{"id":5335,"date":"2015-11-21T00:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T00:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2015-11-21T01:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T01:31:44","slug":"who-are-the-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/11\/who-are-the-syrian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the Syrian Refugees? – Article by Alex Nowrasteh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"The<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Alex Nowrasteh<\/big><\/big>
\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
November 20, 2015
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This is the demographic information on all 2,234 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States from October 2010 through November 2015, according to the Refugee Processing Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data on religion for all refugees is from the same source; some additional information comes from the American Community Survey.<\/p>\n

Gender and Age<\/strong><\/p>\n

Refugees from Syria\u00a0are\u00a0overwhelmingly\u00a0young. 43 percent of all Syrian refugees are children under the age of 14.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-ages\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The gender ratios for Syrian refugees are more balanced. 53 percent are male, 47 percent are female.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-genders\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Males aged 14-30, the most potentially dangerous\u00a0group, are 13 percent of all Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-males-prime-age\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data on religion was collected for all Syrian refugees admitted from fiscal year\u00a02011 to today.<\/p>\n

About 96 percent of the refugees are Muslim of any denomination; about 3 percent are Christians of any denomination. About 1 percent are\u00a0nonreligious or of other faiths.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-religions\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Syrian refugee flow is much\u00a0more Muslim than the global average. Of all refugees resettled in the United States, 44 percent are Christian, compared to less than 3\u00a0percent from Syria.<\/p>\n

\"all-refugees-religion\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Note about worldwide religious data: I suspect there is some double counting. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ethnicity<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Syrian refugees are 87 percent Arab and 10 percent Kurdish, with small representations from other ethnic groups.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-ethnicity\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Education Level<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 43 percent of the Syrian refugees are under the age of 14, and 56 percent are under 20, Syrian refugees tend to be less educated. 9.4 percent have a technical, university, college, or graduate school level of education. Since the refugee flow skews young, this group should become more educated as they age.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-education\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Adult\u00a0Syrian Americans \u2014 over age 25 and born in Syria\u00a0\u2014 are\u00a0more educated than the current refugee flow.<\/p>\n

Overall, Syrian Americans are\u00a0both more and less educated than the population\u00a0as a whole.\u00a044 percent of Syrian immigrants have just a high school diploma or less, compared to 38 percent of native born Americans, but 39 percent of Syrian Americans have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 30 percent of the native born.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-vs-american-ed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sources: American Community Survey, 2014, 1-Year Sample, S0501 and S0201 Syrians<\/em><\/p>\n

Location<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syrians resettled in the United States are highly concentrated in a few states.<\/p>\n

Six states (CA, TX, MI, IL, AZ, and PA) have together received more than half of Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

\"syrian-state\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Twenty states (AR, CO, ID, IN, KS, LA, ME, MD, MN, MO, NV, NH, NM, OK, OR, TN, UT, VA, WA, and WV)\u00a0have received fewer than 50 refugees.<\/p>\n

Fourteen states\u00a0(AL, AK, DE, HI, IA, MS, MT, NE, ND, RI, SC, SD, VT, and WY) and Washington,\u00a0DC,\u00a0have not received any.<\/p>\n

Alex Nowrasteh is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article was originally published by The Foundation for Economic Education<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Nowrasteh November 20, 2015 ****************************** This is the demographic information on all 2,234 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States from October 2010 through November 2015, according to the Refugee Processing Center. Data on religion for all refugees is from the same source; some additional information comes from the American Community Survey. Gender and Age Refugees from Syria\u00a0are\u00a0overwhelmingly\u00a0young. 43 percent of all Syrian refugees are children under the age of 14. The gender ratios for Syrian refugees are more…<\/p>\n

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