New Immigration and Urban Settlement Patterns. The Case of Texas

Sinossi. The 2000 census identified changes in immigrant settlement patterns and the emergence of new immigrant gateways during the 1990s; however, few immigration studies to date have studied the intra-urban or local residential mobility of immigrants in metropolitan areas or the forms of spatial assimilation taking place. This research examines the recent trends occurring in intra-urban mobility, immigration, and urban settlement patterns in Texas gateways, which have attracted an unprecedented number of Mexican immigrants since the 1970s.
Giovanni Pasta is a researcher of Geography at the Department of History of the University of Pisa (Italy). He is lecturer of Development Geography at the same Department.
He has been visiting researcher at the City University of New York and at Florida State University.
He has published extensively on regional and urban planning, ethnical issues and immigration flows in USA as well as about South Africa and Sri Lanka.