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Title: Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2013
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ISSN: 01979183
DOI: 10.1111/imre.12022
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PMCID: PMC3744247
PMID: 23956482
Abstract: We describe a method for producing annual estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population in the United Sates and components of population change, for each state and D.C., for 1990 to 2010. We quantify a sharp drop in the number of unauthorized immigrants arriving since 2000, and we demonstrate the role of departures from the population (emigration, adjustment to legal status, removal by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and deaths) in reducing population growth from one million in 2000 to population losses in 2008 and 2009. The number arriving in the U.S. peaked at more than one million in 1999 to 2001, and then declined rapidly through 2009. We provide evidence that population growth stopped after 2007 primarily because entries declined and not because emigration increased during the economic crisis. Our estimates of the total unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. and in the top ten states are comparable to those produced by DHS and the Pew Hispanic Center. For the remaining states and D.C., our data and methods produce estimates with smaller ranges of sampling error.
Url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956482
Url: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC3744247
Url: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/imre.12022
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Authors: Warren, John Robert
Periodical (Full): International Migration Review
Issue: 2
Volume: 47
Pages: 296-329
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