In fiscal year , about , immigrants applied for naturalization. The number of naturalization applications has climbed in recent years, though the annual totals remain below the 1. Generally, most immigrants eligible for naturalization apply to become citizens.
However, Mexican lawful immigrants have the lowest naturalization rate overall. Language and personal barriers, lack of interest and financial barriers are among the top reasons for choosing not to naturalize cited by Mexican-born green card holders, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Mexico is the top origin country of the U. In , roughly More than 1 million immigrants arrive in the U. In , the top country of origin for new immigrants coming into the U. By race and ethnicity, more Asian immigrants than Hispanic immigrants have arrived in the U.
Immigration from Latin America slowed following the Great Recession, particularly for Mexico, which has seen both decreasing flows into the United States and large flows back to Mexico in recent years. Asians are projected to become the largest immigrant group in the U. New immigrant arrivals have fallen, mainly due to a decrease in the number of unauthorized immigrants coming to the U.
The drop in the unauthorized immigrant population can primarily be attributed to more Mexican immigrants leaving the U. In addition to new arrivals, U. In , the percentage of women giving birth in the past year was higher among immigrants 7.
While U. Since the creation of the federal Refugee Resettlement Program in , about 3 million refugees have been resettled in the U. In fiscal , a total of 30, refugees were resettled in the U.
Texas, Washington, New York and California resettled more than a quarter of all refugees admitted in fiscal California had the largest immigrant population of any state in , at Texas, Florida and New York had more than 4 million immigrants each.
In , most immigrants lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in the New York, Los Angeles and Miami metro areas. These top 20 metro areas were home to Immigrants in the U.
In , immigrants were over three times as likely as the U. However, immigrants were just as likely as the U.
Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are less likely to be high school graduates than the U. On the other hand, immigrants from every region except Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America were as likely as or more likely than U.
In , about 29 million immigrants were working or looking for work in the U. While there is no formal legal definition most experts agree that an international migrant is someone who changes their country of usual residence, irrespective of the reason for migration or legal status. A r efugee is a person who is outside their country of origin for reasons of feared persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or other circumstances that have seriously disturbed public order and requires international protection.
The first, intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. Still, the United States seems more likely to suffer from a lack of immigrants than from a continued surge.
Although immigration into the United States might have passed its high-water mark, other parts of the rich world — Europe, notably — are likely to experience more immigration than they have before.
Consider Africa. As Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh of the University of California, San Diego, have noted, immigration across the Mediterranean may soon come to look like the vast flows of people who in the s streamed across the Rio Grande. The number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa jumped 25 percent over the first decade of this century and surged 31 percent from to , according to the Pew Research Center. Persistently high fertility rates across Africa have produced a demographic bulge of young people eager to make a better life across the Mediterranean.
Demand for immigrant labor will probably rise in Europe as its population ages. The number of working-age people is already shrinking in many countries. Some big African countries -- like Nigeria -- have entered that range. Then there is the wild card, which could well intensify patterns of migration everywhere: climate change. Rising average temperatures are already pushing people from their homes in many middle-income countries, according to research by Cristina Cattaneo and Giovanni Peri, increasing migration from rural areas to urban centers and across borders to other nations.
As warming continues in the coming decades, it will probably push people from agricultural areas to urban areas and from the global South to the richer global North. Across the countries in their study, people exposed to positive images of immigrants -- say, about their strong commitment to work -- become much less negative in general about immigration. But there are already plenty of walls, and they have done little to stop immigration. If rich countries want fewer immigrants, their best shot might be to help poor countries become rich, so that fewer people feel the urge to leave.
Clemens argues, rich countries should probably start writing new rules and creating new institutions to manage the large immigration flows of the future. They could work to promote new destinations and develop mutually beneficial forms of migration say, varieties of temporary work visas. They could establish mechanisms to assist vulnerable native-born people, whose jobs might be at stake.
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