Syrians in Uruguay

Syrian Uruguayan
Sirio-uruguayo
السوريون في اوروجواي
Regions with significant populations
Montevideo
Languages
Rioplatense Spanish (Uruguayan Spanish), Arabic
Religion
Christianity and Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Uruguayan people, Syrian people

Syrian Uruguayans (Arabic: السوريون في اوروجواي) are Uruguayan citizens of Syrian descent or a Syrian naturalized Uruguayan. Uruguay has several thousands of people with Arab descent, whose ancestors came mostly from Lebanon; a minority came also from Syria.[1]

As of October 2014, Uruguay is receiving a new immigration flow of Syrian people, this time as a consequence of the Syrian Civil War.[2] 42 Syrian people from five families were received by President José Mujica on 9 October.[3] Because of allegedly insufficient support by the government, some Syrians prostested in 2015 and requested visa to leave the country.[4] One family reportedly tried to leave Uruguay via Serbia in August 2015 but was sent back because of missing visa.[5]

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