When Africa Comes to America: How will rising Black Immigration transform US | In Focus Weekend
Neeraj Kaushal's new book explores the demographic shift in the United States driven by increasing Black African immigration. The author suggests these immigrants may become the new 'model minority' and questions how this influx will impact American social hierarchies and immigration policy.
Why it matters
The analysis provides a demographic perspective on the future of US immigration and its potential to reshape the country's social and political landscape.
A new book by Neeraj Kaushal, Professor of Social Policy at Columbia University, titled When Africa Comes to America: How the Next Wave of Immigrants Will Transform the United States’, argues that “the future of the United States is in Black Africa”.
One revealing datapoint from the book: four times more Black African immigrants arrived in the US between 1990 and 2020 than were brought as slaves during the entire 190-year history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. So, how will the increasing influx of black Africans into the US play out in the Trumpian era of xenophobic white nationalism?
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