Comparing How Two Midwestern Towns Respond to Immigration

How do the two towns in the Midwest respond to immigrants? "A small town in the Midwest" is reminiscent of the unhappy stereotypes in the heart of metropolitan urban areas. Legally ancient environment However, the small town in the Midwest is not a smart house of all state-level that they prove well. The personality that each person has is lost to those who have not seen it at first glance. After living in two small towns, I appreciate their unique qualities.

I grew up in a mid-western country town of 7000 acres. And 100 miles from the nearest population densely center. Since immigrants began in the 18th century, my father's family lived in this area for generations. My mother's family is also a small town in the neighboring town of the same area. My hometown is too far from the center of any subway to become a one bedroom community (few people can commute to the nearest large subway for more than three hours). Therefore, I have witnessed more than thirty years from the late 1970s to the present, that I am living in a small community, business, products and services.

It is clear that not all Americans are experiencing immigration influence on an equitable position. Even in ethnic groups and ethnic groups of small cities in the Midwest, in the past two decades dramatically changed, most immigrants are still concentrated in several metropolitan areas, mostly coastal metropolitan areas: Los Angeles, New York. San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Washington, DC, Houston. They are a quarter of the total population of the United States, accounting for over 60% of foreign residents.

Immigrants are now a clear factor in the landscape of this racist Midwest. Rich immigrants such as Arizona, California, Florida are often at the center of the discussion of immigration policies, but the political discussion about the role of immigrants is hot in the heart. Over the years, the population of these communities is full of sunbelts and other parts of the country. However, legitimate immigration is constantly coming. There is evidence that immigrants will benefit from demographic and economic benefits from the last belt. Migrants from Mexico, Central America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East - As in Europeans who settled in the Midwest more than 150 years ago, the number of immigrants is very different - in recent years the region's big cities and small factories We are delaying hollowing out of town

The meat processing industry is one of the major employment opportunities in many small towns in the Midwest and has dramatically changed over the past two decades. The meat processing factory consists of high-paying labor union members. Today these factories mainly use low wages, there is no union, there are more and more migrant workers. The proportion of Latin workers in meat processing increased from 15% in 1990 to around 35% in 2000. In countries where Latin workers, a combination of recorded or unmodified immigrants, such as Iowa State and Nebraska State, occupy more than 75% of the largest factory workforce, this change is particularly felt Yes. Nebraska State Schuller is an example of how immigrants contribute to the population and economic growth of the small meat processing town in the Midwest.