Immigration, Health, and New York City: Early Results Based on the U.S. New Immigrant Cohort of 2003

[...]Immigrants settle in one point within the vast U.S.geography. Classically, there are four great reception areas:the two coasts, Chicago, and the southern border. New YorkCity was the gateway for the great migrations of the turn ofthe twentieth century, and it remains a major destination fornew immigrants.3 Repeatedly, the city has been shaped andreshaped by the distinctive characteristics of successive waves of new immigrants; new immigrants, in turn, like theirnative-born counterparts who arrive from Seattle and IowaCity and Laredo, have found in New York City both havenand spur.[...]