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Last Updated on Monday, 17 March 2008 01:41 Written by rslcpol Monday, 17 March 2008 10:32
WASHINGTON – Immigrants from all corners of the world have moved into D.C.’s suburbs so quickly during the past two decades that one in five regional residents is now foreign-born, according to a book being released by the Brookings Institution today.The Washington metropolitan area is one of four “emerging gateways” chronicled in “Twenty-First Century Gateways,” which delves into the explosion of immigrants in suburban — rather than urban — communities.
Marie Price, chairwoman of George Washington University’s geography department and co-author of the 30-page chapter on the D.C. region, said that, like the other jurisdictions profiled, the region has only recently come into its own as a hub for foreigners.