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===Guatemalan Immigration to the United States=== | |||
*Up until the 1960s, Guatemalan migration to the US was negligible. | |||
*The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Immigration Statistics notes the first trickles of migration in the 1940s and 50s, but migration truly began to increase through the 1970s and 80s. | |||
*By the 1990s, more than 100,000 migrants were coming into the US by means of green cards each decade and then that number slightly dipped in the early 2000s. | |||
*More recent data is harder to gauge, as majority of Guatemalan migration is predicted to be unauthorized. | |||
*The US Census data in 2000 marked 372,487 Guatemalans in the US and by 2010, the number had reached over 1 million, showing a 183% increase in Guatemalans in the US over the decade. This shows that even though legal migration may have slowed, migration as a whole from the country is on the rise. | |||
*Guatemalans have primarily settled in '''California, Florida and Texas'''. As of 2015, 29% of Guatemalans in the US lived in California while 8% respectively lived in Florida and Texas. | |||
*Within California, Guatemalans are concentrated in '''Los Angeles (20%)'''. Within these cities, ethnic enclaves and already-present communities help receive new migrants, connecting them with jobs and easing the transition, thus decreasing the linguistic and cultural costs of migration.<ref>"Guatemalan Immigration to the United States", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_immigration_to_the_United_States, accessed 6 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Guatemalan Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Guatemalan Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||