Syrian Refugees in the United States
January 12, 2017
By Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova
A caseworker accompanies a family of Syrian refugees to their new home in Dallas. (Photo: Cathe Neukum/IRC)
In response to the civil war in Syria that began in 2011 and has resulted in the displacement of more than 11 million people within and beyond the country’s borders, the United States in 2015 began to accept for resettlement significantly more Syrian refugees than ever before. The Obama administration surpassed its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrians via the refugee resettlement program in fiscal year (FY) 2016, up from just 36 in FY 2013 (see Figure 1). In total, 18,007 Syrian refugees were resettled in the United States between October 1, 2011 and December 31, 2016.
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