Changing Scenario of US Immigration and its Demographics

Changing Scenario of US Immigration and its Demographics

Changing Scenario of US Immigration and its Demographics

It is a well known fact that the United States is a Nation made up of Immigrants; almost every US citizen is the descendant of non-indigenous individual. The United States of today is a much more diverse place than it was a century ago. It can be said that the days of widespread immigration are not over and the cultural landscape of this country is still changing. Moreover, the origin of these newly minted Americans has changed over the years. It is revealed that in the mid-1800s, the largest contributors to US immigration were Western Europe, primarily Germany and the United Kingdom (which included Ireland at that time).

It is indicated that the number of first-generation immigrants living in the country has quadrupled since 1970, when there were approximately 9.6 million. Today, there are 36 million living and working in the US, with approximately 1 million having their citizenship application approved every year.

The largest single avenues of entry into this country are supposed to be from Latin America and Asia. China alone seems to send some 87,000 people to the US every year, while Mexico sends an impressive 174,000. Additionally, 75,000 come from the Philippines, while 61,000 originate in India. Most of these legal immigrants settle throughout the states such as California, New York, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Illinois.

According to the 1850 census, there were a total of 2.24 million non-native individuals residing in the US of which about 2.03 million came from Europe mainly Northern or Western Europe. Approximately 1.34 million people were British while about 970,000 of these were Irish. The second biggest immigrant group was found to be Germans, with about 583,000 people. Only 1,135 Americans were Asian and 13,317 Mexican-Americans.

If we look at the comparable numbers today, these numbers are especially interesting. According to the data gathered by the US Census Bureau in 2000, approximately 75.1% of the population is White/Caucasian of which an enormous 21.36% are of German descent and around 12.3% are Black/African Americans while approximately 3.6% of the population is Asian. The 2000 census population of 281 million is expected to grow to 397 million by 2050 - a number that would be approximately 328 million with only internal growth.

2010 USCIS Census data will give us an even more up-to-date scenario of America as a country.

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