the 98,000 refugees who were permanently resettled in 2013. Because of the scale of the program and the growing diversity of resettled refugees, service providers face an increasing range of challenges. To better understand these challenges, this report analyzed previously non-public State Department admissions data to gain insight into the characteristics of arriving refugees, including native-language proficiency and education. The report also draws on U.S. Census Bureau data to assess refugees' integration outcomes, finding that their income levels and rates of public benefits usage approximate those of the U.S. born with longer residence in the United States. These findings underscore that most refugees become self-supporting over timea core goal of the U.S. resettlement program.

Url: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/integration-outcomes-us-refugees-successes-and-challenges

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Authors: Capps, Randy; Newland, Kathleen; Fratzke, Susan; Groves, Susanna; Auclair, Gregory; Fix, Michael; McHugh, Margie

Publisher: Migration Policy Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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