Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Overview

<h3>New Funding Guidelines for May 21 Deadline</h3> <p>Because of the effects of COVID-19 on all facets of American life, the Russell Sage Foundation is changing its immediate priorities for letters of inquiry for the May 21, 2020, deadline. For this deadline, RSF will only consider LOIs that satisfy at least one of the following criteria:</p> <p>(a) The research is so timely and time-sensitive that the project must start before April 1, 2021;</p> <p>or,</p> <p>(b) the research analyzes social, political, economic, or psychological disruptions resulting from the coronavirus crisis that affect social and living conditions in the United States.</p> <p>All LOIs must focus on issues related to the foundation’s core program areas and special initiatives: Behavioral Economics; Decision-Making and Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. Any LOIs submitted for the May 21 deadline must include an appendix of one or two pages that explains why the proposed research meets either or both criteria. This appendix does not count against the usual page limits for LOIs.</p> <p>RSF will accept LOIs in all programs and special initiatives for the August 5, 2020 deadline, with funding decisions made at the March 2021 board of trustees meeting, according to its usual guidelines.</p> <p><span>______________________________________</span></p> <p>For more than 20 years, RSF has supported a wide range of research projects in the areas of cultural contact and immigration. Under the Immigration program, major research projects examined intergenerational progress, identity and diversity, civic and political incorporation, and migration to new destinations. The Cultural Contact program addressed issues of inter-group relations—in the context of schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and other key institutional settings—and made significant theoretical and methodological advances in the study of stereotype threat, procedural justice, social identity, racial bias, and the content of stereotypes. Insights gained from these two long-standing programs inform our new program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, which replaces the earlier two separate programs.</p> <p>A primary goal of the new program is to find ways in which researchers from different social science traditions studying issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration may complement one another in productive and innovative ways. We encourage multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and foster an understanding of how we might better achieve the American ideals of a pluralist society.</p> <p>Proposals may raise a variety of research questions about any one or more of the three topics encompassed by this program—race, and/or ethnicity, and/or immigration. Examples of the kinds of topics and questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<br>• The Effects of Stratification by Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Status on Social, Economic, and Political Outcomes of Different Groups<br>• American Institutions' Response to Increasing Diversity in the Population<br>• The Role of Legal Status in Immigrant Outcomes<br>• Ethnic and Racial Socialization and Identity Formation<br>• Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Diversity, and Integration<br>• Immigration Policy and Immigrant Integration Policies<br>• Redefinition of Inter-Group Relations<br>• The use of biomarkers and health indicators in modeling social, economic, behavioral and associated outcomes of immigrants and their children</p>