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The OCI status is a permanent visa for visiting India with a foreign passport. According to the Ministry of External Affairs report updated on 21/5/2024, there are 35.4 million NRIs and PIOs (including OCIs) residing outside India; and overseas Indians comprise the world's largest overseas diaspora. [1]
- Indian people
Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of...
- Diaspora
The largest Asian diaspora in the world is the Indian...
- Indian people
Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups.
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The term "diaspora" is derived from the Greek verb διασπείρω (diaspeirō), "I scatter", "I spread about" which in turn is composed of διά (dia), "between, through, across" and the verb σπείρω (speirō), "I sow, I scatter". The term διασπορά (diaspora) hence meant "scattering". There is confusion over the exact process of derivation from these Ancient...
The diaspora of sub-Saharan Africans during the Atlantic slave trade is one of the most notorious modern diasporas. 10.7 million people from West Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Americas as slaves starting in the late 16th century CE and continuing into the 19th.Outside of the Atlantic slave trade, however, African diasporic communi...
The largest Asian diaspora in the world is the Indian diaspora. The overseas Indian community, estimated to number over 17.5 million, is spread across many regions of the world, on every continent. It is a global community which is diverse, heterogeneous and eclectic and its members represent different regions, languages, cultures, and faiths (see ...
European history contains numerous diaspora-causing events. In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city-states in southern Italy (the so-called "Magna Graecia"),...
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 a 2011 TEDx presentation, Detroit native Garlin Gilchrist referenced the formation of distinct "Detroit diaspora" communities in Seattle and in Washington, DC, while layoffs in the auto industry also led...
The twentieth century saw huge population movements. Some involved large-scale transfers of people by government action. Some migrations occurred to avoid conflict and warfare. Other diasporas formed as a consequence of political developments, such as the end of colonialism.
Middle East
Following the Iraq War, nearly 3 million Iraqis had been displaced as of 2011, with 1.3 million within Iraq and 1.6 million in neighboring countries, mainly Jordan and Syria. The Syrian Civil War has forced further migration, with at least 4 million displaced as per UN estimates. 2.8 million Iranians immigrated in 2022, i.e., 3.3% of the total population; the majority of which were academics. There are five million registered Afghanistanis, 10 million approximately.
Venezuelan refugee crisis
Following the presidency of Hugo Chávez and the establishment of his Bolivarian Revolution, over 7 million Venezuelans emigrated from Venezuela during the Venezuelan refugee crisis. The analysis of a study by the Central University of Venezuela titled Venezuelan Community Abroad: A New Method of Exile by El Universalstates that the diaspora in Venezuela has been caused by the "deterioration of both the economy and the social fabric, rampant crime, uncertainty and lack of hope for a change in...
Numerous web-based news portals and forum sites are dedicated to specific diaspora communities, often organized on the basis of an origin characteristic and a current location characteristic. The location-based networking features of mobile applications such as China's WeChat have also created de facto online diaspora communities when used outside ...
Gran Torino, a 2008 drama starring Clint Eastwood, was the first mainstream American film to feature the Hmong Americandiaspora.
Cohen, Robin, and Carolin Fischer (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies(2019)Gewecke, Frauke. "Diaspora"(2012). University Bielefeld – Center for InterAmerican Studies.Knott, Kim, and Sean McLoughlin, eds. Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities(2010)Sheffer, Gabriel. Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad(2006)This topic outlines the history and evolution of Indian diasporic communities, tracing their roots back to the indentured labour system and free emigration, and highlighting their impact on host countries across the globe.
14 de set. de 2021 · The Indian Diaspora is one of the world’s largest overseas groupings.The Diaspora is considered India's 30 th state with over 30 million overseas Indians. This article outlines the main strands of its formation, from the first movement of indentured workers and subsequent phases of migration of skilled professionals to the West and ...
- T.K. Manoj Kumar, D. P. K. Pillay
- 2021
There are currently approximately 20,000,000 people of South Asian origin living outside of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, with the majority in Africa, the Caribbean, and Oceania. Although there are regional variations in their adaptations, in many ways, they display a common ‘Indian’ identity.
12 de jun. de 2023 · The Indian diaspora has been the largest in the world since 2010, and is a powerful resource for India’s government. Of the 281m migrants spread around the globe today—generally defined as...
