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Between 1977 and 2000, 25,229 Burmese immigrated to the United States, although the figure is inaccurate because it does not include Burmese who immigrated via other countries to the U.S. [15] A third wave of immigration, from 2006 to date, has been primarily of ethnic minorities in Myanmar, in particular Karen refugees from the Thai-Burmese ...
American people of Burmese descent (3 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Burmese diaspora in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Burma is home to the second largest population of Baptists in the world, after the United States, the result of American missionary work. The Chinese contribution to Burma's religious mix has been slight, but several traditional Chinese temples were established in Yangon and other large cities in the nineteenth century when large-scale Chinese ...
Other states with significant populations are California, Texas, New York, and Indiana. [4] Karen first started arriving in the United States en masse during the mid-2000s and now form a significant minority in several cities. The growth of Karen Americans is part of the larger growth of Burmese Americans in the United States. [5]
Following the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, between 1963 and 1970, 155,000 Burmese Indians were repatriated to India and resettled by the Indian government in ‘Burma Colonies’ in cities like Chennai, Tiruchirappalli and Madurai. [33] Outside of Asia, there is also a significant diaspora in the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and New ...
Myanmar (Burma) and the United States had a diplomatic contact prior to the British colonial period. They established formal diplomatic relations in 1947 in anticipation of Burma's independence. In the early 1950s, the United States supported elements of the defeated Chinese Nationalist military which fled to Burma after their defeat in the ...
Pages in category "Burmese emigrants to the United States" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Burmese migrants also make up the largest expatriate group in China, numbering over 350,000. [2] Significant numbers also reside in United Kingdom, Japan followed by Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Ireland and the United States. Also included are many Anglo-Burmese, primarily in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Canada and the US.