History provides many examples of notablediasporas. The Eurominority.eu map (theEuropean Union) Peoples of the World includes some diasporas and underrepresented/stateless ethnic groups.^[1]

Note: the list below is not definitive and includes groups that have not been given significant historical attention. Whether the migration of some of the groups listed fulfils the conditions required to be considered a diaspora may be open for debate.

• Acadian diaspora – In 1755, during theFrench and Indian War, the French-speaking population ofAcadia was expelled by the British colonial government, in an event that has come to be known as the Great Upheaval or Grand Dérangement:Expulsion of the Acadians. Although an order in council was passed in 1764 to allow the Acadians to return, many settled in other parts of North America, including a large population inLouisiana, where they became known as theCajuns.
• Afghan refugees – fled their country throughout the 20th century, especially to nearby Pakistan, India and Iran. Since 1980, over half a million Afghans migrated to Europe (many to Great Britain and Germany), while a quarter of a million went to North America (the US and Canada), and less than 50,000 settled in Australia. There are around 25,000 people of Afghan descent living inHamburg alone.^{[citation needed]} As with theDurand Line issue, some deny Afghan as being considered an ethnicity and consider onlyPashtuns from Pakistan andAfghanistan to be Afghans as opposed to non-Pashtuns in Afghanistan. In the old definition of Afghan, it refers to just Pashtun people, and can especially imply Muslim communities in theIndian subcontinent, (and those that migrated into the Caribbean region) most of which have forgotPashto and replaced with the language of their host region. These assimilated communities were endogamous at the time keeping the members ancestrally homogenous, however thepartition of India causedmiscegenation to be high in many of such communities. Patrilineal descent is the typical indication of such ancestry.^{[citation needed]}

  

• African diaspora –Black African diasporas. This includesAfro-Caribbeans,Afro-Europeans (e.g.Black British),Afro-Latin Americans andBlack Canadians.

• • African Americans: The2010 US Census stated 43 million overall, but between 35 and 50 million or 12-15% of the US population are Black or of Sub-Saharan African descent. They tend to be descendants of slaves brought tothe New World in the 1600s-early 19th century until the practice was made illegal in 1865 after theUS Civil War (the United States or Union defeated the secededConfederacy in the southern states). Significant immigration of African-descended populations from the Caribbean, plus direct immigration from Sub-Saharan Africa, began in the 20th century.
  • African Australians – part of the African diaspora in Australia. Note that in Australia, the term "African Australian" refers strictly to people who migrated directly from Africa to Australia, or had an ancestor do so. Immigrants from the African diaspora (such as Caribbeans and African Americans) are not included in the term.
• Albanian diaspora – 2.8 million live inAlbania, with an estimated 8.5 million world total (the largest populations being in Italy, Greece, Turkey, the United States, Canada and Australia). The largest concentration of Albanians outside the country is in neighbouringKosovo. Other Albanian enclaves are in southernSerbia,North Macedonia,Montenegro,Romania, Russia, Turkey,Ukraine,Bosnia and Herzegovina, and coastalCroatia. Another population of ethnic Albanians, known as theArbereshe, has lived in southern Italy, especially in regions ofAbruzzo,Calabria,Campania,Naples,Apulia andSicily for over eight centuries. In the 19th and 20th centuries, repeated large waves of Albanian emigration took place as Albanians moved to northern and western Europe (i.e. France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.), the former Soviet Union, North America (the U.S. – seeAlbanian American and with smaller numbers in Mexico and South America), Australia and across Asia (the formerOttoman Empire in the Middle East).

• Americans living abroad – People from the United States (US), largest numbers in Mexico and Canada, as well inLiberia (African-Americans), Israel (American Jews), Japan (off the Asian continent), and throughout Asia (South Korea andPhilippines), Europe (i.e. France and the UK) and the (Latin) Americas.

• Arab diaspora – around 30 millionArabs have left theArab world escaping hotspots, and conflicts areas, those who have migrated from the Arab world, now reside in Western Europe, theAmericas (e.g.Detroit has the largestArab-American community), Australia and elsewhere. (See especiallyLebanese,Syrians andPalestinians).

• Argentine diaspora – People fromArgentina known asArgentines whom live overseas in communities across theAmericas (likeUruguay and Brazil until the 1990s), western Europe (esp. Spain, Italy, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.) and elsewhere (i.e. Israel), mainly are political refugees from themilitary junta in the late 1970s and 1980s, (see alsoArgentine Americans in the USA.).

• Armenian diaspora –Armenians living intheir ancient homeland, which had been controlled by theOttoman Empire for centuries, fled persecution, massacres andgenocide during several periods of forced emigration, from the 1880s to the 1920s. Many Armenians settled in the United States, a majority of whom live in the state ofCalifornia (seeArmenian Americans), France, Canada, Greece,Cyprus,Iran,Lebanon, Russia,Syria, and asmall orphan population in the formerEthiopian Empire.

• Asian Americans – made up of mainly East Asian peoples in the United States, esp. of other diasporas likeChinese (the largest),Japanese andFilipino, the largest concentrations are inCalifornia like the city of San Francisco (35%, while 20% of the city are Chinese+4%Taiwanese) and Los Angeles; the state ofHawaii – over half (60%) of state population, and New York City.
• Assyrian diaspora – aSemitic Christian population of the Middle East (originally they lived inAssyria). In the 20th century, millions of Assyrians left the Middle East due to ongoing ethnic, political and religious persecution. Assyrian communities flourish in the United States, Canada, Australia and throughoutWestern Europe.
• Australian diaspora – About 750,000 Australian expatriates live outside of Australia, mostly business executives and retired people seeking a new place to live. There are large Australian communities in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and North America; and smaller groups in Europe, Africa (especiallySouth Africa), the Middle East (particularly theUnited Arab Emirates), east and south Asia (includingThailand andPapua New Guinea), and Latin America (likeCosta Rica, esp. Brazil,Chile, andArgentina).

• Azerbaijani diaspora – About 35 million people, the communities ofAzerbaijanis living outside of places of their ethnic origin:Azerbaijan Republic andIranian Azerbaijan. The termAzerbaijani diaspora refers to the global community of ethnicAzeris.

  

• Bangladeshi diaspora – members of the Bangladeshi diaspora may have moved abroad for better living conditions, to give western education to their children, to escape poverty, to support their financial condition or to send money back to families inBangladesh. The countries and regions with the largest Bangladeshi populations include theMiddle East (notablySaudi Arabia and theUnited Arab Emirates),Malaysia and parts of thewestern world, including theUnited Kingdom and Italy.

  

• Basque diaspora –Basques who left theBasque Country in northern Spain and southwest France, usually to the Americas (esp. the western U.S.,Chile – where 10-20% of the population are of Basque descent,^[2]Uruguay,Colombia,Venezuela and Mexico) for economic or political reasons. There are also Basque Catholic missionaries across the world, as well Basque fishermen in Canada (Newfoundland), Northern Europe, East Asia, andOceania (Australia).

• Bengali Hindu diaspora – the worldwide population of theBengali Hindus ofIndian andBangladeshi origin.
• Bihari –Pakistani Muslims of different ethnic origins inBengal, India andBangladesh, a small percentage of population left over from Pakistan's rule ofBangladesh (thenEast Pakistan) from 1947 to 1971.
• Bosnian diaspora – grew substantially during theBosnian war. It mainly consists ofBosniaks but also out ofBosnian Croats andBosnian Serbs. ManyBosnians live in the United States, mostly in large cities likeSt. Louis, Missouri;Chicago; New York City; Washington, D.C.,Boston, Massachusetts; andLos Angeles; and many live in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Austria,Croatia,Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.

• Brazilian diaspora – Motivated by factors such as the elevated levels ofcorruption,violence,unemployment,poverty,income inequality,taxation, among other reasons. Has been characterized by two large waves. The first wave started during the 1980s, a period known in Latin America asThe Lost Decade (in Brazil, more precisely after the end of themilitary dictatorship in 1985, when thedirect democracy was reinstated with the beginning of theNew Republic). During this period, despite several attempts made by the then-Presidents tostabilize the economy, the country suffered a series ofsuccessive economic crises that lasted until the early 2000s, culminating in issues likehyperinflation,samba effect,privatization of the water system, among other consequences. Because of this, manyBrazilians decided to move abroad looking for a better life. The second one was larger and started during the2014 economic crisis, when a record number of Brazilians started to leave the country. This emigration continued to escalate in later years until the arrival of theCOVID-19pandemic inthe country in February 2020. Throughout history, it is estimated that about 3.1 million Brazilians have moved to other countries, mainly the United States,Paraguay, Japan and Portugal. In the United States, many Brazilians try to accomplish what is known asTheAmerican Dream. They generally live in communities where there are a large number of countrymen. They are most found in the states ofFlorida,Massachusetts,New York,New Jersey andCalifornia. In Paraguay, where the Brazilian immigrants are known asBrasiguayos, most of them work either in agricultural lands located in rural areas or selling products for Brazilians in several retail stores opened by them inCiudad del Este, a city located near theTriple Frontier with Brazil andArgentina. In Japan, most immigrants areJapanese Brazilians who are direct descendants of the Japanese immigrants who moved to Brazil, especially tothe community they formed during the early 20th century in the district ofLiberdade, located in the city ofSão Paulo. In Portugal, many Brazilians are attracted by the ease to speak Portuguese (theEuropean Portuguese dialect does not have large differences compared toBrazilian Portuguese), and considering the large number of Brazilians who have Portuguese ancestry, many of them have decided to apply for the acquisition of thePortuguese citizenship using the principle ofjus sanguinis.

• Breton diaspora - The population from Brittany, Celtic region in north-western France who have emigrated temporarily or permanently outside the borders of this region, while maintaining links with it. Bretons chiefly migrated to France, Canada, the United States and Caribbean islands but also in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand among others.
• British diaspora – During the last four hundred years millions of English,Scots, andWelsh have migrated all over the world, for a great variety of reasons, especially to the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, but many other places besides (e.g.Zimbabwe, Spain,Kenya,Chile andArgentina).

• Bulgarian diaspora – an estimated three million ethnicBulgarians are dispersed around the world, the majority in Europe such as in neighboring nations ofRomania, Greece,Serbia, Turkey andNorth Macedonia. About 200,000 in the US, with 50,000 others in Canada, 20,000 in Australia, and 20,000 in Brazil. Other large Bulgarian diaspora communities are in France, Germany, Spain,Argentina, Italy, Russia and the United Kingdom.

  

• TheCape Verdean diaspora refers to historical emigration fromCape Verde. Today, moreCape Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde itself. Diaspora communities include those in the United States, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and Canada.
• TheCham who are Southeast Asians mostly practice Islam. The Cham people's diaspora begins with the conclusion of theCham-Vietnamese War of 1471 as Vietnamese forces attacked and sacked the capitalVijaya and defeat the Cham army decisively. As a result of the conflict, theChampa kingdom was forced to cede its remaining territory toVietnam.^[3] Sizable communities of descendants exist inCambodia's eastern territories, such asKampong Cham province, onHainan Island in China and the Vietnamese archipelago of theSouth China Sea.^[4] The Cham people's numbers were reduced by the persecutions ofPol Pot'sKhmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
• Chechens – fledChechnya during the 1990s insurrection against Russia. The majority of displacedChechens fled toAzerbaijan,Armenia and theRepublic of Georgia, but tens of thousands of Chechen refugees migrated to Europe, North America and across the Middle East. Previous waves of migration took Chechens toEgypt,Iran,Iraq,Jordan, Turkey andSaudi Arabia in 1820 or 1890.
• Cherokees – aNative American tribe indigenous to theSoutheastern United States, whose official tribal organization isCherokee Nation based inOklahoma, United States, which had 400,000 citizens in 2022^[5] but the US census reported 800,000 Americans claimed Cherokee descent as of 2005, and the total ethnic population in the USA nearly doubled to 1.5 million by 2015.^{[citation needed]} However, anthropological and genetic experts in Native American studies have argued that there could be over two million more Cherokee descendants scattered across North America (the largest number at 300–600,000 inCalifornia). The beginnings of the Cherokee diaspora was from their forced removal in theTrail of Tears. Later, thousands of "Americanized" Cherokee farmers were forced to settle across the Americas (i.e. Canada,Cuba and South America-an estimated 90–100,000 descendants there^{[citation needed]}) as the result of theDawes Act. In the 20th century, many Cherokees served in the U.S. Army during World War I, World War II, theKorean War and theVietnam War. These soldiers left some descendants by intermarriage with "war brides" in Europe andeast Asia. Some Cherokees and other American Indians might have emigrated to Europe and elsewhere through theBritish andSpanish empires. They make up the global Cherokee diaspora.^[6]
• TheChian diaspora occurred in 1822, when the Greco-Genoese population ofChios was killed, exiled, and enslaved by their Ottoman rulers.
• Chilean diaspora – A small but widespread community, mostly ofpolitical refugees who fled theAugusto Pinochet regime after the1973 coup. OverseasChilean communities are inArgentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden,Venezuela and the USA. (seeChilean Americans), but smaller communities are found in Belgium, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. During the Pinochet era, many refugees moved toEast Germany when it was a communist country before reunification with Germany in 1990.

• Chinese diaspora – number over 50 million worldwide with other estimates range up to 100 million total of Chinese descent. The largest overseas Chinese communities are in Asia.Indonesia,Thailand,Malaysia,Singapore,Philippines,Vietnam andMyanmar (in descending order of ethnic Chinese population size) have at least 1 million ethnic Chinese each. Three countries outside Asia, namely the United States (esp. States ofCalifornia,Hawaii,New York andWashington State), Canada (esp. urban areas ofToronto,Montreal,Vancouver) and Australia (esp. cities ofSydney,Melbourne) have populations over 1 million in size. Other sizable communities may be found in Japan,Cambodia, Brazil,Peru,Venezuela, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, theRepublic of Ireland, New Zealand andSouth Africa, each with over 100,000 ethnic Chinese.

• • Hakka people.
  • Hui –Muslims in China.
• Circassians – fledCircassia mainly in the 1860s. 90% ofCircassians were forced by Russian Colonialists to exile in theOttoman Empire or Imperial Turkey. The Circassian Diaspora is over four million worldwide, with large Circassian communities inBulgaria,Cyprus,Egypt,Israel,Jordan,Kosovo,Lebanon,Romania,Serbia,Syria as well the formerUSSR, over 100,000 Circassians in North America (the United States and Canada), and over 10,000 Circassians in Australia. There are documented stories onCircassian beauties about thousands of renowned "beautiful" women from Circassia in the mid 19th century emigrated to the western world where they married European and North American men.^[7]
• Colombian diaspora –Approximately 7.6 million Colombians have leftColombia across the country's history, either because of displacement during the armed conflict, the pursuit of educational or vocational attainment, economic hardship, professional and social mobility, entrepreneurship reasons and even for avoiding political prosecution. The Colombian diaspora lives across theAmericas (i.e. Canada, and South American nations), and across Europe (i.e. Spain, France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom). The largest overseas Colombian populations are those ofVenezuela followed by the United States where they number over 2 millionColombian Americans, one of the largestLatino nationalities in the country.

• Congolese diaspora found across the continent of Africa, their home countries divided by theKongo River are theRepublic of Congo to the north and theDemocratic Republic of Congo formerlyZaire to the south. Smaller Congolese communities developed inSouth Africa,Nigeria andWestern Europe.

• Cornish people migrated fromCornwall to other parts of England and countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,South Africa, and Brazil. The diaspora was caused by a number of factors, but due mainly to economic reasons and the lack of jobs in the 18th and 19th centuries when manyCornish people, or "Cousin Jacks" as they were known, migrated to various parts of the world in search of a better life. (see alsoCornish emigration).
• Crimean Tatar diaspora – formed after the annexation of theCrimean Khanate by Russia, in 1783.
• Croatian diaspora – Largest number ofCroatians living outside Europe are in the US,Chile, Canada, Australia,Venezuela and Brazil.

• Cuban diaspora – the exodus of over one million displacedCubans (the largest community is inMiami andits metropolitan area in the United States) following theCuban Revolution of 1959. (See alsoCuban Americans). Other preferred countries, including Spain, Mexico,Venezuela (not as much today), Ireland, Australia, andNicaragua.

• Danish people a.k.a.Danes who originate in the Nordic country of Denmark. They have historically migrated all over Europe, and about a million Danish emigrants in the last two centuries to all the world's six inhabited continents. An example ofDanish culture overseas is inSolvang, California in the United States.^{[citation needed]} And returningDanish-Americans in 1909 founded a town in Denmark nearAalborg.^{[citation needed]}

• Delaware Tribe of Indians (Oklahoma United States) andLeni-Lenape people inNortheastern US, they are scattered throughout the US, extending to Mexico and Canada. See alsoShawnee;Chickasaw andChoctaw; andSeminole peoples resettled inIndian Territory, 1838–1907.^[8]
• Dominican people from theDominican Republic formed a Dominican diaspora. Today, over a millionDominicans live in the United States (seeDominican American), followed by Canada,Venezuela,Argentina (seeDominican Argentine), Spain and elsewhere. Dominicans lived outside the country in over a century (since 1900) but especially since the 1960s, Dominicans leave the country in search of available work and employment opportunities. Dominican immigration toPuerto Rico beginning in 1990 became very high in numbers per ratio to Puerto Rico's population, including illegal entries on dangerous rafts through theMona Passage between the two islands (seeHispaniola). Dominicans now form 10% of New York City's population and 1/8 ofManhattan orNew York County's, they became the city's largestLatino group.

• Dutch diaspora – theDutch originally came from theLow Countries and northern France. Millions of Dutch descendants have traditionally lived in the United States (Dutch American), Canada, Australia, New Zealand,Indonesia,Sri Lanka, Africa (Afrikaners), the Caribbean (Aruba andNetherlands Antilles), andSuriname, and some Dutch immigrants to South America.^[9]

• • Flemings, a subgroup of Dutch/Low German speaking people of the country of Belgium, about 50-55% of the country's population speaks Dutch – also calledFlemish, one of Belgium's two major and three official languages.Flemings migrated to all the six continents of the world, sometimes in droves to nearby countries of France and the Netherlands, other European nations of the UK, Germany and Sweden, and they founded new settlements. TheAzores, a Portuguese territory was once called theIslas de las Flamandes (the Fleming Islands) in the 16th century. TheWest Flemish population in theNord département of France struggle to preserve their endangered language.
  • Frisians, an ethnic group related to the Dutch live in theFrieslands on the northern half of the Netherlands, along with northwestern Germany and southernmost Denmark. The Frisians have their ownlanguage, history and customs. Frisians are thought to date back 5,000 years, migrated to theRhine delta by theNorth Sea and were successful in draining out the marshes to make it inhabitable to establish cities and farmland. Frisians also migrated worldwide, a number of them were employed in the oceanic fishing markets.

• Ecuadorian diaspora –Ecuadorians fromEcuador reside in countries across the Americas (i.e. the US, seeEcuadorian Americans, also in Canada, Mexico,Argentina,Venezuela and Brazil), Europe (esp. Spain and Italy, with some in France and elsewhere), and smaller numbers in Japan and Australia.

• (Egyptian)Coptic diaspora – About 3 millionCoptic Christians, members of theCoptic Christian Church based inEgypt for about 2,000 years, live around the world. The largest numbers are in North America and Australia; and Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway and Sweden in Europe.
• Egyptian diaspora – 9.5 millionEgyptians living abroad.

• Estonian diaspora – WhenEstonia was invaded by theSoviet Army in 1944, large numbers ofEstonians fled their homeland on ships or smaller boats over theBaltic Sea.^[10] Many refugees who survived the risky sea voyage to Sweden and/or Germany later moved from there to Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and/or Australia. Also, with theJune deportation of 1941 andMarch deportation of 1949, the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonians toSiberia. Some of these refugees and their descendants returned to Estonia after the nation regained its independence in 1991. TheRussian Empire displaced a fairly high number of Estonians into exile, maybe the number of descendants (the 3.5 million outside Estonia) to have assimilated into Russian society. The Estonian people are generally small in size (0.9 million within Estonia), but doesn't it include Estonian sub-groups: theChudes,Livonians,Setos andVoros in neighboring lands of Russia,Latvia andLithuania. There is no way to know the corrected number of Estonians, unless to count 100,000 dual nationals in the former USSR or the number of expatriates in theEU countries (esp. Finland).^{[citation needed]}

• Fiji Indian diaspora – people of Indian origin leftFiji following the racially inspired coups of 1987 and 2000 to settle primarily in Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada. Smaller numbers have settled in England and other Pacific islands.
• Filipino diaspora – one of the largest diasporas that came from Asia (amounting approximately 20 million) made up of a variety ofethnic,linguistic andregional groups that are originally from thePhilippines and live around the world, often for Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, North America, and Europe. Majority of them are migrant workers.Overseas Filipino Workers have their own political party in thePhilippine Congress.

• French diaspora – Over 100 million French-speaking and ethnic French people in the world, about 55 million in Metropolitan France in Europe, 3 million in Belgium known as theWalloons, 3 million in western cantons of Switzerland and 2 million others in adjacent areas ofLuxembourg, the kingdoms ofAndorra andMonaco, and parts of western Italy, southwest Germany and northern Spain. This includes the remnants ofPied-Noirs in formerly French territories of North Africa – the now independent nations ofAlgeria,Morocco andTunisia; and in Southeast Asia (formerlyFrench Indochina) – the now independent nations ofCambodia,Laos andVietnam; and millions of those of French ancestry in North America (i.e. a major contributor of settlement in the US and 8 millionFrench-Canadians in Canada), South America and the Caribbean, andOceania (i.e.New Caledonia andFrench Polynesia).

• • French Canadian diaspora – includes hundreds of thousands of people who leftQuebec for the United States (most went toNew England states ofMaine,Massachusetts,New Hampshire andVermont), as well asOntario andWestern Canada, between about 1840 and 1930. In addition, since the 1970sFlorida and other portions of theSoutheastern United States have had sizable French-Canadian communities, consisting chiefly of retired senior citizens.
  • TheAcadian diaspora – theGreat Expulsion (Grand Dérangement) occurred when the British expelled about 10,000Acadians (over three-fourths of the Acadian population ofNova Scotia) between 1755 and 1764. The British split the Acadians between different colonies to imposeassimilation. Most of the French-speaking Acadians resettled in the then Spanish colony ofLouisiana, now a state of the US where the "Cajuns" influenced the ethnological background of Louisiana. The Cajuns settled along bayous and rivers in Louisiana and have their ownCajun cooking. InNew Orleans, French people from France, along with high admixture withAnglo-American,African,Spanish and other ethnicities introducingJazz music andCreolecooking.
  • Walloons, in the southern half of Belgium. Several languages part of the langue d'oil family of languages, where spoken in Wallonia. (Atlas linguistique de la Wallonie ^[fr] ) In Belgium, due toFrench annexation in 1795 of what was to become Belgium, and French being at that time a lingua franca of European Elites ( including that of Bourgeois and Aristocrats living in regions and cities currently part ofWallonia andFlanders ), the French language has been imposed as official language. At a later state, theDutch language and, after their annexation as war reparations, the German in the easternmost parts are given co-official status. Many Walloon miners, factory workers and farmers migrated to France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK; and other French and Dutch/Belgian colonial lands (i.e.Belgian Congo andDemocratic Republic of the Congo formerlyZaire).
  • Occitans are persons from Southern France, some are known to speak theOccitan language orLangue D'Oc for thousands of years, but in general decline from pressures by the French Republican government since the early 19th century. Occitans were often felt denied the right of their cultural heritage and some relocated out of France in quiet protest to other countries, esp.French-speaking Canada and other parts ofLa Francophonie (French Empire and French-speaking areas of Europe). Also there have been Occitan-speaking settlers inPigüé,Argentina; sporadically Mexico andChile; and even into the United States inValdese, North Carolina.Occitania is a regional-cultural movement that developed since the 1970s throughout the southern half of France with adjacent parts of Switzerland, Italy and Spain.^{[citation needed]}
  • Huguenots, or FrenchProtestants. They often migrated out of France in the 1600s and 1700s to nearby Protestant majority lands like Netherlands, Germany, the UK, the United States and Canada (thenBritish North America), South Africa, and other lands like Switzerland, Scandinavia, Poland (thePrussian Empire), Hungary; and Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century.
  • Corsicans from the French administered island ofCorsica, seeCorsican immigration to Venezuela,Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico andCorsican American.

• Galicians – left their region for mainly economic reasons to other areas of Spain and nearby Portugal; and to the Americas (esp.Argentina, Brazil, Canada,Cuba,Dominican Republic, Mexico,Puerto Rico, the United States,UruguayVenezuela); and later, Western Europe (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium,the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) in the 1950s and 1960s. Galicians also went to Africa, Australia, New Zealand and east Asia: China, Japan and thePhilippines which was a former Spanish colony from 1540 to 1898.

• German diaspora – an estimated 150 million^[11][12][13]ethnic Germans originally from the historic German-speaking homeland of Germany, Austria, Switzerland,South Tyrol andLiechtenstein, and includes parts of Belgium (see theGerman-speaking Community of Belgium),Croatia, Denmark, France (esp. the region ofAlsace),Gottschee County ofSlovenia, Italy (formerly ruled byAustria-Hungary),Lithuania,Luxembourg, the Netherlands,Pannonia (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Poland,Romania, Russia,Serbia andUkraine. In World War II, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia expelled over 10 million ethnic Germans from theSudetenland,Czechoslovakia (nowCzech Republic) and former German provinces which were annexed by Poland,Slovakia, Hungary and the formerUSSR (Belarus) with Soviet and Allied support. In the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, millions of Germans left German lands especially to theAmericas (i.e. the United States-seeGerman American, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Peru and Venezuela). Large numbers also migrated to Australia, where they now form the fourth largest ethnic group, with nearly 750,000 people claiming German descent. Other smaller German communities in Africa or the Middle East (i.e. Egypt, Israel, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Turkey),east Asia/Oceania (i.e. China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and New Zealand), and across the former Soviet Union (i.e.Kazakhstan).|**German Russians – Russians of German descent who settled in the Russian Empire in the 1600s and 1700s. The highest concentration are in the Volga region (Volga Germans). The majority of the German-Russian population left in the 1800s and 1900s, esp. after World War II to Germany, the US and all over the world.^[14]
  • "Ossi(e)s" – a term for former East Germans of the formerEast Germany or the German Democratic Republic in contrast to the "Wessies" or West Germans. The two countriesreunified in 1990, but there is a level ofOstalgie (means East-Nostalagia) for the past and cultural aspects of East Germany. When theBerlin Wall fell and the East-West German border was demolished, hundreds of thousands of Eastern Germans moved to the west side not only for freedom, but for the additional quality of life and economic opportunities available in the west, but after reunification a good percentage returned to what is now the same country. The 5 states of the former East (seeNew states of Germany) remained culturally distinct, mainly the older generation whom grew up in the GDR era. In 1989, there was an influx of East Germans into opened countries of theSoviet Bloc: Hungary,Czechoslovakia and Poland with some western embassies, esp. East Germans went to obtain passports from the Federal Republic of (West) Germany; and others went to neutral nations like Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands,Scandinavia and Switzerland for political reasons as some were still sympathetic to communist ideals. Some smaller numbers of East Germans chose to move in various countries ofWestern Europe and theAmericas as well the former Soviet Union, but most returned home in the course of the 1990s. Germany may be reunified, but some "Ossie" cultural identity remains.^{[citation needed]}
  • Danube Swabians – Ethnic German (Austrian) communities in Hungary.
  • Mennonites –Christians rooted in the 16th and 17th centuryAnabaptist movement of theProtestant Reformation in northern Europe. Various groups of Mennonites migrated to the US, other parts of North America (i.e.Belize, Canada mainly inSaskatchewan and northern Mexico), eastern Europe and Asia (includingIsrael andEgypt in Africa). There are Mennonite settlements in Central and South America (esp. in theGran Chaco,Paraguay) and over a million Mennonite adherents worldwide.
  • Pennsylvania Dutch a corrupted term of "Pennsedeutsch" inPennsylvania, US, where a large (in demographic terms) German American cultural presence exists to this day. ThePennsylvania German language is decreasing in use, but has a history in the state going back 350 years (since 1660).^{[citation needed]}
  • Barossa German spoken by a colony of German-Australians in the Barossa valley,South Australia, Australia.

• Gerashi diasporas – The people of Gerashi origin (ofIran) who have migrated to theArab States of the southern Persian Gulf in search of necessities and basic human rights. It has continued since the early 20th century bombing of the city byReza Shah and the federal forces.
• Ghanaian diaspora – Are people from the nation ofGhana living abroad. Significant populations can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,South Africa, United Kingdom and United States.^[15]

• Greek diaspora – refers to any ethnicGreek populations living outside the borders of Greece andCyprus as a result of modern or ancient migrations. There is a Department of Diaspora Affairs in the Greek government. An estimated three million Greeks live in North America (the United States and Canada), Africa, Australia (especiallyMelbourne, the third largest 'Greek' city), across Europe – the largest groups being established in Germany, Sweden and Belgium – and the Middle East. Ancient Greek communities in what is now Turkey were destroyed due to the fallout from World War I and persecution. A Greek community remains inIstanbul according to the terms of theLausanne treaty, but persecution in the 1950s and 1960s led most to flee. Only a small community (Pontic Greeks) remain in Turkey. A similarly ancient community of Greeks inAlexandria andCairo was ordered to leaveEgypt in the 1960s under Nasser's nationalisation programme. In addition, many Greek-speakingCypriots migrated to Britain in the 20th century.

• Habesha diaspora – the peoples of theEthiopian Empire and its successor states ofEritrea andEthiopia have migrated over the years due to political unrest, ethnic tensions, and civil wars like theDeg's Ethiopian Revolution,Red Terror (Ethiopia)Ethiopian Civil War,1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea,Eritrean War of Independence,Eritrean–Ethiopian War, and other present conflicts and upheavals. TheHabesha peoples have used various ethnological names like "Abyssinians", "Erthyreneans", "Habesha", "Oromo", "Amharic", "Eritrean", "Ethiopian", and "[Insert Name of Ethnic Group]" depending on the time period they fled, their national origin, their political position, regional ancestry, or which of the approximately 85 to 89 constituent ethnic groups they come from.
  • Eritreans – Around half a million of the total five million Eritreans fled the country during the thirty-yearEritrean War of Independence as well as fleeing violence perpetuated by theEritrean government (EPLF–PFDJ). They have formed communities all over the western world (i.e. United States inWashington, D.C., and Los Angeles; and Europe: Sweden, Germany and Italy). There are more than half a million Eritreans in refugee camps (most inEthiopia andSudan).
  • Ethiopians – A mass movement of Ethiopian migration during the 20th century into the Middle East (mostlyIsrael), Europe, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, North America (esp. the United States and Canada), and Latin America caused by ethnic violence, politically unrest, and violence perpetuated by theEthiopian government* (EPRDF) has created a global Ethiopian diaspora.
• Haitian diaspora – many white and mixed race Haitians migrated toCuba and thenNew Orleans, Louisiana after theHaitian Revolution. More recently, many black Haitians have migrated to the United States and Canada. Others live in theBahamas,Cuba, theDominican Republic, andFrench Guiana. There are also smaller numbers in Belgium, France, Spain, andVenezuela. Increasingly, Haitians are searching for employment inArgentina,Chile, Mexico and Brazil.^{[citation needed]}

• Hapa – The modern term for mixed-race persons of Asian-Americans of white/Caucasian and Native Hawaiian ancestry. (see alsoMultiracial American) They tend to live across the US and western Canada, due to historic migration of Hawaiians into North America.
• Hispanics or Latinos in the US are sometimes referred to as a newly developed "diaspora" or dispersions of immigrant peoples from Latin America into the United States, and ethnic groups continued their cultural distinction, such asChicanos orMexican Americans,Puerto Rican people,Cuban Americans, etc.
• Hongkonger diaspora – lives in communities in cities such as London, UK;Toronto, Canada;California, United States; andSydney, Australia. SeeHongcouver the largest Hongkonger community inVancouver, British Columbia andyacht people.
• Hungarian diaspora – lives in numerous communities across Europe, former USSR, North America and Australia. Historic Hungary extended into parts ofCzech Republic,Slovakia,Romania,Serbia andUkraine. For over 300 years, either they migrated west for economic opportunities or as political refugees, such as the failedHungarian revolution of 1956 against theCommunist government, when over 200,000 Hungarians fled the country for asylum in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria (historic Austria-Hungary empire), Brazil,Argentina andVenezuela. It used to be Argentina and Venezuela had Hungarian immigrants before economic conditions worsened.

• Icelandic diaspora: at an estimated number of 150,000, half of which are inCanada. SeeIcelanders.

• Igbo diaspora: One of the aftermaths of the devastating 1967–1970Biafran War was the large scale emigration ofIgbos from their homeland ofIgboland in search of economic opportunities and generally better standard of living. Prior to that, millions of Igbo men and women were shipped to theAmericas during theAtlantic Slave Trade. Today, places with the most population of diaspora Igbos and people of Igbo descent are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain,Haiti and theWest Indies.
• Inuit, their homeland spans across 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of northernmost reaches of North America along the Arctic Ocean. About 800,000 Arctic peoples (a.k.a. "Eskimos", a term that includes non-Inuit Arctic peoples such asAleuts andYupik peoples) live in four countries: The U.S. (Alaska, though mostAlaska Natives are not Inuit), Canada (Nunavut is a territorial government established in 1999,Inuvialuit in theNorthwest Territories,Nunavik inQuebec,Nunatsiavut andNunatuKavut inLabrador),Greenland (the "Greenlandic" people, the majority are of Inuit andDanish-European ancestry), self-ruling territory of Denmark, and about 3,000Siberian Yupik (closely related to theAlutiiq andYup'ik of Alaska) in the Chukchi Peninsula, Russia facing the Bering Strait.
• Indian Diaspora: They are broadly divided into two groups i.e. NRIs (Indian citizens not residing in India) and PIOs (Persons of Indian Origin who have acquired the citizenship of some other country).^[16] Major populations exist inMauritius (where they form the majority),Guyana,Trinidad and Tobago,Suriname,Fiji,Malaysia,South Africa,Nepal andRéunion, primarily from 19th century indentured workers. Recent immigration to Canada,United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States (seeDesi, a nickname forIndian Americans).

• Indochinese diaspora – includes the refugees from the numerous wars that took place inSoutheast Asia, such as World War II and theVietnam War.
  • TheVietnamese diaspora – fled communist rule inVietnam following their victory in theVietnam War (seeSouth Vietnam) went to the United States (seeVietnamese Americans), the migration peaked in the 1980s and 1990s (esp. the largestVietnamese-American communities inCalifornia,Texas, andPhiladelphia). The Vietnamese also went to Canada, France (and overseas territories), Germany (also the Vietnamese guest workers in the former CommunistEast Germany), Italy, the Middle East, Australia, and other Asian countries (most went to Hong Kong, when it was aBritish colony, before the handover to thePeople's Republic of China in 1997, andMacau, which was underPortuguese rule until the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1999).
  • The wave ofHmong tribes fromLaos,Laotians,Cambodians andThai refugees and economic immigrants (Vietnamese who arrived since 1990) arrived in North America (i.e. the United States and Canada), Europe (esp. France), across Asia (most went toThailand),Oceania (Australia) and South America (concentrated inFrench Guiana).
  • Some millions of Indochinese were ofethnic Chinese descent, the majority of Chinese/Sino-Vietnamese fromVietnam, Chinese-Cambodians ofCambodia and Thai-Chinese ofThailand had emigrated in the late 20th century.
• Indonesian diaspora – refers to any ethnic inIndonesia living outside of their homeland, the majority of Indonesian expatriates live inMalaysia, the US, Japan, theU.A.E., Australia, and the Netherlands, esp.South Moluccans, a predominantlyChristian ethnic group found asylum and religious freedom by the thousands in the Netherlands since the 1950s.
  • Acehnese diaspora – From theAceh state inSumatra.
  • Malays diaspora – From neighboringMalaysia (East andWest).
  • Minangkabau diaspora – two out of three Minangkabau people live in diaspora.Matrilineal system indirectly caused the diaspora in Minangkabau community. Nowadays, over a million Minangkabau people living outside ofIndonesia, mainly inMalaysia andSingapore, but they recently joined the Indonesian emigration to Australia, China, Europe, Japan,South Korea,Taiwan and thePhilippines.
  • Javanese diaspora – occurred in theDutch colonial era. Vast numbers of Javanese send to other Dutch colonies ascoulies. Most of them were sent toSuriname,New Caledonia, andEast Sumatra, as well in the late 20th century the Javanese were introduced to the island ofNew Guinea byIndonesian government endorsed settlement programs inPapua andWest Papua provinces. Others live inMalaysia, Europe, North America, the Middle East,South Africa and Australia.
  • Indo diaspora – During and after theIndonesian National Revolution, which followed the World War II, (1945–1965) around 300.000 people, predominantlyIndos, leftIndonesia to go to the Netherlands. This migration was called repatriation. The majority of this group had never set foot in the Netherlands before.

• Iranian diaspora (seePersian diaspora).

• Iraqi diaspora –Refugees from Iraq have increased in number since theUS-led invasion into Iraq in March 2003. As of November 4, 2006, theUNHCR estimated that 1.8 millionIraqis had been displaced to neighboring countries, with nearly 100,000 Iraqis fleeing toSyria andJordan each month. There are over 200,000 Iraqi refugees said to reside inEgypt and 100,000 more in thePersian Gulf states. The main destinations for Iraqi immigration in the 2000s (decade) are the UK, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia and South America (i.e. Brazil). However, there is a large Iraqi community in the United States (seeArab American andIraqi American) and some of the community in the US arrived as early as the 1900s-10s.^{[citation needed]}

• Irish diaspora – consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants especially in countries such as the United States (seeIrish Americans), the United Kingdom (seeIrish migration to Great Britain andIrish-Scots, not to be confused withUlster-Scots akaScots-Irish), Canada (seeIrish Canadians,Irish Quebecers,Irish Newfoundlanders), Australia (seeIrish Australians), New Zealand (seeIrish New Zealanders), and Argentina (seeIrish Argentine), where vibrant Irish communities continue to exist. To a lesser extent, Irish people also immigrated to Chile (seeIrish Chilean), Brazil (seeIrish Brazilians), Uruguay (seeIrish Uruguayan), Mexico (seeIrish immigration to Mexico), South Africa (seeIrish South African), and nations of the Caribbean (seeIrish immigration to Barbados,Irish people in Jamaica,Irish immigration to Puerto Rico,Irish immigration to Saint Kitts and Nevis) and continental Europe (seeIrish people in mainland Europe). The diaspora contains over 80 million people and it is the result of mass migration from Ireland, due to past famines (especially theGreat Famine), poverty, and political oppression. The term first came widely into use in Ireland in the 1990s when the then-President of Ireland,Mary Robinson began using it to describe all those of Irish descent. Notable people of the global Irish diaspora are United States presidentJohn F. Kennedy (Roman Catholic), United States president Ronald Reagan (partially, not Catholic), United States presidentJoe Biden, andChilean liberatorBernardo O'Higgins.

• Italian diaspora – occurred mainly between the 1890s and 1930s due to the economic crises and poverty in Italy, with emigrant numbers reaching into the tens of million. Vast numbers of mostlySouthern Italians immigrated to the United States (seeItalian Americans andSicilian Americans) and Canada (seeItalian Canadians,Italian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area,Italians in Montreal) during this period, though immigration to North America (especially Canada) also picked up after World War II, most notably from the 1950s to 1970s.
  • Italian immigrants to North America, the majority of which came from Southern Italy, settled mainly in theNortheastern United States and various industrial cities in theMidwestern United States, such asChicago, though significant but smaller communities evolved in cities such asNew Orleans,San Diego, and San Francisco (with most Italians on theWest Coast coming fromNorthern Italy.) In many of these American cities, Italian immigrants and their offspring established Italian ethnic communities known as "Little Italies." In most cases, these Italian communities generally began as impoverished neighborhoods, or effectively "ghettos" for Italian immigrants. (SeeLittle Italy,List of Italian-American neighborhoods,Template:Italian Americans by location). In the United States and Canada, both historicallyProtestant countries with majority populations of people ofNorthwestern European descent, Italian immigrants experienced fierce and often violentanti-Italianism and discrimination, especially prior to the 1960s.
  • Italians also immigrated in vast numbers to South America, mainly to Brazil (seeItalian Brazilian),Argentina (an estimated one-third to half of Argentines are of Italian descent, with some higher estimates putting Italian Argentines at 60% of the population^[17] (see alsoItalian Argentine),Uruguay (Italian Uruguayans constitute an estimated 40% of the population of Uruguay. SeeItalian Uruguayans),Chile (seeItalian Chilean),Venezuela (seeItalo-Venezuelans), andParaguay (30% of the population of Paraguay, seeItalians in Paraguay), although Italians also arrived in notable numbers elsewhere in Latin America (i.e.Colombia (Italian Colombians), Mexico (Italian-Mexicans),Panama,Puerto Rico (seeCorsican immigration to Puerto Rico),Costa Rica (Italian Costa Ricans),Cuba (Italian Cubans),Peru (Italian Peruvians),Guatemala (Italian Guatemalans), andHaiti (Italian Haitians). In contrast to the Italian immigrants to North America, a slight but significant majority of Italian immigrants to South America wereNorthern Italians fromVeneto and other depressed Northern Italian areas, though Southern Italians from areas such asSicily,Campania, andCalabria still constituted a significant percentage of Italian immigrants to South America, and later Italian immigration to South America from World War II to the 2000s has consisted mostly of Southern Italians.
  • Though Italians began immigrating to Australia in small but significant numbers since the early 20th Century, the biggest wave of Italian immigration to Australia occurred after World War II and in the later part of the 20th century, with most Italian immigrants to Australia being Southern Italians (seeItalian Australians andItalian community of Melbourne).
  • Many Italians also immigrated north to other European countries offering better economic prospects. Italian immigration to France began in large numbers after World War I at a time when France needed a large workforce to compensate for the war losses and its very low birthrate. Initially, Italian immigration to modern France (late 18th to the early 20th century) came predominantly from northern Italy (Piedmont,Veneto), then from central Italy (Marche,Umbria), mostly to the bordering southeastern region ofProvence. It wasn't until after World War II that large numbers of immigrants fromsouthern Italy immigrated to France, usually settling in industrialized areas of France, such asLorraine, Paris andLyon. (SeeItalians in France). Italian immigration to the United Kingdom became notable around the time of World War I and picked up in intensity for a period after World War II before slowing in the 1960s. (See:Italians in the United Kingdom,Italian Scots,Italian Welsh). With Germany's post-World War II economic boom, a large wave of immigrants from Italy settled in Germany. Since the establishment offreedom of movement for workers between the two countries in 1961, more than 580,000 Italians also migrated to Germany for work, mainly from southern and northeastern Italy. (SeeItalians in Germany). Italians also notably immigrated in large numbers in search of economic opportunities in Switzerland after World War II. In 1970, there were around a million immigrants in Switzerland, 54% of whom were Italians.^[18] Rising friction with the indigenous majority even led to the creation of an "anti-Italian party" in 1963, with anti-Italian sentiment leading to the 1971 murder of Italian migrant worker Alfredo Zardini by an anti-Italian xenophobe in Switzerland.^[19] (SeeItalian immigration to Switzerland). Italians also immigrated in significant numbers toMalta, the Netherlands, and Sweden (SeeSwedish Italians), while smaller numbers of Italians went to South Africa (seeItalian South African) andIsrael (Italian Jews). Italians have also established historical communities inLebanon (seeItalian Lebanese).
  • Small Italian expatriate communities once thrived until the mid-20th century in Africa and the Middle East (Algeria,Egypt,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Libya,Morocco,Syria,Tunisia and Turkey).
  • Istrian–Dalmatian exodus- Another diaspora came after the end of World War II, with 350,000 ethnicItalians (Istrian Italians andDalmatian Italians) leaving their homeland on the eastern front after the capture ofIstria andDalmatia by the Yugoslavs. Most of them were relocated in Italy itself; a lower percentage flew overseas (the racerMario Andretti for example).
  • Niçard exodus- It was one of the first emigration phenomena that involved theItalian populations in thecontemporary age. It was due to therefusal of a quarter of theNiçard Italians to stay inNice after its annexation toFrance in 1861, which was decided after thePlombières Agreement.^[20]
  • See also:Template:Italian diaspora,Calabrian diaspora,Sicily,Sicilians,Sicilian American andItalians in New York City.
  • Related:Maltese people,Maltese Americans,Maltese Australians,Maltese people in the United Kingdom, Maltese in Belgium;Gibraltarians in the United Kingdom;Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico,Corsican immigration to Venezuela, andCorsican American (Corsicans,Maltese people, and, to a much lesser extent,Gibraltarians share an ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and historical connection to Italy and immigrated abroad in large numbers at a similar time as the Southern Italians in early 20th century.) andWaldensians – a church with origins in Northern Italy.

• Jassic (or Yassic) people, a small ethnic group of peoples that resided in enclaves in Hungary,Romania, throughout Russia andUkraine. The Jassic are ethnologically related to theOssetians of theNorthern Caucasus range, along with otherIranian peoples in their linguistic similarities between theIranian language. Their ancestral origin may have been ofNorth Caucasian origins, perhaps mixed with peoples fromPersia orIran, and more precisely, the steppes ofCentral Asia about 3,000 years ago when migratory patterns of speakers ofIndo-European and laterUralic languages arrived in Eastern Europe. The Jassic people are minuscule in number, dwindled down by each generation, and they were assimilated into theHungarian population andSlavic majorities they lived among with. Yassic people are thought to forefatheredGeorgians and ancient peoples of the Middle East such as theKassites whom later becameSumerians, Akkadians or Babylonians in ancientMesopotamia of present-dayIraq.^{[citation needed]}
• Jaffnese/Ceylonese Diaspora – refers to the diaspora of Sri Lankan Tamils, especially those post-1983 due to the civil conflict in Sri Lanka. This has created huge Tamil communities in countries such as Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and other European countries. In many ways, the Jaffnese Diaspora is compared to the Jewish Diaspora, both historically, socially and economically. It is a subset of the greaterTamil Diaspora.
• Jamaican diaspora – An estimated 3 million Jamaicans live outside the island country ofJamaica, an English-speaking majority African descendant country in the Caribbean. The main destinations for Jamaican immigration in the 20th century are the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. But, Jamaican immigration across the Caribbean, to Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, and even Africa are well noted. Jamaicans living aboard, such asBob Marley introduced the music form ofreggae to the international music market in the 1970s.^{[citation needed]}
• Japanese diaspora – Brazil (seeJapanese Brazilian), the United States (seeJapanese Americans), Canada (SeeJapanese Canadian) and the Philippines (seeJapanese Filipinos), as well sizable communities inPeru (seeJapanese Peruvian), Argentina (seeAsian Argentine),Chile andEcuador, and smaller numbers of Japanese in Australia, New Zealand,Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico are the countries with the highest numbers of Japanese people outside Japan. The largest community of ethnic Japanese is inHawaii where they make up a quarter of the state's population. However, there are smaller Japanese communities around the world that developed in the late 20th century such as throughout western Europe (esp. the Japanese expatriate colony inDüsseldorf, Germany), eastern Russia andSouth Africa. The Japanese population used to have nicknames to indicate generational levels: "Issei"-foreign born parents, next is "Nisei"-1st generation born outside Japan or children, and "Sansei"-2nd generation born outside Japan or grandchildren.

• Jerez diaspora – People from the Spanish town of Jerez who live elsewhere. There is a committee that grants an honorary membership each year to the most relevant "jerezano"that lives outside Jerez and brings the name to the world. The president of the Diaspora de Jerez is Miguel Primo de Rivera. The committee has 6 members and votes are in two rounds.
• Jewish diaspora – in its historical use, refers to the period between the Romanoccupation and subsequent deportation of Jews fromJudea from 70 CE to the Middle Ages, to the re-establishment ofIsrael in 1948. In modern use, the 'Diaspora' refers to ethnic Jews who continue to live outside of Israel.
  • Ashkenazi Jews – large numbers of Jews were exiled or taken as slaves to Rome following the failed Jewish revolts against the Roman occupation. It is postulated by most scholars and geneticists that these Jews eventually migrated northward in the 8th century, settling alone the Rhine river, and were later joined by Jewish merchants and exiles from Israel in the 7th-8th centuries CE. Increased persecution pushed them into Eastern Europe, where they largely remained until the Zionist movement and/or World War II. Currently, North America (the USA has the world's second largestJewish community) and western Europe are home to the vast majority of diaspora Jews.
  • Sephardi Jews – Unlike the Ashkenazim, who moved to the north, Sephardim moved westward and settled in what is now Spain and Portugal. In 1492, Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain expelled all Jews and Moors from their territory. The Sephardi Jews, as they were known, resettled across Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, whereas others went to Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands (where they merged with theirAshkenazi co-ethnics). Likewise, some went to Britain, North and South America, and other colonies of the British and Spanish empires by the late 16th century.
  • Mizrahi Jews: Nazi incitement in Arabia and Arab colonized lands throughout the rest of the MENA region, compounded by there-establishment of Israel in 1948 resulted in an Arab axis aggression against both the newly reborn Jewish state and the Jewish communities in their midst. After the resulting1948 Arab–Israeli War, about 700,000 Jews residing in other parts of the Middle East were expelled or fled from their countries of residence, and were subsequently dispossessed of nearly all of their property. The majority of theseJewish refugees made aliyah to Israel, or immigrated to France and the United States. By theYom Kippur War of 1973, most of the Jewish communities throughout the Arab World, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, were practically non-existent. A total of 800,000–1,000,000 diaspora Jews left or fled from their homes in the Arab world, or were driven out in theJewish exodus (1948–1972). As of today, less than 4,500 Jews live in the Arab world.^{[21][22][23][24][25]}
  • American Jews – currently the United States has the world's largest Jewish population outsideIsrael itself. Between 5.5 and 7.5 million observant Jews, and 1–2.5 million more of Jewish descent in the USA. New York City has 1.5-2 million out of 8-8.5 million people who are Jewish, while other demographers place Jews 10-15% of the NYC population. SeeJews in New York City.^[26]
  • Haredi or Ultra-Orthodox Jews are a small percentage community of practicing in Judaism, the largest known Haredi/Hasidim community is inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City of the Satmar and Lubavitch groups who originated in Hungary or Romania arrived in the US after WW2 when they experienced the Holocaust.

• Kaszubian diaspora – theKaszubians are a Slavic, Roman Catholic people who have lived and maintained their language and unique traditions for centuries despite living on the boundary between the Germanic and Polish cultures. Between 1850 and 1900, many Kaszubians moved to North America, to Brazil, and to Australia and New Zealand.
• Khmer people – The main ethnic group ofCambodia have historically emigrated in the 18th, 19th and esp. 20th centuries. The largest Cambodian communities are in the US, Canada, France, Thailand, Vietnam, China (with Hong Kong), Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Arabia (i.e. the U.A.E).^{[citation needed]}
• Korean diaspora – a people from the Korean peninsula located between China and Japan. The first wave of Korean diaspora was during the Japanese colonial occupation (1910–1945), the peace treaty division of theKorean peninsula into two republics, theKorean War (1950–53) produced a wave of millions of war refugees who fled to the United States, Canada, China, Japan, thePhilippines,South Vietnam until 1975, and theUSSR, now Russia. Today, Korea remains a politically divided geographic unit.South Korea was under military rule 1953–1987, now a civiliandemocracy, but economic problems and a sense for adventure made over 500,000 South Koreans emigrate to the United States and Canada, and 100,000 more to Europe, Australia and South America (i.e. Brazil andArgentina).North Korea remains under an isolationist military state underCommunism since 1948, while millions of political refugees fled to nearby China for freedom in the late 20th century. See alsoJilin or "Kirin", a Chinese province with millions of native Koreans. AndKoryo-Saram for ethnic Koreans in Russia, the majority live along the Amur River which is the Chinese-Russian border.

• Kosovan diaspora – EthnicAlbanian peoples fromKosovo in the formerYugoslavia andSerbia in the 1990s.

• Kurdish diaspora – Kurdish diaspora is the Kurdish populations found in regions outside their ancestral homelandKurdistan. The United Nations declared the Kurds the largest ethnic nationality (over 40 million) without a country in the world.^{[citation needed]}

• Latvian diaspora – the majority of Latvians whom left Latvia in World War II reside in North America (the US and Canada), across Europe mainly in Eastern countries and the former USSR with just as many inWestern Europe andScandinavian nations, and the rest in former Latvian lands in the Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Belarus). The mostRussified of the three Baltic states, Latvia struggles with the issue of national identity after one million ethnic Russians and other Russian speaking people settled there since 1940. Currently in 2018, only 1/4 of Latvia's population (joined theEuropean Union in 2004) are ethnic Russians.

• • Latgalians, a predominantly Catholic people in eastern Latvia in the region ofLatgale and have a close history with Lithuania, due to differences in church denomination between them and Latvians who are a majorityLutheran along with Estonians not ethnically related to Latvians and Lithuanians.
• Lebanese diaspora – An estimated 15-16 million Lebanese live worldwide. Over half of the country's population are of Muslim faith and the rest are Christians, but in the world Christians Lebanese outnumber Muslims by 3:1. Lebanese are found in over 150 countries, the largest known Lebanese community is in Brazil, the U.S. followed by Canada; and Australia, where Lebanese immigration has occurred in large numbers since the 1975–1990 civil war. Although there are millions of Lebanese descendants in Europe, and the Middle East, the Lebanese are also present in much of the continental span of Africa and Latin America.^{[citation needed]}

• Lithuanian diaspora – the majority of post-World War II Lithuanians live in North America (Canada and the United States) and across Europe (France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands and England), but are scattered across Russia and the formerUSSR, and smaller numbers in Mexico and Brazil. The Lithuanians and their ethnological kin, theLatvians may be the oldestIndo-European speaking peoples known and may resided in the Baltic states for 5,000 years. Between 1880 and 1910, over 40,000 Lithuanian Jews immigrated to South Africa to avoid persecution. To date around 80% of the 75,000 Jews in South Africa (around 60,000) are of Lithuanian descent.^[27]
  • Litvins in northernBelarus and westernmost Russia of ethnic Lithuanian and Baltic origin.^{[citation needed]}

• Lusatian Sorbs, Sorbians or just Sorbs, their native homeland is in the Cottbus region of the state ofSaxony of Germany, they also live in nearby Poland and theCzech Republic. They are the only surviving native Slavic people in Germany, once they covered the entire eastern half of the country until total German settlement and cultural absorption of them to be Germanized by the early 19th century. They have cultural links with Serbs viaSerbia who settled parts of Austria and Hungary (TheRust area facing a lake), see alsoCzechs in Austria,Carinthian Slovenes,Burgenland Croats,Bosnian Austrians andWhite Croats in Poland.

• Macedonian diaspora – formed fromMacedonian refugees and economic migrants fromMacedonia, to the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand,South Africa,Argentina, Italy, Greece, and many otherEuropean Union states. There are approximately 2,500,000Macedonians worldwide, with more than a third living outsideNorth Macedonia.

• Maghrebi diaspora – consists of people from the North African countries, notablyAlgeria,Morocco andTunisia. The largest Maghrebi community outside of North Africa is in France, where it is estimated that North Africans make up the majority of the country'sMuslim population.[1]
  • Algerian-French residents make up an estimated 5 to 8 percent of the ethnic makeup of France's population, despite the French government does not keep data records on race and ethnicity. Algerians resided in France for over 150 years as a result of the French colonial period in Algeria from 1830 to 1962, when the seven-yearAlgerian War brought independence. The largest North African French communities are in (and surrounding)Marseille, Paris,Lille,Nice andLyon. A growing community in Canada and the UK came to light during the 1990s and theAlgerian Civil War.
  • Non-Arab North Africans likeBerbers (Amazighs) andKabyles live in diaspora inWestern Europe, esp. France.
  • Moroccans are found throughout the world, mainly in Europe (i.e. the largest being in France, followed by Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Luxembourg) developed by Moroccan immigration since the 1950s, especially Western Europe and the Arab World (a largeJewish colony inIsrael). Of the estimated 5.6 million Moroccans living abroad, 5.1 million live in Europe; the remainder are distributed throughout the Americas (including North America – mainly inMontreal, Quebec, Canada; and Latin America), Australia, Africa (in particular West Africa), and the countries of the Arab World. Some cities with a big Moroccan community are Paris, Lille, Roubaix, Marseille and Nice (every French city has a Moroccan community); Madrid, Barcelona and Málaga in Spain; Brussels, Antwerp and Liege in Belgium; Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands; and Luxembourg. Half of the Moroccans living in Belgium (630,000), reside in its capital Brussels and a quarter in Antwerp, seeMoroccans in Belgium.
  • Tunisians in Europe, the largest number of Tunisian expats live in France and Italy (former colonial rulers),Egypt,Israel, Turkey and throughout the European Union.

• Maltese diaspora: established mainly in theUnited Kingdom,Australia, Canada (Maltese Canadian) and the U.S. (Maltese American), as well throughout Europe and the Americas. Large communities existed in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt but were mostly dispersed by the mid-20th century when these countries acquired independence. Since Malta's membership of the EU in 2004, new communities were established such as the one in Belgium.

• Mexican Americans (Mexican diaspora)- over 20 million people of Mexican ancestry live in the United States, ranging from recent immigrants since the 1970s to long-established Americans ofSpanish or Mexican descent. The majority of Mexican Americans live especially in theAmerican Southwest, which borders with Mexico, an area that belonged to Mexico from 1821 to 1848. They were fundamental to development in the states ofCalifornia,Texas,Arizona andNew Mexico in the 20th century. Los Angeles is said to be the second largest Mexican city (home to 1 to 2 million alone- 31% of the city and 20% of the L.A. county population in 2015), while the populace ofSan Antonio is over half of Mexican descent. Also known by other ethnic self-titles, likeCalifornios,Chicanos,Hispanos,La Raza,Nortenos in Northern California,Nuevomexicanos andTejanos, however are officially calledHispanics and Latinos in terms of ethnic/cultural origins, but Mexican Americans had a largemestizo or mixed European/Native American heritage.

• Moldovan diaspora – ARomanian province was divided many times in its history, they are of ethnically Romanian origin. A diaspora indicating most of theMoldovans who have moved out ofMoldova. Most found their homes in the Soviet Union and theBaltics. There is also a diaspora in Western European countries such as Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and the Netherlands.
• Moluccan diaspora – Begins in the 1950s as the result of the end of its occupation over Dutch Indies, the Netherlands government decided to transport around 12,000 Moluccan KNIL (The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) the remaining men and their families to Europe. They were discharged on arrival and 'temporarily' housed in camps until it was possible for them to return to the Moluccan islands. Although The South Moluccan Republic has been declared on 25 April 1950, this movement was defeated by Indonesian government and the rest of RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan) followers leave their homeland and formatting aGovernment in Exile in the Netherlands since 1966. Nowadays, at least 200,000 Moluccan living side by side with Dutch people and becoming the biggest ethnic groups outside native Dutch in The Netherlands. The second wave happened during the civil war in Maluku 1999 to 2003, causing over 800,000 left the country. Most of the refugees moved to United States (mainly concentrated inMaryland,Florida,California andNew York), Netherlands, France,Israel (mostly by MoluccanJewish), Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, Russia (mainly inSt. Petersburg), Australia, Brazil, Portugal and Austria. After prosecuted, scattered, and finally settle down among the nations, latest statistics reporting the number of Moluccan in diaspora including their descendants (make up to 1.4 million) is a bit smaller than those who are staying in Indonesia (nearly 2.5 million).
• Moravian Church – has a nickname "the Moravian Diaspora"^{[citation needed]} named from a religious, not ethnic' identity, having been founded in the province ofMoravia, now in theCzech Republic. During the 16th and 17th centuries, religious persecution drove the majority of church members to other countries, and by the late 18th and 19th centuries, the church had managed to grow, thrive and survive. There are hundreds of thousands of Moravian church members in small communities in Europe (the Netherlands), the Americas (the United States), Africa (South Africa), east Asia (South Korea), the Indian subcontinent (India), and Oceania (Australia). However, the vast majority of these would consider themselves natives of the country where they live – the nickname (presumably) being of only historic interest.
• Mormons, a Christian religious group whose official name isthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered inSalt Lake City, as well smaller other churches based onMormonism. Just under 50 percent of all Mormons live in the United States, while about three-fourths of the population of Utah are Mormon and form large minorities in 8 to 10 otherWestern U.S. states; andCalifornia is said to have the most LDS church members by population.^{[citation needed]} Mormonism began as a small following of Christians who followed the teachings ofJoseph Smith, founder of theLatter Day Saint movement in the early 19th century. The following were often forced to migrate and lived in the states ofNew York,Ohio,Illinois andMissouri by 1840. The Mormons were expelled by mob violence (Joseph Smith was killed) and persecution by neighbors in the 1840s and their new leaderBrigham Young took the Mormons throughout the Great Plains and Rockies to settle the Salt Lake Valley, then a part of Mexico but soon to become part of the U.S., in 1847. Mormons play a fundamental role in the development of Utah and most other Western states, with Utah becoming a state in 1896. Today, an estimated 13 million Mormons are found around the world, after missionary activity and conversion programs extended the L.D.S. and other Mormon-based churches worldwide, the largest concentrations of Mormons other than the U.S. are Mexico, Canada, South America, the South Pacific (esp. inFiji,Samoa andTonga),Scandinavia, Britain and East Asia, but the fastest growth in Mormonism in the late 20th century was in Africa, India and Eastern Europe. InChile, between 550 and 750,000 people out of the nation's 18.5 million are Mormon, and form a large community similar toSeventh-day Adventists andJehovah's Witnesses due to US American churches missionary work in Latin America.
• Montenegrins, a diaspora of South Slavs in the country ofMontenegro who had a 650-year tradition of independence and autonomy. They were a former republic of pre-1991Yugoslavia and later a co-republic withSerbia until Montenegro declared independence in 2006. Over 1.3 million Montenegrins live in the Balkans, while half a million more are inWestern Europe, 600,000 live in the US and another 1 million around the world (i.e. Canada, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and Australia).

• Muscogee (Creek)#Muscogee diaspora (1814),Muscogee#Muscogee Diaspora (today) Muscogee Diaspora, part of theMuscogee (Creek) Nation ofOklahoma, US (seeUrban Indians). The largest communities areDetroit; Los Angeles;Nashville, Tennessee;Oakland, California; andTulsa.

• TheNavajo Nation orNa-Dene, is said to cover not only the four-corner states of the Southwest US (Arizona,New Mexico,Utah andColorado), but the "Na-Dene Diaspora" stretches from Fort Sumner (New Mexico) to Fort Sumter (So. Carolina), to Bosque Rodendo (N.M.) to Redondo Beach (California),Tuba City in Arizona or Yuba City Cal. and as far north asFort Yukon, Alaska to Yukon nearOklahoma City and Kansas City (Kansas), and as far south asMexico City. The dispersal of several hundred Native American tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries, also by BIA relocation programs into urban areas in the mid-20th century has indeed produced more Navajo/Dene people to indicate theLong Walk in the 1860s when 20,000 Navajo was forcibly removed then returned to their homeland (the Navajo Indian Reservation) was the beginning of the Na-Dene diaspora. An estimated 160,000 Navajo/Dene people live in theSouthwest and about 250,000 more live across the U.S. (est. 400,000 citizens in 2022) with Navajo communities developed inAlbuquerque;Chicago;Dallas, Texas;Denver;Kansas City, Missouri;Las Vegas, Nevada; Los Angeles; Minneapolis/St. Paul,Minnesota;Omaha,Nebraska;Phoenix, Arizona; and theSan Francisco Bay Area.^{[citation needed]}
• New CaledoniaKanaks – aMelanesian people native to the overseas French territory brought to Australia and New Zealand, and acrossPolynesia (The French territory ofTahiti) as agricultural workers in newly founded plantations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most Kanak laborers in Australia were deported back to New Caledonia in the 1910s due to racial fears of Kanaks live among the country's white European-descent majority. Today, an estimated 30,000 Australian descendants of Kanaks live in the state ofQueensland, where the main concentration of Australian plantation agriculture took place.
• Newfie, a colloquial name for people from the Canadian province ofNewfoundland and Labrador, originally for inhabitants of the Island ofNewfoundland. The Newfie diaspora frequently emigrated to other provinces of Canada for employment opportunities in the tens of thousands since the 1920s, while some Newfoundlanders went to the US and the UK in a lesser extent. Newfoundland became Canada's 10th province in 1949, after 350 years of British rule.
• New York City relocatees to other US states likeFlorida andCalifornia number at one million. The world-famous major city, the US' largest (8-9 million people), is known for its local subculture (esp.Brooklyn and theBronx). Similarly,Bostonians,Michiganians^[28] and Californians moved across the US and the world.^{[citation needed]}
• Nigerian diaspora, people from the country ofNigeria, the most populous country in Africa. Over 5 million Nigerians live outside the country, as immigrants are known to live in the US (Large Nigerian communities in New York City andHouston, Texas), the UK, throughout theEU andSouth Africa, among other nations. The Nigeria Diaspora is also one of the most organized Diasporas with an umbrella organization, Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO America, NIDO Asia, NIDO Africa and NIDO Europe) represented with chapters in most countries and continents of the world. The organisation also have a Worldwide governing body NIDO Worldwide comprising stakeholders from the continental executives.^[29]
  • Yoruba people.
  • Igbo people.

• Norwegian people, the country of origin is Norway. Many Norwegians emigrated outward from there, while it was underDanish (until 1814) and laterSwedish rule (until independence came in 1905). The largest group of Norwegians settled in North America (i.e. the US and Canada mainly inManitoba) in the late 19th century, esp. in the states ofIllinois,Minnesota,North Dakota andWisconsin; and in the Pacific Northwest (Alaska,Oregon andWashington state). SeeNorwegian Americans andNorwegian Canadians.

• Okies from the U.S. state ofOklahoma. The state has a long history of settlement, emigration and mass dispersal of a subculture across the US and elsewhere in the world, due to economic conditions and conflicts with the U.S. government. Many happen to beNative Americans yet most of the population iswhite and a sizable minority areAfrican American. Oklahoma was formerly reserved for Native Americans dislocated by white Euro-American settlement and the Indian Wars in the 19th century, mostly in theGreat Plains of the United States andWestern United States regions. See alsoTexans ofTexas,Crackers ofFlorida andSoutheastern United States where the main origin of Oklahomans came from.^{[citation needed]} IncludesOsage people – A Native American people who were originally from the Ohio Valley, they migrated into the Central Plains region in the 19th century and finally, Indian Territory (nowOsage Nation the U.S. state ofOklahoma, the majority live inOsage County, Oklahoma) with other Osages living across the United States.

• Pacific Islander Americans aka Pasifikas – largest concentrations who tend to beNative Hawaiians andSamoans are in the states ofHawaii andCalifornia, USA. Included areIndo-Fijians of Indian/South Asian descent from the island country ofFiji.
• Pakistani Diaspora – People who are originally from Pakistan and have settled abroad. Are mainly economic migrants and settled mainly in the Middle East and Britain. The total population is approximately 7 million.

• Palestinian Diaspora – People who originally came from Palestine the majority of whom are made up of refugees from the 1948Arab–Israeli War and the 1967Six-Day War. It is estimated that more than 6 million Palestinians live in the global diaspora.
• Papua New Guinean diaspora - People who originally came fromPapua New Guinea and are now based in other countries overseas like Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America.
• Pashtun diaspora – People who can trace their paternal lineage to East Iranic speaking tribes that stem from a legendary figure namedQais Abdur Rashid. Pashtuns are defined by their tribal genealogies, Pakhto dialects and the practice ofPashtunwali. Many South Asian Muslim communities are Pashtuns that have assimilated into south Asian culture and will carry Pashtun lineage or ancestry. Pakhtun homeland is southern Afghanistan, historically calledArachosia by ancient Macedonians. Historically Afghan was an exonym for Pashtun people however this is an ongoing controversy.
• Pattanian Diaspora orMalay Pattani – Pattania homeland is Southern Thailand border to Northern Malaysia. Under colonisation of Thailand from 1876 until today.
• Persian Diaspora – (SeeIranian diaspora) a.k.a.Iranians are a major community in Los Angeles, andCalifornia in the US, as the major number of Persians in Los Angeles are located in the community ofWestwood, Los Angeles a.k.a.Little Persia, and even the mayor of the nearby city ofBeverly Hills is Persian (seeIranian Americans). Other large Iranian communities exist throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, east Asia and Australia, make up a total of 10 million belonged to the Persian/Iranian diaspora, the majority are political refugees who fled the overthrow of theMohammad Reza Pahlavi regime in 1978 and Islamic Revolution of 1979. Persians can also refer to Tajiks of Afghanistan and Tajikistan that are defined by speaking the archaic "dari" Persian dialect. Many have Pashtun and other east-iranic admixture, as well as the Aimaq and Hazara communities of mixed Mongolic and Turkic ancestry that speak Persian.
• Peruvian diaspora – People who originally came fromPeru. The largest Peruvian communities are in the United States (seePeruvian Americans), Canada, Argentine, Chile, Venezuela, Europe (i.e. Spain, Italy and France), Japan and Australia.

• Pilipino diaspora (seeFilipino diaspora).
• "Polonia" – the diaspora of thePoles started with the emigrations after thepartitions of Poland,January Uprising and theNovember Uprising, enlarged by theNazi policies, and later by the establishment of theCurzon line. Historic Poland extended into nearby countries:Belarus,Czech Republic,Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania, Russia,Slovakia andUkraine. For over 600 years, large waves of PolishÉmigrés, refugees and guest workers moved across Europe, established themselves in Austria, Belgium,Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,Luxembourg, the Netherlands,Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. 19th- and 20th-century Polish immigration extended into the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Israel and Australia, as well across the formerUSSR. After Poland joined theÉ.U. in 2004, about a million Poles went to find work in the E.U. member states, the largest destinations were the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal. See alsoPolish Americans for the 9 million of Polish descent in the US, as well asPolish Brazilian for the 3.5 million Brazilians of Polish descent.

• ThePortuguese diaspora – main countries were thePortuguese live are in Europe: Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany,Luxembourg, Switzerland,Andorra and the UK. Former Portuguese African and Asian colonies (Angola,Cape Verde,Guinea-Bissau, India,Macau,Mozambique,São Tomé and Príncipe,Sri Lanka andTimor-Leste). Portuguese settled the country of Brazil in South America, but Portuguese colonies and communities in the western hemisphere:Argentina, Canada, the Caribbean islands,Chile,Guyana,Hawaii, Mexico,Panama,Suriname,Uruguay andVenezuela are well noted. See alsoPortuguese Americans for the diaspora in the United States.

• Puerto Rican diaspora – a mass migration ofPuerto Ricans from the island territory ofPuerto Rico to the United States mainland began during the first half of the 20th century and has become a subject often studied in colleges, because of Puerto Ricans who achieved success in the United States. The largest Puerto Rican communities in the mainland U.S. are in New York City (about 1 to 2 million in the New York City metro area),New Jersey,Pennsylvania andFlorida, but other Puerto Ricans live in all 50 states includingHawaii, and also a smaller community each in Canada, England and Spain in Europe. Some Puerto Ricans from New York call themselvesNuyoricans. Puerto Ricans everywhere commonly refer to themselves asBoricuas, referring to Borinquen, or Puerto Rico's name given by the Taínos before the arrival of the Spanish.

• Quebec diaspora orQuébécois diaspora; the French name for French-speakingCanadian residing in the province ofQuebec. See alsoFrench-Canadian diaspora. Quebec is the only non-English speaking majority region of Anglo-America.^{[citation needed]}

• Rhodesian diaspora.Southern Rhodesia had the distinction amongst Britain's African colonies of being a self-governingCrown Colony. As a result, most Southern Rhodesians did not regard Great Britain as home but instead regardedSouthern Rhodesia as home, though they did recognise cultural ties to Great Britain. During and following theBush War (1966–1979, during which period the formerSouthern Rhodesia was known asRhodesia) more than half of Rhodesia's population ofEuropean descent emigrated mainly to Australia, New Zealand and Canada. For manySouth Africa was the first destination, where some have settled, but most of these migrants where transient and later reached further destinations. Others recognising their cultural ties to Great Britain emigrated there. This trend continued afterRhodesia becameZimbabwe-Rhodesia in June 1979 and increased whenZimbabwe-Rhodesia becameZimbabwe in March 1980 (following a brief 85-day period during which the land's name formally reverted to "Southern Rhodesia" for reasons of political expediency); it is estimated that the population ofEuropean descent decreased from a peak 275,000 in 1970, to 120,000 in 1999.British citizens resident in the region joined in this migration and did not in all cases return to Great Britain, or in some cases did so only temporarily before moving on. Northern Rhodesians ofEuropean descent also emigrated to these same destinations, though their migration began earlier whenNorthern Rhodesia becameZambia in 1964 and was not the result of war but economic pressure. People ofEuropean descent also emigrated fromNyasaland after 1964 and followed the same routes as Northern Rhodesians, for the same reason. See:Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Romani Diaspora – originating in thePunjab region of India, theRomani people began a mass migration to Europe c. 1000. Romani also live in other continents around the world, including the United States. AKA "Gypsies", other names for them areRom, Roma, Romany,Romanichol and somewhat related or ethnically distinct groups likeAshkali orBalkan Egyptians,Cagots,Cigans/Zigans, Gitans/Gitanos,Kale,Manouches,Quinquins,Shelta,Sinti,Tattares/Taters, and Yeni/Yenish.

• Romanians – who emigrated for the first time in larger figures between 1910 and 1925, and left in mass after the fall of communist regime in Romania in 1989, and comprise theRomanian diaspora, are found today in large numbers in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Belgium, the U.K., Ireland, China, Japan, Australia, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina. Today there are over 10 mil. people of Romanian descent outside the country.

• TheRussian diaspora – The earliest significant wave of ethnicRussian emigration took place in the wake of theOld Believer schism in the 17th century. A sizable "wave" of ethnicRussians emigrated during a short time period in the wake of theOctober Revolution andRussian Civil War, known collectively as theWhite emigres. A smaller group ofRussians (often referred to byRussians^[30] as the second emigration or second wave) had also left during World War II, many were refugees or eastern workers. During theSoviet period, ethnicRussians migrated throughout the area of formerRussian Empire and Soviet Union, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union found themselves living outside Russia.
  • White Russian diaspora – named for theRussians andBelarusians who left Russia (theUSSR 1918–91) in the wake of the 1917October Revolution andRussian Civil War, seeking to preserve pre-Soviet Russian culture, theOrthodox Christian faith, and includes exiled formerCommunist party members, such asLeon Trotsky found exile in Mexico but was assassinated in 1940. The millions of Russian émigré and refugees found live in North America (the U.S. and Canada), Latin America with a sect ofPryguny orMolokans settled inGuadalupe Valley,Baja California in Mexico, even more went to Europe (The UK, Austria, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Switzerland and former Yugoslavia), some to east Asia (China and Japan), south Asia (India andIran) and the Middle East (Egypt and Turkey).

• Ryukyuan people – Also known as Okinawans, an Asian people closely related to the Japanese in terms of culture and language, from theRyukyu Islands, politically part of Japan since 1879. Thousands emigrated to Japan, Hawaii, and various Pacific islands after the Japanese annexation to form the initialRyukyuan diaspora. After World War II, the U.S. controlled the Ryukyu Islands from 1945 until their return to Japanese rule in 1972. Since then, tens of thousands of Okinawans settled in the U.S. and in the 1960s, there massive settlement programs of Okinawan farmers into Latin America, the majority in Brazil andPeru, and some Ryukyuan transplants inEcuador,Bolivia (theSanta Cruz, Bolivia province area) andParaguay (i.e. theGran Chaco) to develop their countries' agricultural farmlands.

• Salvadorans fromEl Salvador, large refugee and immigrant communities in the Americas, esp. the USA. Salvadorans formed communities during the civil wars (1980s-90s), escaping drug cartel violence (2000s-10s) and for economic reasons (since the 1970s onward) inLos Angeles;Miami, Florida;New Orleans, Louisiana;San Francisco Bay; and theWashington, D.C. areas. (seeSalvadoran diaspora in Los Angeles). Many Salvadorans also settled in Mexico and Canada.
• Scottish diaspora – includes theAuld Alliance and theScottish Wars of Independence which led countless Scots to emigrate to mainland Europe to escape persecution and hardship. TheHighland clearances which depopulated large parts of the Scottish Highlands and had lasting effects on Scottish Gaelic culture; theLowland Clearances which resulted in significant migration of Lowland Scots to Canada (highest concentration in the provinceNova Scotia) and the United States after 1776; theUlster-Scots, descended primarily from Lowland Scots who settledUlster during thePlantation of Ulster in the 17th century and subsequently fled to the Americas in mass numbers throughout the 18th century due to religious and cultural persecution as well as other socio-economic factors. Other Scots and Ulster Scots went to Australia, New Zealand,South Africa and a smaller but important community inArgentina. (See also British diaspora andScots-Irish people).^[31]
• Serbian diaspora – fromSerbia, formerYugoslavia. Over 12 million of Serbian descent live around the world, historically based in Serbia, nearbyMontenegro,Kosovo (disputed by Serbia),Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia, Hungary,Albania,North Macedonia andRomania. The largest overseas Serbian communities are in the U.S. (seeSerbian American), nearbyBulgaria andSlovenia in the Balkans of Europe, and further away in Switzerland and Germany. Other communities in Sweden, Norway, Austria, Australia, Canada, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Brazil and South Africa.

• Seventh-day Adventists – similar to Mormons andJehovah's Witnesses who believe in political neutrality, this Christian sect has 15 million members (nearly tied with LDS church and JWs) in the world. They form a majority of residents in only one town:Loma Linda, California, USA – where the church has offices, as well have a university, free hospital and TV network.
• Somali diaspora – includes ethnicSomalis who live inDjibouti,Ethiopia,Yemen,Kenya, as well other parts of Africa. It also includes about 2.5 million people of Somali origin who live in the Middle East, Europe,Oceania, and North America, either as recent immigrants or as naturalized citizens.Little Mogadishu inMinneapolis, USA is the largest Somali community in North America.^[32] Several Little Somalias formed in the US by refugees since the 1990s.
• South African diaspora – mainly consists ofwhite South African emigrants of British and to a lesser extent,Afrikaner origin. A minority ofBritish diaspora have moved to Great Britain (often through the UK ancestry visa), due to socioeconomic concerns such as South Africa's high crime rate in the 1990s, volatileSouth African Rand, economic mismanagement during theJacob Zuma presidency and changes in the South African economy. Afrikaners and Black South Africans generally have much lower emigration rates than their English and Jewish counterparts. South Africans have largely settled in the UK, Australia, the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and to a lesser extent, Zimbabwe, Ireland, the UAE, France and Portugal. In the 2000s, Russia and nearbyGeorgia invited thousands of Afrikaner farmers.^[33]

• South Asian diaspora – includes millions of people from India,Bangladesh,Sindh, Pakistan andSri Lanka, whose descendants live inSuriname,South Africa,Trinidad and Tobago,Guyana,Jamaica,Kenya,Mauritius,Fiji,Singapore,Malaysia,Thailand,Tanzania,Uganda, and other countries who leftBritish India in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and millions more who have moved to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and theUnited Arab Emirates in recent decades (seeDesi,British Asian,South Asian American,Indo-Canadian andParsees).
  • Indian diaspora – estimated at over 30 million, refers to people originating from India living in other parts of the world.
  • Pakistani diaspora – estimated at over 9 million, refers to people originating from Pakistan living in other parts of the world.
  • Bengali Hindu diaspora – the worldwide population of theBengali Hindus ofIndian andBangladeshi origin.
  • Tamil diaspora – denotes people ofTamil Nadu andSri Lankan Tamil origin who have settled in many parts of rest of India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Reunion, South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, French Caribbean islands, Europe, Australia and North America (US and Canada).
  • Sikh diaspora – from thePunjab region Sikhs have emigrated to all over the world. Now there are more than a million Sikhs outside of India. The biggest community is theBritish Sikh community which in the last census was recorded as 336,179 people. There are also major Sikh communities in Canada with 278,000, 150,000 living in Europe,Malaysia (100,000), East Africa (100,000), America (87,000), 50,000 in Asia outside India,^[34] and 32,000 in Australia and New Zealand.
  • Punjabi diaspora – main regionsPunjabis have migrated to include:EU (chiefly UK), Canada, US,Malaysia and Australia, which took place in the 20th century.
  • Punjabi Mexican Americans – a duality of diasporas when the first Punjabi (Indian and Pakistani) immigrants intermarried with theMexican American population ofCalifornia, USA.
  • Sindhi diaspora – main regionsSindh,Sindhis have migrated to include:EU (chiefly UK), Canada, United States,Malaysia and Australia, which took place in the 20th century or before.
  • TheRomani (English terms: Gypsy, Gypsies) – a traditionally 'dispersed' people in Europe, with origins in South Asia (or perhaps,northern India andSindh) for 800-some years, are even more 'dispersed' today, followingthe Holocaust of Nazi Germany. (SeeSome names for the Roma) – one name for Roma in England are "Tinkers". Over 10 million Romani live across Europe, the majority in Spain, and then Eastern countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Albania, Greece, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia), and estimates of 250,000 Romani are known to live in North America (the US and Canada).
• Spanish diaspora – Refers to the migration of millions Spanish people over the last 500 years all over the world, for a great variety of reasons, especially to America, Africa (Spanish Guinea, Spanish Morocco, and the Canary Islands), and other Spanish territories in Europe. This has resulted in the diffusion of the Spanish language and the large number of Spanish names in the places mentioned. During the 20th century, the Spanish diaspora was increased due to the political and economic emigrants who left Spain during the Francoist dictatorship (1930s but his death in 1975 brought democratic reform back to Spain). Notable communities were established in Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, France, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom and across Latin America.

• Sri Lankan diaspora. The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants fromSri Lanka, and their descendants and reside in a foreign country. They number a total estimated population of around 3 million.

• Sudanese from the African nation ofSudan and the new independent country ofSouth Sudan inhabited by the mostly ChristianDinka andNuer peoples. Many Sudanese of both countries immigrated into Europe, esp. the UK and scattered across the Middle East. There has been substantial growth of Sudanese in the US and Canada, esp. in the Midwest and Central States (seeSudanese American), and were areas of resettlement of tens of thousands of (many Southern) Sudanese refugee children known theLost Boys of Sudan in the 1990s and 2000s (decade).^{[citation needed]}
• Swedish diaspora. Large numbers of Swedes (andSwedish-speaking Finns from Finland also under Russian rule) migrated to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is estimated that about eight million Americans have some Swedish ancestry.Swedish Americans constitute 10% of the population ofMinnesota and other large numbers settled inWisconsin,Illinois,New York andPennsylvania. A large colony of Swedes settled towns in the US likeLindsborg, Kansas andKingsburg, California in the late 19th century. Large Swedish migration took place in Canada in the same time period along with other ethnicScandinavians from Norway, Denmark andIceland. Smaller waves of Swedish expatriates live across Europe, east Asia, Australia and Latin America, usually made up of retirees and businessmen in the late 20th century. It is estimated that between 80,000 and 100,000 Swedes live in Norway (2012), many of whom being young workers.^[35][36]

• Swiss diaspora, some 9% of Swiss citizens live across the globe. Swiss nationals and descendants live in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and nearby nations of France, Germany, Italy and Austria. In the late 19th century, an immigration settlement program brought tens of thousands ofSwiss Germans,ethnic Germans andAustrians alike into southernChile, and the imprint of Germanic culture remains strong there.^{[citation needed]} Also to note West African nations such asLiberia andGhana are known for several thousands of Swiss expatriates.^{[citation needed]}

• Syrian diaspora – The largest Arab nationality diaspora in the world.

• Tamil diaspora – a demographic group ofTamil people of Indian orSri Lankan origin who have settled in other parts of the world.
• Tibetan diaspora – a group ofTibetan people who left Tibet to be with the14th Dalai Lama after he went into exile in 1959. Most live in India and Nepal, but some live in the United States and Europe. An estimated 20–40,000 Tibetans live in Switzerland alone, and Tibetans live throughout the world. Large Tibetan communities exist inCalifornia (US) esp. in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Tibetans in exile were influential in theFree Tibet movement which has many American activists, including celebrities and converts to Buddhism.^{[citation needed]}
• Turkish diaspora – refers to theTurkish people living outside of Turkey (most notably inGermany).

• Ukrainian diaspora, represented byUkrainians who left their homeland in several waves of emigration, settling mainly in theAmericas (United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil andArgentina), but also Australia,east Asia (China) and across Europe. Also includes the tens and millions of Ukrainians who migrated fromUkraine to other parts of the former Soviet Union (mainly Russia and theBaltics) during the Soviet time. Ukrainians in the Middle East should be noted and the large-scale Ukrainian with Russian Jewish emigration toIsrael.^{[citation needed]}

  

• • Ruthenians and Carpathians, self-titles forSlavic peoples from the small region of Ruthenia, encompasses easternmostSlovakia, southeast parts of Poland, northern edges of Hungary and westernmostUkraine, had preserved a unique ethnocultural identity, but lacked an independent country of their own for almost a millennia. In the late 19th century and again between World Wars I and II, over a million Ruthenians fled their homeland and settled across Western Europe (France, Germany and Austria), North America (the U.S. and Canada) and the USSR (Russia), but lesser numbers settled in East Asia (China), the Middle East (Turkey), South America (Brazil) and Australia in the late 20th century.
• Uganda DiasporaArchived 2020-08-04 at theWayback Machine refers to about 1.5 million Ugandans (according to theUN Human Development Report of 2009) who leftUganda from the early 1970s—during the dictatorship reign ofIdi Amin (to escape persecution and death)--to the current time "in [their] search for better social and economic opportunities."^[37] The Ugandans who left are diverse, knowledgeable, talented and have raised families overseas with some now identifying as mixed race. Many have settled in Europe, Asia and North America. Studies show that Ugandans in the diaspora have contributed vast revenue to theUgandan economy through investments and remittances they send back to their families in Uganda. In 2016, over US$1.2 billion was introduced into the Uganda's economy; in 2017, about US$1.4 billion was introduced into Uganda's coffers, and in 2018—US$1.3 billion was injected into the economy.^[38][39]

• TheVenezuelan diaspora – People fromVenezuela who live outside of their territory: Mainly in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Italy,Panama,Trinidad and Tobago and most of South America. Most of them arrived to escape from themilitary dictatorship of the 1950s and the political repressions in the 1960s. There is also a growing number ofVenezuelans in Canada almost all of them working for theOil industry after the2002 strike.See alsoVenezuelan American. Since the arrival ofPresidentHugo Chávez, a significant growing number of young Venezuelans are fleeing their country in search of better living standards and work opportunities. More recently, since thecrisis worsening in 2012, another wave of Venezuelans have emigrated,^[40] including people from all age groups and socioeconomic statuses.

• Vietnamese diaspora - SeeVietnamese boat people

• Welsh diaspora – The Welsh (or in the Welsh language –Cymry) are aCeltic people fromWales one of the four countries of the United Kingdom who manage to preserve their Celtic heritage after a millennia of English and then British rule. An estimated 5 million people of Welsh ancestry live globally in areas formerly part of the British Empire (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and lesser numbers in Latin America) and about 2 million Americans are of Welsh descent. In the 19th century, over 500,000 Welsh miners migrated out of Wales throughout the British Empire, western Europe, the Americas (the U.S. such asJackson County, Ohio was nicknamedLittle Wales) andSouth Africa for mining jobs, but others came as shepherds, factory workers and fishermen. The Welsh fought hard to preserve their culture, such as the revivedWelsh language and their sense of identity in face offorced assimilation to the Anglo-British fabric. In the late 19th century, a small but solid group of Welsh people settled inPatagonia, creating the Welsh community known asY Wladfa that survived to this day in theArgentine provinces ofChubut andSanta Cruz. Many there are bilingual in Spanish and Welsh.
• Western Sahara the people on the exile of Mali, France, Spain,Algeria (mainly Tinduf), Mauritania, Niger, Italy and Senegal. And on the Free Zone of theSaharaui Republic.
• West Philadelphia was a recent scene of theUrban Indian culture, especially of theLenni-Lenape or Delaware Indian tribe. Their community ofUniversity City, Philadelphia is called "Lenapehoking" for the indigenous name for the region. Also theIroquois Confederacy formed communities there and inBoston, New York City,Washington, D.C. andCleveland by the BIA relocation program during the mid-20th century. Although minuscule in number, many of them (their moniker the "Mohawks") arrived as skyscraper construction workers.^{[citation needed]}

• "Xin (New)Uygurs", aTurkic ethnic group of the Northwestern region ofXinjiang in China. Over 2 million Uygurs migrated outward, to autochthonous Uygur tribal areas in nearby countries ofKazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan and elsewhere in the formerUSSR (Russia). Other Uygurs long settled across China, but also are in Pakistan, theU.A.E, throughout Europe (theEU) and 200,000 live in the United States, the main communities of Uygurs in San Francisco and Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

• Yemenis from the country ofYemen in theArabian peninsula. Historically Yemen was one kingdom untilOttoman Turks and then British colonialism in the late 19th century. The British maintained the former country ofSouth Yemen until its independence (1967–90) and was the only Marxist government in the Middle East before unification withNorth Yemen. Yemeni immigration in the 20th and early 21st century have dispersed the population throughout the Middle East (esp.Bahrain,Qatar,Saudi Arabia and theUAE), guest workers in Europe (seeYemeni British), Australia andEast Asia. Yemenis have been arriving in the United States (seeYemeni American) with a large concentration inLackawanna, New York nearBuffalo and also inDetroit, while large numbers of Yemenis also live in adjacent Canada.^{[citation needed]}

• Yugoslavs (seeBosnians,Croats,Macedonians,Montenegrins,Serbs andSlovenes). From 1918 to 1990, the country of Yugoslavia in southeastern Europe existed (until 2006, when the nation renamed toSerbia and Montenegro broke apart). Millions of former Yugoslavs moved across Europe (laborers encouraged by the Yugoslavian government in the 1950s-80s to relocate), emigrated to North America (especially the United States) and around the world (Chile may have the largest pre-1990 Yugoslavian communities in ratio of its population).

• Zimbabwean diaspora – Zimbabwean people who live outsideZimbabwe; many have emigrated to South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States.^[41] Mostwhite Zimbabweans left the country after independence in 1980. Black Zimbabweans began leaving the country in significant numbers in the 1990s. Today, there are millions of Zimbabweans living and working abroad.
• Zoroastrian diaspora – two waves; the first took place in the 7th century when theArabs conqueredPersia and those who fled to India became known as theParsees. In addition, after theIranian Revolution of 1979, several thousand of the remaining Zoroastrians inIran fled to the United States and the European Union, the largest diaspora being in Great Britain.

• VariousNative Americans of the United States have diaspora legends, stories and identity, but this applies only after contact with Europeans and removal of entire tribal peoples by post-colonial white European governments from the 16th to 19th centuries.
• Various ethnic minorities from areas under Russian and Soviet control following theRussian Revolution, continuing through the mass forced resettlements underJoseph Stalin.
• Various groups fled in large numbers from areas under Axis control during World War II, or after the border changes following the war, and formed their own diasporas. Only a few larger sized ethnic groups and nationalities were able to restore autonomy after the fall of Communism and the disbanding of the Soviet Union (1990–91).

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