Latino Population In America

This paper will be focused on Hispanic immigrant population since Hispanics are a rapidly growing group in the United States and more tend to be poor (Broussard & Alfred, 2009). In details, Hispanic population grew 43 percent between 2000 and 2010 (one in four Hispanics was poor in 2009), and it is projected to triple in size by 2050 (Nwosu, C., Batalova, J., & Auclair, G., 2014). Moreover, income inequality was higher among Hispanics than among whites (Nwosu, C., Batalova, J., & Auclair, G., 2014).

This statement is important because the formation of negative comments toward the newcomers places them in an unwanted social bracket, which influences people to conceptualize that immigrants are bad for America. This is also the case for many Latino/a immigrants because there are people who believe that Latino/a immigrants to the U.S. should be restricted.

Hispanic immigration to the United States stems primarily from uniquely developed push-pull migration mechanisms in which “interplay of national, regional, and global economic developments, the history of U.S. military and foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, the checkered history of international border enforcement and interdiction efforts, and, not least, the aspirations of Latin American migrants and potential migrants themselves” (Gutierrez). In other words, migration from Latin American to the United States shouldn’t have been consistent, however, there are several factors that triggered massive waves of such.

New York City's fastest growing immigrant group are Dominicans, a Spanish speaking people, flocking from the Dominican Republic to the United States, New York City in specific. In 1980 the Dominican population in NYC was 125,380, in 1990 it was 332,713, and today in 1999 it is an estimated 500,000 people. The only problem with this is through the years of their migration to America, their per capita income has declined precipitously. It seems as though when the Dominican population in America increases, their income as a whole decreases. Nearly half of the Dominicans in NYC live below the poverty level. In 1990 29% of Dominicans where on welfare. Of foreign people immigrating to the U.S., only people from the former Soviet Union had a higher percentage of people living on public assistance. From 1989 to 1996 their per capita income declined 23% to $6,094 a year, in inflation adjusted dollars, while their poverty rate rose from 37% to 46%, that is almost double for the city as a whole. Unemployment also rose from 17.2% in 1990 to 18.8% in 1996 (Lopez, p. 3). The source of these severe economic problems

Many workers work in jobs that pay them under the table or in horrible conditions. “Latino households can expect to earn 70 cents to a dollar less than the average white person makes. Hispanic households make 12 cents to a dollar less than white non-Hispanic people” (Schaefer, 2012, P. 224). With Latinos and Hispanics working under the table, they are not making as much as they would make if they were earning a paycheck legally. Since they are also sending money home to their families they have very little left of what they do earn for themselves. “Out of the last quarter century, the proportion of Latinos in poverty has been two or three times that of white non-Hispanics” (Schaefer, 2012, P. 224). With the average American battling to stay above the poverty line, more of the Latino and Hispanic communities are below it because of the financial obstacles in the way. Latino and Hispanic populations have been rapidly growing in the United States. “In 1975 congress addressed citizens with multilingual backgrounds” (Schaefer, 2012, P. 226). Many Latino and Hispanic Americans want to become legal so they can participate in the political position of being a United States citizen. Latino and Hispanic Americans want to be able to vote in upcoming elections. Since the increase in their population and the decision of congress in 1975; more ballots are being made to be English and Spanish depending on the particular country, city or state (Schaefer, 2012, P.

Myers has served as an adviser to the U.S. Censuses Bureau, and supervised the Population Dynamics Research Group makes the information provided credible to the argument and an appeal to ethos. (Myers 188). He stresses the importance of bold changes and what the outcome could potentially be for immigration challenges we are to experience in the near future. The evidence Myers provides us is from the Pew Hispanic Center which states that since 2008, the population has shrunk by roughly 200,000 a year and the

Between 1970 and 2008, the number of Mexican immigrants increased significantly from 760,000 to 12,700,000 million in the Unites States. In 2014, Mexicans made up 52% of all the unauthorized immigrants (Krogsad, et al). Migration grew during this era as a result of the NAFTA settlement which obliterated their economy. While its purpose was to stimulate the financial stability of that region, unemployment

situation gets even worse as the United States’ population grows. A census is taken every ten years, and that census does not include all of the illegal immigrants. “Estimates of the

The rise in K-12 students with at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant contrasts with the total number of unauthorized immigrants, which has remained stable since 2009. Before 2009, the trends had been similar, with both groups rising in number from 1995 to 2007 (the year the recession began), then declining to a lower level in

In addition, analysis of the 2010 Census has provided insight suggesting that from the 308.7 million people that reside in the United States, around 50.5 million were of the Hispanic or Latino origin. The Hispanic population was found to increase from 35.3 million in the year 2000 which made up 13 percent of the population (2010 Census Brief, 2011). At the same time, the report by Los

The influx of immigration in the past twenty years has adjusted the economy surrounding the United States work force. According to the 2016 Current Population Survey, immigrants and their U.S.-born children now number approximately 84.3 million people, or 27 percent of the overall U.S. population. (http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states#CurrentHistoricalNumbers). In the same year, it was reported that 27.0 billion foreign-born persons occupied jobs in the United State’s workforce, making up 16.9% of the total. (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf). These statistics have sparked a debate surrounding the allowance of immigrants into the United States work force and the consideration of the short and long-term affects immigrants have on the economy surrounding the US job market.

Surely much of this hostility stems from the results of recent studies that show that if current migration patterns hold, Latinos, most of which will be of Mexican descent, will outnumber Anglo

The following literature review will address the challenges that the Latino population experience when navigating the healthcare system. The review will discuss the inequalities that exist within the healthcare system based on quality healthcare delivery, insurance coverage, language barriers, acculturation, and citizenship status. In the first section, I will discuss the importance of quality healthcare delivery based on the current research that has been done regarding to the Latino population. In the second section, I will discuss the importance of insurance coverage and the impact that it has on the Latino population on navigating the healthcare system. In the third section, I will discuss the language barriers and how that affects the Latino population experience when navigating the healthcare system and the need for bilingual healthcare providers. In the fourth section, I will talk about acculturation and the effects that it has over Latinos health and their experience on navigating the healthcare system. In the last section, I will discuss how citizenship status shapes access to healthcare to Latinos and navigating the healthcare system.

Poverty among the Latino community has converted into an endemic predicament in the development of children living in the United States. The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) indicated that poverty is uppermost with children making up 21.6% living below the poverty line in comparison to young adults (19.0%) and elders (18.1%). The California Poverty Measure (CPM) by PPIC analysis concluded that 7.5 millions of Californians lacked resources and made an income of about $30,000 a year. That is just above the poverty line which is to earn $24,000 a year. Although Latinos are constantly operational in the work field, they have a higher scarcity rate than any other ethnic group due to their association with lower education and deficiency of income (PPIC, 2017). In addition, according to The Pew Research Center, many Latino families are experiencing economic hardship as a result of moribund financial wealth, increased mortality rates, and higher birth rates among the Latino immigrant population (Lopez, Velasco, 2011). Poverty has produced several obstacles to Latino children in regards to their shifting family dynamics, learning, and development, but there are wide-ranging solutions that aid children of limited income households to prosper. This essay will scrutinize and discuss the assorted effects of poverty for Latino children living in the United States in the context of family dynamics, education, and development, as well as propose a solution to

The origin and effect of racialization on what we now call Latinos is very pertinent to how Latinos assimilate. The English-speaking, European-decent majority in the United States tends to think of Latinos as one homogenous group perhaps because of or leading to the creation of a census label for Latinos or Hispanics as people of “Spanish origin” in 1977 (Rumbaut, 9). Perhaps the fact that “ two thirds of all Latinos in the U.S. are Mexicans in the Southwest” lends itself to many white Americans’ view that the group is homogenous, although Mexicans in and of themselves are not necessarily a homogenous group, but more so than all Latinos in general (Gutierrez 35). The phenomenon of racialization, lead by the majority’s conception of the minority of Spanish descent people in the United States, has change the way that Latinos themselves see themselves as well. Rumbaut says that the “racialization of the Hispanic-Latino category, as well as the substantial proportion of