Detailed account of the contribution the emigrants have made to American
society in economy/arts/science/etc up to the present time.
Something along the lines of say, there have been X American Nobel Prize
winners, Y% of them were born and got education in other countries,
that sort of thing.

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Request for Question Clarification by claudietta-ga on 27 Nov 2002 15:55 PST

Someone who was born outside of the US, but got a medal for the US
would be an immigrant.  The inverse would be an emigrant.  You are
looking for immigrant information, right?

Claudietta

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Clarification of Question by sleepysphinx-ga on 27 Nov 2002 17:14 PST

Yes, I am looking for the immigrant, not emigrant information - althought
you can hardly be one without being the other, n'est pas?

I don't need a book-length treatise - let's concetrate on the 1980s and 1990s;

Hello sleepy sphinx

        Here is a handful of statistics:     


                        The influx is changing the face of American
                        science, the researchers said. In 1980, fewer
                        than 20 percent of U.S. scientists with doctoral
                        degrees were foreign born. By 1990, that pool
                        had grown to 25 percent.
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwsps/news/briefing/fall00/scientificresearch.htm

                       This report has tables which shows proportions
of native and foreign born scientists in US
 to 1997 and highlights the contribution of foreign ...
opr.princeton.edu/papers/opr9905.pdf

Soviet emigres:
The most recent wave of immigration began in
the late '80s and early '90s during the
perestroika of former Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev and subsequent birth of the new.....
http://www.paweekly.com/PAW/morgue/cover/1998_Nov_11.RUSSIAN1.html




For year 2000 almost half of Nobels 
http://www.ailf.org/polrep/2000/pr0014.htm

   This is a great and fascinating topic. 
   Please feel free to ask for clarification if you need
   more examples or data.

 Search Terms
 US immigrant 
        plus : scinece contribution
 80teis, 90ties,

 hedgie

Since the U.S. is an emigrant society, accurately answering a question
this broad is next to impossible in less than a book-length treatise.
Perhaps you could narrow your question down a bit so a researcher has
something realistic to shoot for.