Migration From Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States: Policy Options, by Manuel Orozco

Migration from Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States has grown steadily over the past forty years.  Total number of migrants has doubled from 1990 to 2015, amounting to over 40 million people (See Figures 1 and 2). These migration flows respond to global demands for foreign labor, in large part low skilled. They also respond to political challenges related to state fragility.

There are more than 80 million transnational households, forty million migrants (in the U.S., Spain, Canada and elsewhere in the Latin America and Caribbean region) and the other half of families of migrants living in Latin America and the Caribbean. These connections impact and benefit both home and host countries’ economies. Among the many impacts of migration, the most well-known are remittances, which in 2016 represented US$70 billion dollars to the region.

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