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Refugees arrive from Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Congo, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Former Soviet Union, Haiti, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Burma, Poland, Romania, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Yugoslavi
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Refugees arrive from Afghanistan, Former Soviet Union, Lithuania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Liberia, Burma, Somalia, Sudan
In Afghanistan by this time it is in its fourth decade of conflict, Afghan civilians continue to pay the price. Violence has been increasing in intensity and spreading to previously peaceful areas. -
In this year refugees arrive from Bosnia, Ethiopia, Former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Liberia, Burma, Somalia
Bosnians who arrived to Utica account for the largest population of refugees
Starting in April 1992, Serbia set out to ethnically cleanse, Bosnian territory by systematically removing all Bosnian Muslims. Serbia, together with ethnic Bosnian Serbs, attacked Bosniaks with former Yugoslavian military equipment. Many Bosniaks were driven into concentration camps, where women and girls were systematically gang-raped. -
Refugees arrive to Utica from Former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Burma, Somalia
Somalia has been home to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for many years. The most severe drought in 60 years has exacerbated an already complex situation. Before the drought struck, years of conflict had already displaced nearly a quarter of the population. -
Refugees from Vietnam, Eritrea, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Iran, Liberia, Burma, Somalia arrive in Utica
The Communist take over in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1975 and cause a flood of military and political refugees seeking resettlement knowing the fate if they fell into Communist hands. 1975 was also the year that America withdrew from the Vietnam War and focused its efforts in resettling these refugees. -
Refugees come from Vietnam, Ukraine, Iraq, Burma, Sudan, Bhutan
On April 26, 1986, a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, resulting in the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history.At the time of the accident seven million people lived in the contaminated territories, including 2.2 million in Ukraine. -
In 2010 Refugees arrive from Vietnam, Congo, Former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Liberia, Burma, Somalia, Sudan, Bhutan
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is still contending with ongoing conflict in its troubled east.A combination of armed groups threaten civilians in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces, uprooting families from their homes and taking away their livelihoods when not killing or raping them outright. -
Refugees arrive from Former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Iraq, Liberia, Burma, Sudan, Bhutan
With the breakaway of South Sudan on July 9, 2011, Sudan faces economic difficulties due to loss of oil revenue and turmoil in its “new south”. Fighting broke out in Southern Kordofan in June 2011 following state elections, the results of which were disputed by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North. Violence remains an issue between the north and south. -
This year refugees have come from Vietnam, Former Soviet Union, Iraq, Burma, Somalia, Bhutan
In the 1980s it emerged that Lhotshampas were being seen as a threat to the political order. When a string of measures were passed that discriminated against their group, the Lhotshampa organised a series of public demonstrations for which the participants were branded as "anti-nationals".The culmination was the mass exile of one sixth of the population in the early 1990s.
