Migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America to the United States of America

Abstract

The countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, covering an area of 242,400 km2, and in the past six decades have dramatically increased their population, from 6.8 million in 1950 reached 30.9 million in 2015, increasing by 4.5 times. Today the countries of the Northern Triangle generate the largest migratory flows to the United States of America, in the following order: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, contributing around 85% of the Hispanic population Central (being 4 million people in 2012) reside in that destination. This paper wants to show a current view of international migration from the countries of Northern Central Triangle to the United States of America, being a systematization of information of migration from the countries of the subregion, taking into account the sources of data and information from the origin, transit and destination, from the perspective of demography. Secondary sources of information used are the literature,, reports, memoirs, articles, reports and other research experiences, although the demographic perspective leads to the main data sources are statistical and our focus is on searching, sorting, acquisition, generation and analysis of data, located in the countries of origin, transit and destination, such as population censuses, household surveys, migration statistics, statistics Apprehension and Removal, Special Surveys Migration and Population Estimates Migrante in transit and destination as well as unauthorized and potential applicants for regularization programs.

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes Vol.12, 2016: 25-38