March 18, 2013

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Editor's Note

This week, the Migration Information Source continues its special series

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Regional Migration Perspectives: Trends, Patterns, and Policies in Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. with an article that showcases the characteristics of Central American immigrants in the United States, including the population's size, geographic distribution, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Most notably, this immigrant group grew faster than any other region-of-origin population from Latin America between 2000 and 2010.

Now that new data are in for both Mexican and Central American immigrants in the United States, some interesting observations can be Also on the Source made in terms of past and emerging trends. While both immigrant groups grew rapidly in overall number and share of the US immigrant population from 1960 to 2000 at times doubling or tripling from one decade to the See MPI's Refugee portal next the large, decades-long flows of Mexicans and Central Americans for easy access to reliable northward are abating amid new economic, demographic, and political data and analysis on the realities in the region. Both populations' rates of growth have slowed world's millions of significantly since 2000 as many countries confront issues related to refugees, IDPs, and some level of return migration (including a significant number of asylum seekers. deportees with or without their families from the United States). In the coming weeks, we'll examine these issues with country profiles for Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. Subscribe Not on the list? Continue This Source special series arrives in the month before the release of a final receiving these updates report from the Migration Policy Institute's Regional Migration Study Group, which focuses on migration as one of the salient issues that by subscribing today. shapes and defines relations between Central America, Mexico, and the RSS Feed United States. The study group, an initiative that began nearly three years Subscribe to the RSS feed ago, has published extensively on migration challenges in the region, to keep up with the latest including recently, international nurse migration, crime and violence in articles. Mexico and Central America, and border insecurity in Central America's Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Follow MPI Stay tuned in the coming weeks as the Source special series continues to explore a range of migration developments in this dynamic and increasingly interconnected region.

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