8 facts about recent Latino immigrants to the U.S.
In 2021, there were 2.6 million foreign-born Hispanics who had been in the U.S. for five years or less. This is down from 3.8 million in 2000.
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How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys
We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.
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How foreign policy values and issues cut across the political typology groups
The 2026 Pew Research Center political typology reveals a rich portrait of how Americans view the nation’s place in the world, the strength and use of its power, its relationships with other nations and many current foreign policy hotspots. While some foreign policy dynamics in the typology track traditional ideological and partisan divides, that is […]
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1. How well-known is ‘Latinx’ among U.S. Hispanics, and who uses it?
Alternatives to the pan-ethnic labels Hispanic and Latino emerge every so often.[5.numoffset=”5″ Other alternative pan-ethnic labels for people who trace their heritage to Latin America and Spain include Latin@ and Latinu.] But none have been widely adopted or embraced by the population they are meant to describe. And few Hispanic adults have even heard of […]
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Half of Latinas Say Hispanic Women’s Situation Has Improved in the Past Decade and Expect More Gains
Government data shows gains in education, employment and earnings for Hispanic women, but gaps with other groups remain.
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5. Religiously unaffiliated migrants around the world
Religiously unaffiliated people are underrepresented among migrants, making up 13% of migrants but 23% of the global population.
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4. Muslim migrants around the world
Muslims account for 29% of global migrants and most commonly live in the Middle-East North Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.
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4. Asian Americans and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic
Following the coronavirus outbreak, reports of discrimination and violence toward Asian Americans increased. A previous Pew Research Center survey of English-speaking Asian adults showed that as of 2021, one-third said they feared someone might threaten or physically attack them. English-speaking Asian adults in 2022 were also more likely than other racial or ethnic groups to […]
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2. Pressures Latinas face in their lives
Latinas say Hispanic women face far more pressure than Hispanic men to cook and clean at home, be attractive, get married and have children, be pleasant, and have few sexual partners. Similar shares of Hispanic women and men say they feel pressures related to family or work. Some groups of Latinas feel more pressure than […]
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5. Asian Americans’ views of anti-Asian discrimination in the U.S. today
In addition to asking Asian Americans about their experiences with specific discrimination incidents, we also wanted to understand their opinions of how Asians are treated in the U.S. today. In the survey, we asked Asian adults about their views of anti-Asian discrimination and the attention paid to it. We also asked if they discussed challenges […]