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Posted: Tue 13 Sep 2005 14:17 Post subject: Immigration to Latin America
Where can I find immigration from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean to Latin America? Say for example, I wish to find information on Lebanese and Nigerian immigrants to Argentina or Mexico.
Joined: 04 May 2005 {Posts: 2021 } Location: santiago, chile
Posted: Wed 14 Sep 2005 02:13 Post subject: Re: Immigration to Latin America
gera2561 wrote:
Where can I find immigration from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean to Latin America? Say for example, I wish to find information on Lebanese and Nigerian immigrants to Argentina or Mexico.
Hi,
Uf!
Finding this information took me a lot of time. It is not in the web but in a Hispanic Almanac published in Miami, called "Almanaque Mundial" of the year 1992. This was published in a special number for the celebration of the five hundred years since the "discovery" of the Americas by columbus.
Here I got the numbers of peoples of the different origins that populated the Americas. Be careful though. The rate of survival was different according to race. It is very well known that both Natives and Africans suffered a genocide in the America and their average lives were very short.
NATIVE AMERICA POPULATION AT TIMES OF CONTACT:
HISPANIC AMERICA:
Argentina............................. 300.000
Colombia............................. 800.000
Colombia.............................. 850.000
Cuba...................................... 80.000
Chile.................................... 600.000
Ecuador................................. 500.000
Mexico................................ 4.500.000
Paraguay............................. 280.000
Peru................................... 2.000.000
Puerto Rico...............................50.000
Dominican Republic and Haiti... 100.000
Uruguay.....................................5.000
Venezuela.............................. 350.000
Central America...................... 800.000
TOTAL 11.216.000 (if does not add, my fault)
Outside hispanic America:
Brasil ...................................1.000.000
Guayanas ............................... 100.000
North America ...................... 1.000.000
Jamaica.....................................40.000
Antillas and Bahamas .................30.000
TOTAL 2.170.000
TOTAL NATIVES AMERICANS 13.386.000
AFRICANS (1500-1850)
United States .......................... 500.000 (* this figure seems wrong)
Mexico ................................... 500.000
Caribbean .............................4.000.000
Northern South Am..erica ........... 75.000
Brazil ................................... 3.500.000
Argentina-Uruguay.....................250.000
TOTAL AFRICANS 9.500.000
EUROPEANS
(1500-1975)
Canada ................................ 4.000.000
Estados Unidos ......................42.000.000
Brazil .....................................5.000.000
Argentina................................6.000.000
Other hispanic countries ..........8.000.000
TOTAL ................................ 65.000.000
TOTAL in LATIN AMERICA ...... 19.000.000 (30 % of European migration)
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Notice that the largest populations of Native were (and still are) in Hispanic America. That the Black populations are concentrated in the Caribbean. And that Europeans are present in the all the hemisphere evenly, with a largest presence in both the North and Southern parts of the hemisphere.
I got more detailed information but at the level of single countries.
Joined: 31 May 2005 {Posts: 66 } Location: South Carolina
Posted: Wed 14 Sep 2005 03:37 Post subject:
are they immigrants or latin american born africans, natives, and europeans? i mean are there any recent immigration figures. thanks for what you have given me however. thank you for answering all my questions.
Joined: 04 May 2005 {Posts: 2021 } Location: santiago, chile
Posted: Wed 14 Sep 2005 13:08 Post subject: Immigrations
gera2561 wrote:
are they immigrants or latin american born africans, natives, and europeans? i mean are there any recent immigration figures. thanks for what you have given me however. thank you for answering all my questions.
Hi,
After the 50' immigration to Latin America declined sharply. Europeans used to come in large numbers to the region, specially from Spain and Italy, and they make the main proportion of immigrants. There were times, in Argentina specially, when half the population was immigrant.
Today, although immigration is a lot smaller, the most common immigration movements are between neighbouring countries. There is also an important number of East Asians comming to Latin America, because of the restaurant industry for example. There are still some Europeans and Americans comming because of turism and other industries. The rest of foreigners is very small and almost nill.
North America, Europe and even Asia are a lot more attractive for immigrants than Latin America at the present time. Besides, Latin America does not encourage immigration at all ,and it does not have any means to support them economicaly. Immigrants have to have the money to migrate and survive in here.
As a matter of fact, these days more people get out of Latin America that comes in.
That may change one again in the future. There are signs that the population explosion is declining and that countries are getting richer in the region. In the future who knows.
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