Philip Dine, a Post-Dispatch reporter, columnist and editor from 1987 to 2008, examined the growing influx of immigrants and refugees to St. Louis in "An Invisible Population" in 1995. This year, he revisited the topic. His stories today and Monday look at the local situation in light of the poor economy, rising national controversy and evolving immigration flow to St. Louis.
Funding for this series came from the Enterprise Journalism Fund of the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis. Learn more at stlpressclub.org.
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