Immigration and the "Great Inversion"

Kyle Walker

Texas Christian University

April 24, 2015

CHICAGO

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The Great Inversion (Ehrenhalt, 2012)

Immigrant suburbanization in the news

1983

1993

2010

Inversion and regions of origin

The distance profile of immigration

The geography of inversion

Greatest increase in E/SE Asian concentration, Chicago

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Greatest increase in E/SE Asian concentration, Dallas-Fort Worth

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Future directions

Questions?

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