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Azerbaijani Americans are Americans of ethnic Azerbaijani origin, from both Azerbaijan and Iran. The majority of the group are immigrants whom arrived either as political refugees from the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran or after the fall of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s when Azerbaijan restored its independence.

The earliest Azerbaijani immigrants to the New World were German prisoners of war during World War II who left the western zones of Germany for the United States in the early 1950s. Together with them came a small group of surviving Azerbaijani refugees from Turkey and Iran who had fled the short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1920, and arrived to the United States in the 1950s and 1960s for economic reasons. Both groups settled in New York City, northern New Jersey and Massachusetts; more recently in Florida and California. 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.

See also

• Iranian American
• Turkish American

References

1. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups by Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, et al. Harvard University Press: 1980. p. 171. ISBN: 0674375122

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