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Summer 2013, Vol. 142, No. 3, Pages 48-64
Posted Online July 8, 2013.
(doi:10.1162/DAED_a_00218)
© 2013 by Marta Tienda & Susana M. Sánchez
Latin American Immigration to the United States Marta TiendaMARTA TIENDA, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1993, is the Maurice P. During ′22 Professor in Demographic Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Director of the Latino Studies Program at Princeton University. Her publications include Hispanics and the Future of America (edited with Faith Mitchell, 2006), Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms (edited with Michael Rutter, 2005), and The Hispanic Population of the United States (coauthored with Frank D. Bean, 1987). Susana M. SánchezSUSANA M. SÁNCHEZ is a graduate student in the Sociology Department and the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the children of Mexican immigrants and health disparities by social class and ethnicity. This essay provides an overview of immigration from Latin America since 1960, focusing on changes in both the size and composition of the dominant streams and their cumulative impact on the U.S. foreign-born population. We briefly describe the deep historical roots of current migration streams and the policy backdrop against which migration from the region surged. Distinguishing among the three major pathways to U.S. residence – family sponsorship, asylum, and unauthorized entry – we explain how contemporary flows are related both to economic crises, political conflicts, and humanitarian incidents in sending countries, but especially to idiosyncratic application of existing laws over time. The concluding section highlights the importance of investing in the children of immigrants to meet the future labor needs of an aging nation.
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