Lord god.
Reading this thread is slowly killing my brain cells
I can only still laugh at the AA folk who think some how this will benefit them, or why they should not be concerned about this
....
This is not true
African immigration to the United States - Wikipedia
.Between the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and 2007, an estimated total of 0.8 to 0.9 million Africans immigrated to the United States, accounting for roughly 3.3% of all total U.S. immigrants during this period
African immigrants to the US are among the most educated groups in the United States. Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans.
[23] According to the 2000 Census, the rate of college diploma acquisition is highest among Egyptian Americans at 59.7 percent, followed closely by Nigerian Americans at 58.6 percent.
[24][25]
In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult white Americans and 3.8 percent of adult black Americans in the United States, respectively.
[26] According to the 2000 Census, the percentage of Africans with a graduate degree is highest among Nigerian Americans at 28.3 percent, followed by Egyptian Americans at 23.8 percent.
[24][25]
Of the African-born population in the US age 25 and older, 87.9% reported having a
high school degree or higher,
[27] compared with 78.8% of
Asian-born
immigrants and 76.8% of
European-born
immigrants, respectively.
[28] Africans from
Kenya (90.8 percent),
Nigeria (89.1 percent),
Ghana (85.9 percent),
Botswana (84.7 percent), and
Malawi (83 percent) were the most likely to report having a high school degree or higher.
Those born in
Cape Verde (44.8 percent) and
Mauritania (60.8 percent) were the least likely to report having completed a high school education.
[2]
Census: Foreign-born Africans Most Educated Immigrants in the U.S. at Tadias Magazine
US-based African immigrants more educated - University World News
US-based African immigrants more educated
Although the foreign-born population from Africa in the US is small relative to other foreign-born groups, a higher proportion of Africans are graduates than the overall foreign-born population and their numbers have grown rapidly over the past 40 years.
This was outlined in a US Census Bureau report,
The foreign-born population from Africa: 2008-2012 . The report, based on American community surveys focusing on the foreign-born population from Africa, highlights its size, growth, geographic distribution and educational attainment.
It indicates that the African foreign-born population has grown from about 80,000 in 1970 to 1.6 million from 2008-12. The African foreign-born population accounts for 4% of the total US foreign-born population.
No single African country makes up a majority of these immigrants, although four countries – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Ghana – comprise 41% of the total.
Educational attainment
The African foreign-born had a higher level of educational attainment than the total of those born overseas. The report said that 41% per¬cent of the African-born had a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2008-12, compared with 28% of the overall number.
“High levels of educational attain¬ment among the African-born are in part due to the large number of educated Africans who have chosen to emigrate and to many who come to the United States to pursue academic studies”, the report said.
Within the foreign-born population from Africa, educational attainment varied by place of birth. For example, 64% of Egyptian-born individuals were graduates as were 61% from Nigeria, 57% from South Africa, 47% from Kenya and 35% from Ghana. These were the countries with the highest proportion of Africans with bachelor’s and higher degrees.
Sub-Saharan African immigrants arrive with the most education but struggle with underemployment – FSRN
Sub-Saharan African immigrants arrive with the most education but struggle with underemployment
https://fsrn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160601Nozizwe-EducatedImmigrants.mp3
"Do you know who the most educated immigrants coming to the U.S., who they are?” FSRN asks.
“I don’t, but I am willing to hazard a guess,” says Akili.
“Hazard.”
“South Koreans, Japanese and Africans.” he says with a tinge of hesitation.
Akili has spent more than four decades as a racial and social justice advocate, and even he paused when guessing which immigrants arrive in the United States with the highest level of education.
According to the Washington-based think tank, the Migration Policy Institute, immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa are among the best educated immigrants entering the U.S.
“I would say it is not a surprise,” says Emira Woods, an associate fellow for the Institute of Policy Studies. She says it’s not uncommon for highly-educated Africans and West Indians to come to America and seek better lives for their children.
“If you think about the level of the number of PhDs, clearly Nigerians top that list. You have also Eritreans, highly educated, that are coming to this country and, of course, from the Caribbean,” Woods points out. “Some are coming as medical professionals; some are coming as teachers, that are bringing their gifts and talents.”
But higher learning does not always translate to higher wages in the U.S. The Migration Policy Institute says well-educated African immigrants often earn substantially less than U.S.-born Americans with fewer years in school.
Liberian-born Charlene McGee, a public health educator based in Oregon, says she has seen evidence of that firsthand.
“I know a lot of people who are Liberians, actually Africans, who are very educated with lots of lived experience, but have been unable to find employment,” explains McGee. “And, as a result, that they end up experiencing different forms of inequities and disparities because they unfortunately, in a lot of instances, they have been forced to leave their country due to forced migration, and just have a difficult time here finding work to be able to provide adequately provide for their families.”
She says she knows African immigrants who came to the U.S. as doctors and lawyers who have difficulty finding work. That includes McGee’s own father, who came to the United States with one Master’s degree, and earned another one here, but has been underemployed for decades....
