UAlbany Study Reports on America�s
Immigrants: Who They Are, Where They Live
Thirteen metro
regions house more than half the nation's immigrants
Contact: Karl Luntta (518) 437-4980
ALBANY,
N.Y. (June 25, 2003) -- America's new immigrants are increasingly
suburban -- with immigrant growth in the suburbs far surpassing
growth in cities -- according to a new report by the University
at Albany's Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional
Research.
The report,
America�s Newcomers, finds that the volume of immigration
is uneven around the nation. �Some
parts
of the country are relatively untouched, while
neighborhoods in certain areas have been entirely rebuilt and repopulated with
immigrants,� said Center Director John Logan. "In the metro areas with
the largest foreign-born populations, immigrants live in neighborhoods where
30-50
percent of residents were born abroad or speak a language other than English
at home. But their levels of income and education, and the quality of neighborhoods
where they live, are not very different from those of U.S.-born members of
the same racial or ethnic group."
Logan said,
�The major impact of immigration is its change in the mix
of racial and ethnic groups in a region. In the San
Francisco Bay Area, for example,
where a large share of immigrants is from Asia, immigration tends to lift
up average
education and income levels. In an area like Los Angeles where Mexicans are
the majority of immigrants, the new population tends to have education and
income
levels that are below average.�
The new report
also finds: � Just 13 metropolitan regions
including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the San Francisco
Bay Area house
more than half the foreign-born population.
� Immigrants have a similar
socioeconomic profile to that of persons of the same race/ethnicity
born in the
U.S. Among blacks they are doing better than natives. Among
all groups they have a lower unemployment rate.
The full report
can be found at http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/NewComersReport/NewComer01.htm.
For
data on the numbers of foreign-born persons, immigrants
who arrived in the 1990-2000 decade,
and persons who speak
a language other than English at home, see the Mumford
Center�s New Americans web pages: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/NewAmericans/namericans.htm
For
data on immigration by race and Hispanic origin and information
about the neighborhoods
where these people live,
see our Separate and Unequal pages: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/SepUneq/PublicSeparateUnequal.htm
About
the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional
Research
Recognized as one of the great urbanists of the 20th century,
Lewis Mumford endorsed the creation of the Lewis Mumford
Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research in 1988.
Under the leadership of Director John Logan, the Center
currently focuses on four key initiatives: 1) Global Neighborhoods,
2) the Urban Historical Initiative, 3) the China Urban
Research
Network; and 4) the Hudson-Mohawk Regional Workshop. Each
of these projects examines the impact of global changes
on the U.S. metropolis and civil society, probes the 19th
and
early 20th Century roots of present-day cities and suburbs,
and addresses urban change in other parts of the world,
mostly notably China. Visit the Mumford Center at https://www.albany.edu/mumford. |
