Towards the end of the 1960’s the draw of the suburbs was beginning to gut the middle of most American cities. As the 1970’s wore on a plethora of reasons such as crime, job losses, and racism made them all the more attractive. Cities appeared to be dying. Then a strange thing happened, in the mid-1990’s crime began to drop rapidly and people began moving back to cities. Today cities like New York that were on the brink of collapse are thriving. Even stranger, because of the recession post 2000 poverty had moved out from the city and into suburbs. There are many reasons for this shift, yet long neglected has been the role of immigration in revitalizing these cities. It’s a difficult argument to make considering that most of the data available
