Outside Looking in: International Migration and the Cities

Melvin R. Levin
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Melvin R. Levin: University of Maryland

Economic Development Quarterly, 1993, vol. 7, issue 1, 3-11

Abstract: A principal challenge to U.S. policy in coming decades will be the prospect of large-scale immigration from the chronically impoverished and misgoverned developing nations that make up most of world population. In contrast, interregional economic disparities (including slum areas) are likely to provide less troublesome problems for public policy. The ease of communications, the presence of large colonies of successful (or successfully coping) Third World migrants, and the weakness of immigration controls point to the United States as a major target for legal and illegal immigrants perhaps approaching the 1900-1910 level, that is, in 1990 terms, 2.5-3.0 million a year, approximately three to four times the level of the 1980s.

Date: 1993
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