CSII Research

Please note: 

USC PERE and USC CSII have merged under a new name. Effective July 22nd, 2020, our new name and tagline is: USC Equity Research Institute (ERI): Data and Analysis to Power Social Change.

Visit our ERI website FAQ page to learn more about the rebrand. 

The PERE and CSII websites will remain online as archives but will not be updated with any new content, and be phased out  in early 2021.

 

 

The mission of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) is to remake the narrative for understanding, and to shape the dialogue, on immigrant integration in America.

Our intent is to identify and evaluate the mutual benefits of immigrant integration for the native-born and for immigrants, and to study the pace of the ongoing transformation in different locations, not only in the past and present but projected into the future.

 CSII's research brings together three emphases:

  • scholarship that draws on academic theory and rigorous research;
  • data that provides information structured to highlight the process of immigrant integration over time;
  • and engagement that seeks to create new dialogues with government, community organizers, business and civic leaders, immigrants and the voting public.

 

What is immigrant integration?

CSII defines immigrant integration as improved economic mobility for, enhanced civic participation by, and receiving society openness to immigrants. CSII identifies and evaluates the mutual benefits for the native born and immigrants and study the pace of change in different locations, not only in the past and present but the future as well.

 

Quick California immigrant integration facts:

  • 27% of Californians are immigrants.

  • Of all children in California, 48% have at least one immigrant parent.

  • One in six of all California kids have at least on undocumented parent.

Quick Los Angeles County immigrant integration facts:

  • One third of L.A. County residents are immigrants, nearly half of our workforce is foreign born, and two thirds of those under 18 are the children of immigrants.
  • Children of immigrants are 64% of all L.A. County children and nearly 90% of those are U.S. citizens.
  • Long-term immigrants (those who have stayed more than 30 years) have higher home-ownership rates than the U.S. born, 63% and 54%, respectively.

 

For additional data on CA and its counties, see CSII’s report, “What’s At Stake for the State.”

For additional data on Los Angeles, see CSII’s report, “Immigrant Integration in Los Angeles.”

 

  • Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII), University of Southern California
  • 1149 South Hill Street
  • Suite H-340
  • Los Angeles, CA 90015