Category: Features & analyses
Written by Sabrina Axster At the Thirteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration which took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on February 12 and 13, UN experts, government delegations, civil society organizations, and academics discussed the most pressing global migration issues. Just a week later, during the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda to set and define new goals on poverty, hunger eradication, inequalities, and security, among other topics, many government delegations stressed the importance of giving...
Did you know that New York City is home to more foreign-born females than males? In 2011, there were 89 males for every 100 females among the city’s foreign-born population. Nothing too surprising, you may think. NYC’s native-born population is also characterized by a lesser number of males than females, as a result, primarily, of males having a higher mortality. But there are other, more significant reasons to the foreign-born’s sex ratio that become apparent when looking at differences between...
Written by Mia Olesen Between 2000 and 2011, the foreign-born population in the city increased from 2.87 million to 3.1 million. The diagram below shows the distribution of the 10 largest immigrant groups in New York City in 2011. Immigrants from the Dominican Republic are the largest foreign-born group in New York City with 380,200 residents, accounting for 12 percent of the total number of immigrants and 18 percent of the population of the top 20 immigrant groups. The...
