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Bhutanese Americans are Americans of Bhutanese descent. According to the 2010 census there are 19,439 Americans of Bhutanese descent. [4] However, many Nepali-Bhutanese came to the U.S. via Nepal as political refugees from that country and are registered as Nepali Americans; often leading to the actual numbers of Bhutanese Americans being underreported.
Bhutanese refugees in Beldangi I show a Bhutanese passport. It is a legal passport of Bhutan that many Bhutanese refugees surreptitiously took with them when they were forcefully deported from Bhutan. Bhutanese refugees are Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a group of Nepali language-speaking Bhutanese people.
The Permanent Mission of Bhutan to the United Nations in New York City. In 2008, the U.S. offered to resettle 60,000 of the 107,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese origin living in seven U.N. refugee camps in southeastern Nepal.
Tika Adhikari is a former Bhutanese refugee and Ohio voter in Pickerington. She is the civic engagement and immigration organizer with OPAWL — Building AAPI Feminist Leadership.
It airs May 30 on PBS and will also stream starting that day on PBS.org and the PBS app. Bastianich visits a Bhutan refugee who has built a new life in Ohio, Cuban immigrants feeding people in ...
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After being displaced as a result of the state-run ethnic cleansing and living in refugee camps in eastern parts of Nepal, starting in 2007 most of the Bhutanese refugees were resettled to various countries, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European countries.
Half of the Bhutanese refugees within the United States are unemployed and half do not possess a high school degree. [5] The refugees have been very successful in the United States. In 2019, a Bhutanese refugee was elected to the city council in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Bhuwan Pyakurel became the first Nepali-Bhutanese elected official in the United ...