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.

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition

Also known as MIRA Coalition.

69 CANAL ST STE 3, BOSTON, MA 02114-2006

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition is a nonprofit organization in Boston, Massachusetts that serves immigrants and refugees.

MIRA is a Massachusetts statewide immigrant/refugee coalition that advocates for pro-immigrant policies and provides citizenship assistance, voter registration, know-your-rights education, and an immigration helpline.

Mission

Mira's mission is to organize, serve, and mobilize grassroots organizations, community leaders, and allies for the betterment of all immigrants and refugees across the commonwealth and beyond. Mira mobilizes a dynamic and multi-ethnic coalition of organizational members, including grassroots community organizations; refugee resettlement agencies; providers of social, legal and health services, faith-based organizations and civil and human rights advocates. We mobilize and empower immigrant communities to advocate for themselves through policy analysis and training.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “We advocate for progressive policies at the state, local and national levels, and fight to defeat anti-immigrant measures.”
  • Citizenship: “Learn more about our Citizenship Assistance where we help new Americans navigate pathways to becoming US Citizens.”
  • Civic engagement: “registered thousands of new Americans to vote”
  • Legal / immigration: “a Massachusetts Access to Counsel Initiative (MACI) staff attorney worked tirelessly to advocate for Marc’s release and protect his legal status”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Service area: statewide Massachusetts.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider
  • USCIS citizenship program grant

Contact

Founded 1991. IRS NTEE code R21Z. Revenue $5M-9.99M. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 22-3115048.

Other organizations in Boston

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Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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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).