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Comprising 25 cities and towns, in 2003 Greater Phoenix was the 13th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. in terms of gross production and the third largest in the southwest only after Los Angeles-Long Beach and Orange County in California (Mayors 2004). Between 1993 and 2003, the Greater Phoenix’s economy grew in average 8.2 % annually, a rate they placed this area among the ten most rapidly expanding metropolitan economies in the U.S (Mayors 2004). High-wage occupations led this growth, followed by medium-wage paying jobs in the high-tech, aerospace/aviation, biotechnology, and software industries (MAG 2005). Due to its location within one of the major transportation corridors in North America, Greater Phoenix is also becoming a hub in the trade resulting from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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A census block group is comparable to a neighborhood that contains about 800-1400 residents with similar socioeconomic characteristics.
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Lara-Valencia, F., Fisher, J. (2013). Immigrant Informal Labor in Times of Anti-Immigrant Rage: Insights from Greater Phoenix. In: Magaña, L., Lee, E. (eds) Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070. Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0296-1_8
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