A Visual Exploration of Immigration throughout the Century

Leah Bevis - Spring 2009

immigrant numbers for the US

Evident here is the clear point of inflection at 1970; this is the year when Latin American immigration really takes off, and where European Immigration begins to thin dramatically.  ‘South Asia and the Middle East’ immigrants only really immerge in 1980, but there were likely more South Asian immigrants before this than is evident.  For the first part of the century, the census usually had two Asian categories: “Chinese” and “Asian.”  I chose to consistently place “Asian” in “East Asia,” as this seemed to best represent the majority of Asians immigrants at the time.  Some, however, must have been from other areas of Asia, information that has simply been lost.

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