Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans

Also known as CIANA.

36-12 34TH AVENUE, ASTORIA, NY 11106-1358

Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans is a nonprofit organization in New York, New York that serves immigrants and refugees.

CIANA serves new immigrants and asylum seekers in NYC—primarily from the Middle East/North Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and West Africa—offering ESL and civics classes, citizenship and immigration legal services, case management with public-benefits enrollment, youth education, and basic-needs support.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “joins several city- and statewide campaigns in advocating for the safety and dignity of all immigrant New Yorkers”
  • Benefits enrollment: “CIANA provides case management services to assist eligible individuals and families complete applications for SNAP, cash assistance, NYC Care, discounted MetroCards, IDNYC appointments, affordable and public housing”
  • Case management: “Case Management CIANA provides case management services to assist eligible individuals and families complete applications for SNAP, cash assistance”
  • Citizenship: “Civics Classes CIANA prepares future Americans for the naturalization test and interview in small classes.”
  • Civic engagement: “immigration legal services including Know-Your-Rights (KYR) workshops”
  • Education / youth: “CIANA adds a young immigrant legal services program (DACA), and grows its volunteer-staffed elementary after school program.”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “we started a gently used clothing closet, as well as distributing meals, snacks, hot coffee and tea”
  • ESL / English: “Adult English (ESL) Classes CIANA offers new immigrants the opportunity to acquire basic English language skills”
  • Food assistance: “distributing meals, snacks, hot coffee and tea”
  • Housing: “complete applications for SNAP, cash assistance, NYC Care, discounted MetroCards, IDNYC appointments, affordable and public housing”
  • Legal / immigration: “Immigration Legal Services CIANA’s legal program assists with completing various immigration applications, including citizenship/naturalization, adjustment of status/green cards, asylum, work permits, family petitions...”

Languages

Services delivered in Arabic, French, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Mena, South Asian, Hispanic/Latino, West African.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 2008. IRS NTEE code P80. Revenue $722,890. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 74-3184835.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).