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Afghan Americans
Afghan Americans are Americans of Afghan heritage or Americans who originated from Afghanistan. Their ethnic origin may come from any of the ethnic groups of Afghanistan.
==History and population==
Afghan Americans have a long history of immigrating to the United States, as they may have arrived as early as the 1920s.〔Eigo, Tim. Countries and their Cultures. "Afghan Americans." 2006. July 6, 2007. ()〕 Due to the political borders at that time period, some of these Afghan immigrants may have been ethnic Pashtuns from British India (present-day Pakistan and India) or Afghanistan.〔 Wallace Fard Muhammad, credited for being the founder of the Nation of Islam, may have been from Afghanistan. A World War I draft registration card for ''Wallie Dodd Fard'' from 1917 indicated he was living in Los Angeles, California, as an unmarried restaurant owner, and reported that he was born in Shinka, Afghanistan in 1893.〔Ancestry.com database, Registration Location: Los Angeles County, California; Roll: 1530899; Draft Board: 17〕 During the 1930s and 1940s, well-educated Afghans entered America.〔 Between 1953 and early 1970, at least 230 migrated into the United States.〔 Some of those who entered the US were students who won scholarships to study in American universities. After the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, around five million Afghan citizens were displaced, being forced to immigrate or seek refuge in other countries. These Afghan refugees mostly settled in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, and from there many made it to the European Union, North America, Australia, and elsewhere in the world.
Those who were granted refugee status in the United States began to settle in California (mainly the Los Angeles-Orange County area and San Francisco Bay Area) and in the Northeastern United States, where large Muslim community centers keep them closely bonded. Fremont, California, is home to the largest population of Afghan Americans in the U.S.〔San Francisco Chronicle, (Fremont's Little Kabul eyes election with hope ), August 21, 2009.〕 Smaller Afghan American communities also exist in the states of Texas, Illinois, Florida, Washington and elsewhere. In Chicago, the 2000 census counted 556 Afghan natives, approximately half of them within the city.〔http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/26.html〕
According to the United States Census Bureau, there were approximately 65,972 Afghan-Americans living in the country in 2006. By 2011, this number grew to 89,040. According to the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC, the over-all Afghan population in the United States in 2011 is around 300,000.〔(Afghan Diaspora )〕 While 30,000 reside in Northern Virginia, approximately 65,000 Afghans comprise the diaspora community based in the San Francisco Bay Area.〔 Some figures estimate that there may only be about 80,000 Afghan-Americans but the actual number may be 200,000〔USA Today, ('Little Kabul' immigrants apprehensive (2001) )〕 to as high as 300,000.〔 There are also an estimated 10,000 Afghan Americans in Southern California.〔
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