Working Papers
Immigrants and Suburbs: Growth and Distribution in Greater Philadelphia, 1970-2000: A Tract-Level Analysis
The late twentieth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the historic pattern of immigrant settlement within the United States. Since the nineteenth century, most European immigrants - with the important exception of farmers - had settled first in a small number of gateway cities where many rearticleed while a sizeable number fanned out to smaller cities along the coasts or to cities and large towns in the interior. After World War II, with the opening of suburbs huge numbers of these first generation European immigrants and their children, fresh with new prosperity, moved out of central cities. Following the 1965 lifting of nationality-based quotas, immigrants entered the United States in numbers that matched the great immigrant wave of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... READ COMPLETE PAPER
Immigration to the City of Philadelphia: An Economic and Historical Review
This paper outlines the relationship between the local economy, changes in metropolitan geography, and patterns of immigration in the City of Philadelphia since the late nineteenth century. It draws on existing literature to explain Philadelphia's long history as a "low immigrant" city and highlights the different spatial and economic context that recent immigrants to the city have faced in comparison to their predecessors.
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