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Empirical Research: Immigration

This guide will provide resources for empirical legal research including information on data sets and statistical packages.

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United States

Department of Homeland Security's Immigration Statistics: both datasets and reports are available on a variety of immigration topics.

Latin America Migration Project: a joint research project between Princeton University and the University of Guadalajara on Latin America immigration. Data sets include socioeconomic and US migratory data.

National Agricultural Workers Survey: by the Department of Labor, this site includes datasets as well as reports on topics such as the demographics of agricultural workers, migration, housing, earnings and benefits.