Asians recently passed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the United States, according to a survey on Tuesday predicting a demographic trend bringing powerful economic, social and political changes.
The survey by the Pew Research Center found the ranking switch of two largest groups of newcomers to the United States started in 2009.
And it determined that the growing Asian population in the United States not only is large, but it is thriving.
"Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States," the study concluded.
The Pew centre said the change in immigration figures is largely due to declining immigration from Mexico – the source of more US immigrants than any other country – amid weakness in the US job market and a crackdown on illegal immigration. Full story...
Related posts:
The survey by the Pew Research Center found the ranking switch of two largest groups of newcomers to the United States started in 2009.
And it determined that the growing Asian population in the United States not only is large, but it is thriving.
"Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States," the study concluded.
The Pew centre said the change in immigration figures is largely due to declining immigration from Mexico – the source of more US immigrants than any other country – amid weakness in the US job market and a crackdown on illegal immigration. Full story...
Related posts:
- Whites now account for under half of births in the USA...
- Asian Americans, the Spelling Bee and the myth of the "model minority..."
- Blacks in America, the new racists...
- Asians 42 times more likely to be held under terror law...
- A non-Muslim white girl puts on a hijab and walks into a mall...
- This is Alabama, we speak English; if you want to live here, learn it!
- Serious allegations of violent racism against Asians at Philadephia high school...
No comments:
Post a Comment