The Recently Arrived Foreign Born in the United States

In “The Recently Arrived Foreign Born in the United States, “Jeanne Batalova and Aaron Matteo Terrazas of the Migration Policy Institute provide tons of factoids about recently arrived immigrants to the United States — those who came between 1990 and 2005. Here are a few tidbits:

Over half of the foreign born in the United States in 2005 were recent arrivals.

Four of the top-five sending countries of recent arrivals to the United States saw the size of their US communities more than double between 1990 and 2005.

Eight in 10 recently arrived foreign born in 2005 were of working age.

Among recently arrived foreign born, men slightly outnumbered women.

More than half of recently arrived foreign-born men and women age 16 and older were married in 2005.

Recently arrived foreign-born women were more likely to be naturalized US citizens than their male counterparts.

Forty-four percent of recent immigrants to the United States in 2005 completed at least some college.

Nearly 84 percent of recently arrived foreign-born men were in the labor force.

More than a quarter of recently arrived foreign-born men worked in construction, extraction, and transportation occupations.

Younger immigrants were more than three times likely than older immigrants to speak English “very well” or better.

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KJ