How does a place like Little Italy or Little Havana become part of a major city?

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How does a place like Little Italy or Little Havana become part of a major city?

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A major city attracts migrants, and migrants often prefer (or are sometimes forced) to settle near others who share their background.

So you end up with a street in the city with a few Italian families living on it, and one of them lives above the restaurant they run, and this attracts other Italian migrants to move in nearby and open more restaurants to give everyone a taste of home
and they maybe have a street party celebrating their shared heritage, and decorate their buildings in traditional Italian styles and before you know it people are calling it Little Italy.