Transnationalism

Transnationalism Latino immigration has had a profound effect on the music of the United States as well as in Latin America. As of 2012, 17 percent of the U.S. population, or nearly 53 million individuals, identified themselves as Hispanic (Brown and Lopez, 2013). Foreign-born, or immigrant, Latinos made up 8.7 percent of the U.S. population in 2005. Latinos are also the fastest growing group in the United States and accounted for over 50 percent of total population growth from 2000 to 2005…