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The civil war impacted many of the indigenous people and the trajectory of what led people to migrate out of Guatemala. [7] The peak statistic of Figure 1 is the foreign-born stock migrant increase from 1980 to 1990. This marks the largest Guatemalan migration. Migrant numbers go from 63,073 in 1980 to 225,739 in 1990.
Very few Guatemalans have furthermore been granted citizenship. DHS data traces a range of about 6,500-9,700 Guatemalans granted citizenship annually since 2006. [9] In 2015, only 27% of the Guatemalans in the US were citizens. [10] Many Guatemalans, who are undocumented or on a temporary status, are blocked from a pathway to citizenship. [11]
The socioeconomic conditions of war triggered waves of mass migration of Mayas into America from 1970 [4] to the end of the Guatemalan Civil War. [5] Many Maya families were split up because the males of the household would move to America and remit money back home to Guatemala.
Guatemalan officials are analyzing surveys by the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration showing from which parts of Guatemala the most migrants departed, hoping to prepare those ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Guatemala's new liberal president, Bernardo Arévalo, at the White House next week to discuss bolstering democracy and ...
Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development ... in the region as the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden tries to get a handle before the ...
Immigration to the West has often been related to the West's colonial history; for example, immigration to Britain historically has come largely from former British colonies (generally as part of the broader Commonwealth migration.) [6] [7] Wars that Western countries have recently been involved in, and the fallout or flows of refugees ...
The primary driver of migration over the past 10 years is the inability to get jobs to pay for the most basic necessities, said Ursula Roldán, a researcher at Rafael Landívar University in ...