The population of the US will rise to 438 million in 2050, and the majority of the increase will be due to immigrants and their descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center. The projections are published in a report, U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050.

The Department of Homeland Security has released a report estimating the legal permanent resident (”green card” holders) population in the US (PDF).

The Center for Immigration Studies has compiled a list of immigration-related dissertations completed in 2006.

Members of the Penn State community can get help locating dissertations from University Libraries. PRI associates and affiliates may also request assistance from the PRI Library.

Most Hispanic adults born to immigrants in the US report they are fluent in English, but only a small minority of their parents say they speak English well, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

The American Community Survey’s Interstate Migration Data: Strategies for Smoothing Irregular Age Patterns by James Raymer & Andrei Rogers (POP2007-08, Population Program, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Emigration and Schooling among Second-Generation Mexican-American Children by Michael S. Rendall & Berna M. Torr (RAND Working Paper WR-529)

The majority of Latino immigrants are moderately attached to their home country, and levels of attachment are related to length of time in the US, whether the individual migrated as an adult or a child, and the country of origin, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center. The report is based on new analyses of the Center’s 2006 National Survey of Latinos.

Citation: Roger Waldinger (2007, October 25). Between Here and There: How Attached are Latino Immigrants to their Native Country? Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.

Economist Saul Lach found that immigrants keep prices low in a study of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel (Washington Post). Lach’s study found that for every 1% increase in the ratio of immigrants to natives, prices go down by about 0.5%.

Citation: Saul Lach (2007). Immigration and prices. Journal of Political Economy 115(4): 548-587. (Available online to the Penn State community)

Many in the US assume that migrants bring HIV to the US, but research has shown that migrants are frequently exposed to HIV while in the US and then bring it back to their rural Mexican communities (New York Times).

See also:

University of California Universitywide AIDS Research Program

Melissa Sanchez, George F. Lemp, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Enrique Bravo-Garcia, Susan Carter, & Juan D. Ruiz (2004). The epidemiology of HIV among Mexican migrants and recent immigrants in California and Mexico. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 37(Supplement 4):S204-S214. [Penn State University Libraries holdings]

Jennifer S. Hirsch, Sergio Meneses, Brenda Thompson, Mirka Negroni, Blanca Pelcastre, & Carlos del Rio (2007). The Inevitability of Infidelity: Sexual Reputation, Social Geographies, and Marital HIV Risk in Rural Mexico. American Journal of Public Health 97(6):986-996. [Penn State University Libraries holdings]

Growth in the country’s large Sun Belt cities has already received a lot of attention. The Christian Science Monitor reports about similar population booms in smaller “inner Sun Belt” cities.

A UNFPA news feature looks at the fast-growing cities of Guangdong Province in China.