[BOOK][B] New brain gain: Rising human capital among recent immigrants to the United States
J Batalova, M Fix - 2017 - immigrationresearch.org
As governments in major immigrant-destination countries adjust their immigration policies to
seek migrants with strong academic and professional credentials, there has been a
pronounced—if unnoticed—shift occurring in the composition of recent flows of immigrants
to the United States. 1 Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis of data from the US Census
Bureau finds that almost half (48 percent) of immigrants coming to the United States
between 2011 and 2015 were college graduates (compared to 31 percent of US-born adults …
seek migrants with strong academic and professional credentials, there has been a
pronounced—if unnoticed—shift occurring in the composition of recent flows of immigrants
to the United States. 1 Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis of data from the US Census
Bureau finds that almost half (48 percent) of immigrants coming to the United States
between 2011 and 2015 were college graduates (compared to 31 percent of US-born adults …