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 *Luxembourgers arriving in the United States would not necessarily be registered as such by the authorities, but instead as Belgians or Germans.
 *Luxembourgish Americans are overwhelmingly concentrated in '''the Midwest''', where most originally settled in the nineteenth century. At the 2000 Census, the states with the largest self-reported Luxembourgian American populations were Illinois (6,963), Wisconsin (6,580), Minnesota (5,867), Iowa (5,624), and California (2,824).<ref>"Luxembourgian Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgian_Americans, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref>
-===Immigration===
-====Portuguese Immigrants====
-*In the 2001 census, there were 58,657 inhabitants with Portuguese nationality, up from negligibly few in 1960.
-*From 1875 onwards, Luxembourg's economy relied upon the immigration of cheap labour of mostly Italians to work in the country's steel mills and to counter the natural demographic decline of the native Luxembourgish population.
-*The mid-1960s saw the arrival of the first Portuguese guest workers (including Cape Verdeans, who also had Portuguese citizenship). At the time, Portugal was ruled as a nationalist authoritarian conservative regime, and an economic downturn coincided with the so-called 'Academic Crisis' and deteriorating conditions in Portugal's colonies to put further pressure on many young Portuguese people to emigrate.
-*The two countries signed a treaty in Lisbon in 1970 to allow family unification.<ref>"Portuguese Luxembourger", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Luxembourger, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref>
 == References  ==