Arkansas's Immigrant History

Arkansas’s immigrant population as always been relatively small but foreign-born immigrants contributions to the development of Arkansas’s economy is significant. Immigrants who settled in Arkansas include Germans, Italians, Poles, Bohemians, Chinese, Marshallese, Indochinese, Greeks, Latinos, Jews, and South Asians.

Please note that because of time and space limitations, this project is representative of the story of immigration into Arkansas but is not a comprehensive description of all immigrant communities.