Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_19 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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NEIGHBORS NUEVOS: BY ANN GREEN
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l—as ast fall, Juan Munoz would toil from sunup to sundown on golf courses in Brunswick County. When he finished mowing the grass or blowing off debris on the Crow Creek golf course in Calabash, he would drive to a second job at a nearby golf course. "From March to November, I worked 70 to 75 hours a week," he says, describing a long week that is typical for the Hispanic workforce in Brunswick County. "We can't pay overtime," says Joe Jamison, manager of Crow Creek Golf Club. "So our workers go to other companies after working here to get in an extra 20 hours or so. Mexicans are here to work and go back home with the money. They are good workers and appreciate having a job." About 80 percent of the golf course maintenance crews along the North Carolina coast are Hispanic, Jamison estimates. The immigrants on the golf course and in other industries represent a new workforce for North Carolina's coastal counties. They also are central to land- and water-use patterns and utilization of health and educational faculties, social scientists explain. To help communities adapt to working with immigrants, North Carolina Sea Grant researchers David Griffith and Jeff Johnson have conducted a study comparing the immigrants' use of resources with citizens and retirees who migrate from other states, as well as native North Carolinians. Most of the immigrants are of Hispanic origin. A few are Vietnamese who work in the fishing industry. "We found that retirees use coastal resources, including fishing," says Griffith, an East Carolina University anthropologist. Traditionally, foreign-bom immigrants had not used many community resources. "During the 1980s, most of the immigrants were single males who worked a lot and didn't have much extra time. By the mid-1990s, more families began moving into North Carolina," Griffith explains. Expanding Hispanic Population Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment of the immigrant population in North Carolina. North Carolina's Hispanic population totaled more than 600,000, or 7 percent of the state's total population in 2004, according to a 2006 study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. They found that Hispanic immigrants contributed more than $9 billion to the state's economy in 2004 and cost the state budget a net $102 per Hispanic resident. "Immigrants from Latin America, authorized and unauthorized, are dramatically changing North Carolina's demographic and economic landscape," the report says. "Hispanics live in every one of the state's 100 counties and contribute to all sectors of the economy." Continued Coastwatch I Holiday 2006 I www.ncseagrant.org 13

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