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Most of the colonial immigrants, in consequence, went from the southern regions of Spain to what now is considered the coastal Peruvian region. [clarification needed] These immigrants generally departed from the ports of Cádiz or Seville and arrived in the ports of Callao, Mollendo and Pimentel. Many of these immigrants made a stopover in a ...
The Spanish presence in the United States declined sharply between 1930 and 1940 from a total of 110,000 to 85,000, because many immigrants returned to Spain after finishing their farmwork. Beginning with the coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic in 1936 and the devastating civil war that ensued, General Francisco Franco established ...
From the 19th century onwards, the geographical origins of immigrants changed. In previous centuries, the British had been the most numerous in the United States, but German immigration overtook British after 1820, [27] [28] and, in Latin America, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants, dominant in all previous centuries, were overtaken by the ...
Lebanese and Syrian immigrants started to settle in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The vast majority of the immigrants from Lebanon and Syria were Christians, but smaller numbers of Jews, Muslims, and Druze also settled. Many lived in New York City's Little Syria and in Boston.
[68] [69] Hispanic immigrants suffered job losses during the late-2000s recession, [70] but since the recession's end in June 2009, immigrants posted a net gain of 656,000 jobs. [71] Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010, [72] and over one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008.
During the late 17th and much of the 18th century (1684–1764), the so-called Tributo de Sangre (Blood Tribute) was in effect; this was a Spanish law stipulating that for every thousand tons of cargo shipped from Spanish America to Spain, 50 Canarian families would be sent to America to populate regions having low populations of Peninsulares ...
Despite this, it is estimated that between 1585 and 1655, the Canarians represented around 25.6% of the immigrants to Havana. It was not until the seventeenth century, especially with the Blood Tribute (1678-1764), when the Canarian emigration acquired a massive air towards the island, with a massive migration of thousands of Canarians from ...
This practice was known as the encomienda system and granted free native labor to the Spaniards. Based upon the practice of exacting tribute from Muslims and Jews during the Reconquista, the Spanish Crown granted a number of native laborers to an encomendero, who was usually a conquistador or other prominent Spanish male. Under the grant, they ...