Saturday, October 18, 2014

Immigration of San Francisco

         In 1860, ½ of San Francisco’s population were immigrants because of the Catholic missions that brought different tribal groups around the Americas. In the 1900’s, Chinese immigrants migrated to San Francisco but was put to a halt by the Chinese Exclusion Act until the 1960’s. San Francisco is a city in California in were the majority of its population does not consist of Mexican ethnicity. The majority of immigrants of San Francisco come from China which is 28% of the population. A little over half (54%) of the population has an immigrant part of the family.
            
       In the 2013 census, there are about 837,442 people inhabiting the city of San Francisco. Amongst these 837,442 inhabitants, 48.5% of them are white, 33.3% are Asian, and 15.1% are Latino. Asian and Whites are the largest race of people that live in San Francisco. Asians are still a large portion of the population in San Francisco.         



Sources: http://www.muwekma.org/home.html

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