ABSTRACT
Latino is a term that lumps together people that come from different backgrounds from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries-the Western Hemisphere. This point is more important to Latinos in the United States due to the fact that immigrants from Spanish speaking countries have unique immigration experiences. Indeed, Latinos place a large emphasis on national origin as a basis for their identity and reject fixed categories of race the U.S. Census (Rodriguez 1991, Duany 2002). To approach the subject of residential segregation from a Latino point of view, researchers should consider ethnicity or country of origin.
