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    Mapping immigration in Massachusetts

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    Mapping immigration
    By Robert David Sullivan and Ben Koski | August 21, 2005

    IF NOT FOR THE Bay State's immigrant community, one of the fastest growing in the United States, Massachusetts would have suffered significant population loss during the 1990s. But the maps here show that the benefits, and possible costs, of immigration have not been evenly distributed throughout the state.

    As the smaller map shows, immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1970 and 2000 were concentrated in a handful of cities and towns, mostly in northeastern Massachusetts, and they do not include some of the older cities that may be in most need of new blood. The larger map, which divides the recent immigration population into two groups, shows that many who came to the US between 1995 and 2000 have settled in cities and towns outside of Boston--which has traditionally been an entry point for immigrants but now has some of the highest housing costs in the nation. But few have gone very far to the south or west. Taken together, the maps suggest that there are at least two states of immigration in Massachusetts.

    The larger map highlights Census tracts in which at least 6 percent of the total population (as of 2000) had moved to the United States within the previous 20 years. (Unshaded areas fall below this 6 percent threshold.) Most are included in a region that begins in Boston and Quincy, runs west along the Mass Pike to Worcester, follows I-495 northeast to Lowell and then Lawrence, and then takes I-95 back south to the Hub.

    Compared with other areas of metropolitan Boston, this triangle is densely populated, has an older housing stock (with most units built before 1950), and has more public-transportation users. It is also a slow- or no-growth region. In other words, many of the cities and towns in the triangle are extreme examples of what has been happening statewide: Without the influx of immigrants, they would have seen large drops in population throughout the 1990s. (Even with immigration, there were net losses in many of them.)

    The lightly shaded Census tracts on the larger map indicate that a plurality of foreign-born residents arrived in the United States between 1995 and 2000. These include a section of Allston-Brighton where immigrants from China predominate and a section of Brookline where Koreans are the largest recent immigrant group. Darker-shaded Census tracts indicate that a plurality of foreign-born residents came to the United States between 1980 and 1995. Examples include largely Haitian and Vietnamese areas in Dorchester. Among immigrants from Brazil, those who had arrived between 1980 and 1995 were more likely to be living in Somerville, while more recent arrivals were concentrated in Framingham.

    It's worth noting that the triangle shown on the larger map includes many biotech and medical-research companies, as well as several of New England's largest colleges and universities. There is a demand for both highly skilled and low-skilled workers in the health and education sectors, and immigrants in Massachusetts tend to be disproportionately clustered at both ends of the educational scale. But struggling areas such as Springfield and Pittsfield in the west, and Fall River and New Bedford in the southeast, offer fewer jobs in these sectors and are attracting fewer new immigrants--even as they are losing Massachusetts natives.

    Indeed, many more US citizens are leaving Massachusetts than are moving here from other states, and this trend shows no sign of abating. That means that foreign-born workers are likely to be our state's principal source of new labor for quite some time. Already, they have increased from 8.8 percent of the state's work force in 1980 to 17 percent in 2004. If they are concentrated in a small section of the state, however, this does not bode well for other parts of Massachusetts that are trying to revive their economies.
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    maybe "aniti-illegal" groups need to band together and find rental property next to Ted Kennedy and John Kerry in Massachusettes and open it to illegals .... at least 200 -- 300 illegals should be able to fit into a house the size of those in THEIR neighborhood ....
    "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"

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