Welcome! Chamber Training Institute

JW Marriott –Salon D

Developing and Promoting an Advocacy Agenda Across Diverse

Communities

Janelle S. Wong, PhD. Associate Professor of American Studies, Director of Asian American Studies, University of Maryland

Today’s workshop

Group Quiz on Immigration

Diversity in Public Opinion across GroupsExercise I: Public Opinion vs. Deliberative Democracy

Do Lawmakers Care About Public Opinion?Exercise II: Small group discussion

Setting an Advocacy Agenda Together

Immigration Quiz

Is immigration to the U.S.

Increasing?Decreasing?Leveling Off?

Immigration to the United States appears to be leveling off

Leveling Off

“Since 2008, legal permanent immigration appears to have leveled off at a little over a million entries per year.”

-Douglas Massey 2012

Leveling Off

Net migrationfrom MexicoNEGATIVE

Leveling Off

Sharp decline over time

Leveling Off

DeclineIn estimatednumbers of Unauthorizedimmigrants

Immigration Quiz

Immigration to the United States is

Mostly from Asia?Mostly Latin America?Mostly from Africa?

Most Immigrants from Asia

2010

2011

2012

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AsiaAmericas

Department of Homeland Security

A Majority of Asian Americans are Foreign Born

2012 Pew Report A Minority of Latinos (40%) are Foreign Born

Still, because of historic immigration trends…most foreign born in the United States are from Latin America

Immigration Quiz

Fastest Growth of Foreign Born?

East Coast?Central United States?Southern United States?West Coast?

Largest Foreign Born Growth 2000-2011

#1 Tennessee

The New Asian American South

• The Asian-American population is growing faster in the South than in any other region nationwide, and faster than any other facial group (69%).

• The number of Asian Americans who registered to vote grew by 100% in Georgia, 73% in Florida, and 136% in Virginia.

Immigration Quiz

Upon arrival to US shores, most immigrants move to

Rural Areas?Urban/Metro Areas?Suburban Areas?All of the above?

New Suburban Destinations

--Brookings 2010

Ethnoburbs

By 2007, 40 percent of foreign born moved directly from abroad to suburban destinations in U.S.

Today 50 percent of all Black, Latino, and Asian Americans in the United States live in the suburbs

Immigration Quiz

At least one quarter of all immigrants have lived in the United States at least 25 years

TrueFalse

40% of all immigrants have lived in the U.S. for 20 years or more

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20 years or more

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Top 5 Immigration Trends

1. Immigration numbers may be leveling off2. Majority of immigrants entering US each year since 2011 from Asia3. Immigrants fastest growing in Central and Southern U.S.4. Immigrants moving straight to suburbs5. Immigrants increasingly long-term residents

So, why does this matter?

Migration from Latin America and Asia is changing US Demographics and Changing US Politics

Like businesses, political pollsters need to reach out to different groups of people to understand political attitudes

Next…to what extent do political attitudes differ across groups and what are the commonalities?