If you walk down many of the streets of Windsor you're as likely to hear Chinese or Arabic as you are English or French. It's a city with a changing face.

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The last census tells part of the story. Of the slightly more than three hundred thousand people who live in the greater Windsor area, almost seventy thousand speak a language other than English or French.

And that census is almost five years old.

Since that last head count, the number of immigrants to the city has grown substantially with most of the immigrants coming from the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. The result is a city with the fourth most diverse population in Canada. That means the ratio of immigrants to population comes in fourth after Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton.

In the past ten years the highest number of immigrants making their home in Windsor has come from Iraq, China and India. The next three countries of origin are the United States, Lebanon and Romania.

What brings them to Windsor?

That's what CBC Windsor wanted to know. A team of reporters and producers from both television and radio set out to shine a light on an often ignored part of our community.

After weeks of research we honed the ideas into a series of news and feature stories that best reflect Windsor's diverse community.

By starting with the simple statisics of Windsor's population, we found themes emerging. We've called those themes The People, The Problems, The Fit and The Future.

The stories were broadcast on CBC Television's Canada Now and CBC Radio's Morningwatch program.