With early 20th century growth in the number of African American migrants recruited by the meatpacking industry, the population doubled from 1910-1920.

The Japanese government is offering 300,000 or roughly US$ 3,000 to each Latin American migrant to return to the country of origin.

In the later 19th century, they were joined by eastern European Jewish immigrants and African American migrants from the South.

Katrina families differ from the classic American migrant in at least one important way: they did not choose to move.

But modern American migrants are holding out for beaches, mountains and big-city cultural attractions.

Large numbers of Central American migrants who have crossed Guatemala's border into Mexico are deported every year.

Over 200,000 undocumented Central American migrants were deported in 2005 alone.

Many Latin American migrants have been mestizo, Amerindian, or other mixed race.

The area became very popular among African American migrants fleeing the oppression in Mississippi.

It was then settled by white American migrants in the 1890s.