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The United States is the top destination for Chinese immigrants worldwide, accounting for about 28 percent of the 8.6 million Chinese living outside China, Hong Kong, or Macau, according to mid-2020 estimates by the United Nations Population Division.
The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States, beginning in the 19th century. Chinese immigrants in the 19th century worked in the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s.
Last year, a record number of Chinese migrants crossed the U.S. southern border without authorization. In search of jobs and freedom from China's heavy-handed pandemic response, they...
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Asian immigrants have followed many pathways in coming to the United States. About a quarter each say they came to the U.S. to be with family (28%) or to seek economic (27%) or educational (26%) opportunities. A smaller share (7%) say they came to escape from conflict or persecution in their origin country.
Explore fact sheets on other Asian groups in the U.S. Read the methodology. Facts about the Chinese American immigrant and U.S.-born population.
U.S. authorities have encountered more than 55,000 Chinese migrants crossing illegally from Mexico during the past 18 months, primarily in the rugged desert mountains east of San Diego — up...
After Mexico and India, Chinese immigrants constitute the third largest share of the U.S. foreign-born population at 5 percent. China is also the largest source of foreign-born students in the U.S., and has the second largest share of H-1B temporary visa recipients.
