Ugandan American
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| Total population | ||||
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| (20,248 (±5,070) (2014 American Community Survey)) |
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| Languages | ||||
| American English, Ugandan English, Luganda | ||||
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| Christians, minority Muslims and Practitioners of Ugandan traditional religion. | ||||
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Ugandan Americans are Americans of Ugandan descent. The survey of 2014 counted 20,248 Ugandan Americans in United States.
Immigration records from 1975 show the arrival of 859 immigrants from Uganda, most fleeing Idi Amin's regime. These immigrants were primarily of Indian descent, Indians who have lived in Uganda for generations. In 1976, 359 Ugandans arrived, and 241 came in 1977. Also in these years, many Ugandans emigrated for further studies (some people of this group were seminarians and clerics, who settled in places such as Chicago to study and serve as pastors for African congregations, providing clerical leadership to Catholic and Protestant congregations).
In the 1980s, there was a steady and gradual growth of Ugandans in North America, particularly in the US, where some emigrated with the DV -lottery visa, provided through the US federal government, for people around the world that would otherwise have no chance to migrate to the US to apply for a residency through a lottery system. The diversity lottery is conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. However, Ugandan immigration fell to less than 150 each year in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a time of political stability in Uganda.
Although the reasons as to why people migrate have evolved, more recently, to the political economy, the benefit thereof to today's Uganda, is indisputable.
The number of Ugandan refugees granted permanent residence status in the United States between 1946 and 1996 was generally less than 50 per year, with the exceptions of 1993, when 87 were admitted, and 1994, when 79 were admitted. Only ten Ugandan refugees were admitted in 1996. In 1998, 215 Ugandans were winners of the DV-99 diversity lottery.
Most Ugandans who emigrate go to the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The reasons for migration is based on the low economic remuneration for workers in Uganda and the low political stability of the country compared with the west. Also, many Ugandans immigrated for chasing better educational opportunities. For other way, although many Ugandans who emigrate to United States are people of Ugandan origin, also emigrated to this country many Ugandan of Asian origin (usually Indians, Pakistani, and Konkani of Goa). In the US census, these people are counted in a separate category from Ugandans.
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