While federal action on immigration faces an uncertain future,
states, cities and suburban municipalities craft their own
responses to immigration. Twenty-First-Century Gateways , focuses
on the fastest-growing immigrant populations in metropolitan areas
with previously low levels of immigration -places such as Atlanta,
Austin, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C. These places
are typical of the newest, largest immigrant gateways to America,
characterized by post-WWII growth, recent burgeoning immigrant
populations, and predominantly suburban settlement. More
immigrants, both legal and undocumented, arrived in the United
States during the 1990s than in any other decade on record. That
growth has continued more slowly since the Great Recession;
nonetheless the U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990.
Many immigrants continued to move into traditional urban centers
such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, but burgeoning numbers
were attracted by the economic and housing opportunities of
fast-growing metropolitan areas and their largely suburban
settings. The pace of change in this new geography of immigration
has presented many local areas with challenges -social, fiscal, and
political. Edited by Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline
B. Brettell, Twenty-First-Century Gateways provides in-depth,
comparative analysis of immigration trends and local policy
responses in America's newest gateways. The case examples by a
group of leading multidisciplinary immigration scholars explore the
challenges of integrating newcomers in the specific gateways, as
well as their impact on suburban infrastructure such as housing,
transportation, schools, health care, economic development, and
public safety. The changes and trends dissected in this book
present a critically important understanding of the reshaping of
the United States today and the future impact of immigration, vital
as the nation and metropolitan areas face changes to immigration
policy.
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