CIAO DATE: 03/04

Metropolitan Magnets for International and Domestic Migrants

William Frey

October 2003

Brookings Institution

 

Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of people move to the U.S. each year seeking a better life. Millions of Americans move to new locations withing the U.S. each year for the same reason. The respective destinations of these two groups - immigrants and domestic migrants - shape the physical landscape, public services needs, business patterns, and political culture of our nations's metropolitan trends. For those reasons, international and domestic migration trends in the late 1990s, and how they shaped metropolitan growth dynamics, represent some of the most eagerly anticipated findings from U.S. Census 2000.

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