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Diaspora
Widely scattered population from a single original territory / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/ dy-ASP-ər-ə) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.[3][4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere.[5][6][7]
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Notable diasporic populations include the Jewish diaspora formed after the Babylonian exile;[8] Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora following the Assyrian genocide;[9][10] Greeks that fled or were displaced following the fall of Constantinople[11] and the later Greek genocide[12] as well as the Istanbul pogroms;[13] the emigration of Anglo-Saxons (primarily to the Byzantine Empire) after the Norman Conquest of England;[14] the southern Chinese and Indians who left their homelands during the 19th and 20th centuries;[15] the Irish diaspora after the Great Famine;[16] the Scottish diaspora that developed on a large scale after the Highland and Lowland Clearances;[17] Romani from the Indian subcontinent;[18] the Italian diaspora and the Mexican diaspora; Circassians in the aftermath of the Circassian genocide; the Palestinian diaspora due to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict;[19] the Armenian diaspora following the Armenian genocide;[20][21] the Lebanese diaspora due to the Lebanese civil war;[22] and Syrians due to the Syrian civil war;[23] The Iranian diaspora, which grew from half a million to 3.8 million between the 1979 revolution and 2019, mostly live in United States, Canada and Turkey.[24]
According to a 2019 United Nations report, the Indian diaspora is the world's largest diaspora, with a population of 17.5 million, followed by the Mexican diaspora, with a population of 11.8 million, and the Chinese diaspora, with a population of 10.7 million.[25]