Canadian Legislative Review Advisory Group Report - 1997


The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform - authorized by the 1990 Immigration Act to "review and evaluate the implementation and impact of U.S. immigration policy and to transmit to the Congress reports of its findings and recommendations."


Center for Immigration Studies

Note: Many of the sites listed below are based upon information found at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) site.


Government agencies

The Immigration and Naturalization Service
 
 

The Executive Office for Immigration Review - includes the nation's immigration judges as well as the Board of Immigration Appeals, the highest immigration tribunal.
 
 

The State Department

Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration -

Visa Bulletin

The Immigrant Policy Project - The State and Local Coalition on Immigration has been awarded grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address the role of state and local governments in the U.S. resettlement of refugees and immigrants. Members of the Coalition are the National Governors' Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Counties, the United States Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities, and the American Public Welfare Association. The Immigrant Policy Project is housed in the Washington, D.C. office of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Inside the Beltway,

The State-Local Report,

State LegisLine.

The Coast Guard - interdiction of illegal aliens at sea.

The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices -- the enforcement of the anti-discrimination provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA).


Research organizations:

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Center for Equal Opportunity

The Center for Immigration Research

The Center for Migration Studies

International Migration Review

H-ETHNIC is an academic mailing list for the scholarly discussion of ethnic history and immigration and emigration studies

The Immigration History Research Center - the University of Minnesota.

The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship (ICMEC)

The Metropolis Project

Migration Dialogue, -at the University of California, Davis

Migration News

Rural Migration News.

The Population Research Center - at the University of Texas at Austin

The Population Studies Center - at the University of Michigan

The Center for Research on Immigration Policy

The Washington-based Urban Institute's Population Studies Center coordinates that organization's research on immigration.



Publications

The Asian and Pacific Migration Journal - Asian migration.

The Atlantic Monthly - numerous articles on immigration, going back to 1905.

The Forced Migration Monitor - the states of the former Soviet Union.

International Migration Review

Interpreter Releases is a weekly publication which covers immigration and nationality law and policy in great detail.

Migration News

Rural Migration News



Organizations: Expressing a variety of opinions and agendas

This site explores the issue of affirmative action for immigrants.

Social Contract

The American Immigration Control Foundation

The American Immigration lawyers Association

The Association of Professionals for Spouse Re-unification

The Border Solution Task Force - a San Diego-based citizens group.

Californians for Population Stabilization

Computerworld - a page on immigration law and the employment of foreign nationals in technology.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform, - advocate of reduced immigration

The Immigrant and Refugee Rights Gopher

Immigration Control Advocates of Northern California

Immigration Forum - site maintained by Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California at Davis.

The Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force

The Midwest Coalition to Reform Immigration is based near Chicago.

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)

Negative Population Growth

NumbersUSA

U.S. Border Control

The Voice of Citizens Together

Washington State Citizens for Immigration Control


Outside of the US:

Australia's Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

Its Research and Statistics Branch

Australia's Refugee Review Tribunal

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board

The New Zealand Immigration Service

The Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies is based at the Australian National University.

The Center for Information about Migration in Latin America (CIMAL)

The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Ontario

The Center for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO) at Stockholm University

The Danish Refugee Council

The European Forum for Migration Studies maintains a site in German.

The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, ERCOMER, - a reseach center in the Netherlands.

The Inter-Governmental Consultations

The International Organization for Migration

The Refugee Studies Programme at Oxford University studies

Journal of Refugee Studies.

The Scalabrini Migration Center in the Philippines

The Swiss Forum for Migration Studies

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva offers a variety of information in refugees and refugee resettlement.