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The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 brought the largest influx of Bosnians to St Louis, which became the most popular United States destination for Bosnian refugees. It is estimated that 40,000 refugees moved to the St. Louis area in the 1990s and early 2000s, bringing the total St. Louis Bosnian population to some 70,000. [8]
The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 brought the largest influx of Bosniaks to St Louis, which became the most popular United States destination for Bosniak refugees. It is estimated that 40,000 refugees moved to the St. Louis area in the 1990s and early 2000s, bringing the total Bosniak population St. Louis to around 70,000. [6]
St. Louis Bosnian Chamber of Commerce, April 2013. The first wave of Bosnians arrived in the 1990s as refugees of the Bosnian War. [1] According to the refugee organization International Institute of St. Louis, the metropolitan area had about 70,000 people of Bosnian origin circa the late 1990s and early 2000s, the highest recorded number as of date.
Bosnian refugees in America have had to cope with trauma and rebuild their community at the same time. In Louisville, Rizah Sejdić owns BH International Market, a store selling traditional ...
A government program launched Thursday is giving American citizens the chance to play a role in resettling the thousands of refugees who arrive every year in the United States. During the first ...
The United States on Wednesday expanded sanctions against an individual and an entity who have helped Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik and his son evade existing U.S. sanctions, the U ...
The Bosnian diaspora was the consequence of either voluntary departure, coercion and/or forced migrations or expulsions that occurred on several occasions since the 1870s: In the late 19th century to the east and west caused by the invading forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
BOSTON (AP) — A Bosnian man living in Massachusetts has been convicted of lying to get refugee status and U.S. citizenship by covering up his role as a supervisor of guards at a notoriously harsh and violent wartime prison camp where Serbians were killed, sexually assaulted, tortured and starved three decades ago.