Immigration to smaller urban and rural communities: Challenges and opportunities.

Abstract

Editors' Note: The classic studies of immigrants from the early 20th century tell a stereotypical story: Immigrants arrive and occupy low-cost neighborhoods in urban centers, then through hard work and gradual integration over generations, they move to the suburbs and become part of the urban middle class. But this is an incomplete picture because some immigrants also choose to settle in smaller urban and rural communities. Esses and Adegbembo discuss advantages of having immigrants move to smaller and rural communities, and also ways in which this trend can be encouraged through federal and local initiatives. But as Feddes and colleagues (Chapter 3) point out, receiving societies members are often not welcoming toward immigrants, and negative attitudes can be even stronger in smaller urban