Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration (REI)

Overview

<p><em>The severe consequences of the Covid19-pandemic, including its economic disruptions, and the recent mass protests to combat systemic racial inequality in policing and other institutions have reaffirmed the importance of social science research examining economic, political, racial, ethnic, generational, and social inequalities relevant to public policy and social change. RSF encourages proposals that analyze any of these issues on topics of interest under our Race, Ethnicity and Immigration program.<a href="https://www.russellsage.org/research/funding/covid-19-pandemic"&gt; [Click here for Covid-19 priorities].</a></em></p> <p>The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Race, Ethnicity & Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research 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 research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, gender and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.</p> <p>RSF encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and foster a better understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society. Proposals may focus on any one or more of the issues—race, and/or ethnicity, and/or immigration.</p> <p>The kinds of questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</p> <ul> <li>Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Attitudes Towards Others and Social Inclusion</li> <li>Immigration Policy and Immigrant Integration Policies</li> <li>The Role of Legal Status in Immigrant Outcomes</li> <li>Ethnic and Racial Socialization and Identity Formation</li> <li>Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Diversity, and Integration</li> <li>Criminal Justice, Policing, and the Legal System</li> <li>Social Movements and Responses to Diversity</li> <li>Intergroup Relations</li> </ul> <p><strong>Special Initiative: Immigration and Immigrant Integration (III)</strong></p> <p>The Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative falls under RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program and represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues.</p> <p></p>