Boston is made up of a variety of people of different ethnic groups, economic classes and ages. In 2012 the population of Boston was made up of about 636,479 residents with 22% being age 19 and under, 14% from 20 to 24, 33% from 25 to 44, 20% from 45 to 64, and 10% who were 65 years of age or older. Also, for every 100 females, there were 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.9 males.
Over the last several decades, the racial and ethnic composition of Boston has changed greatly. MA has the 7th largest immigrant population with a total of 772,983 immigrants. In 1980, close to 70% of Boston was white. Today, only half the city is white. As shown in figure 1, as the years increased so did the minority population of Boston. The last two Census reports show Boston as a “majority-minority” city. Generally, Boston has had a greater proportion of foreign-born residents than both the state of Massachusetts and the nation as a whole. Since the 1970s, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Boston has grown dramatically. In 1970, foreign born citizens made up only 15% of Boston’s population while in 2009, foreign born citizens made up about 25% of the population. Most of Boston’s immigrants today come from Haiti (10.2%), China (8.9%), and the Dominican Republic (8.3), but there are also many immigrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Jamaica, Columbia and Ireland. All the neighborhoods in Boston have experienced an increase in diversity, but the neighborhoods that have experienced the most significant change are East Boston, Roslindale, Allston, Hyde Park, and Dorchester.
The city of Boston is home to one of the most highly educated populations out of all the American cities. According to the 2010 American Commu...
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...inority” city with fast-growing Asian and Latino populations. In 2009, Latinos had the highest poverty rates in the region, with roughly 1 out of every 4 Latinos living below the poverty line. On the other hand, white residents managed the best, with a poverty rate of only about 7%. The great majority of Bostonians of color live in Boston’s high-poverty neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and East Boston. In contrast, Beacon Hill, South Boston and parts of Central Boston are more than 80% white.
Also, households headed by a single parent are significantly more likely than married couple households to live at or near the poverty line. While almost 30% of female headed households stay around the poverty line, less than 4% of married couple households do. Boston is one of the nation’s most highly educated cities, but in some Census Tracts within the city,
America is a land filled with immigrants coming from different corners of the worlds, all in hopes of finding a better life in the country. However, No one had an easy transition from his or her home country to this foreign land. Not every race thrived the same way—some were luckier than others, while some have faced enormous obstacles in settling down and being part of the American society. Many people have suffered
America is undergoing significant social change. While in 1960, white people made up 85 percent of the population, in the latest census it was projected that by 2043, the United States would “be the first post-industrial society in the world where minorities will be the majority” (Deasy, 2012). The 1965 Immigration Act is said to have opened the door to waves of new immigration from Mexico, Latin America and Asia, and the cumulative social impacts have been far reaching. The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to critically review a handful of research papers that explore some of the impacts that immigration has had on the United States, with a particular focus on the research methodologies adopted. It finds that while many papers focus on the use of quantitative research methodologies to measure
Before the reader can identify the issue and formulate an opinion, he/she must understand the credibility of the authors. The first author of the book is Douglas S. Massey. He currently serves as the professor of sociology at Princeton University and as the assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in immigration, specifically in residential segregation of black citizens within local communities. The second author of the book is Nancy A. Denton. She currently serves as the director of urban and regional research and as the associate director of social and demographic analysis at the Lewis Mumford Center in Albany, New York. She specializes in immigration, specifically in the families of immigrants and their impact on residential areas.
Many of these ethnic groups still reside where their relatives first lived when they arrived many years ago, whereas a majority of the ethnic groups have dispersed all over the Chicago land area, creating many culturally mixed neighborhoods. Ultimately, all of these ethnic groups found their rightful area in which they belong in Chicago. To this day, the areas in Chicago that the different ethnic immigrants moved to back in the 1920s are very much so the same. These immigrants have a deep impact on the development of neighborhoods in today’s society. Without the immigrants’ hard work and their ambition to establish a life for their families and their future, Chicago would not be as developed and defined as it is now.
She investigated this concept by spending a numerous amount of months with the residents of Dover Square Project. In the neighborhood of 300 residents, there were around 52 percent Chinese, 27 percent black, 12 percent white, and 6 percent Hispanic. She observed that, for the most part, despite the ethnic diversity, the residents chose and preferred to form and maintain close relationships with those of the same ethnicity rather than socialize and integrate with those different (121). Commonly, all the residents shared a similar mentality in which they believed their neighbors were just temporary associates. Those of the same ethnic group, however, were the exceptions because they were connected with them by “intimate ties” (119). Despite the fact that most of the residents were actually permanent residents, the people in the neighborhood still had this mentality. A majority of the Chinese residents were immigrants that came recently from Hong Kong, speaking “little or no English, although their children” were “typically fluent in English” (121) and had no intentions of leaving. On the other hand, a lot of the Hispanics from Puerto Rico had no intentions of staying and regarded their
Boston is a small town in Thomas County, located in southwest Georgia. Boston was a hunting ground for the Creek and Apalachee Indians. The Indians thrived in the region until the early 1800’s. People in Boston can find their collections of arrowheads and other artifacts from the natives.
On March 5, 1770 a fight broke out in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts between a patriot mob and British soldiers. Citizens attacked a squad of soldiers by throwing snowballs, stones and sticks. British Army soldiers in turn killed five civilians and injured six others. The presence of British troops had been stationed in Boston, the capital of Province of Massachusetts Bay since 17681. The British existence was increasingly unwelcome. The British troops were sent to Boston in order to protect and support the crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.
The United States of America has the largest foreign-born population in the world. With nearly thirteen percent of the total population being foreign-born, one may find it hard to imagine an immigrant-free country (U.S. Bureau of the Census). Immigration has been an integral part of the United States’ overall success and the country’s economy since it was established and without it, would have never been founded at all. Although there are some negative issues associated with immigration and many native-born Americans believe to be more of a problem than a solution, overall it actually has a positive effect. Immigrants in America, among other things, fill jobs where native-born Americans may not want to work or cannot work, they contribute to Social Services and Medicaid through taxes and they help provide the backbone of America, especially by working jobs that natives may have not even considered.
According to the textbook who was to blame for the Boston Massacre, several Boston resident were shot and killed by British Soldiers on the night of March 5, 1770, in what became known as Boston Massacre.
The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5, 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments, the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The soldiers and the captain, Thomas Preston, were all put on trial. All were acquitted of charges of murder, however the two soldiers who fired first, Private Mathew Killroy, and Private William Montgomery, the two soldiers were guilty of manslaughter. The causes were numerous for this event. There had been a nation wide long-term dislike towards the British, and a growing hatred towards them by the people of Boston. Even before the two regiments were sent in to monitor Boston there was a growing feud before the two sides.
Since its conception in the early 1600's, Boston, the so-called 'City on a Hill,' has opened its doors to all people of all ethnic and religious background. At times there were many who fought to prevent the immigrants, while other people, at the same time, helped those who made it to the Americas, more specifically, Boston to make a new life for themselves. The immigrants from Ireland were not unfamiliar with this trend in American history. More often than not, the Irish immigrants were met with adversity from the 'native' Bostonians.
In the United States, the cliché of a nation of immigrants is often invoked. Indeed, very few Americans can trace their ancestry to what is now the United States, and the origins of its immigrants have changed many times in American history. Despite the identity of an immigrant nation, changes in the origins of immigrants have often been met with resistance. What began with white, western European settlers fleeing religious persecution morphed into a multicultural nation as immigrants from countries across the globe came to the U.S. in increasing numbers. Like the colonial immigrants before them, these new immigrants sailed to the Americas to gain freedom, flee poverty and famine, and make a better life for themselves. Forgetting their origins as persecuted and excluded people, the older and more established immigrants became possessive about their country and tried to exclude and persecute the immigrant groups from non-western European backgrounds arriving in the U.S. This hostile, defensive, and xenophobic reaction to influxes of “new” immigrants known as Nativism was not far out of the mainstream. Nativism became a part of the American cultural and political landscape and helped to shape, through exclusion, the face of the United States for years to come.
The United States has often been referred to as a global “melting pot” due to its assimilation of diverse cultures, nationalities, and ethnicities. In today’s society, this metaphor may be an understatement. Between 1990 and 2010, the number of foreign born United States residents nearly doubled from 20 million to 40 million, increasing the U.S. population from almost 250 million to 350 million people. With U.S. born children and grandchildren of immigrants, immigration contributed to half of this population growth. These immigrants, consisting of mostly Asian and Hispanic backgrounds, have drastically changed the composition of the U.S. population. In 2010, Asians and Hispanics made up 20 percent of the U.S. population, in contrast to a 6 percent share of Asians and Hispanics in 1970. It is predicted that by 2050, the share of immigrants in the United States will increase to one half of the entire population. With this rapid increase in diversity, many citizens have opposing views on its impact on the United States. In my opinion, an increase in immigration does contain both positive and negatives effects, but in general it provides an overriding positive influence on America’s society (“Population”).
Immigration has always and will always be an essential part of America’s demographic and cultural diversity. Our country was founded on the immigration of Europeans to the New World; without them our nation would not be as advanced as it is today. Over the past three centuries, America’s immigration policies have evolved, both positively and negatively. Although we are moving forward, several episodes in our country’s immigration policy have targeted and attacked certain ethnic or cultural groups. Throughout America there is disparity regarding attitudes toward immigrants. Policies fluctuate throughout the entire country, different states, and even major cities. As the United States moves forth, it is vital that we remember how crucial immigrants
In many ways, today’s Los Angeles can credit Anglo immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s as the driving force behind their communal roots. Their imagined reality of a rural city, the process of creating, leaving and fighting for their neighborhood, have left traces in the city. These traces can be seen in the fragmented infrastructure of Los Angeles. They can be seen in the callous, sometimes violent, social interaction within the community. Yet as youth and minority groups continue to socially interact in increased acceptance, Los Angeles will begin to lose some of its fragmented feel. Each generation will continue to unite Los Angeles through shared social interaction and experiences.