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Title: Immigration Profiles of US Urban Areas: With Particular Attention to Mid-Size MSAs and Agents of Resettlement

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: This paper has undertaken the task of beginning to balance our knowledge and understanding of immigration flows to US urban areas by shifting the focus to mid-size MSAs, rather than the very largest MSAs and/or major ports of entry. This shift reflects what has been occurring since the late 1980s whereby immigration effects on the population composition of US urban areas is creeping inland and down the urban hierarchy. The first task largely describes and classifies MSAs in terms of their mix of the foreign born, yielding four distinct MSA profiles. The second task addresses underlying processes, giving particular attention to the role of resettlement programs and agencies, a topic given virtually no attention previously. Resettlement programs and agencies are particularly important because of their tendency to alter the geographic patterning of the foreign-born, as seen here in terms of MSAs. That occurrence is particularly likely among immigrants who have virtually no representation within the US, such as refugees arriving since the 1960s, and less so for groups that are already represented such as refugees from WWII. Hence, the redistributive tendencies of refugee resettlement are particularly important in the last quarter of the 20th Century.

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Authors: Malecki, Edward J.; Brown, Lawrence A.; Mott, Tamar E.

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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