Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Overview

<p><span>The Russell Sage Foundation launched its program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in the spring of 2015. This program seeks investigator-initiated research proposals on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. We are especially interested in innovative research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.</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</p>