Children of Immigrants: A Statistical Profile.

National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 154 Haven Ave., New York, NY 10032. Tel: 212-304-7561; Fax: 212-544-4200; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.nccp.org. For full text: http://www.nccp.org/immigrants.pdf.

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Child Welfare; Children; Immigrants; Low Income Groups; Poverty; Profiles

This report describes demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the children of immigrants, focusing on their economic status. Major findings include the following: (1) immigrant children are more likely to be poor than native-born children; (2) among children whose parents work full-time, immigrant children are at a greater risk of living in poverty than native-born children; (3) among children whose parents have more than a high school education, immigrant children are twice as likely as native-born children to be poor; (4) among children living in two-parent families, immigrant children are more likely to be poor than native-born children; (5) the race/immigration nexus is important to understanding child poverty; (6) recent reductions in child poverty and near poverty nationwide affected both immigrant and native-born children, but disparities between the groups persist; and (7) policies aimed at improving the economic security of children in the United States should pay special attention to the growing number and distinct characteristics of children of immigrants. (EV)

2003

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