Document Type

Report

Journal Title

Swedish American Genealogist

Volume Number

35

Issue Number

3

First Page

7

Version

Pre-print: the initial article submitted to the journal for consideration (prior to peer review)

Publication Date

2015

Disciplines

European History | Human Geography | International and Area Studies | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Scandinavian Studies

Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement

As a migration scholar, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to spend a week this summer conducting research in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center. During my three years at Augustana, my students and I have explored urban development and recent patterns of immigrant and refugee settlement in the Quad Cities. In places like the Floreciente neighborhood of Moline, located about a mile from Augustana’s campus on the west side of the city, the Mexican and Mexican American community is transforming a landscape that had already been influenced by a much earlier wave of migration from Sweden.

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