The number of rural English learner (EL) students and families has increased over the past
decade, due in part to US immigration and economic policies. Educators in rural schools …

Can immigration save rural and small town America? Our goal is to highlight the new racial
dynamics of population change in nonmetropolitan areas, where slowing population growth …

Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often
encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues …

This full-color text offers a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding
students in the tools and techniques that are used to describe and understand population …

Contrary to sociological theories of group threat, which predict an intensification of negative
attitudes among the ethnic or racial native majority in areas where a growing presence of …

Third places–the physical places where people meet, gather, and interact outside of home
and work–have been linked to civic life and community well-being as well as individual-level …

This article examines changes in concentrated poverty in the rural United States between
2000 and 2012. Using data from the decennial census and American Community Survey …

The number and size of “new immigrant destinations”(NIDs) in the United States grew
quickly over the 1990s and 2000s, but Latino newcomers residing in them witnessed a …

Tertiary to home and work,“third places” serve as opportunity structures that transmit
information and facilitate social capital and upward mobility. However, third places may be …

In recent decades, the racial wealth gap has widened with extant literature reporting that
Black and Latinx families hold fewer assets than white families. One such asset that receives …