1. Latin Power Tracker: David Hayes-Bautista teams with California Lutheran University to tell an economic success story 

 This article from the San Fernando Valley Business Journal talks about a founder of the Latino Gross Domestic Product Project. David Hayes Bautista spoke about Latino Businesses and how they’ve grown more than non-Latino businesses over the years. He briefly talks about the immigrant families and their first-generation children graduating and going to school. Because their children are entering higher levels of the “human capital”, that makes them highly educated. The immigrant children will grow up and become consumers of other Latino businesses, or maybe manage their own business. Bautista explains how these businesses thrive as well. Although the article is short, it has statistics that I can use in my research.  

• http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=https://bi-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/global/article/GALE%7CA578046244?u=cuny_ccny 

2. Somali’s in the Twin Cities and Colombus  

 This excerpt written by Stefanie Chambers talks about the story of a Somalian family. The example of their life in America. Briefly talking about the state of Minneapolis and how some opportunities are opened for them in this state. For example, one line says “even some Republican candidates have made direct appeals for the Somali vote. Moreover, the ward-based electoral system has opened doors for Somali elected officials”. In the chapter Chambers also includes a city in Minneapolis called the “Twin Cities”. The Twin Cities is a Somali Refugee population that started off with people arriving in Colombus from the early to mid 1990’s.  

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dnx.5 

3.Towards a population policy: Myths and Misconceptions concerning the Demographic Effects of Immigration 

 This journal article by Christabel Young summarizes some misconceptions that are related to immigration. It focuses specifically on the migration that occurs in Australia but can still be related to what happens in the USA. It mentions many misconceptions such as populations shrinking, making said population younger, and how the migrants contribute to the labor force. Young goes on to state these myths and debunk them with facts and statistics, proving other wrong. Proving that migration is not useless. It seems that the issue with a growing population is the most talked about over there, and this journal article investigates that issue. 

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/20635479 

4.Immigration & Language Diversity in the United States 

 This journal article goes in depth with how diverse immigration has shaped the United States. With people from all over arriving here and making a living for themselves from scratch, its analysis on how different languages came to exist in America, as well as how some are no longer in use, the authors Ruben G. Rumbaut and Douglas Massey state statistics on what languages are more known in America and which ones aren’t. Both authors look at how languages in the United States have evolved and how successful these populations have turned into. Finally, the languages the article mentions first are German, Yiddish, and Polish, but later it talks about Spanish became the most spoken language other than English in the USA.  

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/43297256 

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