Moving outside of North American immigration its funny how immigrant settlement patterns are pretty much the same around the globe. Ethnic communities are pretty universal.
I find the British expatriote communities in Spain pretty amusing. I found different website showing how Brits buy holiday homes around the Spanish coast hoping to escape the rain and discover the real Spain, but what happens all too often is that they end up buying in completely British communities like Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca surrounded by British expats, English supermarkets and Robin Hood pubs. There are estimates that over 500, 000 Brits own homes in Spain. They say that parts of the coast are so crammed with Brits that apart from the weather you could easily forget you were in a foreign country.
Despite their efforts to have some authentic cultural experience the urge to be near a common language, familiar food and playmates for the children drive them together creating mi nature Britains not unlike the ethnoburbs surrounding many Canadian cities.
Site on British expatriates in Spain:
http://www.britishexpat.com/Moving_to_Spain__Buying_Proper.151.0.html
http://www.worldofproperty.co.uk/search_form-629.htm
http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/costa_azahar_property_guide.htm
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