Book Review: New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration Edited by Douglas S. Massey

Authors

John Defrain, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

Fall 2009

Citation

Published in Great Plains Research 19.2 (Fall 2009): 244-45.

Comments

Copyright 2009 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Used by permission

Abstract

Patterns of immigration to the U.S. have been changing since the 1990s. The geographic dispersion of immigrants away from traditional urban gateways— New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Chicago— into smaller communities throughout the country means that millions of native-born Americans lacking any experience with foreigners are now, for the first time in living memory, having direct and sustained contact with unassimilated immigrants. The newcomers settle in small towns as well as large cities, in the middle of the country as well as the coasts. Especially relevant to Great Plains Research readers, the new immigrants have discovered the Middle West, the Plains states, and the South.