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==Emigration From Jordan== | ==Emigration From Jordan== | ||
There are thousands of Jordanians living in the '''United Arab Emirates'''. As of 2009, their population was estimated at 250,000, an increase from 80,000 in 2003, making them one of the largest Jordanian diaspora communities both worldwide and in the Persian Gulf region and also form the second largest community of non-citizen Arabs in the UAE after the Egyptians. Most Jordanians live in Dubai and the capital, Abu Dhabi.<ref>"Jordanians in the United Arab Emirates", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanians_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 15 July 2021.</ref> | ===United Arab Emirates=== | ||
*There are thousands of Jordanians living in the '''United Arab Emirates'''. As of 2009, their population was estimated at 250,000, an increase from 80,000 in 2003, making them one of the largest Jordanian diaspora communities both worldwide and in the Persian Gulf region and also form the second largest community of non-citizen Arabs in the UAE after the Egyptians. Most Jordanians live in '''Dubai and the capital, Abu Dhabi'''.<ref>"Jordanians in the United Arab Emirates", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanians_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 15 July 2021.</ref> | |||
===United States=== | |||
*The history of the Jordanian immigration to the United States is relatively recent. The first identifiable wave of immigration from Jordan to the United States occurred after the Second World War (1945). | |||
*Those first Jordanians settled in '''Chicago, (especially in the Near West and Southwest Sides sections), New York City, and the Southwest and West Coast states (i.e. California)'''. | |||
*Over 5,000 Jordanians arrived to the United States in the 1950's. In the mid 1960s, due to U.S. immigration laws and the Six-Day War of 1967 in Jordan, the number of Jordanians who emigrated to the United States exceeded 11,000 people. At this time, the majority chose to settle in '''Western cities and in the southwest of the country, except the wealthy Jordanians who felt more comfortable in the suburbs of large cities'''. | |||
*Then in the 1970s, a '''civil war broke out in Jordan''', causing 27,535 Jordanians emigrate to the United States. | |||
*In the 1980s, annually emigrated around 2,500 Jordanian to the USA. By then, the Jordanian community in the United States had grown at a rapid pace, and it already represented a large population. A substantial number of Jordanians who settled in the United States at this time were '''war refugees'''. The total number of Jordanian immigrants from 1820 to 1984 was 56,720. | |||
*Currently, the '''New York City Metropolitan Area''', notably including '''Paterson, New Jersey''', attracts the highest number of legal Jordanian immigrants admitted to the United States.[5] The Little Ramallah community of South Paterson in New Jersey is home to a rapidly growing Jordanian immigrant population. '''Yonkers, New York''' has a sizeable Jordanian population. The Jordanian American community in '''Washington, DC''' held a candlelight vigil after the death of King Hussein. '''Chicago''' also maintains, even today, a large Jordanian population.<ref>"Jordanian Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_Americans, accessed 15 Juuly 2021/</ref> | |||
==Records of Jordanian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Jordanian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||