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About Immigration in Michigan

During the early years of the twentieth century many European immigrants arrived in Michigan. The most numerous were Poles, who replaced the Irish and Germans as the most prominent foreign-born group in Detroit. Other ethnic groupsItalians, Scandinavians, Hungarians, Russians, Greeksalso settled in the states industrial centers. In 1930 some parts of Detroit had a foreign-born population that reached as high as 60 percent. As the century continued, peoples from the Middle East migrated to Michigan. In 1919 the first Muslim mosque in the country was built in Highland Park. By the early 1970s Detroit had the largest Arabic-speaking community in North America.

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