The mission of the Penn Migration Initiative (PMI) is to advance and promote interdisciplinary scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange among Penn faculty and students across disciplines and schools along with community stakeholders with an interest in immigration policy and immigrant communities. Of main focus is the relationship between United States immigration policy and the educational, developmental, and employment trajectories of immigrants and their children.
PMI will serve as:
* a place of convening for scholars, students, and policy working on issues of immigration.
* a clearinghouse for rapid response, non-partisan research and usable knowledge relevant to scholars, policy makers and practitioners.
In keeping with these emphases, our major lines of inquiry consist of:
- Research that explores policies impacting the life experiences and trajectories of immigrants
- Research that focuses on the impacts of immigration enforcement on the everyday lives of immigrants and their families and communities
- Scholarship addressing the intersection of immigration policy, place, and community supports
- Research that seeks to understand the relationships between immigration policy, health care and adolescent and adult development
