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The world-famous major city, the US' largest (8-9 million people), is known for its local subculture (esp. Brooklyn and the Bronx). Similarly, Bostonians, Michiganians [27] and Californians moved across the US and the world. [citation needed] Nigerian diaspora, people from the country of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa.
Major slave trading regions of Africa, 15th–19th centuries. The diaspora of Africans during the Atlantic slave trade is one of the most notorious modern diasporas. 10.7 million people from West Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Americas as slaves starting in the late 16th century CE and continuing into the 19th.
The term Mizrahi is used in Israel in the language of politics, media and some social scientists for Jews from the Arab world and adjacent, primarily Muslim-majority countries. The definition of Mizrahi includes the modern Iraqi Jews, Syrian Jews, Lebanese Jews, Persian Jews, Afghan Jews, Bukharian Jews, Kurdish Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian ...
Tensions have occurred between South Asian countries and their diasporas over support for separatist movements, as in the case of India and its Punjabi diaspora over the Khalistan movement. [40] These tensions have sometimes boiled over to harming relations between South Asian countries and the host countries of the diaspora, as with the 2023 ...
Postcolonial diasporas are similar to colonial diasporas in that both groups often migrated in a way that addressed the global demand for labor. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Postcolonial diasporas tend to split into those who have migrated as part of a " post-national " clique that has economic dealings with multiple countries, and those who have migrated out ...
In the 1851 Census, just over half (50.5%) the total population was born in England, this proportion then fell to 36.5% (1861) and 24.3% by 1881. [60] In 2013, there were 215,589 English-born representing 21.5% of all overseas-born residents or 5 percent of the total population and is still the most-common birthplace outside New Zealand. [70]
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A world map showing the percentage of Muslims in each country. The diaspora (in non-dark green regions) is most notably visible in the West. The Muslim diaspora is the diasporic group of Muslims whose ancestors emigrated from the long-standing regions of the Muslim world and the national homes of the Muslim peoples, including Asia, the Palestinian and Israeli regions, and others, although ...