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Show Table 3. Foreign Born Population of Utah by Region as Shares of the Total Forei; *n Born: 1850 - 2000. Region 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 EUROPE 79.7% 94.4% 95.5% 95.3% 95.4% 94.6% 92.3% 89.7% 86.6% 87.8% 83.6% 79.1% 65.0% 41.5% 30.4% 16.2% Northern 76.1% 92.5% 93.3% 91.9% 88.9% 85.9% 68.2% 63.1% 56.7% 53.4% 46.1% 34.5% 27.5% 15.5% 11.3% 4.6% Western 3.5% 1.4% 1.8% 2.7% 5.1% 6.2% 11.4% 11.8% 14.7% 17.6% 21.5% 32.0% 27.2% 19.8% 13.4% 5.5% Southern . 0.1% 0.5% 0.3% 0.5% 0.7% 2.0% 10.9% 11.0% 11.0% 12.7% 12.0% 9.7% 7.0% 3.7% 2.7% 1.2% Eastern 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.6% 0.4% 1.7% 3.7% 3.9% 3.9% 3.6% 2.9% 3.2% 2.4% 3.0% 4.8% N.E.C. 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% ASIA 0.0% 0.0% 1.5% 1.4% 1.6% 1.9% 4.2% 4.8% 5.1% 3.5% 1.8% 6.3% 8.6% 22.0% 27.1% 17.9% Eastern 0.0% 0.0% 1.5% 1.1% 1.5% 1.8% 3.6% 4.4% 4.2% 2.8% 0.0% 4.3% 5.0% 7.0% 8.7% 6.3% South Central 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.6% 3.1% 3.3% 2.6% South Eastern 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.8% 5.7% 11.6% 7.5% Western 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 1.2% 0.6% 0.9% 1.5% N.E.C. 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 1.5% 0.7% 1.0% 5.6% 2.6% 0.1% AFRICA 0.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.7% 1.7% 1.2% 1.5% OCEANIA 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 1.0% 1.0% 0.0% 5.9% 4.2% LATIN AMER- 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 1.9% 5.1% 3.3% 4.7% 4.8% 7.4% 13.4% 23.6% 55.4% Caribbean 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 0.7% 0.6% Central America 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 1.8% 5.0% 3.2% 4.7% 3.9% 5.0% 9.7% 17.5% 46.7% Mexico 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 1.8% 5.0% 3.2% 4.7% 3.6% 4.4% 8.4% 15.2% 41.9% Other Cen- 0.096 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.096 0.196 0.096 0.096 0.096 0.096 0.096 0.396 0.5% 1.396 2.2% 4.8% South America 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.8% 1.9% 3.3% 5.4% 8.0% NORTH AMERICA 16.5% 5.1% 2.2% 2.4% 2.3% 2.5% 2.6% 2.5% 2.5% 4.3% 7.2% 7.0% 8.8% 10.2% 9.3% 4.9% Born at Sea 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% Others N.E.C./or 3.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% Reported 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.3% 0.5% 2.8% 1.5% 8.7% 11.1% 2.5% 0.0% TOTAL 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% railroad while Southern and Eastern Europeans and Mexicans immigrated to work in the mines. By 1910, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming had the nation's largest concentration of Greeks relative to the size of the population. Serbians, Albanians, and Lebanese also immigrated to Utah and were employed particularly in the mining and railroad industries. The Finnish were in Utah in smaller numbers, but had disproportionate fatalities in the Scofield mining tragedy of 1900. Mexican migration to Utah was significant beginning in 1910. Even with these substantial migrations from other regions. Northern and Western Europeans continued to be the majority of Utah's foreign-born population, and many of these came via Canada. While they were 54 percent of the nation's foreign-born population in 1910, they were 80 percent of that of Utah (Gibson and Lennon, 1999; Jensen, 1994). Eastern Europeans have come to Utah in small but increasing numbers, especially since 1990 from Bosnia and Herzegovina. At 4.6 percent. Northern Europeans are still a larger share of the Utah foreign-born population in 2000 as compared to 3.1 percent nationally. Among the Asian born population, Japanese began arriving in Utah in small numbers early in the 20th Century, mostly associated with railroads, coal mines, agriculture, and a variety of commercial and other occupations of the growing urban area. In the 1920s and 1930s, some Filipino migrant laborers came to Utah. But it was not until the post-Korean War era that Filipinos and also Koreans arrived in Utah in larger numbers. Beginning in the 1960s, college and university students have come to Utah from the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Iran, and India, among others (Papinikolas and Notarianni, 1999). Changes in immigration laws and the Vietnam War brought Southeast Asian immigrants, many with refugee status (particularly Vietnamese. Cambodian, and Laotian); this migration peaked in 1980s. By 1990, Southeastern Asians became the numerically largest foreign-born Asians, overtaking the Eastern Asians. (Figure 9) Utah's population increased by 53 percent from 1980 to 2000 while the Utah population of persons born in Asia increased by 155 percent. (Figure 9) The Pacific Islander population began arriving in small numbers in Utah around 1875, the result of Mormon missionary efforts. The largest migration of Pacific Islanders has occurred since 1970. Tongans, Samoans, Hawaiians, Maoris, and Tahi-tians all established growing communities in Utah, as a result of continued LDS missionary efforts, family relations, and economic opportunity (Edison, 1994). There were 4,662 Utah residents born in Polynesia reported in the 2000 Census. This represents 2.9 percent of the state's foreign-born population, significantly larger than the 0.1 percent Polynesian share of the national population. Utah has 13.2 percent of the nation's foreign-born Polynesians in 2000. Mexico is currently the single largest source country of the foreign-born population of Utah, with 66,478 persons, up from 8,922 in 1990. In fact, the migration from Mexico accounts for nearly 57.5 percent of the increase in the Utah foreign-born population and 11.3 percent of the increase of the total population of the state from 1990 to 2000. Compared to the nation, Utah has a much larger share of Mexicans in the foreign-born Utah's Health: An Annual Review Volume DC 27 |