Abstract
There is consensus in the literature on the benefits that immigrants can bring to communities. However, less research has investigated how immigration shapes a region's resilience. This study primarily adopts the resilience capacity approach to examine the relationship between immigration and a set of resilience capacities covering the economic, socio-demographic, and community connectivity aspects of 359 regions from 1980 to 2010. It also examines resilience performance related to resistance and recoverability of employment and per capita income in a region. Fixed effects models with MSA and year fixed effects are estimated to mitigate bias generated from unobserved but fixed regional characteristics. Results show that a higher share of immigrants in a region is associated with higher scores on key economic, social, and community resilience indicators. Additionally, immigration contributes to the overall resilience capacity of a region, which encompasses the three previously specified aspects. Finally, resilience capacity and immigration are associated with the resistance and recoverability and the decade-long growth of the regions. The findings highlight the potential benefits that immigrants can bring to regional resilience.
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