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After immigrating to Australia from the Basque Country, a region that straddles the border between France and Spain, the working-class house painter took roughly 13 years to build the family’s home.

Sir Lenny Henry was born In Birmingham to Jamaican parents who had immigrated to the UK.

“It creates a void,” said Santos, who grew up in Salinas after immigrating to the area with her family from Mexico.

“Almost every shoemaker I met had immigrated to the country,” he said.

For decades, these newly immigrated workers would be segregated into the neighborhoods surrounding the smokestack, he added, leading to the growth of a large multigenerational Mexican community.