CIAO DATE: 06/02

Immigration and Integration in the Americas

Max J. Castro

North South Center
University of Miami

Agenda Paper #46
May 2001

Mass immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States, historically speaking, is a relatively new phenomenon. What will be the consequences of the great Latin American/Caribbean migration now underway? For both sending and receiving societies, the implications of a large and long-lasting population movement from south to north are profound. Yet these implications are not well understood. This paper describes the causes and processes of Latin American immigration and the challenges posed by this new form of "integration from below."

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