History of Central Americans in Los Angeles
The City of Los Angeles includes a prominent Central American population. As of 2010 it is the second largest Latino and Hispanic ethnic group in Los Angeles after the Mexican-Americans.[1]
History
The first Central Americans arrived in the 1940s. As of 2010 the majority of Los Angeles's Central American population had arrived during the late 1970s and the late 1980s. Due to civil wars and political persecution, many Guatemalans and Salvadorans arrived in the 1980s.[1]
Demographics
As of the 1990 U.S. Census there were 580,000 Central Americans in Los Angeles. This makes up 44% of all Central Americans in the entire United States, and 12% of the Latino population.[2]
Geography
Rosamaria Segura, the author of Central Americans in Los Angeles, wrote that the Pico-Union area has the "most conspicuous" presence of Central Americans in Los Angeles.[1]
References
- Lopez, David E., Eric Popkin, and Edward Telles. "Central Americans: At the Bottom: Struggling to Get Ahead" (Chapter 10). In: Waldinger, Roger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr (editors). Ethnic Los Angeles. Russell Sage Foundation, December 5, 1996. Start page 279. ISBN 0871549018, 9780871549013.
- Segura, Rosamaria. Central Americans in Los Angeles. Arcadia Publishing, 2010. ISBN 0738571636, 9780738571638.