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    V. Characteristics of Naturalized and Eligible Populations

    Country and Region Among those eligible to naturalize, Mexicans constitute 3.0 million of the 8.5 million total, more than any one country or region. Because of their large representation among legal immigrants and their low naturalization rates, Mexicans also dominated this group in 1995. The next largest groups are immigrants from Asia and from Central […]

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    Appendix A: Theories on Naturalization

    There is no one explanation that covers every immigrant’s decision to naturalize, but some broad theories suggest why citizenship rates rise and fall. Country of birth has long been a significant predictor of whether an immigrant will naturalize. Immigrants are more likely to return to home countries that are geographically close to the U.S. They […]

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    IV. Naturalized Citizen Population

    The nation’s population of naturalized citizens has never been higher: 12.8 million in 2005. The share of legal immigrants who become citizens has been rising since the mid-1990s, reversing a long-term decline. Naturalized citizens became the majority of legally admitted immigrants during this decade. History shows that the proportion of foreign-born residents who are naturalized […]

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    Iraq War, with Subplots, Dominates the News

    A GOP debate, a Royal visit, Murdoch’s media move, and a Washington sex scandal all generated their fair share of news coverage last week. But it’s still the battle over Baghdad—with a cast of players that last week included George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice—that captured most of the media’s attention and energy.

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    III. Trends in Naturalizations

    The number of foreign-born residents who became U.S. citizens rose from an annual average of less than 150,000 throughout the 1970s to more than 650,000 since the mid-1990s. This growth reflects both an increase in the nation’s supply of legal immigrants and an increased likelihood that those who are eligible apply for citizenship. After years […]

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    An Evolving Debate about Evolution

    The evolution controversy, traditionally a state and local issue, has vaulted into the national political arena, making a surprise appearance at the first Republican presidential candidate debate on May 3 and garnering a large amount of press attention

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    An Evolving Debate about Evolution

    The evolution controversy, traditionally a state and local issue, has vaulted into the national political arena, making a surprise appearance at the first Republican presidential candidate debate on May 3 and garnering a large amount of press attention

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    Methodology

    The Current Population Survey (CPS) identifies the foreign born population through questions on country of birth and citizenship. However, the CPS does not differentiate among legal immigrants, undocumented migrants, and legal temporary residents. CPS data also tend to overstate the number of naturalized citizens, especially among recent arrivals, in comparison with official administrative data on […]

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    An Evolving Debate about Evolution

    by David Masci, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life The evolution controversy, traditionally a state and local issue, has vaulted into the national political arena, making a surprise appearance at the first Republican presidential candidate debate on May 3 and garnering a large amount of press attention in the days following […]

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    Iraq Dominates PEJ’s First Quarterly NCI Report

    The war in Iraq eclipsed all other news in the first three months of 2007. The 2008 presidential race was the next biggest story, and most of that was about Democrats. These are among the findings in PEJ’s first quarterly report of its News Coverage Index, which allows us to probe the data more deeply than we can on a weekly basis.