Reports

Immigrant Population and Socioeconomic Indices

This section includes sources addressing the immigrant population and its socioeconomic status and impact within Florida.

Seth Motel and Eileen Patten with the Pew Research Center released a 2012 report on the 10 Largest Hispanic Origin Groups that profiles the 10 largest Hispanic origin groups in the U.S. by top regions and counties, including Miami-Dade County.
The Florida Chamber Foundation produced a paper on Immigration and Florida's Economy in 2011. It makes an argument for pursuing an innovative workforce in the immigrant population.
Eisenhauer, Zhang, Hernandez and Angee with Florida International University's Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (http://www.risep-fiu.org/) assembled a 2007 report on the Characteristics and Contributions of Immigrants in Florida.
The New York Times article "Haitians Illegally in U.S. Given Protected Status" by Julia Preston, explains the national decision to grant temporary protected status to Haitian Immigrants after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Reports on Florida from the Migration Policy Institute

Information on the Language and Education Sufficiency of the immigrant and native-born population within Florida ranks Florida among all 50 American states plus the Washington District of Columbia in a number of wide-ranging and specific categories.
Florida's Income and Poverty Rates for the foreign-born and native-born population features up-to-date estimates on the number of foreign-born individuals who live in poverty within Florida, details how they live and defines key terms relevant to textual and historical MPI findings.
Florida's Workforce Characteristics details the growth of immigrant workers from 2000-2010. It highlights changes in citizenship of foreign-born workers, language proficiency within the employed population and the number of jobless immigrants with a college-level education.
The Florida Social and Demographic Characteristics page features information on domestic and international migrants. The data is broken down into categories of age, place of origin, U.S. citizenship status and gender to represent Florida's immigrant population.

Reports on Florida from the PEW Hispanic Center

A profile by Seth Motel and Eileen Patten documents the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey data on the Hispanics of Cuban Origin living in the United States. It compares demographic, economic and income characteristics of the Cuban population.
In 2011, Motel, Lopez and Gonzalez-Barrera reported Latino's disapproval of President Barack Obama's handling on deportations. Graphs and charts indicate the rise of immigrant deportations in the past decade and immigrant opinions on top 2012 election issues.
This resource, compiled by Motel and Patten, sites Miami as one of the 60 Largest Metropolitan Areas by Hispanic Population in the U.S. It looks at the English proficiency rates among Hispanics in the city and measures U.S. Citizenship rates among the Hispanic population.

Presidential Election Latino Vote

This section includes a few sources to give you an idea of the role that the Latino population played in the 2012 Presidential Election.

A report on the Latino vote breakdown in the 2012 Presidential Election released by the Pew Hispanic Research Center offers information on Latino voting trends.
You may use the Latinovotemap.org as a source to measure the Latino influence on the 20120 Election. The interactive map displays Latino voter turnout in each state as the polls were collected, presents the overall results, and contrasts the Latino vote from 2000 to 2010.
With information from the Florida Department of State Division of Elections, the Pew Hispanic Research Center compiled a comprehensive profile of the eligible Latino voters in Florida leading up to the 20120 Election.

Our website offers more resources on Florida, for example on community resources and analyses under "Resources" as well. We invite you to see the Maps section also.