10968 refugees arrive from Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bosnai,Bugaria, Cambodia,China, Cuba,Czechoslovakia,Egypt, Former Soviet Union, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Kosova, Laos, Liberia, Myanmar, Poland, Romania, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan.
Refugee placement numbers continually increased, with the arrival of many Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese and Polish refugees
The Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1990 allowed outcast children fathered by American soldiers during the Vietnam War the right to come to their fathers’ homeland
Groups of 75 young people were brought to Utica every three months, beginning in July of 1991 and ending in October 1992.
1993, the refugee arrivals had increased to 370 per year
1993 when Congress voted to include Bosnian refugees in the U.S. refugee allotment. In the first year of the program, the Resource Center for Refugees relocated 79 Bosnians
Mohawk Valley Resource center in Utica (MVRC)--1996, the Russians were our largest group, numbering close to 1,400.
In March 2004, the Board of Directors of the Mohawk Valley resource center for Refugees adopted a new mission statement: We promote the well-being of culturally diverse individuals and families within our community by welcoming our new neighbors, refugee
Only 6 Refugees enter Utica
Refugees from Bosnia. The Mohawk Valley resource center in Utica had resettled nearly 2,500 Bosnians, making them our largest population to date. Bosnian refugees and their sponsored families now equal a population of nearly 5,000.