Každý obyvatel USA, kdo není indián („native american“) je, nebo má za předka přistěhovalce. Největší rozmach byl v 19. století a samozřejmě ve 20. století. Přistěhovalectví je jedním ze současných problémů Spojených států.
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V tomto kontextu musím uznat, že jazykově je na tom čeština lépe, než angličtina, protože máme výraz jak pro obyvatele Indie (Ind), tak pro domorodého američana (Indián).
Mezi lety 1850 a 1930 vzrostl počet obyvatel narozených mimo území USA z 2.2 milionu na 14.2 millionu. The highest percentage of foreign born people in the United States were found in this period, with the peak in 1890 at 14.7%. During this time, the lower costs of Atlantic Ocean travel in time and fare made it more advantageous for immigrants to move to the U.S. than in years prior. Following this time period immigration fell because in 1924 Congress The Immigration Act of 1924 favored immigrant source countries that already had many immigrants in the U.S. by 1890. Immigration continued to fall throughout the 1940s and 1950s, but it increased again afterwards. but was still low by historical standards.
The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (the Hart-Cellar Act) removed quotas on large segments of the immigration flow and legal immigration to the U.S. surged. In 2006, the number of immigrants totaled record 37.5 million. After 2000, immigration to the United States numbered approximately 1,000,000 per year. In 2006, 1.27 million immigrants were granted legal residence. Mexico has been the leading source of new U.S. residents for over two decades; and since 1998, China, India and the Philippines have been in the top four sending countries every year. The U.S. has often been called the "melting pot"(derived from Carl N. Degler, a historian, author of Out of Our Past), a name derived from United States' rich tradition of immigrants coming to the US looking for something better and having their cultures melded and incorporated into the fabric of the country. Emma Lazarus, in a poem entitled "The New Colossus," which is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty tells of the invitation extended to those wanting to make the US their home.
Since September 11, 2001, the politics of immigration has become an extremely hot issue. It was a central topic of the 2008 election cycle. Starosta New York City, Michael Bloomberg, je znám pro své proimigrační postoje.
Since World War II, more refugees have found homes in the U.S. than any other nation and more than two million refugees have arrived in the U.S. since 1980 (representing less than 1% of the entire United States population). Of the top ten countries accepting resettled refugees in 2006, the United States accepted more than twice as much as the next nine countries combined. Some smaller countries, however, accept more refugees per capita.
Spojené státy americké
- Politický systém Spojených států
- Přistěhovalectví
- Rekordy
