Immigrants are NOT distributed uniformly through the united states. More than one half of our immigrants are clustered in just four states.
-California
-New York
-Florida
-Texas
Originally the coastal states were the main entry points (by boat), but today nearly all arrive by motor vehicle or airplane.
FUN FACT: California and Texas are the two most popular entry states. California attracts one third of illegal immigrants (most from mexico).
Proximity usually determines where they are going, for example Mexicans prefer California or Texas. Though this is not always true. (Mexicans to Canada, or New York) Immigrants tend to cluster in communities where people from the same country have previously been settled. This term is known as Chain Migration. Other factors that determine where they migrate to are job prospects. Ex: South and West, because they have more jobs. The jobs they seek are usually the ones Americans shun. Ex: meat packaging, and related food processing.
World-Wide Migration http://www.unfpa.org/pds/migration.html
There are three main patterns of migration world wide:
Asia ----> Europe
Asia ----> North America
Latin America ----> North America
The main pattern for these migrations was that they were moving from LDC's to MDC's. They moved because of low payment, and high NIR.
The United States alone accounts for 30 Million immigrants. 1/4 from Asia, 1/4 from Europe, and 1/2 from Latin America. We have the largest number of people that immigrate into our country, but compared to the number of people, immigrants only make up 10% of our population.
U.S migration patterns http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/migration.html
We have 3 eras of migration
1st: The initial settlement of the colonies (from Europe and Africa)
2nd: Mid 19th century early 20th century (Mostly Europe)
3rd: Present Day (Asia and Latin America)
There were three surges of immigration:
1840's to 1850's
1860's to 1270's
1907
Recent Immigration from LDC's
Immigration dropped in the 1930's due to the great depression, 50000 would immigrate, but the number emigrating far exceeded the arrivals. Asia was the leading source of immigrants from the 17oo's to the 1800's. In 1991, the U.S. admitted more immigrants (1.8 mil) had come in.
Undocumented Immigration to the U.S.
This means that an immigrant has entered illegally, without documentation. The BCIS (Bureau of Citezenship and immigration services) estimated that anywhere from 7 to 20 million have entered illegally. 5 million from Mexico, and 100,000 from El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, China, and Ecuador. The number that enter illegally grows 350,ooo a year.
1/2 enter as tourist or students
1/2 slip in
Most buy forged documents, because new laws have made it hard for immigrants to get jobs without proper documentation.
Crossing the border though is the easy part.
It is 2000 miles long
The fence is broken
Getting to the border is harder than crossing it
It is only guarded in urban areas.
-California
-New York
-Florida
-Texas
Originally the coastal states were the main entry points (by boat), but today nearly all arrive by motor vehicle or airplane.
FUN FACT: California and Texas are the two most popular entry states. California attracts one third of illegal immigrants (most from mexico).
Proximity usually determines where they are going, for example Mexicans prefer California or Texas. Though this is not always true. (Mexicans to Canada, or New York) Immigrants tend to cluster in communities where people from the same country have previously been settled. This term is known as Chain Migration. Other factors that determine where they migrate to are job prospects. Ex: South and West, because they have more jobs. The jobs they seek are usually the ones Americans shun. Ex: meat packaging, and related food processing.
World-Wide Migration http://www.unfpa.org/pds/migration.html
There are three main patterns of migration world wide:
Asia ----> Europe
Asia ----> North America
Latin America ----> North America
The main pattern for these migrations was that they were moving from LDC's to MDC's. They moved because of low payment, and high NIR.
The United States alone accounts for 30 Million immigrants. 1/4 from Asia, 1/4 from Europe, and 1/2 from Latin America. We have the largest number of people that immigrate into our country, but compared to the number of people, immigrants only make up 10% of our population.
U.S migration patterns http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/migration.html
We have 3 eras of migration
1st: The initial settlement of the colonies (from Europe and Africa)
2nd: Mid 19th century early 20th century (Mostly Europe)
3rd: Present Day (Asia and Latin America)
There were three surges of immigration:
1840's to 1850's
1860's to 1270's
1907
Recent Immigration from LDC's
Immigration dropped in the 1930's due to the great depression, 50000 would immigrate, but the number emigrating far exceeded the arrivals. Asia was the leading source of immigrants from the 17oo's to the 1800's. In 1991, the U.S. admitted more immigrants (1.8 mil) had come in.
Undocumented Immigration to the U.S.
This means that an immigrant has entered illegally, without documentation. The BCIS (Bureau of Citezenship and immigration services) estimated that anywhere from 7 to 20 million have entered illegally. 5 million from Mexico, and 100,000 from El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, China, and Ecuador. The number that enter illegally grows 350,ooo a year.
1/2 enter as tourist or students
1/2 slip in
Most buy forged documents, because new laws have made it hard for immigrants to get jobs without proper documentation.
Crossing the border though is the easy part.
It is 2000 miles long
The fence is broken
Getting to the border is harder than crossing it
It is only guarded in urban areas.