1. AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS IN UNITED STATES BY: OLUWADARE ISOLA GEO 430

2. OVERVIEW: POPULATION OF AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS
WHERE THIS IMMIGRANTS COME FROM
LEGAL IMMIGRATION
LOCATION OF AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS IN USA
EDUCATION ATTAINMENT OF AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS
Occupations of African Foreign-Born Workers
REASON FOR EMIGRATION

3. Figure 1: African Foreign-Born Population in the U. S
Figure 1: African Foreign-Born Population in the U.S., 2000 & The number of African immigrants in the United States grew from 881,300 in 2000 to 1.6 million in 2010 

4. According to Pew: “There were 1
According to Pew: “There were 1.8 million African immigrants living in the U.S. in 2013, up from 881,000 IN 2000 and a substantial increase from 1970, when the U.S. was home to only 80,000 foreign-born Africans. They accounted for 4.4% of the immigrant population in 2013, up from 0.8% in 1970”.

5. Although the growth of the African foreign-born over the past decade was rapid, this population still represents only 4 percent of the million foreign-born and less than 1 percent of the million residents of the United States.
FIGURE 2:

6. As of 2010, 573,791 African immigrants came from Western Africa and 475,832 from Eastern Africa {Figure 5}

7. 46. 1% of African immigrants were naturalized U. S
46.1% of African immigrants were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2013, compared to 43.7% of the foreign-born population as a whole FIGURE 3:

8. Figure 4: States With Largest African Foreign-Born Populations, 2010
The largest numbers of African immigrants are found in California, New York, Texas, Maryland, and Virginia. As of 2010, the largest African foreign-born populations were in California (158,953), New York (158,878), Texas (136,112), Maryland (125,470), and Virginia (89,290)

9. Just under one-fifth (16.1%) of African immigrants age 25 and older had a graduate degree (in addition to a bachelor’s degree) in In comparison, 10.4% of the U.S. population as a whole age 25 and over had a graduate degree in 2010
Nearly one-quarter (24.2%) of African immigrants age 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree only in In comparison, 17.7% of the U.S. population as a whole age 25 and over had a bachelor’s degree only in 2010

10. Figure 6: Educational Attainment of African Foreign-Born Population & Total U.S. Population, Age 25 & Over, 2010

11. 37.7% of employed African immigrants age 16 and over worked in management, business, science, and arts occupations in 2010.
One-quarter (24.8%) of employed African immigrants age 16 and over worked in service occupations in 2010, while one-fifth (19.8%) worked in sales and office occupations.

12. Figure 7: Occupations of African Foreign-Born Workers Age 16 & Over, 2010

13. REASONs FOR EMIGRATION
 AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS often are not happy to leave home, but they emigrate to find employment opportunities commensurate with their education opportunities that are unavailable in their home countries.
Inadequate education infrastructure
Inadequate public good infrastructure

14. ASSIMILATION TO THE CULTURE IN US
Foreign-born Blacks experience the most jarring change as they become part of the larger Black population in a racially divided America (Waters, 1991, 1994). For all immigrants, becoming American involves developing an understanding of racism, including its subtle nuances. Blackness in the United States may have a more negative meaning to people of African origin than it does in Haiti or Jamaica, where Blacks are not a racial minority and the racial hierarchy is more flexible than it is in the United States (Lindsey & Wilson, 1994; Vickerman, 1999)

15. AFRICAN IMMIGRANT YOUTH
African immigrant youth often face many complex identity issues. In some circles, the authenticity of their African identity is questioned; in others, their American experiences are undervalued. Tope,1 a twenty-two-year-old 1.5- generation Nigerian

16. Racialization of Black Immigrants
As Black immigrants who are both ethnically diverse and in the racial majority in their home countries, African immigrants become subjected to homogenizing views of Blackness in the United States (Bashi & McDaniel, 1997). In the U.S. system of racialization, in which race is the most salient identifier, their cultural differences are often overlooked, and they are expected to redefine their identities based on America’s racial categories

17. Conflicting Contexts of Socialization
Concerns among immigrant parents about losing parental control and cultural influence over their children are well documented in the research literature (Forman, 2001; Suárez-Orozco & Suárez-Orozco, 2001). In addition, Black immigrant parents may fear that their children will adopt U.S. African American youth culture, as their children’s peer groups in schools and neighborhoods often consist of African Americans

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