When Africa comes to America : how the next wave of immigrants will transform the United States /
"Africans are the fastest growing immigrant group to the United States, up from a tiny fraction of one percent in the 1960s to eleven percent in 2020. Most other traditional sources of immigration to the United States-Latin America, Europe and East Asia-are drying up. By the second half of the...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2026]
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| Summary: | "Africans are the fastest growing immigrant group to the United States, up from a tiny fraction of one percent in the 1960s to eleven percent in 2020. Most other traditional sources of immigration to the United States-Latin America, Europe and East Asia-are drying up. By the second half of the twenty-first century, the Black immigration from Africa will emerge as the biggest source of new immigration to the United States. A growing concern in the media is that emigration from Africa is rising because migrants are escaping poverty, hunger, civil wars, and climate change. This book argues that the causes of emigration from Africa are no different from the causes of emigration from the rest of the world. The continent is growing demographically and economically; emerging from decades of penury, hunger, and underdevelopment; foreign investment is rising faster than foreign aid; and the continent's sizable and growing middle-class has the aspirations and the means to emigrate to the United States. This book covers, primarily, legal immigration. Such migration will meet US needs no less than those of African migrants. This book will use data and empirical research to defy a number of myths that dominate the narratives on immigration, in general, and on immigration from Africa, in particular. On one extreme is the ugly rhetoric of the political right. Others fear that Africa is a continent on the move, its people emigrating in large numbers to escape poverty, hunger, and climatic change. Kaushal provides evidence based on research that rising immigration from Africa is the result of favorable economic and demographic forces; Africans (as a proportion of their population) are no more, or less, on the move than the residents of other continents; Africans emigrating to the US are highly skilled and privileged, and soon after arrival most join the middle-class and higher income groups"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 282 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231220590 0231220596 9780231220606 023122060X |