The New Chicago by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Temple University
Published: 2006-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Six Arab countries accounted for 81 percent of all Arab immigrants to the United States during this period—Lebanon, Jordan–Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (Table 14.1), largely the same places from which the earliest Arab immigrants came, with the exception of Egypt.4 The remaining Arab immigrants include Sudanese, Moroccans, Libyans, Bahrainis, Omanis, Tunisians, Algerians, Kuwaitis, Saudis, and small numbers of immigrants from other Arab countries. Mirroring the turn of the twentieth-century pattern, Lebanese are the largest Arab immigrant group in the post-1965 period, although Illinois is one of few states in which persons of Lebanese and Syrian descent are outnumbered by Arabs from other countries (Census 2000). If Palestinians could be accurately counted, their numbers would surely surpass those for Egyptians. Because more than 60 percent of the Palestinian people live in diaspora, they are statistically mixed in with other Arab groups, making the true extent of their presence in the United States difficult to measure.5

Illinois was the place of intended settlement for 44,633 immigrants from Arab countries between 1972 and 2000. Eighty-five percent of these immigrants were from the seven main countries of Arab migration. Thirty-three percent were either Palestinian or Jordanian, and 25 percent were Iraqi, a large proportion of whom are Assyrians (Table 14.2). In some years, 20 percent of all Palestinian-Jordanianimmigrants to the United States and 25 percent of all Iraqis chose Illinois as their initial location.

TABLE 14.2. Arab Immigrants to Illinois, Cumulative Patterns: 1972–2000

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