| If you are looking for statistics on worldwide African affairs, your one and only source is AV framework or African Views AV has and customizes information directly from the ACS: American Community Survey - US Census Bureau: www.census.gov/acs/www/ A place you should be looking in the first place. They also have access to various data bank. Contact them, they are usually helpful and supportive of the academia. Note that AV has African immigrant demographic information for every single country. They have been working on this for years. Best wishes, Wale -------Original Message------- From: MsJoe21St@aol.com Date: 4/24/2012 9:45:46 AM To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com; africanid@yahoogroups.com; Lesa-usa@yahoogroup.com; Africanswithout_Borders@yahoogroups.com Cc: Africans_Without_Borders@yahoogroups.com; Camnetwork@yahoogroups.com; nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Research data on US African Immigrant Population - Gender Employment? Dear Richard and Friolen: Thanks. I got your emails yesterday. I decided to send the requests to public and private institutions with realistic focus on African immigrant welfare. It is also of germane interest to the community. Anyone with knowledge on links can share them. I have included links to four reliable African institutions, including the pioneering District of Columbia Office on African Affairs at the end of my mail. The link below is the most relevant and detailed response to Mr. Friolen's inquiry because it addressed the gender question on employment. http://www.migrationinformation.org/usfocus/display.cfm?ID=719 A recent 2011 citation of the same organization may be helpful - but it did not include the gender statistics. Summarily, the African population in the US (Continental African) is growing by leaps and bounds with compelling needs for data, which is sorely lacking with ranging consequences on policies, equitable development, and remedies. Workforce data are collected at local levels, too. For example, you can have the figures for Latinos, Asians and the generic Black in a county's, city's or state's workforce. Three major impediments hinder data collection on/in the Continental African community: 1) The new reality of an emerging black population that is substantially distinguishable from the African American population is not functionally acknowledged with commensurate policies and resources. Meanwhile, African immigrants do not cast away their transnational identity and realities to become generic black people in America. Some have been here since the 1960s. One way of official denial of this reality is precluding the option to choose a more suitable category in official collection of data. 2) There is a large hard-to-reach Continental African population, including naturalized citizens with grandma and grandpas from Africa. Mainstream research or polling do not capture this population; nether does the US census. Invariably, there are gross underestimations of counts. See the end of the mail - the DC Mayor's African Youth Summit coming up this Saturday. That adds an interesting mix. So you have Africans born in the USA but they are not necessarily oriented in the African American community. 3) External researchers find it difficult to have reliable access to the population and cultural dichotomies led to erroneous conclusions. Community-based participatory research with participant observers from the community is the most reliable way to obtain qualitative data on not only what but why and how. I reviewed my own community-based participatory research and spoke with the limited public and private institutions. The only systemic data collection on African immigrants is confined to HIV/AIDS by Massachusetts. Why not on other areas - academic data (No Child Left Behind); business/ economics /employment, or even in other health areas? In my state, Maryland, there are also figures on HIV/AIDS. I have asked some officials how it is possible to know about who has HIV/AIDS and not who is working in different departments. Maybe the logic and politics will be consistent some day. The most reliable and comprehensive African immigrant services are in New York http://www.africanservices.org and Indiana http://www.africancommunity.net with an engaging Executive Director. Other organizations with some researched data are the Minnesota African Women Association: http://www.mawanet.org/ and African Immigrant Refugee Foundation http://airfound.org/our-programs.html The Ethiopian Community Development Council, the oldest, which receives more funds for ALL AFRICANS (there is no single dime for Ethiopians only) may have economic data. As with the DC Office on African Affairs, the senior staff is new - and may not be up to sped. But the Executive Director of ECDC - Dr. Taferra is still there. Call him and here is the website: www.ecdcinternational.org When is the research due? I am going through the data and waiting for response from other institutions. I will send them as I get the info by Friday. Thanks, MsJoe From: Soyombo, Richard A. F. Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 4:27 AM To: msjoe21st@aol.com; 'Adejumoke Akin-Taylor (jumokeakintaylor@gmail.com)' Cc: froilan@gmail.com; Deamer, Patricia Subject: FW: Froilan: Hello Ms. Joe and Jaye: I trust that you are both doing well. Ms. Joe and Jaye: I need your help! I typically don't go out like this but this is a special case. Prof. Deamer is both a colleague and friend and she has asked me to help Mr. Froilan with his research. Not know which way to turn, I thought of my two intellectual sisters that might be able to help identify the appropriate resources/answers and/or lead Mr. Froilan in the right direction. Pls. read the following email and see whatever you can both do to assist this young man with his education. Mr. Froilan: My apologies for the delay. I have just been overwhelmed with work, mostly. However, I now think you are in good hands with the two ladies copied in this email. Pls. also, feel free to follow up with them directly.
Good luck with your education. Now I can say I have a friend in Oxford University!
My regards,
Richard
From: Deamer, Patricia
Dear Mr. Soyombo:
My name is Froilan Malit, Jr. and I was a former student of Professor Patricia Deamer at Skyline College. I am enrolled on a graduate degree at Oxford, focusing on migration and politics in the Middle East. Currently, I am looking for statistical data on legal African immigrants in the US, where I intend to answer this particular question: Do legal African immigrant women more likely obtain employment than legal African immigrant men in the US labor market? I have tried to use the New Immigrant Survey by Princeton University, but I struggled in filtering the African immigrant population. I could not find alternative data set, and it would be greatly appreciated if you could direct me to website links or people who may have access to such immigration data. Any small advise would be very helpful for my academic studies. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely, Froilan Malit, Jr. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DC Government <dcdocs@dc.gov> Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:14 PM
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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