Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Immigrants in suburban DC
Byline: The Daily Record Staff via Access My Library
"A new book on the explosion of immigrants in suburban communities, "Twenty-First Century Gateways," released Monday [Mar 17] by the Brookings Institution, shows that one in five residents in the Washington area is now foreign born. Mary Price, co-author of the section on the Washington region and chairwoman of George Washington University's geography department, says the area has recently become a hub for immigrants from a wide variety of cultures. There are now more than 1 million immigrants in the area -- four times the amount in 1980. Montgomery County in Maryland and Virginia's Fairfax County are leading the region's demographic change."
Brookings Institution blurb about the book here.
"A new book on the explosion of immigrants in suburban communities, "Twenty-First Century Gateways," released Monday [Mar 17] by the Brookings Institution, shows that one in five residents in the Washington area is now foreign born. Mary Price, co-author of the section on the Washington region and chairwoman of George Washington University's geography department, says the area has recently become a hub for immigrants from a wide variety of cultures. There are now more than 1 million immigrants in the area -- four times the amount in 1980. Montgomery County in Maryland and Virginia's Fairfax County are leading the region's demographic change."
Brookings Institution blurb about the book here.
Labels: Brookings Institution, Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC
# posted by Norma : 3/26/2008 06:12:00 AM
