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The very second sentence is the article is as follows: " The movement is often over long distances and from one country to another, but internal migration is also possible; indeed, this is the dominant form globally". This is somewhat self-contradictory. How is the movement "often ... form one country or another" if it is in the meanwhile internal migration is the dominant form globally"? Also, some statistics to support this claim could be added (for instance, from the UN report).


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Armenian Americans Article Edit:

The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries''. Over 50,000 Armenians settled in the United States following the Hamidian massacres of the mid-1890s, the Adana Massacre of 1909 ,'' and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. (Copied from: Armenian Americans)

[NOTE: In the entry paragraph, it is stated that the Armenian migration from the Soviet Union began around 1950s. I doubt the validity of this assertion. For the migration from the Soviet Union to the US between 1950-1959 was only 453, according the 2016 Yearbook of International Migration. The proportion of Armenians within this small amount, if there is any, would be hardly significant.]

The 2014 American Community Survey estimated that 461,076 Americans held full or partial Armenian ancestry. By 2016, the number has risen to 467, 890. Various organizations and media criticize these numbers as an underestimate, proposing 800,000 to 1,500,000 Armenian Americans instead.

Over 12,000 Armenians from the Ottoman Empire went to the US throughout the 1890s. (This was a time of intense cultural contact between the two societies through Armenian nationalist dissidents within the Ottoman Empire and the American missionaries in the region who were sympathetic to the Armenian's cause .) With the exception of Fresno, California, which had land suitable for farming, the earliest Armenian immigrants mostly settled in the northeastern industrial centers, such as New York City, Providence, Worcester, and Boston.

Discrimination toward Armenians was visible, and many Armenians struggled against overt discriminatory and housing restrictions. Although four Ottoman born Armenians did get legally recognized as "white" instead of "Asiatic" as early as 1909, the discrimination in daily life didn't get any better . The Armenians living in central California were often referred to by natives as "Fresno Indians" and "lower class Jews."

''467,890 people have reported Armenian ancestry for American Community Survey. 2,516 Armenians were naturalized, and an additional total of 3,543 obtained lawful permanent residence the same year. Of the latter, 1,589 achieved this status through family reunification.''

''Armenian Americans constitute a very educated community. Of the 339,732 Armenian Americans who are 25 or above, 26% are with a college degree, and 26,1% hold a bachelor’s degree.''