page_title: Italian immigration to Mexico
section_title: Society
hierarchical_section_title: Italian immigration to Mexico / Society
context_page_description: An Italian-Mexican or Italo-Mexican is a Mexican citizen of Italian descent or origin. The ancestors of most Mexicans of Italian descent arrived in the country during the late 19th century. Their descendants have generally assimilated into mainstream Mexican society.
context_section_description: Although Italo-Mexicans claim an Italian ethnic identity, they generally note that they are Mexican as well. In 1975, there were an estimated 130,000 Mexicans descended from Italian colonists, this number has grown dramatically to over 1,250,000 around Mexico and emigres to the US, just from the agricultural government sponsored colonies, while the Italian descendant population as a whole exceeds over 5 million Mexicans, making it one of the larger European ethnic groups in Mexico along with the larger Spanish, as well as German and French descendants. Population figures are uncertain because, unlike other countries, Mexico's census does not gather information on specific ethnic groups.
  Most Italian Mexicans speak Spanish, but in Italian communities Italian and its related languages and dialects (usually mixed with Spanish) are used to communicate among themselves.
caption: Italian community of Monterrey in 1905
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