LA Times debuts ‘Immigrant Dreams’ in conjunction with KFF

The following excerpt was sent out from the Los Angeles Times:

This year, the Los Angeles Times in partnership with KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy, carried out a groundbreaking, nationwide survey of the adult immigrant population. Today, The Times launched Immigrant Dreams, a series of articles, photos and videos based on the survey findings as well as work by Times reporters, photographers and graphic artists.

Conducted in 10 languages using a rigorously developed survey method, the poll was designed to fill significant gaps in what’s known about the roughly 1 in 6 U.S. adults who were born in other countries. Its size and comprehensiveness allows comparisons among immigrants of different national origins and among varied locations in the U.S. that were previously unavailable.

“The foreign-born population is near a record high for the past century, and immigration is one of the dominant issues in our politics,” said Senior Editor David Lauter, who led the project for The Times. “But a lot of what people say about immigrants is based on stereotype, guesswork or outright falsehood. Our goal with this project was to produce a body of facts about immigrants’ lives in the U.S. and to illustrate those facts by allowing immigrants to tell their own stories about their lives.”

Read more about the Immigrant Dreams project and survey results at latimes.com/immigrant-dreams and on the KFF website.