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For Immediate Release
March 23, 2007
Contact: Colleen Coffey
202-266-1910
ccoffey@migrationpolicy.org

MPI Data Hub Debuts Maps of Global Cities
with Hundreds of Thousands to More than a Million Immigrants

WASHINGTON -- A new Global City Migration Map Tool from the Migration Policy Institute spotlights the movement of international migrants to urban gateways around the world.

Journalists and researchers can generate four maps showing global metropolitan areas with:

• one million or more foreign-born residents and fact sheets on 18 global cities
• 500,000 or more foreign-born residents
• 100,000 or more foreign-born residents
• foreign-born residents accounting for 25+ percent of the city’s total population

The tool's fact sheets on global cities with a million or more foreign-born residents include the following U.S. cities:

• Chicago
• Dallas
• Houston
• Los Angeles
• Miami
• New York
• San Francisco
• Washington

Fact sheets on cities outside the United States include Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Singapore, and Toronto.

The tool leverages one-of-a-kind, city-level data provided by the Globalization, Urbanization and Migration (GUM) project, which hosts data on the foreign born in over 150 metropolitan areas of a million or more people in more than 50 countries.

MPI Data Hub Manager Jeanne Batalova said, “Two things are particularly striking to me about the cities with a million or more foreign-born residents:  First, almost half of these cities are in the United States.  Second, these cities vary incredibly in the diversity of origins of the immigrants -- or lack thereof in some cases.”

The Global City Migration Map Tool is available online.                        

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