Mexican Canadian

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Mexican Canadian
Total population
Mexican Canadians 36,575^{[citation needed]}
Regions with significant populations
Ontario and Quebec
Languages
Canadian English, Spanish, Spanglish, and a minority of Indigenous Mexican Languages.
Religions
Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic, with a minority of Protestants), Aztec religion, Maya religion, Islam, ^[1] Atheism, and other religions.
Related ethnic groups
Other Mexican people, Mestizo, Indigenous people of the Americas, Spanish people, Latin, Hispanic, Latino, and Chicano.

Mexican Canadians are Canadians of Mexican ancestry. Mexican Canadians account for 0.25% of the country's population: about 95 thousand^{[citation needed]} Canadians listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006. Mexican Canadians form the Third largest Hispanics in Canada.

Mexican Canadians trace their ancestry to Mexico, a country located in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; and many different European countries, especially Spain, which was its colonial ruler for over three centuries. Most Mexican Canadian settlement concentrations are found in metropolitan areas across the Canada, with the highest concentrations in Greater Toronto and the Quebec.

Growing populations, that consist mostly of recently arrived immigrants from Mexico, are also present in other provinces of Canada such as British Columbia and Alberta. There are some Canadians with roots to the United States of America of Mexican-Texan ancestry living in Alberta, thus the so-called Mexican ethnic presence dates back to the first oil industry booms in the 1950's.

[edit] Social status

Mexican migration to Canada differs from that to the United States in many ways. Mexican immigrants represent a small proportion of immigrants in Canada (less than half a percent); they have a relatively short history of migration to Canada; they tend to come from middle-and upper-middle class backgrounds; they do not live in segregated or concentrated enclaves; and the majority come as legal immigrants. While approximately 5,000 Mexicans enter Canada each year as temporary contract workers for agriculture, these are not counted as immigrants because of their explicitly temporary legal status. Unlike the United States’ Bracero program, the temporary-worker program in Canada has various mechanisms to discourage workers from overstaying their permits. [1]