Our Community
It is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States as of the year 2000 is about 881,300. Countries with the most immigrants to the U.S. are Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Somalia, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Mali and South Africa. Our community has grown dramatically in New York through the 1990s to 2000, making the African-born population one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in New York City. Of this estimate, New York City has the largest absorption of African newcomers within the New York State.
African New Yorkers originate from all 54 countries in Africa and speak many languages, gradually mingling in a stunning cultural diversity to their new home. Most of the African languages belong to one of three large language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo. Another hundred belong to small families such as Ubangian and the various families called Khoisan, or the Indo-European and Austronesian language families which originated outside Africa, but no one group dominates the dynamic multi-ethnic mix in New York City.
C.A.S offers an array of services ranging from counseling, case management, skills training to job placement and follow-along services to everyone in the immigrant community in the New York City area. For African asylees and refugees and other immigrant victims of torture, C.A.S is a one-stop-shop opportunity to help them successfully integrate into the host communities and become more financially and vocationally independent.
Links
Catholic Charities – Archdiocese of New York
New York Immigration Coalition
Chinatown Manpower Project