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A senior tenant in Chinatown at a street exhibition of gentrification in the neighborhood held by grassroots organizations in 2005

With a Shrinking Immigrant Population, Manhattan’s Chinatown Ponders Future

Manhattan’s Chinatown lost population over the past decade. New Census...
A record number of Latino voters voted in the midterm elections

More Than 6.6 Million Latinos Voted in the 2010 Elections

Latinos represented 6.9 percent of all voters, a record for a midterm election. But...
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Proposed GOP Budget Cuts to Hit Hispanics Hard

Proposed cuts to Head Start, college aid and food assistance programs would impact...
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Immigration News Roundup From Georgia and Texas

Texas excludes low income Latinos from census. Undocumented youth arrested for...
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Asian Immigrants In Queens Prepare For Redistricting Battle

At a redistricting forum in Queens, community leaders gathered to discuss how new...
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Puerto Rico Lost Population in Last Decade

Puerto Rico lost 82,821 people in the last ten years–did they go to New York,...
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Hispanic Voting Population Still Behind, But Catching Up

Less than fifty percent of Hispanics living in the U.S. are eligible to vote at this...
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A Polish Paper Fights To Survive Amid Reverse Migration

In the second article in FI2W’s series on New York’s ethnic newspapers,...
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Survival Strategy: Newspaper Serving Haitian Immigrants Embraces Old and New Media

The first in a series of articles exploring how New York City newspapers that serve...
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Immigrant Parenting: Tiger Moms, Mouse Mothers and Earning Your Child’s Respect

While Amy Chua’s recent essay has created a new image of Chinese parenting,...