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Title: Persistence and Change in Immigrant Settlement and Resettlement
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2004
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Abstract: This paper (i) examines how and why immigrant settlement location patterns have evolved in recent decades in the United States and their implications for Canada, (ii) discusses factors related to immigrant settlement in small towns and rural areas in Canada; (iii) describes recent immigrant dispersal, especially out of California, and its implications for Canada. In the analysis of U.S. immigrant settlement, we found that between 1940 to 2000, metropolitan areas can be categorized into the following types: (a) areas that receive relatively few immigrants; (b) areas that consistently receive a substantial volume of immigrants; and (c) areas that received relatively few immigrants, relative to their population size, during 1940 to 1970, but received considerably more immigrants after 1970. Results suggest that recent immigrants settlement illustrates both persistence and change in immigrant destinations, and we discuss factors associated with these settlement patterns.Recent immigrants in Canada have settled in relatively few places. Most immigrants settle initially in large metropolitan areas, especially in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. Some immigrants, however, settle in small towns and rural areas. The paper documents factors related to immigrant settlement in ten small towns that have recently attracted immigrants.During the 1990s, an important change occurred in the spatial distribution of immigrants in the United States. Fewer immigrants settled in the main destination state California and there was a net out-migration of immigrants from California to other states. The result was a large-scale dispersal of immigrants, particular Mexico-origin immigrants, during the 1990s. The paper describes this dispersal and some implications for Canada.
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Authors: Lee, Sharon M.; Edmonston, Barry
Conference Name: Atlantic Metropolis Atlantique
Publisher Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Aging and Retirement, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other
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