In The Media

Professional male athletes, particularly in the National Football League, have often been held up as the epitome of toxic male masculinity. This is not without good reason. In the past decade, NFL players have been arrested and convicted in cases of domestic violence, driving under the influence, illegal drug charges, involuntary manslaughter and, in the case of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, even murder.

IIR Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Marissa Kiss, was interviewed by the Associated Press to discuss nepotism in the NFL. In recent decades immigrants have been underrepresented in the NFL. This is changing and hopefully immigrants along with African Americans will be able to bring their talent to the ranks of NFL coaches.

A once majority-White Prince George’s that became a place for Black Americans building their own American Dream elected three millennial council members last month who represent a growing share of the Prince George’s Black population: African immigrants and their children. The county was home to nearly 54,000 African immigrants in 2019, according to data from the George Mason University Institute for Immigration Research.

In an era when some professional athletes and teams are seeking to manage tarnished reputations and images, public outreach campaigns seeking to show the benefits of diversity and inclusion — as compared to the costs of divisiveness and polarization — would truly give back to the community. It’s a winning formula for everybody.

In Part 1, we revealed that our analysis had uncovered five clusters of power tweeters (see Figure 1): (1) Mainstream, (2) Reformers, (3) Progressive Media, (4) Institutional Conservatives, and (5) the Tea Party. In this article, we’ll delve further into our data to look at the similarities and differences between these groups, and present several additional findings.

Beginning in February 2013, researchers at the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) at George Mason University began tracking the national immigration reform conversation on Twitter. Our view: Twitter would be one of several social media venues where the evolving immigration reform debate could be tracked and analyzed. Since then, using DiscoverText and NodeXL, two different data mining applications, we’ve collected nearly 3 million tweets containing the word “immigration.”

CSSR & IIR Director Dr. Jim Witte speaks on changing demographics in the U.S. with Voice of America. (interview in spanish)

The Washington Post cites data from the Institute on Immigration Research to assess the degree to which the local restaurant industry relies on immigrant labor.