Americans tend to measure success by our degrees, jobs, cars, zip codes, and even area codes (if you live in L.A.). When it comes to the children of immigrants, however, relying solely on these markers of success fails to factor in “starting points”—what resources these second-generation kids were given, at birth, by their parents.

America has succeeded, and achieved its present position of global dominance, because it has always been good at importing the talent it needs.

When the pandemic hit, Atoms began making copper masks, with Alexis Ohanian’s help. Each time it sells one, it gives one away to a community organization.

Foreign immigration in China is becoming more diverse. While the number of high-earning expatriates from developed countries has peaked, China attracts more students than ever from all over the world, including many from lesser developed countries. Low-skilled labor and marriage migration are also on the rise.

Five days after 50 Muslims in New Zealand were killed in an attack attributed to an Australian white supremacist, Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, unveiled a plan he said would address a fundamental challenge to the nation.

While refugees catch the headlines, most migrants come from other parts of Europe. Only 15% of 20.8 million people with an immigrant background came as asylum-seekers.

For decades, immigrants and their families have played a vital role in the U.S. labor force and economy at large. Today, however, our broken immigration system stifles the contributions of immigrants and in turn withholds significant benefits from American workers.

Immigrants have been shaping markets for millennia, but have frequently been the target of hostility in many countries.

In France, demographers classify as "immigrants" all persons of foreign nationality born outside France. They exclude persons born abroad to French parents, such as the children of expatriates.

At the end of 2018, the Marketing and Media Department of the Immigration, Refugees, & Citizenship Canada (IRCC) launched the #ImmigrationMatters Campaign, to promote a positive and fact-based public perception of immigration. The campaign was based on the analysis of annual surveys (IRCC has conducted them for the past 25 years!) and focus groups carried out with members of the public across a variety of communities.

Here are ten things about being an immigrant that I, and other immigrants, have found that non-immigrants don’t usually know.

Better economic prosperity, religious freedom and social unrest are just a few of the factors that drive immigration. These are major reasons the United States continues to be a popular destination for migrants. The United States leads the list of countries with the most immigrants.

Although the majority of U.S. foreign-born residents are Latin American, recent immigrants are most likely to arrive from Asia.

Iceland and New Zealand are the most accepting countries for migrants in the world, according to a Gallup poll.

More workers turn east as US and Europe shut their doors.

On the anniversary of the opening of Ellis Island, learn about the first foreigner who passed through its doors, 17-year-old Irish immigrant Annie Moore.

During the 1870s, lofts for industry and tenements for immigrants were built among the 18th– and 19th-century buildings between New York City’s Canal Street and Washington Square.

Immigrant children in the U.S. are just as likely today to attain success as those a century ago when most immigrants came from Europe.

Five years ago, more than one million people crossed into Europe. Many of them took huge risks and embarked on dangerous journeys in an effort to escape conflict and find a better life.