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Tables List of Tables, Maps, and Photographs 1. Country of Birth of Legal Immigrants to the United States, 1961 to 1989 24 2. Migration Data for Washington Area Respondents 38 3. Reasons Respondents Gave for Leaving Their Countries of Origin 41 4. Comparison of Demographic Data and Population Characteristics of Central American Countries 46 5. Secondary Migration: Respondents Who Lived in Interim Locations Before Arriving in Washington, D.C. 62 6. Sex of Respondents by Date of Migration to Washington 78 7. Reasons Respondents Gave for Choosing to Live in Washington , D.C. 79 8. Reasons Original Immigrants in Respondents' Families Chose to Live in Washington, D.C. 80 9. Current Employment Categories and Wages for Men 101 10. Current Employment Categories and Wages for Women 104 11. Employment Variables for Low-Earning and High-Earning Men in Both Samples 110 12. Regression Analysis of Factors Affecting Current Weekly Wages for Men 111 x List of Tables, Maps, and Photographs 13. Employment Variables for Low-Earning and High-Earning Women in Both Samples 114 14. Regression Analysis of Factors Affecting Current Weekly Wages for Women 115 15. Characteristics Associated with Men's Occupational Mobility in the Survey Sample 117 16. How Documents Were Obtained by Respondents 127 17. Construction Company Responses to IRCA Questions 140 18. Restaurant Employers' Responses to IRCA Questions 142 19. Cleaning-Company Responses to IRCA Questions 144 20. Impact of IRCA on Respondents in the Survey Sample 151 Maps 1. The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area 51 2. Washington's Neighborhoods 54 Photographs follow page 134 ...

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