Stroll through the farmers’ market and you will hear a plethora of languages and see a rainbow of faces．Drive down Canyon Road and stop for halal meat or Filipino pork belly at adjacent markets．Along the highway，browse the aisles of a giant Asian supermarket stocking fresh napa cabbage and mizuna or fresh kimchi．Head toward downtown and you’ll see loncheras—taco trucks—on street corners and hear Spanish bandamusic．On the city’s northern edge，you can sample Indian chaat． Welcome to Beaverton，a Portland suburb that is home to Oregon’s fastest growing immigrant population．Once a rural community， Beaverton，population 87，000，is now the sixth largest city in Oregon—with immigration rates higher than those of Portland，Oregon’s largest city． Best known as the world headquarters for athletic shoe company Nike，Beaverton has changed dramatically over the past 40 years． Settled by immigrants from northern Europe in the 19th century，today it is a place where 80 languages from Albanian to Urdu are spoken in the public schools and about 30 percent of students speak a language besides English，according to English as a Second Language program director Wei Wei Lou． Beaverton’s wave of new residents began arriving in the 1960s， with Koreans and Tejanos （Texans of Mexican origin）, who were the first permanent Latinos．In 1960，Beaverton’s population of Latinos and Asians was less than 0.3 percent. By 2000, Beaverton had proportionately more Asian and Hispanic residents than the Portland metro area．Today， Asians comprise 10 percent and Hispanics 11 percent of Beaverton’s population． Mayor Denny Doyle says that many in Beaverton view the immigrants who are rapidly reshaping Beaverton as a source of enrichment．“Citizens here especially in the arts and culture community think it’s fantastic that we have all these different possibilities here，” he says． Gloria Vargas，50，a Salvadoran immigrant，owns a popular small restaurant，Gloria’s Secret Café，in downtown Beaverton．“I love Beaverton，” she says．“I feel like I belong here．”Her mother moved her to Los Angeles as a teenager in 1973，and she moved Oregon in 1979．She landed a coveted vendor spot in the Beaverton Farmers Market in 1999．Now in addition to running her restaurant，she has one of the most popular stalls there，selling up to 200 Salvadoran tamales—wrapped in banana leaves rather than corn husks—each Saturday．“Once they buy my food，they always come back for more，”she says． “It’s pretty relaxed here，”says Taj Suleyman，28，born and raised in Lebanon，and recently transplanted to Beaverton to start a job working with immigrants from many countries．Half Middle Eastern and half African，Suleyman says he was attracted to Beaverton specifically because of its diversity．He serves on a city－sponsored Diversity Task Force set up by Mayor Doyle． Mohammed Haque，originally from Bangladesh，finds Beaverton very welcoming. His daughter, he boasts，was even elected her high school’s homecoming queen. South Asians such as Haque have transformed Bethany, a neighborhood north of Beaverton. It is dense with immigrants from Gujarat, a state in India and primary source for the first wave of Beaverton’s South Asian immigrants． The first wave of South Asian immigrants to Beaverton，mostly Gujaratis from India，arrived in the 1960s and 1970s，when the motel and hotel industry was booming．Many bought small hotels and originally settled in Portland，and then relocated to Beaverton for better schools and bigger yards. The second wave of South Asians arrived during the high－tech boom of the 1980s，when the software industry, and Intel and Tektronix, really took off．