The Immigrant Voting Project focuses on local voting rights for "citizens of the city" who are not citizens of the country in which they live. However, we get frequent requests for information about voting patterns of immigrants who have naturalized. The groups listed below provide resources on political participation by naturalized immigrants:


Immigrant Politics and Political Participation

http://immigrantpolitics.org/
News and Scholarship on Immigrants and Politics in the US and abroad, edited by Karthick Ramakrishnan

Migration Policy Institute
http:/www.migrationpolicy.org
MPI election profiles for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, examining voter registration by nativity, providing breakdowns for foreign-born citizens as a share of total state population, and detailing their turnout in the 2004 general election, and by ethnicity: http://www.migrationinformation.org/integration/

Arab American Voting Trends and Issues
Arab American Institute
http://www.aaiusa.org/
Links to polling data, Arab American Democrat & Arab American Republican newsletters, and demographic profiles:  http://www.aaiusa.org/arab-americans/405/about-arab-americans

Asian American Voting Trends and Issues

Asian American Legal Defense Fund
http://www.aaldef.org
Report on the Asian American vote in the 2008 elections:
http://www.aaldef.org/article.php?article_id=403


Latino Voting Trends and Issues

Generation Miami -Report on 2008 elections study by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami:
http://generationmiami.com/2009/03/17/the-cuban-american-shift-is-real/
 
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
http://maldef.org/
Resource on ensuring voting rights for immigrants who are U.S. citizens:  http://maldef.org/voting_rights/

Pew Hispanic Center
http://www.pewhispanic.org
2008 Election Fact Sheets: http://pewhispanic.org/data/election08/
Latino Politics:  http://pewhispanic.org/topics/?TopicID=64

Voto Latino
http://www.votolatino.org
Voto Latino's goal is to enlist the help and support of all 47 million Latinos living in the United States to help shape conversation and impact positive change through online organizing, viral videos and more.

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