Sunday, October 30, 2005

Who people live with, not where, gives different picture of immigrants in U.S.

"Immigrants are more dispersed and far more entwined with American-born people when measured by the households in which they live rather than counted individually on the traditional basis of census tract, neighborhood, metropolitan area or state. Using federal Census Bureau data from 1997 through 2001, geographers Mark Ellis of the University of Washington and Richard Wright of Dartmouth College, found that there are about 17 million third-generation or more Americans living in households with immigrants or children of immigrants." Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (via University of Washington)

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