美国的定量数据可用性和测量. 移民和移民政策:IMR方法 注意事项
Abigail Weitzman1, Julia Behrman2, Marta Ascherio1
1Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin.
The International migration review
|October 6, 2025
概括
美国移民和移民政策 (IIP) 的定量数据不断增长,使得对其影响的复杂研究成为可能. 未来的研究应该比较措施,并探索不同的人口影响.
科学领域:
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 公共政策 公共政策
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
背景情况:
- 美国移民和移民政策 (IIP) 的定量数据在过去二十年中显著增加.
- 对IIP的学术调查已经取得了进展,利用了新的数据来源,措施和分析策略.
- 这项不断增长的研究旨在了解IIP对移民和非移民人口的影响.
研究的目的:
- 审查研究美国移民和移民政策 (IIP) 的定量数据来源,措施和分析策略.
- 突出在识别IIP的预期,非预期和溢出效应方面的进展.
- 讨论IIP对心理社会,行为和健康影响的研究的挑战和未来机会.
主要方法:
- 对过去20年美国移民和移民政策 (IIP) 的定量数据来源和学术文献的审查.
- 在IIP研究中使用的分析策略的分析.
- 对IIP影响的调查结果的综合和研究差距的识别.
主要成果:
- 关于移民执法和移民法律的数据的可用性促使对美国IIP气候进行了复杂的定量研究.
- 研究已经在识别IIP对不同人群的影响方面取得了进展.
- 现有工作可以通过比较IIP措施,探索异质效应和解决内质性来加强.
结论:
- 越来越多的定量数据和复杂的方法正在加强对美国移民和移民政策 (IIP) 的研究.
- 需要进一步的研究来比较IIP措施,检查不同亚群体之间的影响,并考虑塑造IIP的政治和人口因素.
- 解决这些问题将加深我们对 IIP 的心理社会,行为和健康影响的理解.
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