Promised land no more? Data shows European migration to US declining

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Europeans still account for a significant portion of the immigrant population in the US, but the number of arrivals, particularly from western and southern Europe, is declining, as most Europeans prefer to migrate within their own continent.

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00:00Is America still a promised land for Europeans?

00:09The European expat community in the U.S. has slightly shrunk since the 1980s,

00:16with a few fluctuations over the years, from over 5 million people to less than 4,800,000 people.

00:26After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the vast majority of arrivals came from Eastern Europe,

00:34while the share of Western and Southern Europeans began to steadily decline in the early 2000s.

00:4341% of all current European migrants in the U.S. are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens,

00:52while 30% was granted the green card thanks to employment-based preferences.

01:02Today, Eastern Europeans represent 46% of Europeans in the U.S.

01:10The largest nationality, however, is British, followed by German, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, and Italian.

01:22Where are all these people?

01:24Most of them are concentrated in the states of New York and California.

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