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Author National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Immigration Statistics.

Title Immigration statistics : a story of neglect / Daniel B. Levine, Kenneth Hill, and Robert Warren, editors ; Panel on Immigration Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1985

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Contents IMMIGRATION STATISTICS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Overview and Major Recommendations -- THE PROBLEM -- THE CHARGE TO THE PANEL -- PLAN OF THE REPORT -- WHAT WE FOUND -- SUMMARY OF MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS -- The panel recommends that Congress: -- 2 Immigration Policy: Past to Present -- HISTORICAL AND LEGISLATIVE OVERVIEW -- Before the Twentieth Century: Unrestricted Entry -- The Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of Restrictions -- The 1920s: The Flow is Stopped -- World War II and the Postwar Years: Concerns About Security
From 1965 to 1984: Change and Proposed ChangePRESENT LAW -- Numerical Limitations -- Refugees and Asylees -- Exclusion Grounds -- Temporary Admissions -- Deportable Classes -- Powers of Immigration Officers -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Needs for Statistics on Immigration -- DATA REQUIRED BY LAW -- Aliens Other Than Refugees -- Refugees -- DATA NEEDED FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- DATA NEEDED FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT -- COORDINATING POLICY AND PROGRAM DATA -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Immigration and Naturalization Service -- OVERVIEW: MANDATE AND PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE INSCategories of Migrants -- Permanent Resident Aliens -- Nonimmigrants -- Naturalizations -- Refugees, Parolees, and Asylees -- Border Crossers -- Deportable Aliens -- Records Control: The Alien File -- OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE INS -- Inspections -- Admissions -- Flows Into the United States Across Land Borders -- Adjudications and Naturalizations -- The Refugee, Asylum and Parolee Program -- Enforcement -- The Border Patrol -- Detention and Deportation -- Investigations -- Trial Attorneys
THE WORK MEASUREMENT REPORT: FORM G-23AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING -- Early ADP Systems -- The Master Index System -- The Nonimmigrant Document Control System -- Mid-Course Corrections -- Congressional Investigation -- The Scope of ADP Planning -- Interim Systems -- Recent Developments -- The Long-Range ADP Plan -- The Central Index -- The Nonimmigrant Information System -- The Immigrant Data Capture System -- Issues Raised by Automation -- INS RESOURCES FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- The Office of Plans and Analysis -- The Statistical Analysis Branch
Branch PublicationsStatistics on the Resident Alien Population -- A Statistical Advisory Committee -- Evaluation of INS Statistics -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 5 Other Government Sources of Information on Immigration -- BUREAU OF CONSULAR AFFAIRS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE -- Responsibilities and Data -- Recommendations -- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR -- Division of Foreign Labor Certifications -- Program and Data -- Recommendation -- Other DOL Programs -- BUREAU OF REFUGEE PROGRAMS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-324)
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Emigration and immigration -- Statistical services
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Statistical services
Subject United States
Genre/Form Statistics
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Levine, Daniel B. (Daniel Bernard), 1925-2014.
Hill, Ken, 1945-
Warren, Robert, 1942-
LC no. 85061694
ISBN 0309567955
9780309567954