In Their Own Words: The Diverse Perspectives of Being Asian in America
Use this quote sorter to read how focus group participants answered the question, “What does it mean to be you in America?”
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What It Means To Be Asian in America
In a new analysis based on dozens of focus groups, Asian American participants described the challenges of navigating their own identity in a nation where the label “Asian” brings expectations about their origins, behavior and physical self.
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About 6 million U.S. adults identify as Afro-Latino
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
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Around four-in-ten Latinos in U.S. worry that they or someone close to them could be deported
Nearly four-in-ten Latinos (39%) say they worry that they, a family member or someone close to them could be deported.
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Key findings about Black immigrants in the U.S.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
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One-in-Ten Black People Living in the U.S. Are Immigrants
Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.
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African immigrants in U.S. more religious than other Black Americans, and more likely to be Catholic
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
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What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts
The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year.
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Before COVID-19, more Mexicans came to the U.S. than left for Mexico for the first time in years
An estimated 870,000 Mexican migrants came to the U.S. between 2013-18, while an estimated 710,000 left the U.S. for Mexico during that time.
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Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S.
Here’s a look at how individual origin groups compare with the nation’s overall Asian American population.
