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As of 1999 120,000 people in Metro Detroit indicated they are of Greek descent. [1] Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit. [2] At the turn of the 20th Century the first Greek immigrants arrived. [1]
After World War I Macedonians in Bouf, Greece were forced to leave, so several went to Michigan. [13] After the 1924 Immigration Act, many Macedonians entered Detroit via Canada to get around the new law. [14] More Macedonians immigrated to Michigan after the Greek Civil War. [15] As of 1951 there were about 10,000 Macedonian ethnic people in ...
Immigration to the United States from Greece peaked between the 1950s and 1970. [34] [35] After the 1981 admission of Greece to the European Union, annual U.S. immigration numbers fell to less than 2,000. In recent years, Greek immigration to the United States has been minimal; in fact, net migration has been towards Greece.
Undocumented immigrants accounted for 1.2% of Michigan's population as of 2021, per Pew Research Center analysis. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: ...
The first wave of immigrants, including Germans, Irish, and Poles, arrived in the mid-19th Century. [8] In 1900 Detroit had 96,503 people who were not born in the United States. This figure increased to 157,534 in 1910. [9] In the early 20th Century the largest wave of immigrants came to work at automobile factories.
An early wave of immigrants came from Greece in the late 1890s; it peaked from 1910 to 1914. These Greek peasants turned their understanding of supply and demand into thriving businesses as peddlers, grocers, and restaurateurs. Just as they lived in villages in Greece, so did they settle in a new "village" in Detroit known as Greektown.
Husband-and-wife immigrants from Greece operated Red Hot Restaurant for 50 years. Gannett. Jim Martin, Erie Times-News. November 13, 2024 at 4:55 AM.
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