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Sanderson, Matthew; Painter, Matthew, II – Rural Sociology, 2011
In the 1990s, Mexican immigration dispersed spatially, leading to the emergence of many "new destinations," in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Previous studies constrain the scope of the analysis to the United States, limiting our understanding of how new destinations are formed. We place new destination formation into a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Supply and Demand, Multivariate Analysis
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Robbins, Paul; Meehan, Katharine; Gosnell, Hannah; Gilbertz, Susan J. – Rural Sociology, 2009
A vast and growing interdisciplinary research effort has focused on the rise of the so-called New West, purportedly the product of regional socioeconomic, political, and ecological upheavals in states like Montana and Colorado. Reviewing the growing research on this problem in sociology, economics, geography, and conservation science, this article…
Descriptors: Geography, Economic Change, Immigrants, Migration
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Lichter, Daniel T.; Johnson, Kenneth M. – Rural Sociology, 2006
This paper analyzes geographic patterns of population concentration and deconcentration among the foreign-born population during the 1990-2000 period. A goal is to examine whether the foreign-born population, including recent arrivals, are dispersing geographically from metro gateway cities into rural and other less densely populated parts of the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution, Racial Segregation