{"id":34320,"date":"2023-09-22T06:13:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T06:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-new-latin-nation15-chapter-two-the-new-latin-nation-immigration-and-the-hispanic-population-of-the-united-states-alejandro-portes\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T06:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T06:13:44","slug":"the-new-latin-nation15-chapter-two-the-new-latin-nation-immigration-and-the-hispanic-population-of-the-united-states-alejandro-portes","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-new-latin-nation15-chapter-two-the-new-latin-nation-immigration-and-the-hispanic-population-of-the-united-states-alejandro-portes\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Latin Nation15 CHAPTER TWO The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States Alejandro Portes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As of 2000, the Hispanic population of the United States reached 35.3 million<\/span>
(excluding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico), representing 12.5 percent of the<\/span>
total. Hispanics grew in numbers by 57.9 percent in the last intercensal period,<\/span>
as compared with 13.2 percent for the national population.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Without its Hispanic component, the growth of the national<\/span>
population would have fallen into the single digits and a number of cities and<\/span>
states would have actually lost population. These facts are well known, as is the<\/span>
source of this rapid growth: sustained immigration.<\/span>
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The Latin immigrant population is having a profound influence on the cul-<\/span>
ture and the politics of the cities and regions where it concentrates. However,<\/span>
neither the culture nor the political orientations that these immigrants bring<\/span>
is incompatible with integration into American society.<\/span>
A Companion to Latina\/o Studies, edited by Juan Flores, and Renato Rosaldo, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2007. ProQuest Ebook<\/span>
Central, http:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/rutgers-ebooks\/detail.action?docID=320058.<\/span>
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While Latin immigrants and the Hispanic population in general remain concen-<\/span>
trated in the South and West, where three fourths of them still live, they have<\/span>
started to move out of their traditional areas of settlement to increase their<\/span>
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Although just two states, Texas and California, continue to concentrate half of<\/span>
the Hispanic population, it is clear that new clusters are being created continu-<\/span>
ously by two forces: the gradual expansion of Mexican labor migration eastward<\/span>
and the settlement of immigrants from Central and South America in new areas<\/span>
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Driven, in part, by the rigors of tighter border enforcement that<\/span>
has made more difficult the traditional cyclical migrant flow, Mexican laborers<\/span>
have become more settled and have trekked east attracted by new and better<\/span>
employment. New York, Florida, and the Carolinas have been principal targets<\/span>
of this eastward flow, which has turned Mexican labor migration into a national<\/span>
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At the same time, Central and South Americans which comprise just 8.6 per-<\/span>
cent of the Hispanic population, but are its fastest growing components, have<\/span>
spread around the country, targeting both traditional and new areas of settle-<\/span>
ment. There are, for example, large concentrations of Dominicans in Providence,<\/span>
Rhode Island and in Boston; of Colombians in New Jersey and Los Angeles;<\/span>
of Salvadorans in Washington, DC and in Los Angeles; and of Brazilians in<\/span>
Massachusetts (Guarnizo et al. 1999; Itzigsohn et al. 1999; Landolt 2000; Levitt<\/span>
1997). Such movements have also contributed to turn Hispanics into a truly<\/span>
national presence.<\/span>
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The most potent factor accounting for the surge in Latin American immigration,<\/span>
aside from the consolidation of social networks across national borders, has been<\/span>
the labor needs of the American economy. This huge economy, surpassing 10<\/span>
trillion dollars of GDP in 2000, generates a vast demand for foreign labor at both<\/span>
the high-end of professional and technical occupations and the low-end of low-<\/span>
paid manual jobs.<\/span>
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The overwhelming weight of Mexican immigration, its human capital char-<\/span>
acteristics and its continuation over time, reinforced now by large Central American<\/span>
contingents, have given the Hispanic population its dominant economic and<\/span>
occupational profile.<\/span>
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Hispanics will have<\/span>
to climb their way up over several generations. Even those groups with higher<\/span>
levels of human capital and entrepreneurial prowess cannot escape the dominant<\/span>
characterization of Hispanics, defined by continuing low-wage immigration.<\/span>
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Good comments of next Paragraphs: 1. Paragraph: As of 2000, the Hispanic population of the United States reached 35.3 million(excluding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico), representing 12.5 percent of thetotal. Hispanics grew in numbers by 57.9 percent in the last intercensal period,as compared with 13.2 percent for the national population. 2. Paragraph: Without its Hispanic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[902],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34320"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34320"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}