Among the findings: Recent immigrants started 25 percent more businesses per capita than native-born citizens did last year.

By the second half of the 19th century, European immigrants started to come to the area, mainly from Italy.

Portuguese immigrants started the fleet 150 years ago and their descendants continue that work today.

The city centre, the 'zone of transition', was where the new immigrants often started their moral careers.

Poorer immigrants usually cannot start these kinds of restaurants, although they too are employed in them.

Thus those immigrants started to rebuild their lives in this area.

In the case of Brazil, the immigrants started arriving in huge numbers during the 1880s.

German immigrants started moving into the city in noticeable numbers starting in the late 1840s.

In the late 70's, though, Chinese and Korean immigrants started buying property.

German immigrants started to arrive in the early 1840s because of economic, social and political conditions in their states.