Series Sunday: Guyanese immigration has changed face of Schenectady | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – The ethnic makeup of cities is always evolving.
Across the northern United States, cities have changed over the last 200 years, as successive waves of the Irish, Italian and eastern Europeans arrived. In the mid-20th century, millions of southern Black people moved to northern cities, seeking new opportunities. Schenectady knows all those trends.
But Schenectady is unusual in having made an intentional effort to attract a newer ethnic group immigrants from Guyana and their Guyanese-American descendants, many of whom came to the U.S. following the South American nation’s gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1966.