The Russell Sage Foundation is dedicated to the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States. It supports innovative research on social, political, and economic inequalities and aims to enhance the understanding and mitigation of factors contributing to inequalities. The foundation fosters projects exploring the distribution of outcomes across various groups and encourages methodological diversity and interdisciplinary collaboration in research.
This grant initiative is dedicated to advancing the field of immigration and immigrant integration research. It encourages the exploration of how various factors such as race, citizenship, legal status, and the dynamics of politics and public policy influence the experiences and outcomes of immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The initiative is particularly interested in studies that overcome data limitations by creatively utilizing both public and private data sources, including specialized surveys and administrative data from various services. Key areas of interest include the barriers to integration posed by legal status, the economic and social impacts of naturalization, the formation of pan-ethnic identities and their implications for integration, the differential pathways and outcomes of integration by race, the consequences of prejudice and discrimination towards immigrants, and the role of politics, political culture, and public policy in shaping the experiences of immigrants and their children. The initiative seeks to address these and other questions through research that improves the measurement and understanding of immigrant progress over time and across generations.