The Challenges and Opportunities Faced by Skilled African Immigrants in the U.S. Job Market
A Personal Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7882128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ephrem M Andemariam (African Studies Association, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-116 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1556-2948 • E-ISSN: 1556-2956 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j500v05n01_07 |
| OpenAlex | W1533241204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Immigrants today make up 14 percent of the U.S. workforce (Closing the Immigrant Skills Gap, n.d.), and, of these, a good proportion have arrived from Africa. Although Africans started coming to United States predominantly as students after the 1960s post-colonial era, their numbers have dramatically increased since the beginning of the 1990s. The influx of African immigrants to the United States in the last two decades especially after the end of the Cold War era of the early 1990s has been phenomenal. According to figures from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS-now the Office of Homeland Security), the number of African immigrants to the United States has more than quadrupled in the last two decades, from 109,733 between 1961 and 1980 to 531,832 between 1981 and 2000 (Takougang, n.d.)
Alien · Citizenship · Demographic economics · Economics · Homeland · Immigration · Immigration law · Immigration reform · Naturalization · New immigrants · Political science · Politics · Workforce · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |