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Michael Fix
Bio: Michael Fix is an academic researcher from Migration Policy Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Underemployment & Educational attainment. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 13 publications receiving 355 citations.
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed administrative and survey data on the characteristics and integration outcomes of refugees resettled in the United States, Canada and Scandinavia and found that older refugee cohorts have reached income parity with the U.S.-born population, but those who started at a greater employment and income disadvantage.
Abstract: In 2014 there were more than 14 million refugees worldwide and almost a million places for permanent resettlement were needed. This article reviews administrative and survey data on the characteristics and integration outcomes of refugees resettled in the United States, Canada and Scandinavia. Refugees to these destinations are increasingly diverse in their origins and languages-posing challenges for host communities. Refugees in the United States tend to be employed due to an early focus on self-sufficiency there, but those in Sweden and Norway have low employment rates, with Canada representing a middle ground. While limited English skills slow integration in the United States and Canada, acquiring Norwegian and Swedish is tougher because refugees are seldom exposed to these languages before resettlement. In the United States, older refugee cohorts have reached income parity with the U.S.-born population, but those resettled since the 2008-09 recession have started at a greater employment and income disadvantage. This article describes the administrative and survey data on U.S. refugees in rich detail, but the available administrative data for refugees in Canada, Norway and Sweden have yet to be fully mined.
47 citations
TL;DR: This article examined the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) to develop a profile of immigrant adults with varying levels of oral English proficiency and concluded that adults with low and medium English proficiency differ significantly along a number of dimensions that should be considered by policymakers and educators as instructional services are developed and program funds allocated for LEP adults.
Abstract: This article examines the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) to develop a profile of immigrant adults with varying levels of oral English proficiency The NAAL data on adult limited English proficient (LEP) immigrants are used here to examine their education levels, workforce involvement, incomes, use of public benefits, participation in English as a Second Language instruction, and English literacy levels The purpose of this article is to contribute to the body of research and policy literature on importance of English skills and literacy for adults’ education and workforce development The authors conclude that adults with low and medium oral English proficiency differ significantly along a number of dimensions that should be considered by policymakers and educators as instructional services are developed and program funds allocated for LEP adults
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01 Dec 2016
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TL;DR: It is recommended that young adults ages 18-26 years be treated as a distinct subpopulation in policy, planning, programming, and research, and action is taken in three priority areas to improve health care for young adults.
375 citations
TL;DR: The authors examined the educational practices that result in ELLs' restricted curricular choices and pointed out the importance of providing ELL with high-level academic curriculum while also supplying linguistic scaffolding that makes such learning possible.
Abstract: Advancement to postsecondary education for English language learners (ELLs) can be seriously constrained by a lack of academic preparation during high school. Currently, ELLs lag behind their non-ELL peers in their level of access to advanced college-preparatory courses. Through a qualitative case study of ELL education at a large public high school, we examine the educational practices that result in ELLs’ restricted curricular choices. The findings expose the way in which ELLs’ chances for rigorous academic preparation are systematically reduced and point to the importance of providing ELLs with high-level academic curriculum while also supplying linguistic scaffolding that makes such learning possible.
237 citations
TL;DR: The strategies that researchers have employed to tease out effects of public policies for immigrants' health, the methodological challenges of undertaking such studies, their varying impacts on immigrant health, and steps that can be undertaken to improve the health of immigrants and their families are explored.
Abstract: Public policies play a crucial role in shaping how immigrants adapt to life in the United States. Federal, state, and local laws and administrative practices impact immigrants’ access to education,...
185 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the balance of payments in the US criminal justice system is discussed, and the authors propose a solution to balance the payments of criminal justice workers in the United States.
Abstract: (1997). The Balance of Payments. Criminal Justice Matters: Vol. 30, Prisons Today, pp. 29-31.
143 citations
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15 Oct 2012
TL;DR: Ogad as mentioned in this paper explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing "mediated intimacy" and focusing on the self.
Abstract: This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.
127 citations