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Title: Chinese Immigrants in the United States

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: The United States is home to about 1.6 million Chinese immigrants (including those born in Hong Kong), making them the fourth-largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican, Filipino, and Indian immigrants. Although Chinese immigration to the United States dates back to the 19th century, the Chinese immigrant population grew rapidly during the 1990s and 2000s. Today there are almost as many native-born US citizens who claim Chinese ancestry as there are Chinese immigrants. Chinese immigrants are heavily concentrated in California and New York (for more information on immigrants by state, please see the ACS/Census Data tool on the MPI Data Hub). Compared to other immigrant groups, the Chinese foreign born are better educated and less likely to live in poverty than the immigrant population overall, but Chinese immigrant men are less likely to participate in the labor force than . . .

Url: http://www.bollettinoadapt.it/old/files/document/7034MPI_IMMIGRAZIONE.pdf

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Authors: Terrazas, Aaron; Batalova, Jeanne

Publisher: Migration Policy Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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