Children of Immigrants: National and State Characteristics

Children of Immigrants: National and State Characteristics (click to view report)

Based on data from the 2005-06 American Community Survey, this research brief examines the growing number of immigrant children in the nation's schools. Nationally, the number doubled from eight million in 1990 to 16.4 million in 2007 representing 23% of all children from age 0 to 17. Seventy-three percent of all these children lived in the "big six" states of California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. The authors opine that "children of immigrants deserve special attention because they face many universal risk factors to children's well-being such as lower parental education and family incomes" as well as "factors unique to immigration such as lack of parental citizenship and English proficiency." A companion web tool enables user to obtain more detailed data about individual states.

Children of Immigrants: National and State Characteristics (click to view report)