Mainland emigrants to US younger, more women
( 2004-01-09 14:17) (People's Daily )
According to report by US World Journal, emigrants from
across the Straits to the United States over the past 20 years are changing.
The number of emigrants
from China's mainland to the United States hiked in the 1990s, surpassing those
of Taiwan and Hong Kong to be the top in the three areas. Emigrants from the
Chinese mainland are also the group of Chinese with the strongest
self-identification in the United States.
Studies show that after 1995, the migration of Taiwanese to the United States
ebbed and that of Hong Kong also turned down dramatically after 1997.
There were also some changes in the proportions of male and female emigrants
from China's mainland. In 1970 the ratio of male to female was 114:100 which
reversed ten years later. In 2000, the ratio changed to 84:100 while that of
newborn boys to girls in the United States is 113:110.
Migration from China's mainland represents the characteristics of the new
migrant population in terms of age. The number of migrants in the age group of
15-44 sees the fastest increase, 98,729 in the ten years before 2000. The number
of migrants younger than 15 increased 79,395. The total of the two takes up 45
percent of the total increase of people of all ages. The age of migrants is
decreasing on average. Additionally, 94 percent of the emigrants from China's
mainland went to the United States in the past 20 years and not many of them
turn hybrid. There were only over 30,000 hybrid in 2000, accounting for 5.3
percent of the total.
Among the emigrants from China's mainland, 28.6 percent, the largest group,
go to the state of California then comes New York with 19.9 percent, Texas 4.9
percent and Massachusetts 4.5 percent. Moreover, among the emigrants from
China's mainland, specialized technicians and management take up 47.5 percent of
the employed, a proportion lower than that of Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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