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{{Short description|Widely scattered population from a single original territory}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Not to be confused with|Dysphoria}}[[File:The various performances by the artists at the Indian Diaspora Event, at Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Canada on April 15, 2015 (1).jpg|thumb|[[Indian diaspora|India]] has the world's largest annual emigration.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-12 |title=Infographic: India Has the World's Biggest Diaspora |url=https://www.statista.com/chart/30803/top-countries-of-origin-for-international-migrants |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Statista Daily Data |language=en}}</ref> Pictured at Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2015]]
[[File:Piñata.jpg|thumb|The [[Emigration from Mexico|Mexican diaspora]] is the world's second-largest;<ref>
{{cite web |url= http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/publications/populationfacts/docs/MigrationPopFacts20175.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180219004109/http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/publications/populationfacts/docs/MigrationPopFacts20175.pdf |archive-date=19 February 2018 |url-status=live |title=Population Facts |date=December 2017 |publisher=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs |agency=Population Division |page=3 |access-date=8 February 2019 |quote=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).}}</ref> pictured is Mexican day celebrations in [[Germany]].]]

A '''diaspora''' ({{IPAc-en|d|aɪ|ˈ|æ|s|p|ər|ə}} {{Respell|dy|ASP|ər|ə}}) is a [[population]] that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic [[place of birth|place of origin]].<ref name="webster">{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora |title=Diaspora |access-date=22 February 2011 |dictionary=[[Merriam Webster]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor=[[Melvin Ember]], [[Carol R. Ember]] and Ian Skoggard |title=Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Volume I: Overviews and Topics; Volume II: Diaspora Communities |date=2004|url={{GBurl|id=7QEjPVyd9YMC|pg=PR26}}|page=xxvi|publisher=Springer |isbn=9780306483219}}</ref> The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://migrationdataportal.org/themes/diasporas|title=Diasporas |website=Migration Data Portal |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/diaspora/|title=Diaspora |work=Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition |last=Edwards |first=Brent Hayes |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/diaspora|title=Diaspora definition and meaning |website=CollinsDictionary.com |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>

Notable diasporic populations include the [[Jewish diaspora]] formed after the [[Babylonian exile]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-06 |title=Babylonian Captivity {{!}} Definition, History, & Significance {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Babylonian-Captivity |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> [[Romani people|Romani]] from the [[Indian subcontinent]];<ref>{{cite book |last1=Broughton |first1=Simon |url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo |title=World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East |last2=Ellingham |first2=Mark |last3=Trillo |first3=Richard |date=1999 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=9781858286358 |page=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo/page/147 147] |access-date=8 December 2015 |url-access=registration}}</ref> [[Assyrian diaspora]] following the [[Sayfo|Assyrian genocide]];<ref>{{cite book |last1=Demir |first1=Sara |chapter=The atrocities against the Assyrians in 1915: A legal perspective |editor1-last=Travis |editor1-first=Hannibal |title=The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-98025-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gaunt |first1=David |last2=Atto |first2=Naures |last3=Barthoma |first3=Soner O. |title=Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=9781785334993 |chapter=Introduction: Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World War|date=2019}}</ref> [[Greeks]] that fled or were displaced following the [[fall of Constantinople]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Fall of Constantinople |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Fall-of-Constantinople-1453 |access-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819143934/https://www.britannica.com/event/Fall-of-Constantinople-1453 |archive-date=19 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the later [[Greek genocide]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Adam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0kBZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 |title=Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780203846964 |edition=revised |location=London |page=163 |oclc=672333335 |author-link=Adam Jones (Canadian scholar)}}</ref> as well as the [[Istanbul pogrom]]s;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kaya |first=Önder |date=9 January 2013 |title=İstanbul'da GÜRCÜ Cemaati ve Katolik Gürcü kilisesi |language=tr |work=[[Şalom]] |url=http://www.salom.com.tr/newsdetails.asp?id=85406 |access-date=25 April 2013}}</ref> [[Anglo-Saxons]] (primarily to the [[Byzantine Empire]]) after the [[Norman Conquest|Norman Conquest of England]];<ref>{{cite web |title=English Refugees in the Byzantine Armed Forces: The Varangian Guard and Anglo-Saxon Ethnic Consciousness |url=http://deremilitari.org/2014/06/english-refugees-in-the-byzantine-armed-forces-the-varangian-guard-and-anglo-saxon-ethnic-consciousness/ |publisher=De Re Militari}}</ref> the [[Chinese diaspora]] and [[Indian diaspora]] who left their homelands during the 19th and 20th centuries;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yun |first=Lisa |url=http://archive.org/details/cooliespeakschin0000yunl |title=The coolie speaks : Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba |date=2008 |publisher=Philadelphia : Temple University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-59213-581-3}}</ref> the [[Irish diaspora]] after the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]];<ref>{{cite book |first=David R. |last=Montgomery |title=Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations |url= https://archive.org/details/dirterosionofciv0000mont |url-access=registration |date=14 May 2007 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520933163}}</ref> the [[Scottish diaspora]] that developed on a large scale after the [[Highland Clearances|Highland]] and [[Lowland Clearances]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Highland Clearances|url= https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Highland-Clearances/|access-date=9 September 2021|website=Historic UK}}</ref> the [[Italian diaspora]], the [[Emigration from Mexico|Mexican diaspora]]; the [[Circassian diaspora]] in the aftermath of the [[Circassian genocide]]; the [[Armenian diaspora]] following the [[Armenian genocide]];<ref>{{cite book |last=Bloxham |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Bloxham |title=The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2005 |title-link=The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians}}</ref><!-- <ref>{{cite book |last=Harutyunyan |first=Arus |title=Contesting National Identities in an Ethnically Homogeneous State: The Case of Armenian Democratization |publisher=Western Michigan University |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tTc8Pt8mX6wC&q=armenian+diaspora+history&pg=PA192 |isbn=9781109120127 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  --><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Harutyunyan |first=Arus |date=2009-04-01 |title=Contesting National Identities in an Ethnically Homogeneous State: The Case of Armenian Democratization |url=https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/667  |page=192  |journal=Dissertations}}</ref> the [[Palestinian diaspora]];<ref>Ghada Ageel, [https://www.palestinechronicle.com/my-body-in-shatat-my-heart-in-gaza-my-soul-in-beit-daras/ 'My Body in Shatat, My Heart in Gaza, My Soul in Beit Daras,']  The Palestine Chronicle  18 May 2013.</ref>  the [[Lebanese diaspora]] due to the [[Great Famine of Mount Lebanon|Famine of Mount Lebanon]] and to a lesser extent the [[Lebanese Civil War|Lebanese civil war]];<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wwirtz|first=James J.|date=March 2008 |title=Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil Warby Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack|journal=Political Science Quarterly|volume=123|issue=1|pages=157–158|doi=10.1002/j.1538-165x.2008.tb00621.x|issn=0032-3195}}</ref> [[Syrians]] due to the [[Syrian civil war]];<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kodmani |first=Bassma |date=5 December 2018 |title=The Syrian Diaspora, Old and New |url= https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/the-syrian-diaspora-old-and-new/ |journal=Arab Reform Initiative}}</ref> and the [[Iranian diaspora]] which grew from half a million to 3.8 million between the [[1979 revolution]] and 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Migration and Brain Drain from Iran {{!}} Iranian Studies |url=https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/iran-2040-project/publications/migration-and-brain-drain-iran |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=iranian-studies.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref>

According to a 2019 [[United Nations]] report, the [[Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India|Indian diaspora]] is the world's largest diaspora, with a population of 17.5&nbsp;million, followed by the [[Emigration from Mexico|Mexican diaspora]], with a population of 11.8&nbsp;million, and the [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese diaspora]], with a population of 10.7&nbsp;million.<ref>[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/forex-and-remittance/with-78-billion-india-still-highest-overseas-remittance-receiver/articleshow/72271170.cms With $78 billion, India still highest overseas remittance receiver], ''The Economic Times'', 28 November 2019.</ref>

==Etymology==
The term "diaspora" is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] verb {{lang|grc|διασπείρω}} ({{lang|grc|diaspeirō}}), "I scatter", "I spread about" which in turn is composed of {{lang|grc|διά}} ({{lang|grc|dia}}), "between, through, across" and the verb {{lang|grc|σπείρω}} ({{lang|grc|speirō}}), "I sow, I scatter". The term {{lang|grc|διασπορά}} ({{lang|grc|diaspora}}) hence meant "scattering".<ref>{{LSJ|diaspora/|διασπορά|ref}}</ref>[[File: Emigrants Leave Ireland by Henry Doyle 1868.jpg|thumb|''Emigrants Leave Ireland'' depicting the emigration from [[Ireland]] following the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]]]]

There is confusion over the exact process of derivation from these Ancient Greek verbs to the concept of diaspora. Many cite [[Thucydides]] (5th century BC) as the first to use the word.{{sfn|Chaliand|Rageau|1995|page=xiii, n. 1}}{{sfn|Tölölyan|1996|page=10}}{{sfn|Kenny|2013|page=2}} However, sociologist Stéphane Dufoix remarks "not only is the noun ''diaspora'' quite absent from the Greek original [Thucydides' ''Peloponnesian War'', II, 27)], but the original does not include the verb ''diaspeírô'' either. The verb used is the verb ''speírô'' (seed) conjugated in the passive aorist."{{sfn|Dufoix|2017|page=30–31}} The passage in Thucydides reads:

<blockquote>{{lang|grc|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 were '''scattered''' over the rest of Hellas.'<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng3:2.27.2|title=Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, book 2, chapter 27, section 2|website=data.perseus.org}}</ref></blockquote>

Dufoix further notes, "Of all the occurrences of ''diaspora'' in the ''Thesaurus Linguae Graecae'' (TLG), which draws upon almost the entire written corpus in the Greek language . . . none refer to colonisation."{{sfn|Dufoix|2017|page=29}} Dufoix surmises that the confusion may stem from a comment by Jewish historian [[Simon Dubnow]], who wrote an entry on diaspora for the influential [[Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences]].{{sfn|Dufoix|2017|page=143}} His entry, published in 1931, includes the following remark: "In a sense [[Magna Graecia]] constituted a Greek diaspora in the ancient Roman Empire."{{sfn|Dubnow|1931|page=126}}{{efn|Dubnow's comment is referenced, for example, in an article by the editor of the journal ''Diaspora'', [[Khachig Tölölyan]]. Tölölyan cites but does not actually quote Dubnow, claiming that Dubnow "stipulates that the Greek colony-cities of Antiquity might be called diasporas," whereas Dubnow clearly refers to the colonies as they stood "in the ancient Roman Empire," that is, after they had lost their political independence.{{sfn|Tölölyan|1996|page=9}}}} "Magna Graecia" refers to ancient Greek colonies established along the Italian coast, which lost their independence following the [[Second Punic War]] and their integration into the Roman Empire.

The first recorded use of the word "diaspora" is found in the [[Septuagint]], first in:
* [[Deuteronomy]] 28:25, in the phrase {{lang|grc|ἔσῃ ἐν διασπορᾷ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς βασιλείαις τῆς γῆς}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|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 phrase {{lang|grc|οἰκοδομῶν Ἰερουσαλὴμ ὁ Kύριος καὶ τὰς διασπορὰς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπισυνάξει}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|oikodomōn Ierousalēm ho [[Kyrios]] 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 word ''diaspora'' was applied in reference to the [[Northern Kingdom|Kingdom of Samaria]] which was exiled from Israel by the [[Assyria]]ns between 740 and 722 BC,<ref>[[Assyrian captivity of Israel]]</ref> as well as Jews, Benjaminites, and Levites who were exiled from the [[Kingdom of Judah]] by the [[Babylonian exile|Babylonians]] in 587 BC, and Jews who were exiled from [[Roman Judea]] by the [[Roman Empire]] in 70 AD.<ref>Kantor, pp. 53, 105–106.</ref> It subsequently came to be used in reference to the historical movements and settlement patterns of the Jews.<ref>p. 1, Barclay</ref> In English, capitalized, and without modifiers, the term can refer specifically to the [[Jewish diaspora]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of DIASPORA |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora |website=Merriam-Webster.com|date=23 July 2023 }}</ref> The wider application of ''diaspora'' evolved from the Assyrian two-way mass deportation policy of conquered populations to deny future territorial claims on their part.<ref>Galil & Weinfeld, pp. 96–97.</ref>

===Definition===
[[File:Kurdish Refuge Camp in Suruc Turkey.jpg|thumb|[[Kurdish refugees]] from [[Kobanî]] in a refugee camp, on the Turkish side of the [[Syria–Turkey border]].]]
The oldest known use of the word "diaspora" in English is in 1594 in [[John Stockwood|John Stockwood's]] translation of [[Lambert Daneau|Lambert Daneau's]] commentary on the [[Twelve Prophets]]. Daneau writes:

<blockquote>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 called ''Diaspora'', that is, a scattering or sowing abrode.<ref>{{cite book|last=Daneau|first=Lambert|title=A Fruitfull Commentarie Vpon the Twelue Small Prophets|page=1042|url={{GBurl|id=626mnQAACAAJ}}}}</ref></blockquote>

However, the current entry on "diaspora" in the ''[[Oxford 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:

<blockquote>The Presbyters of the Jewish ''Diaspora'', 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Owen|first=James|title=A Plea for Scripture Ordination; or, Ten Arguments from Scripture and Antiquity, proving Ordination by Presbyters, without Bishops, to be valid|url={{GBurl|id=-3BjAAAAcAAJ|page=13}}|page=13}} Many today believe that the audience of the First Epistle of Peter to which Owen refers was in fact Christians of non-Jewish origin, but the consensus in Owen's time was that the letter was directed to ethnic Jews. See for example {{cite book|last=Calvin|first=John|title=Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles|url={{GBurl|id=ZBk2AQAAMAAJ|page=25}}|page=25}}</ref></blockquote>

The OED records a usage of "diaspora" in 1876, which refers to "extensive ''diaspora'' work (as it is termed) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/52085 |title=diaspora, n. |work=[[Oxford English Dictionary Online]] |date=November 2010 |access-date=22 February 2011}}</ref>

The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid 1950s, with long-term [[expatriates]] in significant numbers from other particular countries or regions also being referred to as a diaspora.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=diaspora |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url= https://www.britannica.com/topic/diaspora-social-science |access-date=30 September 2022}}</ref> An academic field, [[diaspora studies]], has become established relating to this sense of the word.

===Scholarly work and expanding definition===
[[File:Chinatownsyd.jpg|thumb|The [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese diaspora]] is the world's third largest; [[Torana#Paifang in China|Paifang]] ([[Torana|torna]]) gateway at [[Chinatown, Sydney|Sydney Chinatown]] in [[Australia]].]][[William Safran]] in an article published in 1991,{{sfn|Safran|1991|pp=83–99}} set out six rules to distinguish diasporas from migrant communities. These included criteria that the group maintains a myth or [[collective memory]] of their homeland; they regard their ancestral homeland as their true home, to which they will eventually [[Return migration|return]]; 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.{{sfn|Brubaker|2005|p=5}}{{sfn|Weinar|2010|p=75}}{{sfn|Cohen|2008|p=6}} Safran's definitions were influenced by the idea of the Jewish diaspora.{{sfn|Cohen|2008|p=4}}  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.{{sfn|Safran|1991|pp=83–84}} In 1997, [[Robin Cohen]] argued that a diasporic group could leave its homeland voluntarily, and assimilate deeply into host cultures.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Robin |author-link=Robin Cohen |date=1997 |title=Global Diasporas |location=Seattle |publisher=University of Washington Press |doi=10.4324/9780203928943 |page=6|isbn=9781134077953 }}<!--There is a newer edition cited elsewhere in this article, but the page numbers may not match.--></ref>

[[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.{{sfn|Brubaker|2005|pp=5–6}} Brubaker also noted that the use of the term ''diaspora'' 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".{{sfn|Brubaker|2005|p=3}} Brubaker used the [[WorldCat]] 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.{{sfn|Brubaker|2005|p=14}}

Brubaker outlined the original use of the term ''diaspora'' as follows:{{sfn|Brubaker|2005|p=2}}

{{blockquote|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.}}

[[File:Armenian dancers in downtown Manhattan, 1976.jpg|thumb|[[Armenian Americans|Armenian American]] dancers in [[New York City]]]]
Some observers have labeled evacuation from [[New Orleans]] and the [[Gulf Coast]] in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]] the [[New Orleans diaspora]], since a significant number of evacuees have not been able to return, yet maintain aspirations to do so.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/katrina-evacuees-economic-impact-new-homes-destinations/19614294/ |title=The Economic Impact of the 'Katrina Diaspora' |first=Bruce |last=Kennedy |work=Daily Finance |date=31 August 2010 |access-date=23 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4203360.stm |title=Katrina scatters a grim diaspora |first=Will |last=Walden |work=BBC News |date=1 September 2005 |access-date=23 February 2011}}</ref> 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 any ''population'' on the move and no longer referring to the specific ''context'' of their existence".{{sfn|Weinar|2010|p=75}} 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=McAlister |first=Elizabeth |title=Listening for Geographies |url= http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_mcalister/28/ |publisher=Routledge |access-date=5 November 2012 |archive-date=23 May 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130523040900/http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_mcalister/28/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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<ref>{{cite journal|last=Burns|first=William|title=The Potential of Science Diasporas|journal=Science & Diplomacy|date=9 December 2013|volume=2|issue=4|url= http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/perspective/2013/potential-science-diasporas}}</ref> and [[trading diaspora]]s are communities of merchant aliens. In an article published in 1996, [[Khachig Tölölyan]]{{sfn|Tölölyan|1996|pages=3–36}} 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 of [[corporate 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 of [[late 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 as [[Colonial diaspora|colonialism]], [[Trading diaspora|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.<ref>[https://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/30_3_PDFs/IJFM_30_3-Rynkiewich.pdf Mission in “the Present Time”: What about the People in Diaspora?]  Michael A. Rynkiewich</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Délano Alonso |first1=Alexandra |last2=Mylonas |first2=Harris |date=2019-03-12 |title=The microfoundations of diaspora politics: unpacking the state and disaggregating the diaspora |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409160 |journal=Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |language=en |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=473–491 |doi=10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409160 |issn=1369-183X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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 that [[Harris 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".<ref>{{cite book |last=Mylonas |first=Harris |url=https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/wcfia/files/hmylonas_the_politics_of_diaspora_management_in_the_republic_of_korea.pdf |title=Issue Brief: The Politics of Diaspora Management in the Republic of Korea |date=2013 |publisher=The ASAN Institute for Policy Studies |location=Republic of Korea |page=1}}</ref>

==African diasporas==
{{Further|African diaspora}}
[[File:Africa slave Regions.svg|thumb|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&nbsp;million people from West Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Americas as [[Slavery|slaves]] starting in the late 16th century and continuing into the 19th.{{cn|date=October 2024}} 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, the [[Arab slave trade]] dispersed millions of Africans to Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Jayasuriya |editor1-first=Shihan De S. |editor2-last=Pankhurst |editor2-first=Richard |date=2003 |title=The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean |location=Trenton |publisher=Africa World Press |isbn=9780865439801}}</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2023}} The Islamic slave trade also has resulted in the creation of communities of African descent in India, most notably the [[Siddi]], Makrani and [[Sri Lanka Kaffirs]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shanti |first=Sadiq Ali |title=The African Dispersal in the Deccan: From Medieval to Modern Times |date=1996 |publisher=Orient Longman |isbn=8125004858 |oclc=611743417}}</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2023}}

Beginning as early as the 2nd century, the kingdom of [[Kingdom of Aksum|Aksum]] (modern-day [[Ethiopia]]) created colonies on the Arabian Peninsula. During the 4th century, Aksum formally adopted Christianity as a state religion, becoming the first to do so{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}} along with [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]]. In the 6th century, [[Kaleb of Axum]] invaded [[Himyarite Kingdom|Himyar]] (modern-day [[Yemen]]) 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Munro-Hay |first=Stuart C. |title=Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |date=1991 |location=Edinburgh |pages=ix–8}}</ref>

Previously, migrant Africans with national African passports could only enter 13 African countries without advanced visas. In pursuing a unified future, the [[African Union]] (AU) launched an [[African Union Passport]] in July 2016, allowing people with a passport from one of the [[Member states of the African Union|55 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monks|first=Kieron|date=5 July 2016|title=African Union launches all-Africa passport|url= http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/africa/african-union-passport/index.html|access-date=13 December 2016|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Njoroge |first=June |date=3 July 2022 |title=Africa: Era of the African Passport – A Mixed Bag of Opportunities? |work=The Exchange Africa |url= https://allafrica.com/stories/202207030068.html |access-date=6 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=African Union Passport Launched during Opening of 27th AU Summit in Kigali |publisher=Union africaine |url= https://au.int/fr/node/31182 |access-date=6 May 2023 |website=au.int}}</ref>

==Asian diasporas==<!--linked-->
{{Main|Asian diaspora}}
[[File:Filipino Market Kota Kinabalu.jpg|thumb|right|Filipino Market in [[Kota Kinabalu]], [[Sabah]], Malaysia.]] 
[[File:Jewish Children with their Teacher in Samarkand.jpg|thumb|[[Bukharan Jews]] in [[Samarkand]], present-day [[Uzbekistan]], {{Circa|1910}}]]

The largest Asian diaspora in the world is the Indian diaspora. The overseas Indian community, estimated to number over 17.5&nbsp;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 (see [[Desi]]).<ref>{{Cite news |url= https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/at-17-5-million-indian-diaspora-largest-in-the-world-un-report/articleshow/71179163.cms?from=mdr|title=At 17.5 million, Indian diaspora largest in the world: UN report|date=18 September 2019|work=The Economic Times}}</ref> Similarly, the [[Romani people|Romani]], numbering roughly 12 million in Europe<ref>{{cite web |title=Roma |url= https://fra.europa.eu/en/theme/roma#:~:targetText=For%20more%20than%20a%20thousand,biggest%20ethnic%20minority%20in%20Europe. |website=European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights |date=11 August 2012}}</ref> trace their origins to the [[Indian subcontinent]], and their presence in Europe is first attested to in the [[Middle Ages]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kenrick |first=Donald |title=Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) |edition=2nd |publisher=Scarecrow Press |date=2007 |page=xxxvii |quote=The Gypsies, or Romt it is generally accepted that they did emigrate from northern India some time between the 6th and 11th centuries, then crosanies, are an ethnic group that arrived in Europe around the 14th century. Scholars argue about when and how they left India, bused the Middle East and came into Europe.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Genetic studies of the Roma (Gypsies): A review |doi=10.1186/1471-2350-2-5 |date=2001 |last1=Kalaydjieva |first1=Luba |last2=Gresham |first2=D. |last3=Calafell |first3=F. |journal=BMC Medical Genetics |volume=2 |article-number=5 |pmid=11299048 |pmc=31389 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The [[South Asian diaspora]] as a whole has over 44 million people.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shah |first1=Muhammad Hamza |last2=Roy |first2=Sakshi |last3=Ahluwalia |first3=Arjun |date=2023 |title=Time to address the mental health challenges of the South Asian diaspora |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00144-X |journal=The Lancet Psychiatry |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=381–382 |doi=10.1016/s2215-0366(23)00144-x |pmid=37208111 |issn=2215-0366}}</ref>

One of earliest known Asian diaspora is the [[Jewish diaspora]]. With roots in the [[Babylonian Captivity]] and later migrations under [[Hellenistic Period|Hellenism]], the majority of the Jewish diaspora can be attributed to the [[History of the Jews in the Roman Empire|Roman conquest]], expulsion, and enslavement of the Jewish population of [[Judea]],<ref>[[Josephus]] [http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-6.htm War of the Jews] 9:2.</ref> whose descendants became the [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazim]], [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardim]], and [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahim]] of today,<ref>Killebrew, Ann E.; [https://books.google.com/books?id=VtAmmwapfVAC Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity. An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines and Early Israel 1300–1100 B.C.E. (Archaeology and Biblical Studies)], [[Society of Biblical Literature]], 2005</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Schama |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Schama |title=The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC–1492 AD |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sHIpAgAAQBAJ |date=2014 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=9780062339447}}</ref> roughly numbering 15 million of which 8&nbsp;million still live in the diaspora,<ref>{{cite web |last=DellaPergola |first=Sergio |title=2018 World Jewish Population |url= https://www.jewishdatabank.org/databank/search-results/study/1060 |website=JewishDatabank.org |access-date=30 November 2019}}</ref> though the number was much higher before [[Aliyah|Zionist aliyah (immigration to Israel)]] and the murder of 6 million Jews in the [[Holocaust]]. 

Another ancient diaspora is the [[Armenian diaspora]], with origins that go back as far as 1,700 years ago.<ref>{{cite book |last=Herzig |first=Edmund |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEVR88DKpGgC&pg=PA126 |title=The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity |date=2004-12-10 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780203004937 |page=126}}</ref> The Armenian diaspora is one of the oldest and largest diasporas in the world,<ref name="Aditya Anshu">{{cite book |author=Aditya Anshu |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7Z6TEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 |title=Navigating Globalization, Diaspora, Foreign Policy and Sustainability |publisher=Springer Nature |year=2025 |isbn=978-981-9690-79-4 |pages=149 |quote=...the diaspora has existed for over 1700 years, making it one of the oldest diasporas in the world.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TrVoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA305 |title=Diaspora Networks in International Business |publisher=Springer International Publishing |year= |isbn= |pages=305 |quote=The Armenian diaspora is one of the oldest and largest diasporas in the world, and the Armenians reside in nearly every country, including Finland.}}</ref><ref name="Marcello Mollica, Arsen Hakobyan">{{cite book |author=Marcello Mollica, Arsen Hakobyan |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HcpKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |title=Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor |publisher=Springer International Publishing |year=2021 |isbn=978-3-03072319-4 |pages=76 |quote=The Armenian Diaspora is the second oldest in history.}}</ref> with the oldest community being the [[Armenian Quarter|Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem]]. Armenians were persecuted, forcefully displaced, and deported multiple times in their history during foreign rule. For over a thousand years,<ref name=":8">{{Citation |last=Hewsen |first=Robert H. |title=The Armenian people from ancient to modern times. 1: The dynastic periods: from Antiquity to the fourteenth century |date=1997 |page=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/HewsenHistoricalGeographyArmenia/page/n5/mode/2up |place=New York, NY |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-312-10169-5 |quote=“...for over a thousand years, the Armenian people have been gradually but continuously driven from their homeland. This process, which began with population transfers by the Byzantines and culminated in the great deportations of 1915 to 1922, created a situation where, even before World War I, Armenians were a minority in much of Armenia. Today, they occupy barely a tenth of the territory that belonged to the Armenian kings in ancient times."}}</ref> the Armenian people were continuously expelled from [[Armenian highlands|their homeland]] in a process which began with the [[Armenians in the Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Cohen, Robin, 1944- |title=Global diasporas : an introduction |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-415-43550-5 |edition=Second |location=London |pages=49 |oclc=180470689 |quote=[...], the Byzantine Emperor Maurice [...] [i]n AD 578 [...] transported 10,000 Armenians to Cyprus, 12,000 to Macedonia and 800 to Pergama — these deportations being the origins of the Armenian diaspora. Maurice was no great lover of his fellow Armenians. As he wrote to the Persian king: “The Armenians are a knavish and indolent nation. They are situated between us, and are a source of trouble. I am going to gather mine and send them to Thrace; you send yours to the east. If they die there, it will be so many enemies that will die; if, on the contrary, they kill, it will be so many enemies that they kill. As for us, we shall live in peace. But if they remain in their own country, there will never be any quiet for us.”}}</ref> continued with [[Great Surgun|the Great Surgun]] under the Persian Empire,<ref name=":92">{{Cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Andrew |title=Ethnic cleansing |last2=Bell |first2=Andrew |date=1999 |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |isbn=978-0-312-22336-6 |edition=1. Griffin paperback |location=New York |page=56 |quote="Finally, virtually all types of cleansing can be either permanent (as is usually the case) or temporary. Temporary cleansing is often practiced in strategically sensitive military areas (the expulsion of some 600,000 Jews from the Russian frontier zone in 1914-15, for example) although examples of permanent expulsions in these areas are also fairly well known (such as the resettlement of approximately 60,000 Armenian families from Old Julfa in Isfahan in 1604)."}}</ref> and culminated in the [[Armenian genocide#Systematic deportations|genocide of 1915 under the Ottoman Empire]].
[[File:Korean-American Children’s Choir from the Korean School of New Jersey perform for President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea and First Lady Kim Keon Hee on April 26, 2023, on the South Lawn of the White House.jpg|thumb|Korean-American Children’s Choir from the Korean School of New Jersey.]]
[[Chinese emigration]] (also known as the Chinese Diaspora; see also [[Overseas Chinese]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Chinese diaspora: space, place, mobility, and identity |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Uw_ld2wXjo4C |date=2003 |last1=Ma |first1=Laurence J. C. |last2=Cartier |first2=Carolyn L. | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780742517561}}</ref> first occurred thousands of years ago. The mass emigration that occurred from the 19th century to 1949 was caused mainly by wars and starvation in [[mainland China]], as well as political corruption. Most migrants were illiterate or poorly educated peasants, called by the now-recognized racial slur [[coolies]] ({{Zh|c=苦力|l=hard labour}}), who migrated to developing countries in need of labor, such as the Americas, Australia, South Africa, Southeast Asia, [[Malay Peninsula|Malaya]] and other places.

The [[Pakistani diaspora]] is the third largest diaspora in Asia with approximately 10 million [[Pakistanis]] living abroad mostly in Middle East, North America and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment - Government of Pakistan |url=https://beoe.gov.pk/?__cf_chl_tk=gGGCxQVrf1uTmy7AbXVhs1sP2V0hXUn9hIKR7z0MD5Y-1679334300-0-gaNycGzNC2U |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=beoe.gov.pk}}</ref>

At least three waves of [[People of Nepal|Nepalese diaspora]] can be identified.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rahman |first1=Md Mizanur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3oGCAAAQBAJ |title=International Migration and Development in South Asia |last2=Yong |first2=Tan Tai |date=2015-04-10 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-48484-4 |pages=187 |language=en}}</ref> The earliest wave dates back hundreds of years as early marriage and high birthrates propelled Hindu settlement eastward across Nepal, then into [[Sikkim]] 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 ethnic [[People of Nepal|Nepalese]] from Bhutan have been resettled in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7082586.stm |title=Bhutan refugees are 'intimidated' |last=Bhaumik |first=Subir |date=7 November 2007 |work=BBC News |access-date=25 April 2008}}</ref> A second wave was driven by British recruitment of mercenary soldiers beginning around 1815 and resettlement after retirement in the [[British 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 king [[Anouvong|Anuwongse]], who led the [[Lao rebellion (1826–1828)|Lao rebellion in the 19th century]].

==European diasporas==
{{Further|European diaspora}}
[[History of Europe|European history]] contains numerous diaspora-causing events. In [[Ancient history|ancient times]], the trading and colonising activities of the [[ancient Greeks|Greek]] tribes from the [[Balkans]] and [[Anatolia|Asia Minor]] spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Black Sea]] basins, establishing Greek [[city-states]] in [[southern Italy]] (the so-called "[[Magna Graecia]]"), northern Libya, eastern Spain, the [[south of France]], and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072424354/student_view0/chapter10/table_of_contents.html |title=Early development of Greek society |publisher=Highered.mcgraw-hill.com |access-date=5 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120306063142/http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072424354/student_view0/chapter10/table_of_contents.html |archive-date=6 March 2012 }}</ref> Tyre and Carthage also colonised the Mediterranean.
[[File:Greek Colonization Archaic Period.png|upright=1.5|right|thumb|[[Greek colonisation|Greek territories and colonies]] during the Archaic period (750–550 BC)]]

[[Alexander the Great]]'s conquest of the [[Achaemenid Empire]] marked the beginning of the [[Hellenistic period]], characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Egypt]], [[Seleucid Empire|southwest Asia]] and [[Indo-Greek Kingdom|northwest India]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/10hellenism.html|title=Hellenistic Civilization |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080705195541/http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/10hellenism.html |archive-date=5 July 2008}}</ref> Subsequent waves of colonization and migration during the Middle Ages added to the older settlements or created new ones, thus replenishing the [[Greek 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.

The [[Migration 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 the [[Goths]] ([[Ostrogoths]] and [[Visigoths]]), [[Vandals]], [[Franks]], various other [[Germanic people]]s ([[Burgundians]], [[Lombards]], [[Angles (tribe)|Angles]], [[Saxons]], [[Jutes]], [[Suebi]] and [[Alemanni]]), [[Alans]] and numerous [[Slavic peoples|Slavic tribes]]. The second phase, between 500 and 900 AD, saw [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]], [[Turkic people|Turkic]], and other tribes on the move, resettling in Eastern Europe and gradually leaving it predominantly Slavic, and affecting [[Anatolia]] and the [[Caucasus]] as the first Turkic tribes ([[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]], [[Huns]], [[Khazars]], [[Pechenegs]]), as well as [[Bulgars]], and possibly [[Magyars]] arrived. The last phase of the [[Migration Period|migrations]] saw the coming of the Hungarian Magyars. The [[Vikings|Viking]] expansion out of [[Scandinavia]] 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.<ref>Jesch, J. ''A Viking Diaspora'', London, Routledge.</ref> 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.<ref>Adrams, L. "Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age", ''Early Medieval Europe'', '''vol. 20'''(1), pp. 17–38.</ref>

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 Western [[Siberia]] 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.
[[File:Desembarco de Colón de Dióscoro Puebla.jpg|thumb|The Italian explorer [[Christopher Columbus]] leads an expedition to the [[New World]], 1492. [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus|His voyages]] are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened a [[Early modern period|new era]] in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds.]]

In 1492 a Spanish-financed expedition headed by [[Christopher Columbus]] arrived in the Americas, after which European exploration and colonization rapidly expanded. Historian [[James Axtell]] estimates that 240,000 people left Europe for the Americas in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/AXTELL01.ART |first=James |last=Axtell |title=The Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America |journal=Humanities |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091119071952/http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/AXTELL01.ART |archive-date=19 November 2009 |date=September–October 1991 |issue=5 |volume=12 |pages=12–18 |jstor=4636419}}</ref> Emigration continued. In the 19th century alone over 50 million Europeans migrated to North and South America.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eltis |first=Kingston David |title=Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade |date=1987 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=139 |isbn=9780195364811}}</ref> Other Europeans moved to Siberia, Africa, and Australasia. The properly [[Spanish diaspora|Spanish emigrants]] were mainly from several parts of Spain, but not only the impoverished ones (i.e., [[Basques]] in [[Chile]]), and the destination varied also along the time. As an example, the [[Galician diaspora|Galicians]] moved first to the American colonies during the XVII-XX (mainly but not only Mexico, Cuba, Argentine and Venezuela, as many [[Galician-language literature#20th century|writers]] 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 the [[Irish diaspora]], beginning in the mid-19th century and brought about by {{lang|ga|an Gorta Mór}} or "the Great Hunger" of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Irish 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, the [[Circassians|Circassian]] people, originally from Europe, [[Circassian diaspora|were dispersed]] through Anatolia, Australia, the Balkans, the Levant, North America, and West Europe, leaving less than 10% of their population in the homeland&nbsp;– parts of historical Circassia (in the modern-day Russian portion of the [[North Caucasus|Caucasus]]).<ref>Richmond, pp. 172–173.</ref>

The [[Scottish Diaspora]] includes large populations of Highlanders moving to the United States and Canada after the [[Highland Clearances]]; as well as the Lowlanders, becoming the [[Ulster Scots people|Ulster Scots]] in Ireland and the [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scotch-Irish in America.]]
[[File:XXXIV Fiesta Nacional del Inmigrante - desfile - colectividad italiana.JPG|thumb|[[Italian Argentines]] during the opening [[parade]] of the XXXIV [[Immigrant's Festival]]. About 60% of Argentina's population has Italian ancestry.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://infouniversidades.siu.edu.ar/noticia.php?titulo=historias_de_inmigrantes_italianos_en_argentina&id=1432#.U2cKkYHa70s |title=Historias de inmigrantes italianos en Argentina |date=14 November 2011 |author=Departamento de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la [[National University of La Matanza|Universidad Nacional de La Matanza]] |work=infouniversidades.siu.edu.ar |language=es |quote=Se estima que en la actualidad, el 90% de la población argentina tiene alguna ascendencia europea y que al menos 25 millones están relacionados con algún inmigrante de Italia.}}</ref>]]

There were two major [[Italian diaspora]]s in [[Italian history]]. The first diaspora began around 1880, two decades after the [[Risorgimento|Unification of Italy]], and ended in the 1920s to the early 1940s with the rise of [[Kingdom of Italy under Fascism (1922–1943)|Fascist Italy]].<ref name="Pozzetta et al.">Pozzetta, George E., Bruno Ramirez, and Robert F. Harney. The Italian Diaspora: Migration across the Globe. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1992.</ref> Poverty was the main reason for emigration, specifically the lack of land as ''[[mezzadria]]'' [[sharecropping]] flourished in Italy, especially in the South, and property became subdivided over generations. Especially in [[Southern Italy]], conditions were harsh.<ref name="Pozzetta et al." /> Until the 1860s to 1950s, most of Italy was a [[rural society]] with many small towns and cities and almost no modern industry in which land management practices, especially in the South and the [[Northeastern Italy|Northeast]], did not easily convince farmers to stay on the land and to work the soil.<ref name="MacDonald">{{cite journal |last=McDonald |first=J. S. |title=Some Socio-economic Emigration Differentials in Rural Italy, 1902–1913 |journal=Economic Development and Cultural Change |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=55–72 |date=October 1958 |doi=10.1086/449779 |s2cid=153889304 |issn=0013-0079}}</ref> Another factor was related to the overpopulation of Southern Italy as a result of the improvements in socioeconomic conditions after [[Unification of Italy|Unification]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sori |first=Ercole |title=L'emigrazione italiana dall' Unità alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale |edition=2nd |date=1984 |publisher=Il Mulino |at=1st chapter |isbn=9788815005748 |language=it}}</ref> 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 the [[Americas]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gabaccia |first=Donna |title=Italy's Many Diasporas |date=2000 |series="Global Disaporas" series |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |pages=58–80}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pozzetta |first1=George E. |title=Pane e Lavoro: The Italian American Working Class |date=1980 |publisher=Multicultural History Society of Ontorio |location=Toronto}}</ref> The second diaspora started after the end of [[World War II]] and concluded roughly in the 1970s. Between 1880 and 1980, about 15,000,000 Italians left the country permanently.<ref>Ben-Ghiat and Hom, "Introduction" to ''Italian Mobilities'' (Routledge, 2016)</ref> By 1980, it was estimated that about 25,000,000 Italians were residing outside Italy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=King |first=Russell |date=1 January 1978 |title=Report: The Italian Diaspora |journal=Area |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=386 |jstor=20001401}}</ref>

==Internal diasporas==
[[File:Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary b58 809-0.jpg|thumb|An ethnographic map of 16th-century [[Siberia]], made in the [[Russian Empire]] period, between 1890 and 1907]]

In the United States of America, approximately 4.3&nbsp;million people moved outside their home states in 2010, according to [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] tax-exemption data.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bruner |first=Jon |title=Migration in America |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/11/16/migration-in-america/ |access-date=30 September 2013 |newspaper=Forbes |date=16 November 2011}}</ref> In a 2011 TEDx presentation, Detroit native [[Garlin Gilchrist]] referenced the formation of distinct "Detroit diaspora" communities in Seattle and in Washington, DC,<ref>{{cite web |last=Gilchrist |first=Garlin |title=From Detroit. To Detroit |url= https://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxLansing-Garlin-Gilchrist-De |work=TEDxLansing |publisher=[[TED (conference)|TED]] |access-date=30 September 2013 |date=6 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://archive.today/20131001043717/http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxLansing-Garlin-Gilchrist-De |archive-date=1 October 2013}}</ref> while layoffs in the [[Automotive industry in the United States|auto industry]] also led to substantial [[blue-collar worker|blue-collar]] migration from Michigan to Wyoming {{circa}} 2005.<ref>Compare: {{cite news |last=Silke Carty |first=Sharon |title=Wyoming wins over Michigan job seekers |url= http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2006-12-04-wyoming-job-seekers-michigan_x.htm |access-date=30 September 2013 |newspaper=USA Today |date=5 December 2006 |quote=About 100 people have made the move so far, and 6,000 more Michiganians have posted résumés on Wyoming's jobs website.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Walsh|first=Tom|title=MichAgain program aims to return talented people, investments to Michigan |url= http://www.freep.com/article/20110410/COL06/104100443/Tom-Walsh-MichAgain-program-aims-return-talented-people-investments-Michigan |access-date=1 October 2013 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |date=10 April 2011}}</ref>

In the People's Republic of China, millions of migrant workers have sought greater opportunity in the country's booming coastal metropolises,{{when|date=November 2018}} though this trend has slowed with the further development of China's interior.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kenneth|first=Rapoza|title=Chinese Migrant Workers Enticed To Stay Home|url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/02/19/china-migrant-workers-enticed-to-stay-home/|access-date=1 October 2013|newspaper=Forbes|date=19 February 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal|title=China's migrant workers|journal=Wildcat|volume=Winter 2007/08|issue=80|url= http://libcom.org/history/chinas-migrant-workers|access-date=1 October 2013}}</ref> In two separate June 2011 incidents, [[Sichuanese people|Sichuanese]] migrant workers organized violent protests against alleged police misconduct and migrant-labor abuse near the southern manufacturing hub of [[Guangzhou]].<ref>
{{cite news
|last=Demick|first=Barbara
|title=China tries to restore order after migrant riots
|url= https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-jun-13-la-fg-china-riot-20110614-story.html
|access-date=3 October 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times
|date=13 June 2011
}}
</ref>

Much of [[Siberia]]'s [[Demographics of Siberia|population]] has its origins in internal migration&nbsp;– voluntary or otherwise&nbsp;– from [[European Russia]] since the 16th century. The vast majority of the Siberian population (over 85%) is [[Slavs|Slavic]] and other [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European]] ethnicities,<ref name="2010Census">{{cite web|url=http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/result-december-2011.ppt |title=ВПН-2010 |website=Perepis-2010.ru |accessdate=2016-04-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118212344/http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/result-december-2011.ppt |archivedate=2012-01-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm |title=ВПН-2010 |website=Gks.ru |date= |accessdate=2016-04-03 |archive-date=2013-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315114013/http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> mainly the [[Russians]] (including their subethnic group [[Siberians]]), [[Ukrainians]], and [[Germans]]. Most non-Slavic groups are [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]]. Smaller linguistic groups include [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic]] (ca. 600,000 speakers),
[[Uralic languages|Uralic]] ([[Samoyedic languages|Samoyedic]], [[Ugric languages|Ugric]]; roughly 100,000 speakers), [[Tungusic languages|Manchu-Tungus]] (ca. 40,000 speakers), [[Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages|Chukotko-Kamchatkan]] (ca. 25,000 speakers), [[Eskimo–Aleut]] (some 2,000 speakers), [[Yukaghir languages|Yukaghir]] (highly endangered), and languages isolates [[Ket language|Ket]] (but see below) and [[Nivkh language|Nivkh]].

===Canada===
{{main|Interprovincial migration in Canada}}

[[File:Last_best_west.jpg|thumb|Pamphlet advertising for immigration to [[Western Canada]], {{circa|1910}}]]

In Canada, [[Interprovincial migration 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 from [[Atlantic Canada]] (particularly [[Newfoundland and Labrador]]) to [[Alberta]], driven in part by the [[Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery|cod 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 Alberta [[oil sands]] during the oil boom of the mid-2000s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lionais |first1=Doug |last2=Murray |first2=Christinas |last3=Donatelli |first3=Chloe |title=Dependence on Interprovincial Migrant Labour in Atlantic Canadian Communities: The Role of the Alberta Economy |journal=Societies |date=19 January 2020 |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=11 |doi=10.3390/soc10010011 |doi-access=free}}</ref> This systemic [[Migrant worker|export of labour]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ferguson |first1=Nelson |title=From Coal Pits to Tar Sands: Labour Migration Between an Atlantic Canadian Region and the Athabasca Oil Sands |journal=Just Labour |date=January 1, 2011 |volume=17 & 18 |issue=Special Section |doi=10.25071/1705-1436.35 |url= https://justlabour.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/justlabour/article/view/35 |access-date=4 December 2022|doi-access=free}}</ref> is explored by author [[Kate Beaton]] in her 2022 graphic memoir ''[[Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands|Ducks]]'', which details her experience working in the [[Athabasca oil sands]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Smart |first=James |title=''Ducks'' by Kate Beaton review – Powerful big oil memoir |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/06/ducks-by-kate-beaton-review-powerful-big-oil-memoir |access-date=4 December 2022 |agency=The Guardian |date=6 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rogers |first=Shelagh |title=Kate Beaton's affecting ''Ducks'' dives into the lonely life of labour in Alberta's oil sands |url= https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/kate-beaton-s-affecting-ducks-dives-into-the-lonely-life-of-labour-in-alberta-s-oil-sands-1.6669384 |access-date=4 December 2022 |agency=CBC |date=2 December 2022}}</ref>

===Brazil===
{{main|Internal migration in Brazil}}

[[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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Migração interna no Brasil |url=https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/brasil/migracao-interna-no-brasil.htm |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=Brasil Escola}}</ref> 

Some examples of internal migration in Brazil occurred in the 1960s, when the [[Drought in Northeastern Brazil|droughts]] devastated the [[Northeast Region, Brazil|Northeast]] 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 the [[North Region, Brazil|North]] of Brazil because of the rubber cycle. 
In the 1970s, migrants from the Northeast and the [[South Region, Brazil|South]] left in search of a better life in the [[Southeast Region, Brazil|Southeast]], Brazil's only industrial center at the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Secas do Nordeste |url=https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/historiab/secas-nordeste.htm |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=Brasil Escola}}</ref>

===Italy===
{{main|Internal migration in Italy}}

[[Image:Castello Enna2.jpg|thumb|[[Castello di Lombardia]], [[Enna]], [[Sicily]]]]
[[File:Centrale termica falck.jpg|thumb|View of the [[Falck Group|Falck steelworks]] in [[Sesto San Giovanni]], in [[Lombardy]], [[Italy]]]]

The oldest [[internal migration in Italy]] goes back to the 11th century when soldiers and settlers from [[Northern Italy]] (at the time collectively called "Lombardy"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/lombardo/|title=Lombardo|accessdate=15 April 2022|work=treccani.it|language=it}}</ref>), settled the central and eastern part of [[Sicily]] during the [[Norman conquest of southern Italy]]. After the marriage between the Norman king [[Roger I of Sicily]] with [[Adelaide del Vasto]], member of [[Aleramici]] family, many Lombard colonisers left their homeland, in the Aleramici's possessions in [[Piedmont]] and [[Liguria]], to settle on the island of Sicily.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IBspuVRwnUC&pg=PA323|title=The Society of Norman Italy|author1=Graham A. Loud|author2=Alex Metcalfe|date=2002|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9004125418}}</ref><ref>These Lombard colonisers were native northern Italians and should not be confused with the Germanic tribe the [[Lombards]], who were referred to as ''longobardi'' to distinguish them from the Italians of the region who were known as ''lombardi''.</ref> The migration of people from Northern Italy to Sicily continued until the end of the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite book|author = Fiorenzo Toso |title = Le minoranze linguistiche in Italia |publisher = Il Mulino |year = 2008 |page = 137 |isbn = 978-88-15-12677-1|language=it}}</ref> In the same period people from Northern Italy also emigrated to [[Basilicata]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicola De Blasi|title=L'italiano in Basilicata: una storia della lingua dal Medioevo a oggi|page=30|publisher=Il Salice|year=1994|language=it}}</ref> It is believed that the population of Northern Italy who immigrated to Sicily during these centuries was altogether about 200,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.milanocittastato.it/evergreen/forse-non-sapevi-che/i-paesi-della-sicilia-dove-si-parla-lombardo/|title=I PAESI della SICILIA dove si parla LOMBARDO|date=23 October 2021 |accessdate=5 April 2022|language=it}}</ref> Their descendants, who are still present in Sicily today, are called [[Lombards of Sicily]]. Following these ancient migrations, in some municipalities of Sicily and Basilicata, dialects of northern origin are still spoken today, the [[Gallo-Italic of Sicily]] and the [[Gallo-Italic of Basilicata]]. 

With the [[Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy|fall 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 the [[Italian economic miracle|economic growth that Italy experienced]] between the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name="uniud">{{cite web|url=https://www.uniud.it/it/ateneo-uniud/ateneo-uniud-organizzazione/dipartimenti/dies/ricerca/allegati_wp/wp_2013/wp04_2013.pdf|title=Una indagine CATI per lo studio della mobilità interna in Italia in un'ottica longitudinale|access-date=8 February 2018|language=it|archive-date=20 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420020548/https://www.uniud.it/it/ateneo-uniud/ateneo-uniud-organizzazione/dipartimenti/dies/ricerca/allegati_wp/wp_2013/wp04_2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Given that this economic growth mostly concerned [[Northwest Italy]], which was involved in the birth of many industrial activities, migratory phenomena affected the peasants of the [[Triveneto]] and [[southern Italy]], who began to move in large numbers.<ref name="uniud" /> Other areas of northern Italy were also affected by emigration such as the rural areas of [[Mantua]] and [[Cremona]]. The destinations of these emigrants were mainly [[Milan]], [[Turin]], [[Varese]], [[Como]], [[Lecco]], and [[Brianza]].<ref name="americacallsitaly">{{cite web |url= http://www.americacallsitaly.org/emigrazioni/migrazioneinterna.htm |title=Emigrazione interna italiana |access-date=8 February 2018 |language=it}}</ref> 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 and [[Genoa]].<ref name="uniud" /><ref name="salogentis">{{cite web |url= http://www.salogentis.it/2012/11/16/lemigrazione-interna-italiana-negli-anni-50-e-60/ |title=L'emigrazione interna italiana negli anni '50 e '60 |date=16 November 2012 |access-date=8 February 2018 |language=it}}</ref> Even some cities in central and southern Italy (such as [[Rome]], which was the object of immigration due to employment in the administrative and tertiary sectors) experienced a conspicuous immigration flow.<ref name="uniud" /> 

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.<ref name="uniud" /> 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,<ref name="salogentis" /><ref name="americacallsitaly" /> the high rate of poverty, the poor fertility of many agricultural areas, the fragmentation of land properties,<ref name="MacDonald" /> which characterized southern Italy above all, and the insecurity caused by [[organized crime in Italy|organized crime]].<ref name="americacallsitaly" /> Overall, the Italians who moved from southern to northern Italy amounted to 4 million.<ref name="uniud" /> The migratory flow from the countryside to the big cities also contracted and then stopped in the 1980s.<ref name="uniud" /> At the same time, migratory movements towards medium-sized cities and those destined for small-sized villages increased.<ref name="uniud" />

==20th century==
[[File:Vertreibung.jpg|thumb|[[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia]] following the end of World War II]]

The 20th 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 of [[colonialism]].

===World War II, colonialism, and post-colonialism===
As [[World War II]] (1939–1945) unfolded, [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] authorities [[The Holocaust|deported and killed millions of Jews]]; they also [[Holocaust victims|enslaved or murdered millions of other people]], including [[Romani people|Romani]], [[Ukrainians]], [[Russians]], and other [[Slavs]]. Some Jews fled from the persecution and moved to the unoccupied parts of Western Europe or they moved to the Americas before the borders of the Americas were closed. Later, other [[Eastern Europe]]an refugees moved west, away from Soviet expansion<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.kirmus.ee/baltic_archives_abroad_2006/participants.html |title=An International Conference on the Baltic Archives Abroad |publisher=Kirmus.ee |access-date=5 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120213140758/http://www.kirmus.ee/baltic_archives_abroad_2006/participants.html |archive-date=13 February 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2023}} and from the [[Iron Curtain]] regimes established as World War II ended. Hundreds of thousands of these anti-Soviet political refugees and [[displaced person]]s ended up in western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States of America.

After World War II, the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Communism|communist]]-controlled Poland, [[Czechoslovakia]], Hungary and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] [[Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)|expelled millions]] of [[ethnic 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 and [[Pan-Germanism|pan-German]] attempts to annex Eastern European territory.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Most of the refugees moved to the West, including western Europe, and with tens of thousands seeking refuge in the United States.

[[File:Italians leave Pola.jpg|thumb|[[Istrian Italians]] leave [[Pula|Pola]] in 1947 during the [[Istrian-Dalmatian exodus]]]]
The [[Istrian–Dalmatian exodus]] was the post-[[World War II]] exodus and departure of local ethnic [[Italians]] ([[Istrian Italians]] and [[Dalmatian Italians]]) as well as ethnic [[Slovenes]], [[Croats]], and [[Istro-Romanians]] from the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] territory of [[Istria]], [[Kvarner Gulf|Kvarner]], the [[Julian March]] as well as [[Dalmatia]], towards [[Italy]], and in smaller numbers, towards the [[Americas]], [[Australia]], and [[South Africa]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/giorno-ricordo-10-febbraio-2004-2014-dieci-anni-strage-foibe-eccidio-tito-comunisti-slavi-esodo-giuliano-dalmata-77ba65a1-a1e5-460e-bb57-946819b4b905.html|title=Il Giorno del Ricordo|date=10 February 2014 |access-date=16 October 2021|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/spettacoli/lesodo-giuliano-dalmata-e-quegli-italiani-fuga-che-nacquero-1639585.html|title=L'esodo giuliano-dalmata e quegli italiani in fuga che nacquero due volte|date=5 February 2019 |access-date=24 January 2023|language=it}}</ref> 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 maintain [[Italian citizenship]])<ref>{{cite web |first=Benedetta |last=Tobagi |url= http://www.treccani.it/scuola/lezioni/storia/la_repubblica_italiana.html |title=La Repubblica italiana &#124; Treccani, il portale del sapere |publisher=Treccani.it |access-date=28 January 2015}}</ref> leaving the areas in the aftermath of the conflict.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1_VCBtYq1H4C&pg=PA11 |title=Istria |page=11 |first1=Thammy |last1=Evans |first2=Rudolf |last2=Abraham |date=2013 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |isbn=9781841624457}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=Election Opens Old Wounds in Trieste |first=James M. |last=Markham|date=6 June 1987|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref> Hundreds or perhaps tens of thousands of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) were killed or summarily executed during [[World War II]] by [[Yugoslav Partisans]] and [[OZNA]] during the first years of the exodus, in what became known as the [[Foibe massacres|''foibe'' massacres]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Ota |editor1-last=Konrád |editor2-first=Boris |editor2-last=Barth |editor3-first=Jaromír |editor3-last=Mrňka |title=Collective Identities and Post-war Violence in Europe, 1944–48 |publisher=Springer International |date=2021 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xXRREAAAQBAJ&dq=foibe+massacres+istrian+dalmatian+italians&pg=PA20 |isbn=9783030783860 |page=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Donald |last1=Bloxham |author1-link=Donald Bloxham |first2=Anthony |last2=Dirk Moses |author2-link=A. Dirk Moses |editor1-first=Donald |editor1-last=Bloxham |editor2-first=Robert |editor2-last=Gerwarth |title=Political Violence in Twentieth-century Europe |chapter=Genocide and ethnic cleansing |page=125 |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511793271.004 |isbn=9781107005037}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JHnEI2m5tFIC&pg=PA309 |title=Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation|page=295 |first=Pamela |last=Ballinger |date=7 April 2009 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822392361 |access-date=30 December 2015}}</ref> which gave them little option other than emigration.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ia-qdCeUaXIC&pg=PA136 |title=Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union |page=136 |isbn=9781137308771 |last=Tesser |first=Lynn |date=14 May 2013|publisher=Springer }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=da6acnbbEpAC&pg=PA103 |title=History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans |page=103 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0691086974 |last1=Ballinger|first1=Pamela |date=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ykMVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA133 |title=Refugees in the Age of Total War |pages=139, 143 |first=Anna C. |last=Bramwell |date=1988 |publisher=Unwin Hyman |isbn=9780044451945}}</ref> In 1953, there were 36,000 declared Italians in Yugoslavia, just about 16% of the original Italian population before World War II.<ref>{{cite web |first=Matjaž |last=Klemenčič |title=The Effects of the Dissolution of Yugoslavia on Minority Rights: the Italian Minority in Post-Yugoslav Slovenia and Croatia |url= http://www.cliohres.net/books/7/26.pdf |access-date=23 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110724111950/http://www.cliohres.net/books/7/26.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2011}}</ref> According to the census organized in [[Croatia]] in 2001 and that organized in [[Slovenia]] in 2002, the Italians who remained in the former [[Yugoslavia]] amounted to 21,894 people (2,258 [[Italian language in Slovenia|in Slovenia]] and 19,636 [[Italians of Croatia|in Croatia]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/Census2001/Popis/E01_02_02/E01_02_02.html|title=Državni Zavod za Statistiku|language=hr|access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stat.si/Popis2002/en/rezultati/rezultati_red.asp?ter=SLO&st=7|title=Popis 2002|access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref>

Spain sent many political activists into exile during the rule of [[Francisco Franco|Franco]]'s military regime from 1936 until his death in 1975.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Meyers|first=Kayla|title=What exhuming Francisco Franco's remains could mean for Spain|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/25/what-exhuming-francisco-francos-remains-could-mean-spain/}}</ref>

Prior to World War II and the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, a series of anti-Jewish [[pogrom]]s broke out in the [[Arab world]] and caused many to flee, mostly to Palestine/Israel. The [[1947–1949 Palestine war]] likewise saw at least 750,000 [[Palestinians]] expelled or forced to flee from the newly forming Israel.<ref>{{cite book |title=Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates |editor1-first=Hahn Tapper |editor1-last=Aaron J. |editor2-last=Sucharov |editor2-first=Mira |date=24 June 2019 |isbn=9781487588069 |location=Toronto |oclc=1090240955}}</ref> Many Palestinians continue to live in refugee camps in the Middle East, while others have resettled in other countries.

The [[Partition of India|1947 Partition]] in the [[Indian 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sikand |first1=Yoginder |title=Muslims in India Since 1947 |date=31 July 2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=London and New York |isbn=9781134378258 |page=5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yf5aJi2loLcC |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref> Thousands of former subjects of the [[British Raj]] went to the UK from the Indian subcontinent after India and Pakistan became independent in 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Independence, partition and post-1947 migrations |url=https://beyondbanglatown.org.uk/globe/independence-partition-post-1947-migrations/ |access-date=2025-09-14 |website=beyondbanglatown.org.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref>

From the late 19th century, and formally from 1910, Japan made [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea a Japanese colony]]. Millions of Chinese fled to western provinces not occupied by Japan (that is, in particular, [[Sichuan]] and [[Yunnan]] in the Southwest and [[Shaanxi]] and [[Gansu]] in the Northwest) and to Southeast Asia.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} More than 100,000 [[Koryo-saram|Koreans]] moved across the [[Amur River]] into the [[Russian Far East]] (and later into the Soviet Union) away from the Japanese.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Oh|first=Chong Jin|title=Diaspora nationalism: The case of ethnic Korea minority in Kazakhstan and its lessons from the Crimean Tatars in Turkey|journal=Nationalities Papers|volume=34|issue=2|pages=111–129|doi=10.1080/00905990600617623 |date=2006 |s2cid=128636139}}</ref>

===The Cold War and the formation of post-colonial states===
[[File:35 Vietnamese boat people 2.JPEG|thumb|Vietnamese "[[boat people]]" awaiting rescue.]]
Both during and after the [[Cold War]]-era, huge populations of refugees migrated from countries which experienced conflicts, especially from then-[[developing countries]]. Upheavals in the [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]], some of which were related to power struggles between the United States and the [[Soviet Union]], produced new refugee populations that developed into global diasporas.

* In [[Southeast Asia]], many [[Vietnamese people]] emigrated to France and later millions of other Vietnamese people migrated to the United States, Australia and Canada after the Cold War-related [[Vietnam War]] of 1955–1975. Later, 30,000 French ''colons'' from Cambodia were displaced after they were expelled by the 1975–1979 [[Khmer Rouge]] regime under [[Pol Pot]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}} A small, predominantly Muslim ethnic group, the [[Cham (Asia)|Cham people]], long residing in Cambodia, were nearly eradicated.<ref>Compare: {{cite book |last1=Kissi |first1=Edward |chapter=Genocide in Cambodia and Ethiopia |editor1-last=Gellately |editor1-first=Robert |editor1-link=Robert Gellately |editor2-last=Kiernan |editor2-first=Ben |editor2-link=Ben Kiernan |title=The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=k9Ro7b0tWz4C |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2003 |page=314 |isbn=9780521527507 |access-date=28 June 2020 |quote=About 100,000 of an estimated Cham population of 250,000, at the time of the revolution in 1975, had perished by the time the Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown by Vietnam in January 1979}}</ref> The mass exodus of Vietnamese people from Vietnam from 1975 onwards led to the popularisation of the term "[[boat people]]".<ref>{{oed |boat people}}&nbsp;– "2. Refugees who have left a country by sea, esp. the Vietnamese people who fled in small boats and moved to Hong Kong, Australia, and elsewhere after the conquest of [[South Vietnam]] by [[North Vietnam]] in 1975."</ref>
* In [[Southwestern China]], many [[Tibetan people]] emigrated to India, following the [[14th Dalai Lama]] after the failure of his [[1959 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|date=June 2020}} that about 200,000 Tibetans live now dispersed worldwide, half of them in India, Nepal and Bhutan. In lieu of lost citizenship papers, the [[Central Tibetan Administration]] offers [[Green Book (Tibetan document)|Green Book]] identity documents to Tibetan refugees.
* [[File:Ganesh Paris 2004 DSC08471.JPG|thumb|right|Celebrations of [[Murugan]] by the [[Sri Lankan Tamil]] community in Paris, [[France]]]][[Sri Lankan Tamils]] have historically migrated to find work, notably, during the [[British Ceylon period|British colonial period]] (1796–1948). Since the beginning of the [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]] in 1983, more than 800,000 Tamils have been displaced within Sri Lanka as a local diaspora, and over a half-million [[Tamils]] have emigrated as the [[Tamil diaspora]] to destinations such as India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, and Europe.
* The [[Afghan diaspora]] resulted from the [[1979 invasion of Afghanistan]] by the former Soviet Union, resulting in the creation of the second-largest refugee population in the world {{as of|2018|lc=on}} (2.6&nbsp;million in 2018).<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.REFG.OR?locations=AF&name_desc=false&view=map |title=Refugee population by country or territory of origin |website=Data.WorldBank.org |publisher=The World Bank |access-date=26 November 2019}}</ref>
* Many [[Iranian peoples|Iranians]] fled from the 1979 [[Iranian Revolution]] which culminated in the fall of the [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|USA/British-ensconced]] [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah]].{{quantify|date=June 2020}}
* In [[Africa]], 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. 
* [[Uganda]] expelled [[Expulsion of Asians from Uganda|80,000 South Asians in 1972]] and took over their businesses and properties. 
* The 1990–1994 [[Rwandan Civil War]] between rival social/ethnic groups ([[Hutu]] and [[Tutsi]]) turned deadly and produced a mass efflux of refugees.
* In [[Latin America]], following the 1959 [[Cuban Revolution]] and the introduction of [[communism]], over a million people have left Cuba.<ref>{{cite web |title=1959: The Cuban Revolution |work=Upfront: The Newsmagazine for Teens |publisher=Scholastic |url= http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f090108_Cuba}}</ref>
* A new [[Jamaican diaspora]] formed around the start of the 21st century. More than 1 million [[People of the Dominican Republic|Dominicans]] live abroad, a majority living in the US.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nearly 20 Percent of All Dominicans Live Abroad |newspaper=Dominican Today |url= http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/economy/2011/6/14/39878/Nearly-20-of-all-Dominicans-live-abroad |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121208105951/http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/economy/2011/6/14/39878/Nearly-20-of-all-Dominicans-live-abroad |archive-date=8 December 2012}}</ref>
* A million Colombian refugees have left Colombia since 1965 to escape [[Colombian conflict|violence and civil wars]].
* Thousands of [[Argentine]] and Uruguay refugees fled to Europe during periods of [[military junta|military rule]] in the 1970s and 1980s.
* In [[Central America]], [[Nicaraguan Diaspora|Nicaraguans]], Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans have fled{{when|date=June 2020}} conflict and poor economic conditions.
* Hundreds of thousands of people fled from the [[Rwandan 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 the [[Zimbabwean diaspora]] due to a protracted socioeconomic crisis, forming large communities in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and smaller communities in [[the United States]], New Zealand and Ireland.<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0L4Pk5G0NjMC&dq=new+zim+diaspora&pg=PA198 |isbn=9781845456580 |title=Zimbabwe's New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival |date=2010 |publisher=Berghahn Books}}</ref> The [[Congo Civil War (disambiguation)|long war]] in [[the Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]], 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.<ref>
{{Cite journal |last=Song |first=Changzoo |date=May 2014 |title=Engaging the diaspora in an era of transnationalism |url= https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/64/pdfs/engaging-the-diaspora-in-an-era-of-transnationalism.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180721100530/https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/64/pdfs/engaging-the-diaspora-in-an-era-of-transnationalism.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2018 |url-status=live |journal=IZA World of Labor |pages=1–10 |access-date=28 June 2020 |quote=Since the 1990s, South Korea's population has been aging and its fertility rate has fallen. At the same time, the number of Koreans living abroad has risen considerably. These trends threaten to diminish South Korea's international and economic stature. To mitigate the negative effects of these new challenges, South Korea has begun to engage the seven million Koreans living abroad, transforming the diaspora into a positive force for long-term development.}}
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==21st century==
===Middle East===
{{See also|2015 European migrant crisis|Refugees of the Syrian Civil War}}
[[File:Refugees on a boat crossing the Mediterranean sea, heading from Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, 29 January 2016.jpg|thumb|Migrants crossing the [[Aegean Sea]] from Turkey to the Greek island of [[Lesbos]] during the [[2015 European migrant crisis]]]]

The [[2015 European migrant crisis]] was a period of significantly increased movement of [[refugee]]s and [[Human migration|migrants]] into Europe, namely from the [[Middle East]]. An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request [[Right of asylum|asylum]],<ref>{{Cite book |title=The migrant crisis: European perspectives and national discourses |date=2017 |editor1-first=Melani |editor1-last=Barlai |editor2-first=Birte |editor2-last=Fähnrich |editor3-first=Christina |editor3-last=Griessler |editor4-first=Markus |editor4-last=Rhomberg |others=Peter Filzmaier (preface) |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-643-90802-5 |oclc=953843642 }}</ref> the most in a single year since [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Dumont|first1=Jean-Christophe|last2=Scarpet|first2=Stefano|date=September 2015|title=Is this humanitarian migration crisis different?|url=https://www.oecd.org/migration/Is-this-refugee-crisis-different.pdf|journal=Migration Policy Debates|publisher=[[OECD]]|access-date=23 August 2021|archive-date=30 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730232111/https://www.oecd.org/migration/Is-this-refugee-crisis-different.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> They were mostly [[Refugees of the Syrian Civil War|Syrians]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ayaz |first1=Ameer |last2=Wadood |first2=Abdul |date=Summer 2020 |title=An Analysis of European Union Policy towards Syrian Refugees |url=http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/pols/pdf-files/1-v27_2_2020.pdf |journal=Journal of Political Studies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=1–19 |eissn=2308-8338 |id={{ProQuest|2568033477}} |access-date=30 January 2023 |archive-date=30 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130010616/http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/pols/pdf-files/1-v27_2_2020.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> but also included a significant number of people from [[Afghan refugees|Afghanistan]], [[Pakistanis|Pakistan]], [[Refugees of Iraq|Iraq]], [[Nigeria]], [[Eritreans|Eritrea]],<ref>{{cite web|date=30 November 2016|title=FACTBOX-How big is Europe's refugee and migrant crisis?|url=https://news.trust.org/item/20161130143409-nr3lz|publisher=[[Thomson Reuters]] Foundation News|access-date=14 October 2021|archive-date=16 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016204043/https://news.trust.org/item/20161130143409-nr3lz|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Balkan people|Balkans]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Migrant crisis: Explaining the exodus from the Balkans|work=BBC News|date=8 September 2015|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34173252|access-date=9 March 2022|archive-date=9 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309153841/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34173252|url-status=live}}</ref> The increase in asylum seekers has been attributed to factors such as the escalation of various wars in the [[Middle East]] and [[Islamic State|ISIL]]'s territorial and military dominance in the region due to the [[Arab Winter]], as well as Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt ceasing to accept Syrian asylum seekers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zaragoza-Cristiani |first=Jonathan |date=2015 |title=Analysing the Causes of the Refugee Crisis and the Key Role of Turkey: Why Now and Why So Many? |url=https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/38226/RSCAS_2015_95.pdf?sequence=1 |journal=EUI Working Papers |publisher=Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies |access-date=7 August 2021 |archive-date=7 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807031505/https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/38226/RSCAS_2015_95.pdf?sequence=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The EU attempted to enact some measures to address the problem,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hatton |first=Tim |url=https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/550/pdfs/european-asylum-policy-before-and-after-the-migration-crisis.pdf |title=European asylum policy before and after the migration crisis |publisher=IZA World of Labor |year=2020 |language=en |access-date=19 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519145138/https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/550/pdfs/european-asylum-policy-before-and-after-the-migration-crisis.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> including distributing refugees among member countries, tackling root causes of emigration in the home countries of migrants, and simplifying deportation processes.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Nugent |first=Neil |title=The government and politics of the European Union |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-137-45409-6 |edition=8th |pages=1–20 |chapter=Setting the Scene: The ‘Crises’, the Challenges, and Their Implications for the Nature and Operation of the EU}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1" /> Many [[European 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 the [[Dublin 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.<ref name=":11">{{cite book|last1=Bowen|first1=John|title=European states and their Muslim citizens : the impact of institutions on perceptions and boundaries|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-1-107-03864-6}}</ref> Political polarization increased,<ref name=":14">{{Cite web|last=Connor|first=Phillip|date=19 September 2018|title=Europeans support taking in refugees – but not EU's handling of issue|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/19/a-majority-of-europeans-favor-taking-in-refugees-but-most-disapprove-of-eus-handling-of-the-issue/|url-status=live|access-date=13 July 2021|website=[[Pew Research Center]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920043810/http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/19/a-majority-of-europeans-favor-taking-in-refugees-but-most-disapprove-of-eus-handling-of-the-issue/ |archive-date=20 September 2018 }}</ref> confidence in the European Union fell,<ref name="Oxford">{{cite web|last1=Outhwaite|first1=William|date=28 February 2019|editor1-last=Menjívar|editor1-first=Cecilia|editor2-last=Ruiz|editor2-first=Marie|editor3-last=Ness|editor3-first=Immanuel|title=Migration Crisis and "Brexit"|url=https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190856908-e-7|website=The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises|publisher=Oxford Handbooks|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001|isbn=9780190856908|access-date=24 February 2024|archive-date=14 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220514004151/https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190856908-e-7|url-status=live}}</ref> 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 the [[white nationalist]] conspiracy theory of the [[Great Replacement]].<ref name=":22">{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Thomas Chatterton |title=The French Origins of "You Will Not Replace Us" |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/the-french-origins-of-you-will-not-replace-us |magazine=The New Yorker |date=27 November 2017 |access-date=24 February 2024 |archive-date=14 August 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190814185144/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/the-french-origins-of-you-will-not-replace-us |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Solinsky |first=Irish |date=2023-02-03 |title=The 2015 Migrant Crisis: An Impact to Germany? |url=https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/4132/ |journal=Doctoral Dissertations and Projects}}</ref>

===Venezuelan refugee crisis===
{{main|Venezuelan refugee crisis}}

[[File:©UNICEF-ECU-2018-Arcos.jpg|thumb|[[Venezuelan refugee crisis|Venezuelan refugees]] in 2018]]

The [[Venezuelan refugee crisis]], the [[List of largest refugee crises|largest recorded refugee crisis]] in the [[Americas]],<ref name="WPfeb18">
{{bullet}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-collapse-in-venezuela-is-creating-a-refugee-crisis/2018/02/23/68b85c7e-1807-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224013027/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-collapse-in-venezuela-is-creating-a-refugee-crisis/2018/02/23/68b85c7e-1807-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 24, 2018|title=Latin-America's worst-ever refugee crisis: Venezuelans|last1=Board|first1=Editorial|date=February 23, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=February 25, 2018|quote=This human outflow, ... is the largest displacement of people in Latin American history}}
* {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/magazine/leopoldo-lopez-speaks-out-and-venezuelas-government-cracks-down.html|title=Leopoldo López Speaks Out, and Venezuela's Government Cracks Down|last=Hylton|first=Wil S.|date=March 9, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 12, 2018|issn=0362-4331|quote=Venezuela is the most urgent humanitarian disaster in the Western Hemisphere, producing the largest exodus of refugees in the history of the Americas|archive-date=May 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512110010/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/magazine/leopoldo-lopez-speaks-out-and-venezuelas-government-cracks-down.html|url-status=live}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/1c71833c-9f28-487d-90ad-5616779aca29|title=Venezuela's mounting refugee crisis|date=April 20, 2018|website=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=April 22, 2018|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412193100/https://www.ft.com/content/1c71833c-9f28-487d-90ad-5616779aca29|url-status=live}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/inthefield/2018/09/venezuela-exodus-forced-flee-180914083345729.html|title=Venezuela's exodus: Forced to flee|date=September 15, 2018|website=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]|access-date=September 15, 2018|quote=Latin America is facing the largest refugee crisis in its history as hundreds of thousands of people flee Venezuela to escape severe economic hardship.|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922214638/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/inthefield/2018/09/venezuela-exodus-forced-flee-180914083345729.html|url-status=live}}
* {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/americas/venezuela-economy.html|title=Venezuela's Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say|last=Kurmanaev|first=Anatoly|date=May 17, 2019|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 18, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|quote=Venezuela has lost a tenth of its population in the past two years as people fled, even trekking across mountains, setting off Latin America's biggest ever refugee crisis.|archive-date=January 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114124151/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/americas/venezuela-economy.html|url-status=live}}</ref> refers to the emigration of millions of [[Venezuelans]] from their native country during the presidencies of [[Hugo Chávez]] and [[Nicolás Maduro]] since the [[Bolivarian Revolution]].<ref name=EUdiaspora>{{cite news|last1=Olivares|first1=Francisco|title=Best and brightest for export|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140913/best-and-brightest-for-export|access-date=September 24, 2014|agency=El Universal|quote=The Bolivarian diaspora is a reversal of fortune on a massive scale|date=September 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916011441/http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140913/best-and-brightest-for-export|archive-date=September 16, 2014}}</ref><ref name=NEWSWEEKdiaspora>{{cite news|title=Hugo Chavez is Scaring Away Talent|url=http://www.newsweek.com/hugo-chavez-scaring-away-talent-80337|access-date=September 24, 2014|agency=[[Newsweek]]|quote=The Bolivarian diaspora is a reversal of fortune on a massive scale|date=June 30, 2009|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310043709/http://www.newsweek.com/hugo-chavez-scaring-away-talent-80337|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>

{{bullet}} {{cite news|last1=Maria Delgado|first1=Antonio|title=Venezuela agobiada por la fuga masiva de cerebros|url=http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/08/26/1828337/venezuela-agobiada-por-fuga-masiva.html|access-date=August 28, 2014|agency=El Nuevo Herald|quote=The massive emigration of Venezuelans, a trend that was unprecedented in the republican history of the nation, is mainly motivated by personal insecurity, legal insecurity and lack of options to progress under the Bolivarian regime|date=August 28, 2014|archive-date=August 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140827193549/http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/08/26/1828337/venezuela-agobiada-por-fuga-masiva.html|url-status=live}}
* {{cite news|last1=Weddle|first1=Cody|title=More desperate college grads flee Venezuela|url=https://www.local10.com/news/international/more-desperate-college-grads-flee-venezuela-|access-date=October 15, 2017|work=[[WPLG]]|date=March 18, 2017|quote=some academics refer to the exodus in its totality as the Bolivarian diaspora|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142049/https://www.local10.com/news/international/more-desperate-college-grads-flee-venezuela-|url-status=live}}
* {{cite news|last1=Wyss|first1=Jim|title=As Venezuela faces critical week, Colombia prepares for a wave of migrants|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article163600573.html|access-date=October 15, 2017|work=[[The Miami Herald]]|date=July 25, 2017|quote=And as conditions in Venezuela worsen, the “Bolivarian Diaspora” is likely to keep growing. One measure of the desperation:the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum abroad tripled from 2015 to 2016.|archive-date=May 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504200400/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article163600573.html|url-status=live}}
* {{cite news|last1=Manner|first1=Benedict|title=A family bereavement brings home Venezuela's crisis|url=https://www.ft.com/content/0edaceac-914e-11e7-bdfa-eda243196c2c|access-date=October 15, 2017|work=[[Financial Times]]|date=September 5, 2017|quote=Like the rest of the '[[Bolivarian diaspora]]' dotted around the globe, it has been impossible to escape the asphyxiating drama|archive-date=September 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922191110/https://www.ft.com/content/0edaceac-914e-11e7-bdfa-eda243196c2c|url-status=live}}

</ref> The revolution was an attempt by Chávez and later Maduro to establish a [[Cultural hegemony|cultural]] and [[Hegemony|political hegemony]],<ref name="PALABRA">{{cite journal|last1=Canelón-Silva|first1=Agrivalca Ramsenia|date=2014|title=Del Estado Comunicador Al Estado De Los Medios. Catorce Años De Hegemonía Comunicacional En Venezuela.|journal=Palabra Clave|publisher=[[University of La Sabana]]|volume=17|issue=4|pages=1243–78|doi=10.5294/pacla.2014.17.4.11|doi-access=free|hdl=10818/22065|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name="CarrollSTRATEGY">{{cite book|title=Comandante : Hugo Chavez's Venezuela|last1=Rory|first1=Carroll|date=2014|publisher=New York|isbn=978-0143124887|location=Penguin Books|pages=182–94}}</ref> which culminated in the [[crisis in Venezuela]].<ref name="CHOSUN2">{{Cite news|url=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/05/02/2018050201490.html|title=화폐경제 무너졌는데…최저임금 인상에 목매는 베네수엘라|last=남민우|first=기|date=May 2, 2018|work=[[The Chosun Ilbo|朝鮮日報]]|access-date=May 22, 2018|language=ko|quote=''Venezuela's fall is considered to be mainly caused by the populist policy ... Venezuela, for decades, has increased the number of public sector employees and has promoted populist support to maintain the regime''|archive-date=October 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004140917/http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/05/02/2018050201490.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The resulting refugee crisis has been compared to those faced by [[Cuban exile]]s, [[Refugees of the Syrian Civil War|Syrian refugees]] and those affected by the [[European migrant crisis]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oner |first=Imdat |date=2018-09-20 |title=Latin America is facing its worst refugee crisis in its history. Will it repeat the EU's mistakes regarding Syrian refugees? |url=https://globalamericans.org/latin-america-is-facing-its-worst-refugee-crisis-in-its-history-will-it-repeat-the-eus-mistakes-regarding-syrian-refugees/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Global Americans |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/03/02/feature/i-cant-go-back-venezuelans-are-fleeing-their-crisis-torn-country-en-masse/|title='I can't go back': Venezuelans are fleeing their crisis-torn country en masse|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 7, 2018|archive-date=December 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207194129/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/03/02/feature/i-cant-go-back-venezuelans-are-fleeing-their-crisis-torn-country-en-masse/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{cite news|url=https://www.devex.com/news/venezuela-crisis-is-on-the-scale-of-syria-unhcr-says-93465|title=Venezuela crisis is 'on the scale of Syria,' UNHCR says|last1=Welsh|first1=Teresa|date=September 19, 2018|access-date=September 21, 2018|agency=Devex|archive-date=January 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117033614/https://www.devex.com/news/venezuela-crisis-is-on-the-scale-of-syria-unhcr-says-93465|url-status=live}}</ref> The Bolivarian government has denied any migratory crisis, stating that the United Nations and others are attempting to justify foreign intervention within Venezuela.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/venezuelan-government-denies-facing-migration-crisis-180904052444786.html|title=Venezuela government denies facing migration crisis|date=September 4, 2018|website=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]|access-date=September 4, 2018|archive-date=September 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904091813/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/venezuelan-government-denies-facing-migration-crisis-180904052444786.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[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.<ref name=NEWSWEEKdiaspora /> 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.<ref name="CSMbrazil">{{cite news|last1=LaFranchi|first1=Howard|title=Why time is ripe for US to address Venezuela's mess|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2016/1102/Why-time-is-ripe-for-US-to-address-Venezuela-s-mess|access-date=November 4, 2016|work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=November 2, 2016|archive-date=June 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620160008/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2016/1102/Why-time-is-ripe-for-US-to-address-Venezuela-s-mess|url-status=live}}</ref> This has caused a [[brain drain]] that affects the nation, due to the large number of emigrants who are educated or skilled.<ref name=ENHaug28>{{cite news|last1=Maria Delgado|first1=Antonio|title=Venezuela agobiada por la fuga masiva de cerebros|url=http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/08/26/1828337/venezuela-agobiada-por-fuga-masiva.html|access-date=August 28, 2014|agency=El Nuevo Herald|quote=The massive emigration of Venezuelans, a trend that was unprecedented in the republican history of the nation, is mainly motivated by personal insecurity, legal insecurity and lack of options to progress under the Bolivarian regime|date=August 28, 2014|archive-date=August 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140827193549/http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/08/26/1828337/venezuela-agobiada-por-fuga-masiva.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Elimpulso23AUG>{{cite news|title=El 90% de los venezolanos que se van tienen formación universitaria|url=http://elimpulso.com/articulo/el-90-de-los-venezolanos-que-se-van-tienen-formacion-universitaria#|access-date=August 28, 2014|agency=El Impulso|date=August 23, 2014|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017034551/http://elimpulso.com/articulo/el-90-de-los-venezolanos-que-se-van-tienen-formacion-universitaria|url-status=live}}</ref> During the crisis, Venezuelans have been asked about their desire to leave their native country;<ref name="BLOOMdec2014">{{cite news|last1=Pitts|first1=Pietro D.|last2=Rosati|first2=Andrew|title=Venezuela's Oil Industry Exodus Slowing Crude Production: Energy|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-04/venezuela-s-oil-industry-exodus-slowing-crude-production-energy.html|access-date=January 24, 2015|agency=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]|date=December 4, 2014|archive-date=December 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225052721/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-04/venezuela-s-oil-industry-exodus-slowing-crude-production-energy.html|url-status=live}}</ref> over 30&nbsp;percent of respondents to a December 2015 survey said that they planned to permanently leave Venezuela.<ref name="IBTdec2015">{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Brianna|title=Venezuela Elections 2015: Why Venezuelans Are Fleeing The Country|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/venezuela-elections-2015-why-venezuelans-are-fleeing-country-2204442|access-date=December 30, 2015|work=[[International Business Times]]|date=December 2, 2015|archive-date=December 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209154605/https://www.ibtimes.com/venezuela-elections-2015-why-venezuelans-are-fleeing-country-2204442|url-status=live}}</ref> The percentage nearly doubled the following September as, according to Datincorp, 57 percent of respondents wanted to leave the country.<ref name="BLOOMsept2016">{{cite news|last1=Margolis|first1=Mac|title=Latin America Has a Different Migration Problem|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-14/latin-america-has-a-different-migration-problem|access-date=September 22, 2016|work=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]|date=September 14, 2016|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612145954/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-14/latin-america-has-a-different-migration-problem|url-status=live}}</ref> By mid-2019, over four million Venezuelans had emigrated since the revolution began in 1999.<ref>{{cite news |title=Refugees and migrants from Venezuela top 4 million: UNHCR and IOM |url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2019/6/5cfa2a4a4/refugees-migrants-venezuela-top-4-million-unhcr-iom.html |website=UNHCR |publisher=UNHCR, IOM |access-date=June 10, 2019 |date=June 7, 2019 |archive-date=December 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217015432/https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2019/6/5cfa2a4a4/refugees-migrants-venezuela-top-4-million-unhcr-iom.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=LPgracias>{{cite news|title=Gracias a las malas políticas del Gobierno bolivariano, más de 4 millones de venezolanos se han ido del país (encuesta)|url=https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2018/01/19/gracias-a-las-malas-politicas-del-gobierno-bolivariano-mas-de-4-millones-de-venezolanos-se-han-ido-del-pais-encuesta/|access-date=January 20, 2018|work=[[La Patilla]]|date=January 19, 2018|language=es-ES|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141723/https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2018/01/19/gracias-a-las-malas-politicas-del-gobierno-bolivariano-mas-de-4-millones-de-venezolanos-se-han-ido-del-pais-encuesta/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WSJfeb18">{{cite news|last1=Forero|first1=Juan|last2=Protti|first2=Tommaso|title=Venezuela's Misery Fuels Migration on Epic Scale|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-misery-fuels-migration-on-epic-scale-1518517800|access-date=February 13, 2018|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=February 13, 2018|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115223031/https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-misery-fuels-migration-on-epic-scale-1518517800|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Bolivarian diaspora - Colombia 2018.jpg|thumb|Officers of the [[National Police of Colombia]] leading Venezuelan refugees from [[San Antonio del Táchira]], Venezuela, toward [[Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander]], Colombia.]]

The [[United Nations]] predicted that by the end of 2019, there would have been over 5&nbsp;million recorded emigrants during the Venezuelan crisis, over 15% of the population.<ref name=FTstatsjune2019>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/ff6053e4-92b2-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3271|title=More than 5m set to flee Venezuela by end of this year|date=June 19, 2019|access-date=June 19, 2019|website=[[Financial Times]]|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232928/https://www.ft.com/content/ff6053e4-92b2-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3271|url-status=live}}</ref> A late-2018 study by the [[Brookings Institution]] suggested that emigration would reach 6 million – approximately 20% of Venezuela's 2017 population – by the end of 2019,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/12/10/how-many-more-migrants-and-refugees-can-we-expect-out-of-venezuela/|title=How many more migrants and refugees can we expect out of Venezuela?|last1=Bahar|first1=Dany|last2=Barrios|first2=Douglas|date=December 10, 2018|website=Brookings|language=en-US|access-date=September 22, 2019|archive-date=March 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307233822/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/12/10/how-many-more-migrants-and-refugees-can-we-expect-out-of-venezuela/|url-status=live}}</ref> with a mid-2019 poll by Consultares 21 estimating that up to 6&nbsp;million Venezuelans had fled the country by this point;<ref name=MHaug19>{{cite news |last1=Wyss |first1=Jim |title=A nation is vanishing: Has Venezuela lost almost 20&nbsp;percent of its population? |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article233947387.html |access-date=August 15, 2019 |work=[[Miami Herald]] |date=August 13, 2019 |archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232640/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article233947387.html |url-status=live }}</ref> estimates going into 2020 suggested that the number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees was overtaking the 6&nbsp;million figure,<ref name="bloomberg20sep" /> at this time the same number of [[Refugees of the Syrian Civil War|refugees 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.<ref name="bloomberg20sep">{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/venezuela-exodus-as-big-as-syria-s-got-1-5-of-the-aid-chart|title=Venezuela Exodus Is as Big as Syria's, Yet Got 1.5% of the Aid|work=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]|date=September 20, 2019|access-date=September 22, 2019|last1=Fieser|first1=Ezra|last2=Moran|first2=Nancy|archive-date=December 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220140741/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/venezuela-exodus-as-big-as-syria-s-got-1-5-of-the-aid-chart|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Syrian Refugees">{{cite news|url=http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/225225113|title=Syrian refugees biggest humanitarian crisis|date=August 28, 2014|work=Middle East Star|access-date=August 30, 2014|archive-date=March 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314172456/http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/225225113|url-status=live}}</ref> Estimates had risen to 7.1&nbsp;million by October 2022, over 20 percent [[Demographics of Venezuela|of the country's population]].<ref name="2022bbc">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63279800 |title=Venezuela crisis: 7.1m leave country since 2015 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB |access-date=2022-10-17 |date=2022-10-17 |first=Vanessa |last=Buschschlüter}}</ref>

The [[Norwegian Refugee Council]], the [[Brookings Institution]] and the [[Organization of American States]] commissioner for the Venezuelan refugee crisis, [[David Smolansky]], have estimated that the crisis is also one of the most underfunded refugee crisis in modern history.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web |title=Horrors in the Darién Gap should prompt more support for Venezuelans and other refugees and migrants |url=https://www.nrc.no/news/2022/december/horrors-in-the-darien-gap-should-prompt-more-support-for-venezuelans-and-other-refugees-and-migrants/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=[[Norwegian Refugee Council]]}}</ref><ref name=":19">{{Cite news|last=Dooley|first=Dany Bahar and Meagan|date=2019-12-09|title=Venezuela refugee crisis to become the largest and most underfunded in modern history|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/12/09/venezuela-refugee-crisis-to-become-the-largest-and-most-underfunded-in-modern-history/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=[[Brookings Institution]]|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614180936/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/12/09/venezuela-refugee-crisis-to-become-the-largest-and-most-underfunded-in-modern-history/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":20">{{Cite news|date=2021-01-03|title="Ha faltado cooperación de internacional con refugiados venezolanos"|url=https://www.elnacional.com/venezuela/ha-faltado-cooperacion-de-la-comunidad-internacional-con-refugiados-venezolanos/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=[[El Nacional (Venezuela)|El Nacional]]|language=es|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614180932/https://www.elnacional.com/venezuela/ha-faltado-cooperacion-de-la-comunidad-internacional-con-refugiados-venezolanos/|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UNHCR]], more than 7.7 million people have emigrated from Venezuela in the years corresponding to Maduro's rise to power and the consolidation of [[Chavismo]].<ref name="acnur1" /> 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.<ref name="gaceta">{{Cite web |title=Almost 8 million Venezuelans have been forced to leave their country due to the Maduro regime | date=21 September 2023 |url=https://gaceta.es/iberosfera/ejecuciones-arbitrarias-detenciones-y-tortura-la-onu-alerta-del-recrudecimiento-de-la-represion-en-venezuela-20230921-0315/?scroll-event=true}}</ref><ref name="acnur1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unhcr.org/emergencies/venezuela-situation|title=UNHCR, Venezuela situation }}</ref> The organization's calculation method is based on asylum requests and refugee registrations in each country, which might exclude those in irregular situations.<ref name="gaceta" /> 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.<ref name="gaceta" /><ref name="acnur1" />

==Diaspora Internet services==
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.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Van Den Bos|first1=Matthijs|last2=Nell|first2=Liza|title=Territorial bounds to virtual space: transnational online and offline networks of Iranian and Turkish–Kurdish immigrants in the Netherlands|journal=Global Networks|date=2006|volume=6|issue=2|pages=201–20|url=http://islamicgroupatasu.wikispaces.com/file/view/Van+den+bos.pdf|access-date=30 September 2013|doi=10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00141.x|archive-date=14 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814091047/http://islamicgroupatasu.wikispaces.com/file/view/Van+den+bos.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The location-based networking features of mobile applications such as China's [[WeChat]] have also created {{lang|la|de facto}} online diaspora communities when used outside of their home markets.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chester |first=Ken |title=How WeChat and Zalo Shine a Light on the Asian American Diaspora |url= http://www.techinasia.com/wechat-zalo-asian-american-diaspora/ |access-date=30 September 2013 |website=Tech in Asia |date=7 August 2013}}</ref> Now, large companies from the emerging countries are looking at leveraging diaspora communities to enter the more mature market.<ref>{{cite magazine |url= http://hbr.org/2013/10/diaspora-marketing |title=The Globe: Diaspora Marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict Steenkamp |magazine=Harvard Business Review |date=October 2013}}</ref>

== Diaspora languages ==
{{See also|Diaspora language}}
[[File:Talian.svg|right|thumb|Municipalities where [[Talian dialect|Talian]] is co-official in [[Rio Grande do Sul]], Brazil]]

The term [[diaspora language]], coined in the 1980s,<ref>Joseph Foley, ''New Englishes: the case of Singapore'', 1988, p. 1.</ref> is a [[sociolinguistic]] idea referring to a variety of [[language]]s spoken by peoples with common roots who have dispersed, under various pressures and often globally. The emergence and evolution of a diaspora language is usually part of a larger attempt to retain cultural identity. Examples are [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]], [[African American Vernacular English]], [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]], [[Molise Slavic language|Molise Slavic]], [[Istro-Romanian language|Istro-Romanian]], [[Griko language|Griko]], [[Gallo-Italic of Sicily]], [[Talian dialect|Talian]], [[Cocoliche]], [[Lunfardo]] and [[Arbëresh language|Arbëresh]].

==In popular culture==
''[[Gran Torino]]'', a 2008 drama starring [[Clint Eastwood]], was the first mainstream American film to feature the [[Hmong American]] diaspora.<ref>{{cite news |last=Peterson-de la Cueva |first=Lisa |title=Gran Torino connects Hmong Minnesotans with Hollywood |url= http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/11/18/hmong-minnesotans-connect-hollywood-gran-torino.html |access-date=30 September 2013 |newspaper=Twin Cities Daily Planet |date=24 November 2008}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[List of diasporas]]
* [[List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population]]
* [[Diaspora politics]] 
* [[Diaspora politics in the United States]]
* [[Human migration]]
* [[Integration of immigrants]]
* [[Population transfer]]
** [[Population transfer in the Soviet Union]]

===Specific diasporas===
* [[Kurdish refugees]]
* [[Anti-Romani sentiment]]
** [[History of the Romani people]]
*** [[Romani Holocaust]]
* [[Rural exodus]]

====Religious diasporas====
* [[Ummah]]
* [[Jewish history]]
** [[Antisemitism]]
*** [[Persecution of Jews]]
**** [[History of the Jews during World War II]]
***** [[The Holocaust]]
** [[Expulsions and exoduses of Jews]]
**** [[The Exodus]]
*** [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world]]
** [[Yom HaAliyah]]

====Country-specific diasporas====
* [[Exodusters]] (African American)
* [[Great Migration (African American)]]
* [[History of immigration to the United States]]

===Forced migration===
* [[Forced displacement]]
* [[Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany]]
* [[Expulsion of the Acadians]]
* [[Expulsion of the Moriscos]]
* [[Forced settlements in the Soviet Union]]
* [[List of expulsions of African Americans]]
* [[Long Walk of the Navajo]]
* [[Trail of Tears]]

===Conflicts and genocides===
* [[Ethnic cleansing]]
* [[List of ethnic cleansing campaigns]]
* [[Late Ottoman genocides]]
** [[Armenian genocide]]
** [[Sayfo|Assyrian genocide]]
** [[Great Famine of Mount Lebanon]]
** [[Greek genocide]]
* [[Myanmar conflict]]
** [[Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar]]
*** [[Rohingya conflict]]
**** [[Rohingya genocide]]
* [[Partition of India]]
* [[Xinjiang conflict]]
** [[Persecution of Uyghurs in China]]
* [[World War II evacuation and expulsion]]
* [[Persecution of Yazidis]]
** [[Yazidi genocide]]

===Statelessness===
* [[State collapse]]
* [[Statelessness]]
* [[Stateless nation]]
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==References ==
===Citations ===
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===Sources ===
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==Further reading==
* Cohen, Robin, and Carolin Fischer (eds.) ''Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies'' (2019)
* Gewecke, Frauke. [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias/wiki/d_Diaspora.html "Diaspora"] (2012). University Bielefeld&nbsp;– Center for InterAmerican Studies.
* Knott, Kim, and Sean McLoughlin, eds. ''Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities'' (2010)
* Sheffer, Gabriel. ''Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad'' (2006)

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