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Undocumented Immigrants in Utah as Observed in the Utah Population Database: Demographics, Residence, and Geographic Mobility

2008; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.1112925

1556-5068

Thomas Maloney, Thomas Kontuly, Brad Hanks,

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Using a data source that allows us to directly observe the undocumented and to track them over time, we examine the change over time in the neighborhood conditions of the undocumented in Salt Lake County. While our results should be treated as preliminary, they suggest that the undocumented have gained ground on legal immigrants and natives in terms of neighborhood characteristics between 1999 and 2007. These gains appear somewhat greater in the cross-section than in longitudinal data, which may indicate that improved conditions of initial settlement are driving some of these gains.