Title: Global Trade and Immigrant Gateways Often Overlap

This graphic is a map of the continental United States showing cities that are centers of global trade only, immigration only, or both. Five cities are centers of global trade only, 18 of immigration only, and 19 of both.

Sources: Beaverstock, Smith, and Taylor, Cities 16(6), 1999 p 445-458, as cited at Economy.com’s Economic Outlook Conference, November 4-5, 2004; and Audrey Singer, “The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways,” Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, February 2004.