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Wave of Immigrants Revitalizing Baltimore

By AAN Staff
august 30, 2002  04:27 pm
Wave of Immigrants Revitalizing Baltimore
A new wave of refugees in Baltimore could revitalize its struggling neighborhoods, Nicole Leistikow writes in Baltimore City Paper. Leistikow, who has volunteered for the International Rescue Committee, says an afternoon on a Baltimore street corner can show a "woman in flowing robes carrying groceries on her head; friends stopping on the sidewalk to chat in African-accented French; too-cool European teenagers trying to win an argument with their parents in Serbo-Croatian." Scenes like this are becoming familiar not only in major American cities. Even smaller towns are trying to attract immigrant energy.
View full article at Baltimore City Paper