Evolving Infrastructures of Care: Nonprofit Ecosystems and Immigrant Neighborhoods

• In Event: Migration and Place

Abstract

Research has highlighted how immigrants are increasingly settling in places beyond traditional gateway cities ranging from rural “New Destinations” to suburban communities. However, less is known about how these places themselves evolve alongside these major demographic transitions. Building upon an extensive literature highlighting the central role nonprofit organizations play not only in the incorporation processes of various immigrant groups, but also in addressing critical gaps in the U.S. social safety net more broadly, this project seeks to ask how immigrant communities’ increasingly diverse spatial trajectories are associated with changes in the quality, quantity, and kinds of nonprofit organizations serving their neighborhoods. In particular, leveraging administrative records from the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) as well as census data, I will descriptively trace how shifting immigration flows across urban and suburban neighborhoods in major metropolitan areas coincide with transformations in these neighborhoods' nonprofit ecosystems.

Author

• Dylan Nguyen, Harvard University