- Azerbaijani American
Azerbaijani Americans are Americans of ethnic Azerbaijani origin, who mostly come from the
Republic of Azerbaijan ,Iran [ [http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1070276.html U.S.: Confirmation Row Shows Power Of Diaspora Lobbies] by Julie A. Corwin. Radio Free Europe. August 02, 2006. Retrieved July 31, 2008] Rs|date=August 2008Disputed-inline andTurkey . According to the 2000 US census, an estimated 5,500 Azerbaijanis live in the United States [Azerbaijani Americans: First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000. This number includes both primary and secondary ancestry. (retrieved 18 April 2008)] .The earliestOr|date=August 2008 Azerbaijani immigrants to the United States were German prisoners of war during
World War II who left the western zones ofGermany for the United States in the early 1950s. There is also a small number of surviving refugees who fled their homeland in 1920 after the demise of theAzerbaijan Democratic Republic . The post-1920 refugees first settled inTurkey andIran , then came to the United States for economic reasons in 1950s and 1960s [http://books.google.com/books?id=npQ6Hd3G4kgC&pg=PA171&dq=azerbaijanis&sig=ACfU3U3-6XHyH2-tykubUP1o63KUIXLMvw#PPA171,M1 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups] by Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, et al. Harvard University Press: 1980. p. 171. ISBN: 0674375122] .Both groups settled in
New York City (the largest number of Azerbaijanis in the US), NorthernNew Jersey , andMassachusetts ; and more recently inFlorida ,Texas andCalifornia (esp. theLos Angeles area). The ex-prisoners of war later worked in blue collar jobs, whereas Azeri immigrants from Turkey and Iran were able to hold on to their original occupations as merchants, artisans and clerks. By 1980 there were around 200 Azeri families in the United States, with about 80% of them being endogamic. [http://books.google.com/books?id=npQ6Hd3G4kgC&pg=PA171&dq=azerbaijanis&sig=ACfU3U3-6XHyH2-tykubUP1o63KUIXLMvw#PPA171,M1 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups] by Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, et al. Harvard University Press: 1980. p. 171. ISBN 0674375122]ee also
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Iranian American
*Turkish American
*Russian American References
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