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Authors from numerous disciplines assess the integration of recent immigrants in the context of their ethnic background and note the lessons that their adjustment, or lack thereof, provides for immigration policy. Topics include race and ethnic trends in U.S. immigration, incorporation of Hispanic and Asian immigrants, the comparative ear [...]

Based on interviews in eight cities--Chicago, El Paso, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Antonio, and San Jose--this report examines the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 on the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It finds that on balance, IRCA slightly improved the INS's ability to enforce the law and [...]

Privatization of state and municipal housing in the Russian Federation is but one element of housing policy. The authors offer specific recommendations for the future based on current rents and their relationship to family income, the feasibility of creating a program for increasing rents and introducing payments of housing allowances to [...]

Privatization of state and municipal housing in the Russian Federation is but one element of housing policy. The authors offer specific recommendations for the future based on current rents and their relationship to family income, the feasibility of creating a program for increasing rents and introducing payments of housing allowances to [...]

Giving more authority and responsibility to individual schools and their staffs has been widely touted as a way to improve teaching and learning in U.S. schools. Science and mathematics education has been a particular focus because of the perceived importance of these subjects to economic progress and the inferior test scores of U.S. stud [...]