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1 BUILDING RESILIENT REGIONS THE IMMIGRATION CHALLENGE JOHN MOLLENKOPF & MANUEL PASTOR THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Orienting Context Unlike other areas (economic development, infrastructure, anti-poverty programs) there is little or no federal or state legal framework shaping local responses to the growth of immigration. Given that contemporary immigration had been heavily concentrated in a few receiving areas, but is now broadening out, we want to distinguish between old and new gateways and even old and new locations within the old gateways. THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Orienting Context Old Destinations Los Angeles / Inland Empire -- Pastor New York / Suffolk County -- Mollenkopf Chicago / Waukeegan? -- Dominguez New Destinations Charlotte, NC -- Jones-Correa Phoenix, AX -- Lewis San Jose, CA -- Pastor 1

2 THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Research Questions How are regions (or parts of regions) reacting to growth of immigrant populations? Around specific policy practices Around institutional settings How are immigrant communities being organized (or organizing themselves)? How do immigrant communities relate to each other, native whites, and native minority groups? THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Research Questions When and why has immigration been negatively politicized? Why are some regions immigrant friendly and others hostile to immigration? What is regional about responses to immigration? OVERVIEW OF THE REGIONS 2

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57 NEW YORK NEW YORK THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Hypotheses Density of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations promotes integration, lessens inter-group tension. Philanthropy has played an unusually strong role in fostering city, regional collaborations around immigrant advocacy. Areas where white majority or plurality has a strong immigrant background are likely to be more supportive of immigrant integration than those where they do not. 57

58 THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Hypotheses Areas with a strong civil rights history/legacy will take more favorable positions on immigrant integration. Class and race composition of immigrant communities (as well as their cultural repertoire) will matter: highly educated groups will be more likely to find their place. THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Informants (similar to other clusters) Observers (press, scholars, researchers) Religious denominations (Catholic and others) Immigrant leaders and political candidates Nonprofit organizations (especially immigrant-serving) Philanthropic officials Elected officials or their immigrant policy advisors Executives of service delivery organizations (education, health, police, housing) THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Product (and time line) A jointly-written book that will take a cross-cutting, thematic look at the cases. (This will require lots of coordination and conversation across the researchers.) NOT a series of case studies side by side. Complete bulk of interviews by December 2009 Meet to synthesize findings January 2010 Assist in preparation of MacArthur proposal February-March 2010 Continue conducting remaining interviews and synthesizing findings Summer

59 THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Contributions to the field Theorizing about what produces pro- and antiimmigrant reactions across different types of jurisdictions. Understanding of the metropolitan dimension of immigrant integration. Anticipating the issues that will arise from implementing immigration reform should it be enacted in THE CHALLENGE OF IMMIGRATION Contributions to the field Achieving a more in-depth understanding of what life is really like for immigrants in new destination settings. Identifying more best practices on difficult issues, especially in new receiving contexts. Learning more about immigrant integration in suburban contexts. (Literature is now all in urban or central city contexts.) 59

Twenty-first Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America

Audrey Singer, Immigration Fellow Twenty-first Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers April 18, 2007 New metropolitan geography