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[sic] they are called Diaspora, that is, a scattering or sowing abrode. [ 42 ] 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.
Now there are more than a million Sikhs outside of India. The biggest community is the British Sikh community which in the last census was recorded as 336,179 people. There are also major Sikh communities in Canada with 278,000, 150,000 living in Europe, Malaysia (100,000), East Africa (100,000), America (87,000), 50,000 in Asia outside India ...
As in other Hellenistic diasporas, the Egyptian diaspora was one of choice not of imposition. [39] ... now called Syro-Palaestina, into the Roman world system.
The entrance to Chinatown in downtown Portland, Oregon. A neo/new diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion") is the displacement, migration, and dispersion of individuals away from their homelands by forces such as globalization, neoliberalism, and imperialism.
The most significant Latin American diasporas in New Zealand are Brazilian, Chileans, Argentinians, Colombians, Mexicans, Uruguayans, Venezuelans, and Bolivians ...
Postcolonial diasporas are similar to colonial diasporas in that both groups often migrated in a way that addressed the global demand for labor. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Postcolonial diasporas tend to split into those who have migrated as part of a " post-national " clique that has economic dealings with multiple countries, and those who have migrated out ...
Because South Asians had already dispersed across the world during the colonial era, a noted aspect of the diaspora is that it has produced several secondary diasporas - some of its members' families transited through several countries over generations to reach a final destination (e.g. a person's ancestors may have come from India to Africa ...
African diasporas by country (58 C) A. Afghan diaspora (10 C, 5 P) Albanian diaspora (12 C, 18 P) Algerian diaspora (9 C, 8 P) American diaspora (17 C, 7 P)