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This is a trend that continues to the present, contributing to the "brain drain" problem throughout the Middle East. [8] Moreover, whereas first wave immigrants tended to go directly to the United States from their country of origin, for second wave immigrants, the United States was often the second or third destination.
Arab diaspora is a term that refers to descendants of the Arab emigrants who, voluntarily or as forcibly, migrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.
The process took place over several centuries, lasting from ancient time to the modern period. The Arab migrants hailed from various parts of the Middle East, particularly the Arabian Peninsula. In the 9th century BCE, the Assyrians made written references to Arabs among the inhabitants of Levant and Arabia. [1] [2]
They arrived 50 years ago, fleeing dictatorship and death. Along the treacherous, three-week ocean journey, the seafaring Haitian asylum seekers traded their shoes for food and water in Cuba, and ...
Farid Khavari, economist, specialist in economics, environment, oil, healthcare, & the Middle East. Joseph Massad, professor at Columbia University known for his work on nationalism and sexuality in the Arab world (Palestinian) Afshin Molavi, author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics, particularly the Middle East and Asia.
Arab Christians, especially from Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, continued to immigrate to the US in the 2000s and form new enclaves and communities across the country. [68] The US is the second largest home of Druze communities outside the Middle East after Venezuela (60,000). [7]
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