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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.
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.
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 ...
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.
Over 1 million Indian people were taken as indentured servants to other parts of the world during the British Empire, primarily to the Caribbean and Southeast Africa. [10] [11] Because they had left South Asia before the establishment of the current independent nations of that region, they were often denied citizenship in South Asia, [12] and because they were also sometimes expelled or ...
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 ...
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]
Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late 20th century to study dispersed ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples.The usage of the term diaspora carries the connotation of forced resettlement, due to expulsion, coercion, slavery, racism, or war, especially nationalist conflicts.