Immigration has always been a source of debate for the American public. During the early part of the 20th century Americans had concerns about the effects of European immigrants. Today similar concerns are being raised about Latin American immigrants. This book presents selected decennial census data on the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 2000. This book provides the background knowledge necessary to examine the tables in a detailed and informed manner. The tables provide statistics that reveal all the trends in immigration during the last century of America's history. It is fully indexed.

Foreign-born people represent a large and growing share of the U.S. population. The native- and foreign-born populations differ in a variety of characteristics, such as age, fertility, educational attainment, occupation, earnings, and income. Among the foreign born, naturalized citizens differ from non-citizens, and people from some parts of the world differ from people from other parts on most of those characteristics. In November 2004, a report was published titled "A Description of the Immigrant Population," which included data through 2003. This report provides an update with information through 2009. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.

Presents, in succinct style and accompanied by illustrative graphs and tables, information on a variety of demographic, social, and economic topics. The report provides sources of additional information, including the names of subject specialist.