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Title: New Settlers in the Heartland: Characteristics of Immigrant Minority Population Growth in the Nineties

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: The recent release of public-use data from the 2000 Census allows researchers to better document the patterns of immigrant settlement that occurred during the 1990s. This paper focuses on issues relating to the so-called new settlement states, or states that faced rapid foreign-born growth rates during the 1990s, but previously lacked a tradition of accepting newcomers. Using 1990 and 2000 Census data, this paper maps the growth in the new settlement states. It goes beyond the mapping to discuss three important questions relating to new immigrants. First, where did the immigrants in the new settlement states come from? Second, are immigrants the driving the growth of the new minority groups? Aggregated data show that Latinos and Asians are the new minorities, but are immigrants or more established native-born migrants responsible for this change? Lastly, this paper focuses on the socio-economic status of the immigrant populations in new settlement areas

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Authors: Lowell, B.Lindsay; Bump, Micah

Periodical (Full): Georgetown Public Policy Review

Issue: 2

Volume: 9

Pages: 1-20

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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