Shannon Gleeson

Where Are all the Immigrant Organizations?: Reassessing the Scope of Civil Society for Immigrant Communities

June 1, 2011 • Working Papers • By Irene Bloemraad and Shannon Gleeson

Abstract We examine the official scope and actual coverage of immigrant civil society in seven California cities using a widely-employed 501(c)3 database. First, to capture demographic under representation, we compare…

Where are all the Immigrant Organizations?: Reassessing the Scope of Civil Society for Immigrant Communities

February 1, 2010 • Working Papers • By Irene Bloemraad and Shannon Gleeson

Abstract In this article, we examine the coverage of immigrant civil society in a widely-used 501(c)3 database. We estimate the organizational undercount for four immigrant communities (Indian, Mexican, Portuguese and…