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Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora , particularly in the United States , with smaller communities in other countries around the world.
The total impact of civil wars, dictatorships and socioeconomics drove over a million Salvadorans (both as immigrants and refugees) into the United States; Guatemala is the second country that hosts more Salvadorans behind the United States, approximately 110,000 Salvadorans according to the national census of 2010.
Central America is a subregion of the Americas [1] formed by six Latin American countries and one (officially) Anglo-American country, Belize.As an isthmus it connects South America with the remainder of mainland North America, and comprises the following countries (from north to south): Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
About 50% percent, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped the country headed to the U.S., which was already home to over 10,000 Salvadorans, making Salvadorans Americans the third-largest Hispanic American group, after the Mexican American majority and Cubans (when not including Stateside Puerto Ricans). Salvadorans however are predicted to ...
Afro-Salvadorans (Spanish: Afrosalvadoreños), also known as Black Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños negros) are Salvadorans of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. They are the descendants of slaves brought to El Salvador via the Trans-atlantic slave trade during the colonial Spanish era.
From a bestselling migration memoir to an acclaimed novel of suburbia, political poetry and essays and on and on, Salvadoran writers are having a big moment.
“What excites me most, of course, is being able to participate in my civic duty as a Salvadoran.”
Salvadorans now visit neighborhoods that were off limits: Previously, if they lived in one gang's territory but crossed into the turf of another, they risked being killed.