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- Title
WHITHER THE NEW PHOENIX? IMMIGRATION, MINORITIES AND POPULATION CHANGE.
- Authors
Meyer, C. Kenneth; Clapham, Stephen E.; Chung, Amanda; Aliu, Liridona
- Abstract
The immigration debate is front and center on the American politics stage today. This paper examines how selected demographics of the United States are changing, and especially how the migration into urban centers and various minority racial and ethnic population groups are significantly impacting the social, economic, and political milieu. Beginning with a brief overview of some of the major population projections for the United States, this analysis examines the "Hispanic" and "Latino" population attributes using the common factors of age, employment, education, residency, etc., contrasted with the population traits of the whole U.S. population. Similarly, the analysis compares the "African American" and "Black "population, and the "Asian" cohort with the total population distributions. The statistics reported here, are not surprisingly, at times, contradictory to the "factual" assertions made by politicians, commentators, opinion writers, and even immigration and population analysts. Within this context of the report, we learn that these four cohorts are principally located in urban areas at the same time that the city has become the defining center for population and economic growth not only in the United States, but worldwide. The corollary aspect of these population changes will impact governance, thereby, poising the existential question for the new Millennium--the 21st Century: "Who's country America"? as the majority population becomes the minority one and the minority population becomes the dominant "majority" in the United States.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PHOENIX (Ariz.); DEMOGRAPHIC change; POPULATION forecasting; SOCIAL impact; INNER cities; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
Journal of Business & Behavioral Sciences, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
1099-5374
- Publication type
Article