Refugee Arrivals in Utica, NY 1973-2012

10968 refugees arrive from Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bosnai, Cambodia, Cuba,Czechoslovakia, Former Soviet Union, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Kosova, Laos, Liberia, Myanmar, Poland, Romania, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan.

Period: Jan 1, 1973 to Jan 1, 2004

In the 1990s, thousands of Bosnians were forced to leave their homeland due to the civil war tore the former Yugoslavia apart and also brutal “ethnic cleansing.”(http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2005-05-12-voa47-67529242/285096.html
Vietnam War Beginning in 1965, when the United States involved in war, sending troops to aid South Vietnam in its war against North Vietnamese forces, controlled by Communists. Over a million people fled Vietnam since 1975 because of the war. http://crfimm

294 refugees arrive from Myanmar, Somalia, Ukraine, and Former Soviet Union

Jan 1, 2005

Somali had to flee their homeland according to the brutal drought in sixty years, and conflicts. It made the humanitarian situation worse, and a high population of people became displaced people.(http://www.refintl.org/where-we-work/africa/somalia)

252 refugees arrive from Liberia, Myanmar and Former Soviet Union.

Jan 1, 2006

With the official end of the 14-year civil war in Liberia, Liberian refugees finally began thinking about going home. Upon their return to Liberia, refugees caught up in the civil war in Ivory Coast, are being blamed for the rebellion that has split the country. (http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2004-03-22-46-some/292133)(http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2
(http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2004-03-22-46-some/292133)(http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2004-03-22-46-some/292133)

598 refugees arrive from Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Ukraine

Jan 1, 2007

Myanmar has been run by regime governments over 50 years. It is one of the longest running civil wars in the world. People fled from Myanmar because of the persecution from the government and civil war. (https://maytermthailand.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/an-escape-along-the-thai-border-burmese-refugees-by-siri-wieringa-and-kaylene-moulton/)

590 refugees arrive from Sudan, Myanmar and Iraq.

Jan 1, 2008

Because of the Gulf War and the Iraqi-Kurdish conflict, there is the growing number of Iraqi refugees fleeing Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq

341 refugees arrive from Sudan, Myanmar and Iraq

Jan 1, 2009

The best known conflict in Sudan is a ‘North-South’ conflict, ‘that problem in Darfur’ or an Arab-African’ conflict. http://www.insightonconflict.org/conflicts/sudan/?gclid=COj6tKK5z7ACFUFo4Aod92VGXw

633 refugees arrive from Myanmar, Bhutan and Iraq

Jan 1, 2010

397 refugees arrive from Bhutan, Myanmar and Iraq.

Jan 1, 2011

The Bhutanese refugees had come to Nepal from Bhutan in the early 1990's, fleeing ethnic pressures or tensions from their homeland, Bhutan. http://www.unhcr.org/4aa641446.html