Arab Immigration To Latin America
The arabs of latin america the first wave of migrants from the middle east to latin america found acceptance by the locals as successful hardworking merchants.
Arab immigration to latin america. But still you rarely. According to the international organization for migration there are 13 million arab migrants of whom 5 8 million reside in arab countries. The vast majority of early arab immigrants in latin america were christians specifically the maronite and melkite branches of catholicism from what is today syria and lebanon fleeing persecution and discrimination when the region was under ottoman turkish rule. Majority of arab immigrants in latin america were christian.
250 000 relative to the immigration of arabs to north america their movement to latin america has been significantly greater. They mainly came from lebanon syria and palestine. Exact numbers are difficult to pinpoint but somewhere in the realm of 250 300 000 people came to latin america s three largest nations argentina brazil mexico from the region that today comprises the territories of syria lebanon palestine and jordan. Regions with significant populations brazil estimated 9 12 million with at least partial ancestry france 3 3 to 5 5 million people of north african arab or berber descent.
Arab diaspora العرب المغتربون. Today s influx of syrian refugees while a new source of debate is only the latest chapter in a long history. This equates to about 25 30 million people. Arab immigration to the united states begins in the 19th century with the first voluntary immigrant anthony miscellany emigrating from the greater syria mount lebanon region of the ottoman empire in 1854.
As much as 5 of latin america is comprised of arabs. Arab immigration to latin america arab migration to latin america as in the case of the arab canadians began in the last decades of the 19th century until about the 1950s. Newer arrivals have had a harder. Overall 5 of latin america is arab in origin which corresponds to roughly 25 30 million people.
This can vary from a low of 2 in uruguay to an astounding 9 in argentina. Barranquilla has the largest number of arabs in the country. The vast majority live along the caribbean coastline.