Kurdish Americans
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Kurds in the United States refers to people born in or residing in the United States of Kurdish origin or those considered to be ethnic Kurds.
Total population | |
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40,000-100,000[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Urban areas of southern California such as Los Angeles and San Diego, Nashville, Tennessee, and in the upper Midwest, including in Nebraska, Minnesota, and North Dakota[2] | |
Languages | |
Kurdish, American English | |
Religion | |
Mostly Islam with minorities of Atheism, Zoroastrianism & Agnosticism |
The majority of Kurdish Americans are recent migrants from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Most have roots in northern Iraq or northwestern Iran.[3] The Iraqi Kurdish people comprise the largest proportion of ethnic Kurds living in the US.
The first wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as refugees during the 1970s as a result of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. A second wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived in the 1990s fleeing Saddam Hussein's genocidal Anfal Campaign in northern Iraq. The most recent wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as a result of the 2011 Syrian Civil War and the 2014 Iraqi Civil War, including a number who worked as translators for the U.S. military.[4]
In recent years, the Internet has played a large role in mobilizing the Kurdish movement, uniting diasporic communities of Kurds around the Middle East, South East Asia, European Union, Canada, the US, and Australia.[5]