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Title: Backgrounder: Where Immigrants Live: An Examination of State Residency of the Foreign Born by Country of Origin in 1990 and 2000

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: During the 1990s, the nations immigrant population grew by 11.3 million faster than at any other time in our history. Using newly released data from the 2000 Census, this report examines the changing distribution of the nations immigrant population by country of origin at the state level. The findings show that in one sense, todays immigration is more diverse than ever because people now arrive from every corner of the world. In another sense, however, diversity among the foreign born has actually declined significantly. One country Mexico and one region Spanish- speaking Latin America came to dominate U.S. immigration during the decade. The report also found that immigrants from some countries became more spread out in the 1990s, while the dispersion of others changed little.

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Authors: McArdle, Nora; Camarota, Steven A.

Publisher: Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, DC

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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