Mexican Canadian

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Mexican Canadians (French: Mexicain Canadiens; Spanish: Mexicano Canadienses) are Canadians of Mexican ancestry. Canadians of Mexican descent account for 0.25% of the country's population: about 95,000^{[citation needed]} Canadians listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006.

Mexican Canadians trace their ancestry to Mexico, a country located in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; and many different European countries, especially Spain, which was its colonial ruler for over three centuries.

Geographical extent

Most Mexican Canadian settlement concentrations are found in metropolitan areas across Canada, with the highest concentrations in Greater Toronto and Quebec and are also present in other provinces of Canada such as British Columbia and Alberta.

There are some Canadians with roots in the United States of America of Mexican-Texan ancestry living in Alberta; thus the so-called Mexican ethnic presence dates back to the first oil industry booms in the 1950s.

Social status

Mexican migration to Canada differs from that to the United States in many ways.

• Mexican immigrants represent a small proportion of immigrants in Canada (less than half a percent)
• They have a relatively short history of migration to Canada, most of them coming since the 1970s
• They tend to come from middle-and upper-middle class backgrounds, with skilled migrants substantially outnumbering unskilled migrants
• They do not live in segregated or concentrated enclaves
• The vast majority come as legal immigrants, the nearly exact statistical opposite of the US^{[citation needed]}

While approximately 5,000 Mexicans enter Canada each year as temporary students or contract workers for agriculture, these are not counted as immigrants because of their explicitly temporary legal status. Unlike the United States’ Bracero program, the temporary-worker program in Canada has various mechanisms to discourage workers from overstaying their permits.[1]

See also

• Mexican
• Mexican American
• Chicano
• Mexican British
• Latin American Canadian

References

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