Obscure and less well known immigrant enclaves in the US

[Yuri]

São Paulo is the classical immigrant city, tons of Italians, Portuguese, Japanese, Spaniards, Lebanese, Jewish, Germans, Armenians but few people come from those places today.

Today, Koreans, Chinese, Bolivians, Haitians, Western Africans all form big enclaves in several parts of the city and Brazilians outside São Paulo are unaware of them.

[Urbanguy]

Originally Posted by BG918

Some decent enclaves that I know of personally:
Boise: Basque
Denver: Ethiopian
Tulsa: Burmese
OKC: Vietnamese
Hurst TX: Tongan (largest population of Tongans outside of Tonga)

^That's actually not true about the Tongan population being the largest outside of Tonga -- that title goes to Auckland which has the most then it's places like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, LA & Honolulu.

[Manitopiaaa]

Marshallese are also huge in Springdale, Arkansas:

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[JManc]

Originally Posted by proghousehead

I hear there are lots of Italians in Staten Island. Can anyone verify whether this is accurate?

Guido Island

[dave8721]

Tampa has a Croatian community from war refugees from the 90s.

[PHX31]

Phoenix - Lost Boys of Sudan.

https://www.lostboyscenter.org/our-story/

[Shwayze1994]

There’s the second largest population of Bosnians in St Louis. Came here during the 90’s.

[Chef]

The most well known immigrant communities in the Twin Cities are the Hmong and Somali. People don't know that there is a fairly significant Ecuadorian community here too. They don't show up in census numbers because a lot of them don't have papers so they don't fill out the census but Ecuadorians are probably 50% of the back of the house restaurant workers in Minneapolis. There is also a decently sized Ethiopian refugee community here that is often mistaken for Somali because a lot of them are Oromo Muslims.

[craigs]

Yesterday I was perusing the LA Times' best restaurants in LA feature and discovered that LA has a "Little Ethiopia" and that nearby Long Beach has the nation's largest Cambodian community.

[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by craigs

Yesterday I was perusing the LA Times' best restaurants in LA feature and discovered that LA has a "Little Ethiopia" and that nearby Long Beach has the nation's largest Cambodian community.

Yeah Long Beach is full of Cambodians, as is Lowell Mass.

[hauntedheadnc]

Greenville is a city that flies under most radar, but it looks and feels like a tiny chunk of Atlanta on the ground. Atlanta is known as an international city, and Greenville feels like one as well. According to what I was able to find, here are the top ten countries that have contributed residents to the Greenville metro area:

Mexico -- 12,590
Colombia -- 4,860
India -- 3,981
Honduras -- 3,305
Guatemala -- 2,493
China -- 2,427
Canada -- 2,227
Germany -- 1,936
United Kingdom -- 1,932
Vietnam -- 1,782

Other countries contributing more than a thousand residents would be El Salvador and The Philippines, with South Korea getting an honorable mention for contributing 938 residents to the area.

[sopas ej]

Originally Posted by craigs

Yesterday I was perusing the LA Times' best restaurants in LA feature and discovered that LA has a "Little Ethiopia" and that nearby Long Beach has the nation's largest Cambodian community.

Oh wow, I'm surprised you haven't at least been to Little Ethiopia already, it's right on Fairfax. Hehe back in the 90s that's where I had my first introduction to Ethiopian food, and that delightful drink called tej, which is a honey wine, kind of like mead. It's really cute when they serve it in a traditional tej vessel, I think it's called a berele.

You can get excellent Cambodian food in Long Beach too.

Sorry, I love to eat!

[BG918]

Originally Posted by Urbanguy

^That's actually not true about the Tongan population being the largest outside of Tonga -- that title goes to Auckland which has the most then it's places like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, LA & Honolulu.

I should have said one of the largest. And it's actually Euless, TX (though Hurst has a large population as well). It is documented in this Texas Monthly article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-en...se-from-tonga/

[PHX31]

Originally Posted by BG918

I should have said one of the largest. And it's actually Euless, TX (though Hurst has a large population as well). It is documented in this Texas Monthly article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-en...se-from-tonga/

One of my best friends from college was from Euless, TX and played high school football for Trinity (in the 90s). When Trinity was a powerhouse (still is??) in the early 00s while we were in college we talked about it and I remember he mentioned the Tongan population. So even 20 years ago it was significant.