Phillip Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 85486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Connor |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1017-3180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Shattered dreams: The economic impact of eliminating Daca
Since 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided temporary relief from deportation and a work permit for undocumented youth. In recent years, DACA renewals have faced slower processing, mounting legal challenges, and the ongoing risk of revocation. We present a novel imputation for immigrant status, which identifies likely DACA recipients, and provide estimates of the income losses stemming from the potential eli…
Multi-Trillion Dollar and Multi-Million Worker Contributions: An Economic Accounting of Birthright Citizenship
Executive Summary With the Trump administration’s recent executive order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to two undocumented or temporary (nonimmigrant visa holder) immigrants, litigators have been actively arguing against the order, with every case in lower courts finding it to be illegal. Consequently, the Supreme Court is hearing the government’s case in 2026. In light of these events, this paper se…
Protected, Yet Undocumented: The U.S. Case of Growing Liminal Immigration Status and the Theoretical, Advocacy, and Policy Implications for the U.S. and Beyond
Often, undocumented immigrants are considered a population living in the shadows. But living below the radar of U.S. governmental authorities is no longer as accurate. As of the end of 2023, estimates indicate nearly six million, or nearly half, of the undocumented population has some level of liminal or protected status. At the same time, these protections are more temporary than before as most immigration policy now occurs in the executive, and…
Utilising the International Human Rights Framework to Access the Benefits of Paediatric Research in The covid Era: A Wales Case Study
This article uses Wales as a case study to discuss the challenges to accessing the benefits of paediatric research before and during the covid -19 pandemic. Due to the rapidly changing political and legislative landscape, it is critical that health professionals working for the benefit of children can utilise international human rights treaties and the most relevant General Comments that offer a bridge between legalistic provisions and practice. …
Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe
Global Population Projections by Religion: 2010–2050
Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties
Quantifying immigrant diversity in Europe
The notion of increasing immigrant diversity is prevalent in immigration literature. However, little empirical research has examined if immigrant populations have become more diverse during the past two decades. Using data from Pew Research Center's Global Religion and Migration Database and the World Bank's Global Bilateral Migration Database, origin and religious change in immigrant populations since 1990 is presented for six European countries…
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
This article advances knowledge about context-dependent impacts of religion on immigrant structural integration. Drawing on theories of inter-generational immigrant integration, it identifies and spells out two context-dependent mechanisms through which religion impinges upon structural integration — as ethnic marker prompting exclusion and discrimination, or as social organization providing access to tangible resources. The propositions are empi…
Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation
Journal Article Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation Get access Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation, edited by CAROLYN CHEN and RUSSELL JEUNG. New York: New York University Press, 2012, 280 pp.; $28.00 USD (paper). Phillip Connor Phillip Connor Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life PConnor@PewForum…
International Migration and Religious Selection
Migrants are selected by several characteristics (age, education, skill, health, and family migration experience). Often less examined is religious selection. Using Guatemalan data, this research note tests whether religious affiliation is significantly associated with migration to the United States, net of other competing factors. Results are robust, demonstrating that Protestants are more likely than other religious groups to migrate. Additiona…
Religion and Migration around the Globe: Introducing the Global Religion and Migration Database
International migration is a global phenomenon involving nearly 215 million people, equivalent to 3% of the world's population. Previous databases of global migration catalog international migration using a variety of variables (sex, education, age); however, religion is rarely addressed within these data sets. Representing nearly half a million data points, the Global Religion and Migration Database (GRMD) was constructed – the only global datab…
La inserción en el mercado laboral de los inmigrantes latinos en España y en los Estados Unidos. Diferencias por país de origen y estatus legal
Este artículo compara los resultados económicos entre los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España y Estados Unidos. Detectamos un efecto de selección por el que la mayoría de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España proceden de Sudamérica de un entorno de clases medias, mientras la mayoría de los inmigrantes que van a los Estados Unidos son centroamericanos de clase baja. Este efecto de selección explica las diferencias transnacionales en la pro…
Religion as resource: Religion and immigrant economic incorporation
Explaining the Refugee Gap: Economic Outcomes of Refugees versus Other Immigrants
It is often assumed that refugees in the US are at an economic disadvantage compared to other immigrants. A number of hypotheses have been postulated to explain this ‘refugee gap’. Refugees, on average, have less English language ability, less educational experience, different forms of family support, poorer mental and physical health, and generally reside in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods than other immigrants. Although these factors are well…
Economic Outcomes among Latino Migrants to Spain and the United States: Differences by Source Region and Legal Status
Using representative national surveys, this paper compares economic outcomes among Latin American migrants to Spain and the United States in the first cross-national comparison using quantitative data. Considering the geographic location and social proximity of each country with respect to Latin America, we detect a critical selection effect whereby the majority of Latin American migrants to Spain originate in South America from middle class back…
Balm for The Soul: Immigrant Religion and Emotional Well‐Being
Immigrants can face insurmountable odds in their acculturation to the new society, and subsequently suffer from poor emotional/mental health. Using immigrant data from the United States, Australia, and Western Europe, this paper tests the relationship between immigrant religious involvement and emotional well‐being. Results demonstrate that regular religious participation is associated with better emotional/mental health outcomes. Conversely, non…
Contexts of immigrant receptivity and immigrant religious outcomes: The case of Muslims in Western Europe
Among migration scholars, immigrant religiosity has become an important variable in understanding immigrant incorporation into the new society, but less studied are determinants of varying immigrant religious outcomes. Using a subsample of immigrant Muslims within the European Social Survey (2002, 2004, 2006), contexts of immigrant receptivity as less or more welcoming are tested on immigrant Muslim religious outcomes using multi-level modelling.…
Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories
International Migration and Religious Participation: The Mediating Impact of Individual and Contextual Effects 1
Supported by previous empirical work, theory from sociology of religion and migration provide testable hypotheses in predicting changes in immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Due to data constraints, however, these hypotheses have escaped broad‐based analysis. Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), religious participation from pre‐ to postmigration time periods is found to decrease among recent immigrants to the Unit…
Increase or Decrease? The Impact of the International Migratory Event on Immigrant Religious Participation
Immigrant religiosity has recently become a hot topic both in academia and in the public arena. For years, a debate has existed as to whether there is an increase or decrease of immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Some argue that the act of migration spurs an increase in immigrant religious participation, while others contend that migration is a disruptive event and decreases immigrant religious participation. In ad…
Contexts of immigrant receptivity and immigrant religious outcomes: The case of Muslims in Western Europe
Among migration scholars, immigrant religiosity has become an important variable in understanding immigrant incorporation into the new society, but less studied are determinants of varying immigrant religious outcomes. Using a subsample of immigrant Muslims within the European Social Survey (2002, 2004, 2006), contexts of immigrant receptivity as less or more welcoming are tested on immigrant Muslim religious outcomes using multi-level modelling.…
Explaining the Refugee Gap: Economic Outcomes of Refugees versus Other Immigrants
It is often assumed that refugees in the US are at an economic disadvantage compared to other immigrants. A number of hypotheses have been postulated to explain this ‘refugee gap’. Refugees, on average, have less English language ability, less educational experience, different forms of family support, poorer mental and physical health, and generally reside in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods than other immigrants. Although these factors are well…
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
This article advances knowledge about context-dependent impacts of religion on immigrant structural integration. Drawing on theories of inter-generational immigrant integration, it identifies and spells out two context-dependent mechanisms through which religion impinges upon structural integration — as ethnic marker prompting exclusion and discrimination, or as social organization providing access to tangible resources. The propositions are empi…
Increase or Decrease? The Impact of the International Migratory Event on Immigrant Religious Participation
Immigrant religiosity has recently become a hot topic both in academia and in the public arena. For years, a debate has existed as to whether there is an increase or decrease of immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Some argue that the act of migration spurs an increase in immigrant religious participation, while others contend that migration is a disruptive event and decreases immigrant religious participation. In ad…
International Migration and Religious Participation: The Mediating Impact of Individual and Contextual Effects 1
Supported by previous empirical work, theory from sociology of religion and migration provide testable hypotheses in predicting changes in immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Due to data constraints, however, these hypotheses have escaped broad‐based analysis. Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), religious participation from pre‐ to postmigration time periods is found to decrease among recent immigrants to the Unit…
Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties
Religion as resource: Religion and immigrant economic incorporation
Economic Outcomes among Latino Migrants to Spain and the United States: Differences by Source Region and Legal Status
Using representative national surveys, this paper compares economic outcomes among Latin American migrants to Spain and the United States in the first cross-national comparison using quantitative data. Considering the geographic location and social proximity of each country with respect to Latin America, we detect a critical selection effect whereby the majority of Latin American migrants to Spain originate in South America from middle class back…
Balm for The Soul: Immigrant Religion and Emotional Well‐Being
Immigrants can face insurmountable odds in their acculturation to the new society, and subsequently suffer from poor emotional/mental health. Using immigrant data from the United States, Australia, and Western Europe, this paper tests the relationship between immigrant religious involvement and emotional well‐being. Results demonstrate that regular religious participation is associated with better emotional/mental health outcomes. Conversely, non…
Religion and Migration around the Globe: Introducing the Global Religion and Migration Database
International migration is a global phenomenon involving nearly 215 million people, equivalent to 3% of the world's population. Previous databases of global migration catalog international migration using a variety of variables (sex, education, age); however, religion is rarely addressed within these data sets. Representing nearly half a million data points, the Global Religion and Migration Database (GRMD) was constructed – the only global datab…
Quantifying immigrant diversity in Europe
The notion of increasing immigrant diversity is prevalent in immigration literature. However, little empirical research has examined if immigrant populations have become more diverse during the past two decades. Using data from Pew Research Center's Global Religion and Migration Database and the World Bank's Global Bilateral Migration Database, origin and religious change in immigrant populations since 1990 is presented for six European countries…
International Migration and Religious Selection
Migrants are selected by several characteristics (age, education, skill, health, and family migration experience). Often less examined is religious selection. Using Guatemalan data, this research note tests whether religious affiliation is significantly associated with migration to the United States, net of other competing factors. Results are robust, demonstrating that Protestants are more likely than other religious groups to migrate. Additiona…
Protected, Yet Undocumented: The U.S. Case of Growing Liminal Immigration Status and the Theoretical, Advocacy, and Policy Implications for the U.S. and Beyond
Often, undocumented immigrants are considered a population living in the shadows. But living below the radar of U.S. governmental authorities is no longer as accurate. As of the end of 2023, estimates indicate nearly six million, or nearly half, of the undocumented population has some level of liminal or protected status. At the same time, these protections are more temporary than before as most immigration policy now occurs in the executive, and…
Increase or Decrease? The Impact of the International Migratory Event on Immigrant Religious Participation
Immigrant religiosity has recently become a hot topic both in academia and in the public arena. For years, a debate has existed as to whether there is an increase or decrease of immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Some argue that the act of migration spurs an increase in immigrant religious participation, while others contend that migration is a disruptive event and decreases immigrant religious participation. In ad…
Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories
International Migration and Religious Participation: The Mediating Impact of Individual and Contextual Effects 1
Supported by previous empirical work, theory from sociology of religion and migration provide testable hypotheses in predicting changes in immigrant religious participation surrounding the migratory event. Due to data constraints, however, these hypotheses have escaped broad‐based analysis. Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), religious participation from pre‐ to postmigration time periods is found to decrease among recent immigrants to the Unit…
Explaining the Refugee Gap: Economic Outcomes of Refugees versus Other Immigrants
It is often assumed that refugees in the US are at an economic disadvantage compared to other immigrants. A number of hypotheses have been postulated to explain this ‘refugee gap’. Refugees, on average, have less English language ability, less educational experience, different forms of family support, poorer mental and physical health, and generally reside in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods than other immigrants. Although these factors are well…
Economic Outcomes among Latino Migrants to Spain and the United States: Differences by Source Region and Legal Status
Using representative national surveys, this paper compares economic outcomes among Latin American migrants to Spain and the United States in the first cross-national comparison using quantitative data. Considering the geographic location and social proximity of each country with respect to Latin America, we detect a critical selection effect whereby the majority of Latin American migrants to Spain originate in South America from middle class back…
Balm for The Soul: Immigrant Religion and Emotional Well‐Being
Immigrants can face insurmountable odds in their acculturation to the new society, and subsequently suffer from poor emotional/mental health. Using immigrant data from the United States, Australia, and Western Europe, this paper tests the relationship between immigrant religious involvement and emotional well‐being. Results demonstrate that regular religious participation is associated with better emotional/mental health outcomes. Conversely, non…
Contexts of immigrant receptivity and immigrant religious outcomes: The case of Muslims in Western Europe
Among migration scholars, immigrant religiosity has become an important variable in understanding immigrant incorporation into the new society, but less studied are determinants of varying immigrant religious outcomes. Using a subsample of immigrant Muslims within the European Social Survey (2002, 2004, 2006), contexts of immigrant receptivity as less or more welcoming are tested on immigrant Muslim religious outcomes using multi-level modelling.…
Religion and Migration around the Globe: Introducing the Global Religion and Migration Database
International migration is a global phenomenon involving nearly 215 million people, equivalent to 3% of the world's population. Previous databases of global migration catalog international migration using a variety of variables (sex, education, age); however, religion is rarely addressed within these data sets. Representing nearly half a million data points, the Global Religion and Migration Database (GRMD) was constructed – the only global datab…
La inserción en el mercado laboral de los inmigrantes latinos en España y en los Estados Unidos. Diferencias por país de origen y estatus legal
Este artículo compara los resultados económicos entre los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España y Estados Unidos. Detectamos un efecto de selección por el que la mayoría de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España proceden de Sudamérica de un entorno de clases medias, mientras la mayoría de los inmigrantes que van a los Estados Unidos son centroamericanos de clase baja. Este efecto de selección explica las diferencias transnacionales en la pro…
Religion as resource: Religion and immigrant economic incorporation
International Migration and Religious Selection
Migrants are selected by several characteristics (age, education, skill, health, and family migration experience). Often less examined is religious selection. Using Guatemalan data, this research note tests whether religious affiliation is significantly associated with migration to the United States, net of other competing factors. Results are robust, demonstrating that Protestants are more likely than other religious groups to migrate. Additiona…
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
This article advances knowledge about context-dependent impacts of religion on immigrant structural integration. Drawing on theories of inter-generational immigrant integration, it identifies and spells out two context-dependent mechanisms through which religion impinges upon structural integration — as ethnic marker prompting exclusion and discrimination, or as social organization providing access to tangible resources. The propositions are empi…
Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation
Journal Article Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation Get access Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation, edited by CAROLYN CHEN and RUSSELL JEUNG. New York: New York University Press, 2012, 280 pp.; $28.00 USD (paper). Phillip Connor Phillip Connor Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life PConnor@PewForum…
Quantifying immigrant diversity in Europe
The notion of increasing immigrant diversity is prevalent in immigration literature. However, little empirical research has examined if immigrant populations have become more diverse during the past two decades. Using data from Pew Research Center's Global Religion and Migration Database and the World Bank's Global Bilateral Migration Database, origin and religious change in immigrant populations since 1990 is presented for six European countries…
Global Population Projections by Religion: 2010–2050
Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties
Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe
Utilising the International Human Rights Framework to Access the Benefits of Paediatric Research in The covid Era: A Wales Case Study
This article uses Wales as a case study to discuss the challenges to accessing the benefits of paediatric research before and during the covid -19 pandemic. Due to the rapidly changing political and legislative landscape, it is critical that health professionals working for the benefit of children can utilise international human rights treaties and the most relevant General Comments that offer a bridge between legalistic provisions and practice. …
Protected, Yet Undocumented: The U.S. Case of Growing Liminal Immigration Status and the Theoretical, Advocacy, and Policy Implications for the U.S. and Beyond
Often, undocumented immigrants are considered a population living in the shadows. But living below the radar of U.S. governmental authorities is no longer as accurate. As of the end of 2023, estimates indicate nearly six million, or nearly half, of the undocumented population has some level of liminal or protected status. At the same time, these protections are more temporary than before as most immigration policy now occurs in the executive, and…
Shattered dreams: The economic impact of eliminating Daca
Since 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided temporary relief from deportation and a work permit for undocumented youth. In recent years, DACA renewals have faced slower processing, mounting legal challenges, and the ongoing risk of revocation. We present a novel imputation for immigrant status, which identifies likely DACA recipients, and provide estimates of the income losses stemming from the potential eli…
Multi-Trillion Dollar and Multi-Million Worker Contributions: An Economic Accounting of Birthright Citizenship
Executive Summary With the Trump administration’s recent executive order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to two undocumented or temporary (nonimmigrant visa holder) immigrants, litigators have been actively arguing against the order, with every case in lower courts finding it to be illegal. Consequently, the Supreme Court is hearing the government’s case in 2026. In light of these events, this paper se…
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