Immigration to Guatemala
Guatemala's historic ethnic composition is mostly immigrant stock from Europe and as well as Asian and Africans brought during the era of slavery.
In recent decades, immigration to Guatemala has led to an increase in desire for more businesses and tourist attractions, after there had been a considerable drop from 1950 to 1980.
The majority received support in Guatemala, although the country also had its political problems, the capital was not being affected and other urban areas, where Salvadorans prefer to emigrate.
In the 1990s, major Mexican business groups such as Grupo Bimbo, Gruma, Elektra, Banco Azteca, Soriana, Jumex, The Coca-Cola Company, Aeromexico and others moved or expanded operations, and found a growing market in Guatemala.
The migration of Mexican peoples between the fifth and thirteenth centuries established the common languages through the western and central Mesoamerica – as far south as Veracruz, Chiapas, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, penetrating the Maya territory of Guatemala, Cuscatlan, El Salvador and Ometepe, Nicaragua.
The country was promoted by the liberal government of Justo Rufino Barrios (1873–1885), who invited to foreigners to come live in Guatemala.
They showed a preference for the Germans, who made the move motivated by the fertile land fit for coffee cultivation.
In Cobán, the Germans came to monopolize trade in wholesale stores, and their coffee farms were dispersed in almost every region of Alta Verapaz.
Younger Germans began mixing with indigenous Q'eqchi' women, which caused a gradual whitening of the population in that department.
was elaborated by Captain Jean Dorm, but was unsuccessful, as many of the settlers were forgotten and after they died due to inclement weather tropical and others returned to Europe.
[10] The early European immigrants from Guatemala were Spaniards, and were soldiers from Andalucia, Extremadura and La Mancha, sent by Hernán Cortés to colonize Central America.
[13] The first French immigrants were politicians such as Nicolas Raoul, Isidore Saget, Henri Terralonge and officers Aluard, Courbal, Duplessis, Gibourdel and Goudot.
Later, when the Central American Federation was divided in the five countries of the isthmus, some of them went to establish Costa Rica, others to Nicaragua, although the majority still remained in Guatemala.
Relationships also started in 1827, where the French began to arrive as politicians, scientists, painters, builders, singers, along with some families.
Later a conservative government annihilated nearly all of relations between France and Guatemala, and most of French immigrants went to Costa Rica, but these relationships were to return again later in the nineteenth century.
[14] Italian immigration in Guatemala is divided into three periods of migratory waves, the first being during the government of Justo Rufino Barrios, between 1873 and April 1885.
He was greatly interested in bringing Italian families to the country, including: Bocaletti, Garzaro, Bonnato, Maselli, Comparini, Galliano and others, who devoted themselves mainly to agriculture.
This can refer to immigrants and residents of Asian countries, and also other communities from Lebanon, the rest of the Arab world.
Koreans in Guatemala are involved in processing activities, such as clothing factories which export to the United States, and other businesses such as restaurants, supermarkets, beauty salons, butcher shops, travel agencies and bakeries.
According to the book of Luodi-Shenggen vonference titled The Chinese in Guatemala (1890s–1990s) by José Campang Chang, immigrants take part in the country's economy, they do not lose their customs.
The same book says that by the end of the nineteenth and early of twentieth century, Guatemala was a one-way traffic for Chinese that wanted to get to Chinatown in California.
[23] In Guatemala, Africans came as slaves in Spanish vessels during the seventeenth century, who replaced the forced labor of the indigenous.
