Chile
Key Statistics
Data are 2024 UN data and may differ from national statistics agencies.
1538000
Immigrant Population
7.8%
Immigrant Share of Total Population
444000
Emigrant Population
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Creatividad dentro de la crisis: opciones legales para migrantes venezolanos en América Latina
Con más de 3 millones de venezolanos en el extranjero a fines de 2018, los países de América Latina han improvisado vías legales creativas, pero deben planificar a largo plazo.
As Venezuelan Crisis Deepens, South America Braces for More Arrivals and Indefinite Stays
Venezuela's collapse triggered the hemisphere's largest modern exodus, testing South American hosts.
South American Immigrants in the United States
South Americans made up 7 percent of U.S. immigrants in 2017, boosted by rising Venezuelan arrivals.
Amid Record Numbers of Arrivals, Chile Turns Rightward on Immigration
Chile's immigrant population has more than quadrupled since the country emerged from dictatorship in the early 1990s. As immigration has grown and moved away from its European roots to become more diverse, it has emerged as a hot-button political issue, complicating longstanding efforts to reform the country's 1975 immigration law. This article explores Chile's shift to the right on immigration, and how policies might evolve under the presidency of conservative Sebastián Piñera.
Migrants and Smugglers Get Creative to Circumvent Immigration Enforcement
In 2016, route closures in Europe and the Americas shifted migrants onto deadlier paths, with Central Mediterranean deaths reaching approximately 4,200 by November, up from 2,900 in all of 2015.
South American Immigrants in the United States
In 2014, there were 2.9 million South American immigrants in the United States.
Chile: A Growing Destination Country in Search of a Coherent Approach to Migration
Even as Chile's foreign-born population topped 352,000 by 2009, its migration framework remains based on a 1975 Pinochet-era security law.
Chile: Moving Towards a Migration Policy
Though immigrants accounted for just over 1 percent of Chile's population in 2000, growing flows from Peru and Argentina have pressed the country to replace its 1975 migration law.