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5 million, followed by the Mexican diaspora, with a population of 11. 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”. National Protestant Churches on the continent”. In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement. The population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually, its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point if the “homeland” still exists in any meaningful sense. William Safran in an article published in 1991, set out six rules to distinguish diasporas from migrant communities. 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”.

Brubaker argues that the initial expansion of the use of the phrase extended it to other, similar cases, such as the Armenian and Greek diasporas. 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. One of the largest diasporas of modern times is that of Sub-Saharan Africans, which dates back several centuries.

During the Atlantic slave trade, 10. 7 million people from West Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Americas as slaves. From the 8th through the 19th centuries, the Arab slave trade dispersed millions of Africans to Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean. In the early 500s AD incursions by the kingdom of Aksum in Himyar led to the formation of African diasporic communities. Diwali lights in Little India, Singapore. Bukharan Jews in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, c. The largest Asian diaspora, and in the world, is the Indian diaspora.

The overseas Indian community, estimated at over 17. 5 million, is spread across many regions in the world, on every continent. The earliest known Asian diaspora of note is the Jewish diaspora. At least three waves of Nepalese diaspora can be identified. The earliest wave dates back to hundreds of years as early marriage and high birthrates propelled Hindu settlement eastward across Nepal, then into Sikkim and Bhutan. 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.

European history contains numerous diaspora-like events. The Migration-Period relocations, which included several phases, are just one set of many in history. Christopher Columbus, who opened the way for the widespread European colonization of the Americas. 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.

A specific 19th-century example is the Irish diaspora, beginning in the mid-19th century and brought about by An Gorta Mór or “the Great Hunger” of the Irish Famine. Ireland’s population emigrated to areas including Britain, the United States of America, Canada, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. Italian Argentines during the opening parade of the XXXIV Immigrant’s Festival. There were two major Italian diasporas in Italian history. In the United States of America, approximately 4.

3 million people moved outside their home states in 2010, according to IRS tax-exemption data. In the People’s Republic of China, millions of migrant workers have sought greater opportunity in the country’s booming coastal metropolises, though this trend has slowed with the further development of China’s interior. European Russia since the 16th century. Pamphlet advertising for immigration to Western Canada, c. In Canada, internal migration has occurred for a number of different factors over the course of Canadian history. The twentieth century saw huge population movements. Some involved large-scale transfers of people by government action.