India has the world's largest annual out-migration.[1] Pictured at Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2015TheMexican diaspora is the world's second-largest;[2] pictured is Mexican day celebrations inGermany.
Adiaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/dy-ASP-ər-ə) is apopulation that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographicplace of origin.[3][4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere.[5][6][7]
According to a 2019United Nations report, theIndian diaspora is the world's largest diaspora, with a population of 17.5 million, followed by theMexican diaspora, with a population of 11.8 million, and theChinese diaspora, with a population of 10.7 million.[26]
The term "diaspora" is derived from theAncient Greek verbδιασπείρω (diaspeirō), "I scatter", "I spread about" which in turn is composed ofδιά (dia), "between, through, across" and the verbσπείρω (speirō), "I sow, I scatter". The termδιασπορά (diaspora) hence meant "scattering".[27]
Emigrants Leave Ireland depicting the emigration fromIreland following theGreat Famine
There is confusion over the exact process of derivation from these Ancient Greek verbs to the concept of diaspora. Many citeThucydides (5th century BC) as the first to use the word.[28][29][30] However, sociologist Stéphane Dufoix remarks "not only is the noundiaspora quite absent from the Greek original [Thucydides'Peloponnesian War, II, 27)], but the original does not include the verbdiaspeírô either. The verb used is the verbspeírô (seed) conjugated in the passive aorist."[31] The passage in Thucydides reads:
καὶ οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν ἐνταῦθα ᾤκησαν, οἱ δ᾽ἐσπάρησαν [esparēsan] κατὰ τὴν ἄλλην Ἑλλάδα, translated to mean 'Those of the Aeginetans who did not settle here werescattered over the rest of Hellas.'[32]
Dufoix further notes, "Of all the occurrences ofdiaspora in theThesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), which draws upon almost the entire written corpus in the Greek language . . . none refer to colonisation."[33] Dufoix surmises that the confusion may stem from a comment by Jewish historianSimon Dubnow, who wrote an entry on diaspora for the influentialEncyclopaedia of the Social Sciences.[34] His entry, published in 1931, includes the following remark: "In a senseMagna Graecia constituted a Greek diaspora in the ancient Roman Empire."[35][a] "Magna Graecia" refers to ancient Greek colonies established along the Italian coast, which lost their independence following theSecond Punic War and their integration into the Roman Empire.
The first recorded use of the word "diaspora" is found in theSeptuagint, first in:
Deuteronomy 28:25, in the phraseἔσῃ ἐν διασπορᾷ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς βασιλείαις τῆς γῆς,esē en diaspora en pasais tais basileiais tēs gēs, translated to mean 'thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth'
and secondly in:
Psalms 146(147).2, in the phraseοἰκοδομῶν Ἰερουσαλὴμ ὁ Kύριος καὶ τὰς διασπορὰς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπισυνάξει,oikodomōn Ierousalēm hoKyrios kai tas diasporas tou Israēl episynaxē, translated to mean 'The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel'.
When the Bible was translated into Greek, the worddiaspora was applied in reference to theKingdom of Samaria which was exiled from Israel by theAssyrians between 740 and 722 BC,[37] as well as Jews, Benjaminites, and Levites who were exiled from theKingdom of Judah by theBabylonians in 587 BC, and Jews who were exiled fromRoman Judea by theRoman Empire in 70 AD.[38] It subsequently came to be used in reference to the historical movements and settlement patterns of the Jews.[39] In English, capitalized, and without modifiers, the term can refer specifically to theJewish diaspora.[40] The wider application ofdiaspora evolved from the Assyrian two-way mass deportation policy of conquered populations to deny future territorial claims on their part.[41]
This scattering abrode of the Iewes, as it were an heauenly sowing, fell out after their returne from the captiuitie of Babylon. Wherevpon both Acts. 2. and also 1. Pet. 1. and 1. Iam. ver. 1. [sic] they are calledDiaspora, that is, a scattering or sowing abrode.[42]
However, the current entry on "diaspora" in theOxford English Dictionary Online dates the first recorded use a century later to 1694, in a work on ordination by the Welsh theologian James Owen. Owen wanted to prove that there is no difference in the Bible between Presbyters and Bishops; he cited the example of the Jews in exile:
The Presbyters of the JewishDiaspora, to whom St.Peter wrote, are requir'd ποιμαίνειν ϗ̀ ἐπισκοπείν, to feed or rule the Flock, and to perform the office and work of Bishops among them.[43]
The OED records a usage of "diaspora" in 1876, which refers to "extensivediaspora work (as it is termed) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent".[44]
The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid 1950s, with long-termexpatriates in significant numbers from other particular countries or regions also being referred to as a diaspora.[45] An academic field,diaspora studies, has become established relating to this sense of the word.
William Safran in an article published in 1991,[46] set out six rules to distinguish diasporas from migrant communities. These included criteria that the group maintains a myth orcollective memory of their homeland; they regard their ancestral homeland as their true home, to which they will eventuallyreturn; being committed to the restoration or maintenance of that homeland, and they relate "personally or vicariously" to the homeland to a point where it shapes their identity.[47][48][49] Safran's definitions were influenced by the idea of the Jewish diaspora.[50] Safran also included a criterion of having been forced into exile by political or economic factors, followed by a long period of settlement in the new host culture.[51] In 1997,Robin Cohen argued that a diasporic group could leave its homeland voluntarily, and assimilate deeply into host cultures.[52]
Rogers Brubaker (2005) more inclusively applied three basic definitional criteria: First, geographic dispersion (voluntary or forced) of a people; second, "the orientation to a real or imagined 'homeland' as an authoritative source of value, identity and loyalty"; and third, maintenance of a social boundary corresponding to the conservation of a distinctive diasporic identity which differs from the host culture.[53] Brubaker also noted that the use of the termdiaspora has been widening. He suggests that one element of this expansion in use "involves the application of the term diaspora to an ever-broadening set of cases: essentially to any and every nameable population category that is to some extent dispersed in space".[54] Brubaker used theWorldCat database to show that 17 out of the 18 books on diaspora published between 1900 and 1910 were on the Jewish diaspora. The majority of works in the 1960s were also about the Jewish diaspora, but in 2002 only two out of 20 books sampled (out of a total of 253) were about the Jewish case, with a total of eight different diasporas covered.[55]
Brubaker outlined the original use of the termdiaspora as follows:[56]
Most early discussions of the diaspora were firmly rooted in a conceptual 'homeland'; they were concerned with a paradigmatic case, or a small number of core cases. The paradigmatic case was, of course, the Jewish diaspora; some dictionary definitions of diaspora, until recently, did not simply illustrate but defined the word with reference to that case.
Some observers have labeled evacuation fromNew Orleans and theGulf Coast in the wake ofHurricane Katrina theNew Orleans diaspora, since a significant number of evacuees have not been able to return, yet maintain aspirations to do so.[57][58] Agnieszka Weinar (2010) notes the widening use of the term, arguing that recently, "a growing body of literature succeeded in reformulating the definition, framing diaspora as almost anypopulation on the move and no longer referring to the specificcontext of their existence".[48] It has even been noted that as charismatic Christianity becomes increasingly globalized, many Christians conceive of themselves as a diaspora, and form a bond that mimics salient features of some ethnic diasporas.[59]
Professional communities of individuals no longer in their homeland can also be considered diaspora. For example, science diasporas are communities of scientists who conduct their research away from their homeland[60] andtrading diasporas are communities of merchant aliens. In an article published in 1996,Khachig Tölölyan[61] argues that the media have used the term corporate diaspora in a rather arbitrary and inaccurate fashion, for example as applied to "mid-level, mid-career executives who have been forced to find new places at a time of corporate upheaval" (10) The use ofcorporate diaspora reflects the increasing popularity of the diaspora notion to describe a wide range of phenomena related to contemporary migration, displacement and transnational mobility. While corporate diaspora seems to avoid or contradict connotations of violence, coercion, and unnatural uprooting historically associated with the notion of diaspora, its scholarly use may heuristically describe the ways in which corporations function alongside diasporas. In this way, corporate diaspora might foreground the racial histories of diasporic formations without losing sight of the cultural logic oflate capitalism in which corporations orchestrate the transnational circulation of people, images, ideologies and capital.
In contemporary times, scholars have classified the different kinds of diasporas based on their causes, such ascolonialism,trade/labour migrations, or the social coherence which exists within the diaspora communities and their ties to the ancestral lands. With greater migration flows through the world in modern times, the concept of a secondary diaspora (a new diaspora branching out of a previous diaspora) or sub-diaspora groupings has started being studied.[62][63] Some diaspora communities maintain strong cultural and political ties to their homelands. Other qualities that may be typical of many diasporas are thoughts of return to the ancestral lands, maintaining any form of ties with the region of origin as well as relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full integration into the new host countries. Diasporas often maintain ties to the country of their historical affiliation and usually influence their current host country's policies towards their homeland. "Diaspora management" is a term thatHarris Mylonas has "re-conceptualized to describe both the policies that states follow in order to build links with their diaspora abroad and the policies designed to help with the incorporation and integration of diasporic communities when they 'return' home".[64]
Major slave trading regions of Africa, 15th–19th centuries
The diaspora of Africans during theAtlantic slave trade is one of the most notorious modern diasporas. 10.7 million people from West Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Americas asslaves starting in the late 16th century CE and continuing into the 19th.[citation needed] Outside of the Atlantic slave trade, however, African diasporic communities have existed for millennia. While some communities were slave-based, other groups emigrated for various reasons.
From the 8th through the 19th centuries, theArab slave trade dispersed millions of Africans to Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.[65][page needed] The Islamic slave trade also has resulted in the creation of communities of African descent in India, most notably theSiddi,Makrani andSri Lanka Kaffirs.[66][page needed]
Beginning as early as the 2nd century AD, the kingdom ofAksum (modern-dayEthiopia) created colonies on the Arabian Peninsula. During the 4th century, Aksum formally adopted Christianity as a state religion, becoming the first to do so along withArmenia. In the 6th century,Kaleb of Axum invadedHimyar (modern-dayYemen) to aid and defend Christians under religious persecution. During these campaigns, several groups of soldiers chose not to return to Aksum. These groups are estimated to have ranged in size from the 600s to mid 3000s.[67]
Previously, migrant Africans with national African passports could only enter thirteen African countries without advanced visas. In pursuing a unified future, theAfrican Union (AU) launched anAfrican Union Passport in July 2016, allowing people with a passport from one of the55 member states of the AU to move freely between these countries under this visa free passport and encourage migrants with national African passports to return to Africa.[68][69][70]
The largest Asian diaspora in the world is the Indian diaspora. The overseas Indian community, estimated to number over 17.5 million, is spread across many regions of the world, on every continent. It is a global community which is diverse, heterogeneous and eclectic and its members represent different regions, languages, cultures, and faiths (seeDesi).[71] Similarly, theRomani, numbering roughly 12 million in Europe[72] trace their origins to theIndian subcontinent, and their presence in Europe is first attested to in theMiddle Ages.[73][74] TheSouth Asian diaspora as a whole has over 44 million people.[75]
ThePakistani diaspora is the third largest diaspora in Asia with approximately 10 millionPakistanis living abroad mostly in Middle East, North America and Europe.[81]
At least three waves ofNepalese diaspora can be identified.[82] The earliest wave dates back hundreds of years as early marriage and high birthrates propelled Hindu settlement eastward across Nepal, then intoSikkim and Bhutan. A backlash developed in the 1980s as Bhutan's political elites realized that Bhutanese Buddhists were at risk of becoming a minority in their own country. At least 60,000 ethnicNepalese from Bhutan have been resettled in the United States.[83] A second wave was driven by British recruitment of mercenary soldiers beginning around 1815 and resettlement after retirement in theBritish Isles and Southeast Asia. The third wave began in the 1970s as land shortages intensified and the pool of educated labor greatly exceeded job openings in Nepal. Job-related emigration created Nepalese enclaves in India, the wealthier countries of the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Current estimates of the number of Nepalese living outside Nepal range well up into the millions.
In Siam, regional power struggles among several kingdoms in the region led to a large diaspora of ethnic Lao between the 1700s–1800s by Siamese rulers to settle large areas of the Siamese kingdom's northeast region, where Lao ethnicity is still a major factor in 2012. During this period, Siam decimated the Lao capital, capturing, torturing, and killing the Lao kingAnuwongse, who led theLao rebellion in the 19th century.
Alexander the Great's conquest of theAchaemenid Empire marked the beginning of theHellenistic period, characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established inEgypt,southwest Asia andnorthwest India.[85] Subsequent waves of colonization and migration during the Middle Ages added to the older settlements or created new ones, thus replenishing theGreek diaspora and making it one of the most long-standing and widespread in the world. The Romans also established numerous colonies and settlements outside of Rome and throughout the Roman empire.
TheMigration Period relocations, which included several phases, are just one set of many in history. The first phase Migration-Period displacement (between 300 and 500 AD) included relocation of theGoths (Ostrogoths andVisigoths),Vandals,Franks, various otherGermanic peoples (Burgundians,Lombards,Angles,Saxons,Jutes,Suebi andAlemanni),Alans and numerousSlavic tribes. The second phase, between 500 and 900 AD, sawSlavic,Turkic, and other tribes on the move, resettling in Eastern Europe and gradually leaving it predominantly Slavic, and affectingAnatolia and theCaucasus as the first Turkic tribes (Avars,Huns,Khazars,Pechenegs), as well asBulgars, and possiblyMagyars arrived. The last phase of themigrations saw the coming of the Hungarian Magyars. TheViking expansion out ofScandinavia into southern and eastern Europe, Iceland, the British Isles and Greenland. The recent application of the word "diaspora" to the Viking lexicon highlights their cultural profile distinct from their predatory reputation in the regions they settled, especially in the North Atlantic.[86] The more positive connotations associated with the social science term help to view the movement of the Scandinavian peoples in the Viking Age in a new way.[87]
Such colonizing migrations cannot be considered indefinitely as diasporas; over very long periods, eventually, the migrants assimilate into the settled area so completely that it becomes their new mental homeland. Thus the modern Magyars of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the WesternSiberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.
The Italian explorerChristopher Columbus leads an expedition to theNew World, 1492.His voyages are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened anew era in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds.
In 1492 a Spanish-financed expedition headed byChristopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, after which European exploration and colonization rapidly expanded. HistorianJames Axtell estimates that 240,000 people left Europe for the Americas in the 16th century.[88] Emigration continued. In the 19th century alone over 50 million Europeans migrated to North and South America.[89] Other Europeans moved to Siberia, Africa, and Australasia. The properlySpanish emigrants were mainly from several parts of Spain, but not only the impoverished ones (i.e.,Basques inChile), and the destination varied also along the time. As an example, theGalicians moved first to the American colonies during the XVII-XX (mainly but not only Mexico, Cuba, Argentine and Venezuela, as manywriters during the Francoist exile), later to Europe (France, Switzerland) and finally within Spain (to Madrid, Catalonia or the Basque Country).
A specific 19th-century example is theIrish diaspora, beginning in the mid-19th century and brought about byan Gorta Mór or "the Great Hunger" of theIrish Famine. An estimated 45% to 85% of Ireland's population emigrated to areas including Britain, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. The size of the Irish diaspora is demonstrated by the number of people around the world who claim Irish ancestry; some sources put the figure at 80 to 100 million.
From the 1860s, theCircassian people, originally from Europe,were dispersed through Anatolia, Australia, the Balkans, the Levant, North America, and West Europe, leaving less than 10% of their population in the homeland – parts of historical Circassia (in the modern-day Russian portion of theCaucasus).[90]
There were two majorItalian diasporas inItalian history. The first diaspora began around 1880, two decades after theUnification of Italy, and ended in the 1920s to the early 1940s with the rise ofFascist Italy.[92] Poverty was the main reason for emigration, specifically the lack of land asmezzadriasharecropping flourished in Italy, especially in the South, and property became subdivided over generations. Especially inSouthern Italy, conditions were harsh.[92] Until the 1860s to 1950s, most of Italy was arural society with many small towns and cities and almost no modern industry in which land management practices, especially in the South and theNortheast, did not easily convince farmers to stay on the land and to work the soil.[93] Another factor was related to the overpopulation of Southern Italy as a result of the improvements in socioeconomic conditions afterUnification.[94] That created a demographic boom and forced the new generations to emigrate en masse in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, mostly to theAmericas.[95] The new migration of capital created millions of unskilled jobs around the world and was responsible for the simultaneous mass migration of Italians searching for "work and bread".[96] The second diaspora started after the end ofWorld War II and concluded roughly in the 1970s. Between 1880 and 1980, about 15,000,000 Italians left the country permanently.[97] By 1980, it was estimated that about 25,000,000 Italians were residing outside Italy.[98]
An ethnographic map of 16th-centurySiberia, made in theRussian Empire period, between 1890 and 1907
In the United States of America, approximately 4.3 million people moved outside their home states in 2010, according toIRS tax-exemption data.[99] In a 2011 TEDx presentation, Detroit nativeGarlin Gilchrist referenced the formation of distinct "Detroit diaspora" communities in Seattle and in Washington, DC,[100] while layoffs in theauto industry also led to substantialblue-collar migration from Michigan to Wyomingc. 2005.[101] In response to a statewide exodus of talent, the State of Michigan continues to host "MichAGAIN" career-recruiting events in places throughout the United States with significant Michigan-diaspora populations.[102]
In the People's Republic of China, millions of migrant workers have sought greater opportunity in the country's booming coastal metropolises,[when?] though this trend has slowed with the further development of China's interior.[103] Migrant social structures in Chinese megacities are often based on place of origin, such as a shared hometown or province, and recruiters and foremen commonly select entire work-crews from the same village.[104] In two separate June 2011 incidents,Sichuanese migrant workers organized violent protests against alleged police misconduct and migrant-labor abuse near the southern manufacturing hub ofGuangzhou.[105]
In Canada,internal migration has occurred for a number of different factors over the course of Canadian history. An example is the migration of workers fromAtlantic Canada (particularlyNewfoundland and Labrador) toAlberta, driven in part by thecod collapse in the early 1990s and the 1992 moratorium on cod fishing. Fishing had previously been a major driver of the economies of the Atlantic provinces, and this loss of work proved catastrophic for many families. As a result, beginning in the early 1990s and into the late 2000s, thousands of people from the Atlantic provinces were driven out-of-province to find work elsewhere in the country, especially in the Albertaoil sands during the oil boom of the mid-2000s.[108] This systemicexport of labour[109] is explored by authorKate Beaton in her 2022 graphic memoirDucks, which details her experience working in theAthabasca oil sands.[110][111]
Internal migration in Brazil occurs mainly for economic reasons and ecological disasters.Internal migration involves the movement of people within the same territory, which can be between regions, states or municipalities. It does not affect the total number of inhabitants in a country, but it does change the regions involved in this process. In Brazil, economic factors exert the greatest influence on migratory flows, as the capitalist production model creates privileged areas for industries, forcing people to move from one place to another in search of better living conditions and jobs to meet their basic survival needs.[112]
Some examples of internal migration in Brazil occurred in the 1960s, when thedroughts devastated theNortheast of Brazil, leading thousands of people to abandon their homes in the Brazilian hinterland due to the lack of agricultural alternatives and social policies in the region. At the end of the 19th century, northeasterners migrated to theNorth of Brazil because of the rubber cycle. In the 1970s, migrants from the Northeast and theSouth left in search of a better life in theSoutheast, Brazil's only industrial center at the time.[112][113]
The oldestinternal migration in Italy goes back to the 11th century when soldiers and settlers fromNorthern Italy (at the time collectively called "Lombardy"[114]), settled the central and eastern part ofSicily during theNorman conquest of southern Italy. After the marriage between the Norman kingRoger I of Sicily withAdelaide del Vasto, member ofAleramici family, many Lombard colonisers left their homeland, in the Aleramici's possessions inPiedmont andLiguria, to settle on the island of Sicily.[115][116] The migration of people from Northern Italy to Sicily continued until the end of the 13th century.[117] In the same period people from Northern Italy also emigrated toBasilicata.[118] It is believed that the population of Northern Italy who immigrated to Sicily during these centuries was altogether about 200,000 people.[119] Their descendants, who are still present in Sicily today, are calledLombards of Sicily. Following these ancient migrations, in some municipalities of Sicily and Basilicata, dialects of northern origin are still spoken today, theGallo-Italic of Sicily and theGallo-Italic of Basilicata.
With thefall of Fascist regime in 1943, and the end of World War II in 1945, a large internal migratory flow began from one Italian region to another. This internal emigration was sustained and constantly increased by theeconomic growth that Italy experienced between the 1950s and 1960s.[120] Given that this economic growth mostly concernedNorthwest Italy, which was involved in the birth of many industrial activities, migratory phenomena affected the peasants of theTriveneto andsouthern Italy, who began to move in large numbers.[120] Other areas of northern Italy were also affected by emigration such as the rural areas ofMantua andCremona. The destinations of these emigrants were mainlyMilan,Turin,Varese,Como,Lecco, andBrianza.[121] The rural population of the aforementioned areas began to emigrate to the large industrial centers of the north-west, especially in the so-called "industrial triangle, or the area corresponding to the three-sided polygon with vertices in the cities of Turin, Milan andGenoa.[120][122] Even some cities in central and southern Italy (such asRome, which was the object of immigration due to employment in the administrative and tertiary sectors) experienced a conspicuous immigration flow.[120]
These migratory movements were accompanied by other flows of lesser intensity, such as transfers from the countryside to smaller cities and travel from mountainous areas to the plains.[120] The main reasons that gave rise to this massive migratory flow were linked to the living conditions in the places of origin of the emigrants (which were very harsh), the absence of stable work,[122][121] the high rate of poverty, the poor fertility of many agricultural areas, the fragmentation of land properties,[93] which characterized southern Italy above all, and the insecurity caused byorganized crime.[121] Overall, the Italians who moved from southern to northern Italy amounted to 4 million.[120] The migratory flow from the countryside to the big cities also contracted and then stopped in the 1980s.[120] At the same time, migratory movements towards medium-sized cities and those destined for small-sized villages increased.[120]
The twentieth century saw huge population movements. Some involved large-scale transfers of people by government action. Some migrations occurred to avoid conflict and warfare. Other diasporas formed as a consequence of political developments, such as the end ofcolonialism.
After World War II, theSoviet Union andcommunist-controlled Poland,Czechoslovakia, Hungary andYugoslaviaexpelled millions ofethnic Germans, most of them were the descendants of immigrants who had settled in those areas centuries ago. This expulsion was allegedly carried out in reaction to Nazi Germany's invasions andpan-German attempts to annex Eastern European territory.[citation needed] Most of the refugees moved to the West, including western Europe, and with tens of thousands seeking refuge in the United States.
TheIstrian–Dalmatian exodus was the post-World War II exodus and departure of local ethnicItalians (Istrian Italians andDalmatian Italians) as well as ethnicSlovenes,Croats, andIstro-Romanians from theYugoslav territory ofIstria,Kvarner, theJulian March as well asDalmatia, towardsItaly, and in smaller numbers, towards theAmericas,Australia, andSouth Africa.[124][125] These regions were ethnically mixed, with long-established historic Croatian, Italian, and Slovene communities. According to various sources, the exodus is estimated to have amounted to between 230,000 and 350,000 Italians (the others being ethnic Slovenes, Croats, and Istro-Romanians, who chose to maintainItalian citizenship)[126] leaving the areas in the aftermath of the conflict.[127][128] Hundreds or perhaps tens of thousands of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) were killed or summarily executed duringWorld War II byYugoslav Partisans andOZNA during the first years of the exodus, in what became known as thefoibe massacres.[129][130] From 1947, after the war, Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians were subject by Yugoslav authorities to less violent forms of intimidation, such as nationalization, expropriation, and discriminatory taxation,[131] which gave them little option other than emigration.[132][133][134] In 1953, there were 36,000 declared Italians in Yugoslavia, just about 16% of the original Italian population before World War II.[135] According to the census organized inCroatia in 2001 and that organized inSlovenia in 2002, the Italians who remained in the formerYugoslavia amounted to 21,894 people (2,258in Slovenia and 19,636in Croatia).[136][137]
Spain sent many political activists into exile during the rule ofFranco's military regime from 1936 until his death in 1975.[138]
Prior to World War II and the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, a series of anti-Jewishpogroms broke out in theArab world and caused many to flee, mostly to Palestine/Israel. The1947–1949 Palestine war likewise saw at least 750,000Palestinians expelled or forced to flee from the newly forming Israel.[139] Many Palestinians continue to live in refugee camps in the Middle East, while others have resettled in other countries.
The1947 Partition in theIndian subcontinent resulted in the migration of millions of people between India, Pakistan, and present-day Bangladesh. Many were murdered in the religious violence of the period, with estimates of fatalities up to 2 million people.[140] Thousands of former subjects of theBritish Raj went to the UK from the Indian subcontinent after India and Pakistan became independent in 1947.[citation needed]
From the late 19th century, and formally from 1910, Japan madeKorea a Japanese colony. Millions of Chinese fled to western provinces not occupied by Japan (that is, in particular,Sichuan andYunnan in the Southwest andShaanxi andGansu in the Northwest) and to Southeast Asia.[citation needed] More than 100,000Koreans moved across theAmur River into theRussian Far East (and later into the Soviet Union) away from the Japanese.[141]
The Cold War and the formation of post-colonial states
Both during and after theCold War-era, huge populations of refugees migrated from countries which experienced conflicts, especially from then-developing countries. Upheavals in theMiddle East andCentral Asia, some of which were related to power struggles between the United States and theSoviet Union, produced new refugee populations that developed into global diasporas.
InSoutheast Asia, manyVietnamese people emigrated to France and later millions of other Vietnamese people migrated to the United States, Australia and Canada after the Cold War-relatedVietnam War of 1955–1975. Later, 30,000 Frenchcolons from Cambodia were displaced after they were expelled by the 1975–1979Khmer Rouge regime underPol Pot.[citation needed] A small, predominantly Muslim ethnic group, theCham people, long residing in Cambodia, were nearly eradicated.[142] The mass exodus of Vietnamese people from Vietnam from 1975 onwards led to the popularisation of the term "boat people".[143]
InSouthwestern China, manyTibetan people emigrated to India, following the14th Dalai Lama after the failure of his1959 Tibetan uprising. This wave lasted until the 1960s, and another wave followed when Tibet opened up to trade and tourism in the 1980s. It is estimated[by whom?] that about 200,000 Tibetans live now dispersed worldwide, half of them in India, Nepal and Bhutan. In lieu of lost citizenship papers, theCentral Tibetan Administration offersGreen Book identity documents to Tibetan refugees.
Celebrations ofMurugan by theSri Lankan Tamil community inParis,FranceSri Lankan Tamils have historically migrated to find work, notably, during theBritish colonial period (1796–1948). Since the beginning of theSri Lankan Civil War in 1983, more than 800,000 Tamils have been displaced within Sri Lanka as a local diaspora, and over a half-millionTamils have emigrated as theTamil diaspora to destinations such as India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, and Europe.
InAfrica, a new series of diasporas was formed after the end of colonial rule. In some cases, as countries became independent, numerous minority descendants of Europeans emigrated; others stayed.
A newJamaican diaspora formed around the start of the 21st century. More than 1 millionDominicans live abroad, a majority living in the US.[146]
A million Colombian refugees have left Colombia since 1965 to escapeviolence and civil wars.
Thousands ofArgentine and Uruguay refugees fled to Europe during periods ofmilitary rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
InCentral America,Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans have fled[when?] conflict and poor economic conditions.
Hundreds of thousands of people fled from theRwandan genocide in 1994 and moved into neighboring countries.
Between 4 and 6 million have emigrated from Zimbabwe beginning in the 1990s especially since 2000, greatly increasing theZimbabwean diaspora due to a protracted socioeconomic crisis, forming large communities in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and smaller communities inthe United States, New Zealand and Ireland.[147] Thelong war inCongo, in which numerous nations have been involved, has also result in millions of displaced refugees.
A South Korean diaspora movement during the 1990s caused the homeland fertility rate to drop when a large amount of the middle class emigrated, as the rest of the population continued to age. To counteract the change in these demographics, the South Korean government initiated a diaspora-engagement policy in 1997.[148]
The EU attempted to enact some measures to address the problem,[155] including distributing refugees among member countries, tackling root causes of emigration in the home countries of migrants, and simplifying deportation processes.[156] However, due to a lack of political coordination at the European level, the distribution of countries was unequal, with some countries taking in many more refugees than others.
The initial responses of national governments varied greatly.[156] ManyEuropean Union (EU) governments reacted by closing their borders, and most countries refused to take in the arriving refugees. Germany would ultimately accept most of the refugees after the government decided to temporarily suspend its enforcement of theDublin Regulation. Germany would receive over 440,000 asylum applications (0.5% of the population). Other countries that took in a significant number of refugees include Hungary (174,000; 1.8%), Sweden (156,000; 1.6%) and Austria (88,000; 1.0%).
The crisis had significant political consequences in Europe. The influx of migrants caused significant demographic and cultural changes in these countries. As a consequence, the public showed anxiety towards the sudden influx of immigrants, often expressing concerns over a perceived danger to European values.[157] Political polarization increased,[158] confidence in the European Union fell,[159] and many countries tightened their asylum laws.Right-wing populist parties capitalized on public anxiety and became significantly more popular in many countries. There was an increase in protests regarding immigration and the circulation of thewhite nationalist conspiracy theory of theGreat Replacement.[160] Nonetheless, despite the political consequences, a 2023 study leveraging quantified economic metrics (such as chained GDP and the inflation rate) concluded that the events ultimately resulted in a “low but positive impact” to the German economy.[161]
Newsweek described the "Bolivarian diaspora" as "a reversal of fortune on a massive scale", where the reversal refers to Venezuela's high immigration rate during the 20th century.[164] Initially, upper class Venezuelans and scholars emigrated during Chávez's presidency, but middle- and lower-class Venezuelans began to leave as conditions worsened in the country.[173] This has caused abrain drain that affects the nation, due to the large number of emigrants who are educated or skilled.[174][175] During the crisis, Venezuelans have been asked about their desire to leave their native country;[176] over 30 percent of respondents to a December 2015 survey said that they planned to permanently leave Venezuela.[177] The percentage nearly doubled the following September as, according to Datincorp, 57 percent of respondents wanted to leave the country.[178] By mid-2019, over four million Venezuelans had emigrated since the revolution began in 1999.[179][180][181]
TheUnited Nations predicted that by the end of 2019, there would have been over 5 million recorded emigrants during the Venezuelan crisis, over 15% of the population.[182] A late-2018 study by theBrookings Institution suggested that emigration would reach 6 million – approximately 20% of Venezuela's 2017 population – by the end of 2019,[183] with a mid-2019 poll by Consultares 21 estimating that up to 6 million Venezuelans had fled the country by this point;[184] estimates going into 2020 suggested that the number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees was overtaking the 6 million figure,[185] at this time the same number ofrefugees from the Syrian Civil War, which started years before the recorded Venezuelan crisis and was considered the worst humanitarian disaster in the world at the time.[185][186] Estimates had risen to 7.1 million by October 2022, over 20 percentof the country's population.[187]
According to theUNHCR, more than 7.7 million people have emigrated from Venezuela in the years corresponding to Maduro's rise to power and the consolidation ofChavismo.[191] From May to August 2023, 390,000 Venezuelans left their country, driven by despair over challenging living conditions, characterized by low wages, rampant inflation, lack of public services, and political repression. However, R4V suggests that these figures could be even higher, as many migrants without regular status are not included in the count.[192][191] The organization's calculation method is based on asylum requests and refugee registrations in each country, which might exclude those in irregular situations.[192] Despite the upcoming presidential elections, hope is scarce among Venezuelans. Many fear that through manipulations and frauds, Maduro might "get re-elected" and remain in power for another six years, despite his unpopularity. In this scenario, emigration might continue to be a constant in Venezuela's near future.[192][191]
Numerous web-based news portals and forum sites are dedicated to specific diaspora communities, often organized on the basis of an origin characteristic and a current location characteristic.[193] The location-based networking features of mobile applications such as China'sWeChat have also createdde facto online diaspora communities when used outside of their home markets.[194] Now, large companies from the emerging countries are looking at leveraging diaspora communities to enter the more mature market.[195]
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^"Population Facts"(PDF). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division. December 2017. p. 3.Archived(PDF) from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved8 February 2019.In 2017, with 16.6 million persons living abroad, India was the leading country of origin of international migrants. Migrants from Mexico constituted the second largest 'diaspora' in the world (13.0 million), followed by those from the Russian Federation (10.6 million), China (10.0 million), Bangladesh (7.5 million), the Syrian Arab Republic (6.9 million), Pakistan (6.0 million), Ukraine (5.9 million), the Philippines (5.7 million) and the United Kingdom Since 2000, countries experiencing the largest increase in their diaspora populations were the Syrian Arab Republic (872 per cent), India (108 per cent) and the Philippines (85 per cent).
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