Central Americans in the United States

Abstract

Considering the importance of the Central American emigration like a social and economic phenomenon, this article makes a quantitative description about the population movements of each country from this region to the United States, principally using the information of these migrants in the last population census of this country, made in 2010. The article begins emphasizing the importance of the migrants, established like Latins or Hispanics, on each state of USA, classifying the states for the numbers of the migrant’s presence on each of them and also the growing number of migrants during the last intercensal period. Socioeconomic indicators are selected to compare the environment surrounding the migrants on each Centro American country before and after making the migrant movement, it means, the first conditions that surrounded them on their country and then when they move to the states of the USA, where emigrants of each Central American country are the majority among the Central American emigrants. These comparisons are made advising the reader not just about the restrictions of information, but also the conceptual differences that can hide behind the indicators and about the quality differences of getting the indicators in different countries.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v8i0.919

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 8, 2012 pp.51-75