mogaphoto photographs 1997-2007

 

dorchester, october 2007/ STEVE MOGA
 
 
 
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While a century ago Boston's immigrants came from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Russia, today they come from Haiti,
Brazil, Mexico, Cape Verde, China, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and many other places around the world.
 
This small garden park, in the Fields Corner area of Dorchester, is part of the Chua Luc Hoa Buddhist Center. I went
 
there recently with an MIT class called Boston's Ethnic Neighborhoods. According to a 2000 report from the
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Boston Redevelopment Authority, more than 25% of Boston residents are foreign born. According to a 2005 article
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in the Dorchester Reporter, more than 11,000 Vietnamese now live in the area. Our MIT class to date has focused on
 
the historic development of one of Boston's most well-known "ethnic enclaves": Chinatown. This week we discussed
Italian immigration and the changing character of the North End. Throughout the semester we have been debating
the similarities and differences between the "old" and the "new" immigration.
 
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