The first Albanian documented to have emigrated to the United States was Kolë Kristofori (), who landed in Boston in the early 1880s and is remembered as the pioneer of the Albanian ethnic group in the U.S [REF].
Following the Expulsion of Cham Albanians from Greece in the aftermath of World War II, a large number of them migrated to the United States, asserting that the Communist government in Albania discriminated and persecuted them [REF].