Different Follow-on Effects of Migration from China and India
By David North on April 22, 2019
China and India are the second largest and the fourth largest suppliers of migrants to the United States, respectively; they are both heavily populated, adjacent Asian nations, but the follow-on aspects of these two migratory streams are quite different. (Mexico is the largest supplier of immigrants, and Cuba is the third; the ranking is for green cards issued in FY 2017.)
Let's start with the measures of four different migration flows: the number of new green cards issued in the most recent year for which numbers are available, the size of the foreign student population during the 2017-2018 academic year, the number of alien alumni remaining in this country under the U.S. government-subsidized Optional Practical Training program, and the number of H-1B workers (often former OPTs). These are different measures of different aspects of migration and come from different sources, so they are not precisely comparable with one another:
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