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====Bolivian Americans==== | ====Bolivian Americans==== | ||
*Bolivians compose the third smallest Hispanic group in the United States, with a 2010 Census population of 99,210. | |||
*The highest concentration resides in the '''Washington Metropolitan Area'''', which accounts for 38% of the total Bolivian population in the US. Additional areas of concentration include the '''New York City borough of Queens, Miami-Dade County, and the cities of Los Angeles and Providence, Rhode Island.''' | |||
*Bolivian immigration into the United States occurred in '''two significant phases'''. | |||
:*The first phase occurred during and subsequent to the 1952 National Revolution (between 1952 and the latter 1960s). Most of these immigrants consisted of middle- to upper-middle income occupational professionals or political dissidents, and identify with Bolivia's White or Criollo (descendants from Europeans born in Bolivia) society. | |||
:*The second notable phase of Bolivian immigration (between 1980 and 1988) was a result of Bolivia's fiscal policies in the 1970s which gave way to the hyperinflation throughout most of the 1980s. Most of these immigrants consisted of lower-income Mestizo (European/Amerindian mix) and Indigenous Bolivians obtaining work posts as service and manual laborers. | |||
8Most of the Bolivian American population is of Quechua descent, with the majority of them hailing from the ''''Valle Alto region of Cochabamba, from towns like Tarata, Arbieto, Cliza, Punata, and Tolata, with most of them living in the DC area'''. | |||
*Bolivians have settled throughout the United States, mainly in '''Washington D.C., California and Maryland; there are also large groups of Bolivian immigrants in Texas, New York City, New Jersey, South Florida, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Chicago.''' The number of Bolivians in the U.S. in 2006 was estimated at 82,322. Most Bolivian immigrants are high school or college graduates.<ref>"Bolivian Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Americans, accessed 17 May 2021.</ref> | |||
====Bolivians in Brazil==== | ====Bolivians in Brazil==== | ||
*Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. | *Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. | ||