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| The Immigrant Landing Station at Boston circa 1904 Steamship lines served the United States exceptional inducements to bring through immigrant passengers to places, such as Boston. These inducements were: a shorter ocean voyage; an inland rate of $1.00 to the West; and free piers in Boston with spacious quarters for handling immigrants.  Boston Immigrant Landing Station Recently arrived immigrants entering the United States through the Port of Boston (1904) Currently... Boston has grown by 2.6% over the 1990s because of immigrants. As of the 2000 US Census, more than half the population of the City of Boston consisted of African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Latinos. Boston’s young people tend to be even more racially and culturally diverse than older residents. For example, as of the 2000 US Census, 75% of Boston’s residents between the ages of 14 and 17, the young adults of the next decade, were African Americans, Asian Americans, or Latinos.   More than one-quarter of Bostonians were foreign born, the highest rate since 1940. About 337,000 immigrants arrived in Massachusetts in the 1990s alone, accounting for 82% of the net growth in the labor force and making up 45% of the state’s blue-collar workforce, 27% of service employees, 14% of professionals and 10% of managers and executives, according to a study by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. |
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