The Linkage between Immigration and Internal Migration in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United StatesFootnote

* Versions of this paper were presented at the Population Association of America meetings, San Francisco, April 1995 and the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, N.C., April 1996. Grants from the National Science Foundation (SBR-9310647) and the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College supported the research. Thanks go to the editors and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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