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04-14-2008, 11:06 PM #1
‘Music City’ now a haven for refugees, immigrants, but t
‘Music City’ now a haven for refugees, immigrants, but tune may be changing
Hernán Rozemberg
Express-News Immigration Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — MartÃ*n followed his brother’s path four years ago, uprooting himself from bustling Atlanta in search of a smaller, quieter city that welcomed Mexican immigrants such as himself with jobs, even if they were in the country illegally.
A decade earlier, Hami Hasan also made his way here, taken in by the U.S. government as a political refugee after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein annihilated his hometown in the Kurdish region of the country.
Nashville, widely known as the cradle of country music, has undergone a dramatic demographic transformation over the past two decades.
Though staying under the national immigration radar, it has seen a burgeoning refugee population and now has the largest Kurdish community in the country, paralleled by a steady influx of unauthorized immigrants.
Most of the undocumented newcomers are from Mexico but most arrived from other states, lured by word of a better place to live and work.
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