| Virginia Studies and Reports |
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2008
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The Latinization of the Central Shenandoah Valley
| “Virginia is among a number of southern states in the United States, such as North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, which have experienced a sudden growth in Latino immigration during the past decade...Drawing on social network theory, the paper examines how social networks among Latino immigrants become activated in new settlement areas. It presents a case history of the historic process of “Latinization” involving the settlement of a number of diverse Latino populations (from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba and Uruguay) in Harrisonburg and the surrounding Central Shenandoah Valley." |
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2008
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Hispanic Immigrants and Citizens in Virginia
| This study investigates both Hispanic immigrants and their citizen counterparts. It compares demographic and socio-economic characteristics of these two elements of the Hispanic population, and draws comparisons to Virginia’s population overall. |
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2008
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Virginia Fact Sheet on the Foreign Born
| The Migration Policy Institute provides migration facts, statistics and maps for Virginia in the topic areas of Language & Education, Demographic & Social, Workforce, and Income & Poverty. |
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2007
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From Workers to Owners: Latino Entrepreneurs in Harrisonburg, Virginia
| “In the vast literature on immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship in the United States, relatively little attention has been paid to Latino entrepreneurship, perhaps because Latinos (except Cubans) tend to be perceived as labor migrants. For the same reason, even less attention has been given to the Latino small businesses that have quickly become a ubiquitous part of new Latino settlements in the rural South over the past two decades..." |
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2007
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CLAS Act Virginia: Language Needs Assessments of Virginia's Health Districts
| 35 distinct health district language needs assessments have been created by the Virginia Department of Health's Office of Health Policy and Planning. Each of the needs assessments contain the top languages spoken in each health district, language trends over the past ten years and language access policy recommendations based on health district specific data and federal guidance on language access services. The data used to create the assessments include Department of Education ESL data, US Census 2000 data and Virginia Department of Health WebVision data. |
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2006
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Virginia -- Ability to Speak English by Language Spoken at Home for the Population 5 Years and Over: 2000
| Data table available from the U.S. Census Bureau, listing ability to speak English by language spoken at home for the population 5 years and over for the Commonwealth of Virginia. |
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2006
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Latino Needs Assessment: Health and Safety Needs of Latino Children and Families Living in Richmond, Virginia(English) | Latino Needs Assessment Final Executive Summary(Spanish)
| “VCU Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Develpopment Faculty member Rosalie Corona, Ph.D., recently completed a Latino Needs Assessment in the city of Richmond that will help health and human service providers better serve a growing Latino population. Corona worked with the city's Hispanic Liaison Office and the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority on the assessment, which will boost understanding of the health and safety concerns and service needs of Latino children and their families.” |
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2004
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Acclimation of Virginia’s Foreign-Born Population
| HJR 604 of the 2003 General Assembly directed the Joint Legislative Audit Review Commission (JLARC) to study the acclimation of the Commonwealth’s ethnically diverse population. The study report reviews government policies and programs, needs, benefits and costs, and options for facilitating acclimation. Related study documents, including a review of initiatives employed by other states and localities, spreadsheet of primary countries of origin, as well as maps displaying the distribution of foreign-born residents are also available.
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