Assessing Immigrant Naturalization: Longitudinal Research, Findings, and Challenges
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Linked administrative records on immigrants and naturalizations constitute a dataset for modeling naturalization over duration in lawful permanent residence and examining the role of covariates related to admission characteristics that may reflect social capital and human capital. This presentation reviews several recommendations and research programs in establishing such data for research. This paper describes creation of the first multi-cohort immigration-to-naturalization dataset for those individuals admitted for lawful permanent residence in 1978-1991 with naturalization outcomes observed through 1996. Several studies show the importance of origin country and admission characteristics in explaining differential timing of naturalization. Studies show that understanding naturalization outcomes involves not only considering observed heterogeneity on demographic, origin, and admission characteristics but also controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. The discussion reviews improvements in federal statistics on immigrant naturalization and makes recommendations for research on naturalization as an aspect of immigrant incorporation.
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