Immigration Impacts on Metropolises



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GW Associate Professors of Geography Lisa Benton-Short and Marie Price discuss the economic and socio-cultural impacts that immigrants have on major cities worldwide, as well as the linkages immigrants create with their countries of origin.

Benton-Short and Price recently published Migrants to the Metropolis: the Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (Syracuse University Press, 2008). The analysis, based on field research, redirects the global narrative surrounding migration away from states and borders toward cities, where the vast majority of economic migrants settle.

It examines contemporary global immigrant trends and the profound effects on specific host cities, focusing not only on destinations with long-established diverse populations, but also on lesser-known gateway cities such as Amsterdam and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg, Singapore, Dublin, and Washington, D.C.