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Activity Number:
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116
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, July 30, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #310090 |
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Title:
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Internal Migration of Refugee Adjustments of Status: An Application of Logistic Modeling
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Author(s):
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Kelly Jefferys*+
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Companies:
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Address:
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Office of Immigration Statistics, Washington, DC, 20536,
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Keywords:
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refugee ; migration ; Office of Immigration Statistics ; logistic ; DHS
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Abstract:
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Thousands of refugees enter the United States each year, and most eventually adjust to legal permanent resident (LPR) status. Previous research has examined the initial settlement patterns of refugees in the United States (Singer and Wilson, 2006), but little is known about their internal migration patterns after arrival due to a lack of publicly available post-arrival refugee data. This study will address this research gap by matching data on refugee arrivals from the U.S. Department of State with data on refugee adjustments of status from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, from 2001 to 2006. Logistic regression will be used to analyze the probability of internal migration among refugee adjusters of status between time of arrival and adjustment of status. The results should further our understanding of refugee settlement patterns and improve immigrant population estimates.
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