Some migrations occurred to avoid conflict and warfare. Lebanese diaspora Lebanese Total population 12 [1] million-15 million + [2]: Languages Arabic. Print. The 1947 Partition in the Indian subcontinent resulted in the migration of millions of people between India, Pakistan and present-day Bangladesh. In Southwest China, many Tibetan people emigrated to India, following the 14th Dalai Lama after the failure of his 1959 Tibetan uprising. By definition Diaspora is a dispersion of people from their original homeland, likewise expatriation, extradition, migration, separation, or displacement. Michel Temer • [29][30] 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". I live in Canada but part of my heart is still there.”, Scenes from Beirut after massive deadly explosion (3:29), Hundreds of thousands left homeless by Beirut explosion (11:20), In Pictures: Glass Fire in California quadruples in size, Five takeaways from Trump’s tax return report, Iran’s Zarif slams Europe and US for human rights scrutiny, Iraq: Five civilians killed in Baghdad rocket attack, Nagorno-Karabakh battles rage for second day: Live news, Why you should care about conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel’s ‘silent transfer’ of Palestinians out of Palestine, ‘The future is uncertain’: India coronavirus cases top 6 million, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. [8]. [25] Brubaker has 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. Of the diaspora, 1.2 million are Lebanese citizens. The second phase, between CE 500 and 900, saw Slavic, 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, Huns, Khazars, Pechenegs), as well as Bulgars, and possibly Magyars arrived. Estephan El Douaihy • “Diasporas as Peacemakers: Third Party Mediation in Homeland Conflicts” with Ashok Swain. Baser, B and Swain, A. 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. [3][4] According to other estimates, the number of Lebanese living outside the country is thought to at least double the number of citizens living inside,[1] which means at least 8 million people. The earliest known Asian diaspora of note is the Jewish diaspora. [citation needed] An academic field, diaspora studies, has become established relating to this sense of the word. Over time, remotely separated communities tend to vary in culture, traditions, language, and other factors. In some cases, as countries became independent, numerous minority descendants of Europeans emigrated; others stayed in the lands which had been family homes for generations. There are more Lebanese living outside Lebanon (6 to 9 million), than within the country (4 million). [73][74][75] The analysis of a study by the Central University of Venezuela titled Venezuelan Community Abroad. [citation needed] A small, predominantly Muslim ethnic group, the Cham people, long residing in Cambodia, were nearly eradicated. In Ancient Greece the term διασπορά (diaspora) hence meant "scattering"[11] and was inter alia used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.