This paper examines the remarkable growth of the foreign-born population in Middle Tennessee over the past couple of decades and the significant role that immigrant entrepreneurs are playing in the economic development of the region. The largest segment of the foreign-born is Hispanic, with Mexico ...
When a Tennessee Emergency Management Agency director was asked why these resources weren't available until over a day into the search, he said they hadn’t been aware of the size of the Spanish-speaking population in the area. “For them, it was very heartb...
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Michael Kenneth Lemke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Houston-Downtown. He is also Associate Director of the Complexity and Computational Population Health Group at Texas A&M University, where he uses complex systems science-grounded theoretical, methodo...
in 2000. The two immigrant trends documented in the 2000 Census included an increase in the number of immigrants in the country by 57% and a 245% increase in the immigrant population of...
Recommendations to improve the quality of services that this population receives, as well as suggestions for future research, are provided.Collins, Maria Helena Vanderlei
One-third of the US Latino population is under the age of 18. Studies show a significant percentage of Latinos aged 12 or older use illegal substances. Acculturation, family relationships, and depression are contributing factors to this abuse. Previous studies concentrated on populations along the ...
Although these changes largely reflect spectacular Latino population growth, refugee resettlements (including Kurdish, Sudanese, Somalian and Bosnian settlers) for the last two decades have also increased ethnic diversity across the region. In some southern American cities, the combination of Latino ...
However, Nashville contains 37.52 percent of Tennessee’s Hispanics—2.04 percent of the entire state’s population—making it an especially noted metropolitan area in terms of minority representation. Table 1. Racial/ethnic composition: USA, Tennessee, and Nashville, 2019. 3.2. Foreign-Born and ...