Throughout history, immigration has influenced the United States’ economical, social, cultural, political processes and it is more and more often the subject of significant public debate.

Foreign-born communities are usually assimilated as numbers or statistics without considering their cultural heritage and the impact of their individual presence on certain groups. Each immigrant has a particular story, but since it is impossible to bring in the spotlight every one of them, let’s at least take a look at the major ethnic communities that currently live in the U.S., with a short overview of the immigration phenomenon in the last century. » Read more: Communities in U.S.: Overview of Top Immigrant Groups in the United States