Post-1990 migration to the West came overwhelmingly from non-Western societies.

Evidence

A majority of late-twentieth-century migrants and refugees have moved from one non-Western society to another. The influx of migrants to Western societies, however, has approached in absolute numbers nineteenth-century Western emigration. In 1990 an estimated 20 million first generation immigrants were in the United States, 15.5 million in Europe, and 8 million in Australia and Canada. The proportion of immigrants to total population reached 7 percent to 8 percent in major European countries. In the United States immigrants constituted 8.7 percent of the population in 1994, twice that of 1970, and made up 25 percent of the people in California and 16 percent of those in New York. About 8.3 million people entered the United States in the 1980s and 4.5 million in the first four years of the 1990s. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 530 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Non-Western migrants now drive nearly all population growth in Western societies.; Most late-century migration occurred between non-Western societies, not into the West — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 530; Western-civilization panics responded to post-1965 immigration demographics — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 78 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Most late-century migration occurred between non-Western societies, not into the West #contradicts (0.92) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 530