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Immigration’s New Frontiers: Experiences from the Emerging Gateway States (Century Foundation Books (Century Foundation Press))

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Before 1995, about three-fourths of the nation’s immigrants settled in just six states: California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York, and New Jersey. In the decade since, then again, immigrants increasingly more have bypassed those traditional gateway states in favor of new frontiers, and twenty-two other states have experienced extremely rapid growth in their immigrant populations. How have these new destination states approached the influx of new immigrants, the lion’s share of whom are latest arrivals with limited English skills and low incomes? How have officials in these “laboratories of democracy” faced the new public policy and political challenges? Immigration’s New Frontiers examines the experiences of North Carolina, Iowa, Georgia, Minnesota, and Nebraska. The book provides readers with a better understanding of the enormous difficulties caused by the absence of a functioning federal system. In many cases, states and localities are making an attempt to get to the bottom of within their jurisdictions problems —mostly concerning undocumented immigration —that may only be adequately addressed on the national level. Such issues have develop into the entire more difficult as a combination of racial tensions, job competition, disruption in particular neighborhoods, and political grandstanding have ceaselessly impeded problem-solving efforts.


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