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At the end of the 20th century, international migrants, legal and undocumented, were a highly visible and economically significant feature of major cities in high- and middle-income countries, including the United States. As numbers of immigrants rose, many were concentrated spatially in a small number of cities (‘ports of entry’) and within those cities in ethnically homogeneous neighbourhoods, enclaves or ghettos. An extensive literature documents the impact of immigrants on host cities, examines their patterns of assimilation and explores their interactions with native- born populations and previous immigrants.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Hardman, A. (2008). Immigration and the City. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_2032-1
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