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The Chinese diaspora is the world's third largest; Paifang gateway at Sydney Chinatown in Australia. William Safran in an article published in 1991, [46] set out six rules to distinguish diasporas from migrant communities.
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.
These invasions and settlements led to one of the first large-scale African diasporas in the ancient world. In 517 AD, the Himyarite king Ma'adikarib was overthrown by Dhu Nuwas, a Jewish leader who began persecuting Christians [167] and confiscating trade goods between Aksum and the Byzantine Empire, [168] both of which were Christian nations ...
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 ...
The African-American diaspora refers to communities of people of African descent who previously lived in the United States. These people were mainly descended from formerly enslaved African persons in the United States or its preceding European colonies in North America that had been brought to America via the Atlantic slave trade and had suffered in slavery until the American Civil War.
Diasporas result from historical emigration from an original homeland. In modern cases, this migration can be historically documented, and the diaspora associated with a certain territory. Whether this territory is in fact the homeland of a specific ethnic group, is a political matter.
Over the last several decades, the diaspora of the Indian subcontinent has been labeled, relabeled and lumped together too many times to count.
Native people of Afghanistan now reside in at least 96 countries around the world. [20] Some of those returning from Pakistan have complained that "they have been beaten and slapped and told nobody in Pakistan wants them anymore." [63] Others have regarded Pakistan as their home because they were born there. [64]