Refugee earnings and utilization of financial assistance programs / by David S. North.
- Title
- Refugee earnings and utilization of financial assistance programs / by David S. North.
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- Washington, D.C. : Center for Labor and Migration Studies, New TransCentury Foundation, [1984?]
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- iii, 61, 6, 2 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- This paper studies refugee income and refugee dependency on public assistance programmes in the United States. It is composed of three sections. Section I, 'Refugee Earnings', describes income levels on Indo-Chinese refugees (primarily Vietnamese) who arrived in 1975 and also compares this income with those of later-arriving compatriots, Kampucheans, Laotians, Hmong, and ethnic Chinese. Section II, 'Public Assistance Utilization', poses five questions: 1) what is the total amount of assistance received by refugees; 2) what has been the evolution of this assistance; 3) what are the characteristics of assistance users; 4) how is assistance distributed from state to state; and 5) how have high unemployment and low wages affected refugee use of assistance programmes? Section III, 'The Public Policy Issues', discusses US Government policy; compares refugees with other disadvantaged Americans; compares cash assistance programmes with other types of refugee aid; and, discusses ways to reduce refugee dependency. The author concludes that welfare dependency is related to inadequate education; low English proficiency; job inexperience in the country of origin; larger families; 'pull factors' such as high benefits in individual states; and, general unemployment and low wages in the US. He suggests initiatives to eliminate or reduce dependency rates, such as requiring a certain level of English proficiency for admission. Nineteen tables and an appendix are included.
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- Harvard Library
- Note
- "Written for the Refugee Policy Forum at Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin, February 6-8, 1984."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
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