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*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. | *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> | *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> | ||
===Guatemalan Immigration to Mexico=== | |||
*There has been a Guatemalan presence in Mexico since at least 1895, when the National Census counted 14,004 individuals, however this dropped to 5,820 in 1900. | |||
*Due to the devastating Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), many Guatemalans were allowed into Mexico as refugees. Some stayed only temporarily, but others settled down in the country. | |||
*Recently, many Guatemalans have been immigrating to Mexico rather than the United States. Most settle around Guatemala-Mexico border states to keep in touch with family, but many move to Mexico City where a large community already exists, and some settle around Baja California and US-Mexico border states because of Guatemalan American communities existing in American border cities, some with relatives in the United States. <ref>"Guatemalan Mexicans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Mexicans, accessed 6 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Guatemalan Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Guatemalan Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||