Diaspora
Diaspora (Ancient Greek: διασπορά, literally, "a scattering or sowing of seeds") is used (without capitals) to refer to any people or racial group living outside their traditional homelands, emigrating and being scattered in distant places and making a new community. It was first used in the Septuagint to mean the scattering of Jews after the capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
Diaspora Media
The Mexican diaspora is the world's second-largest diaspora; pictured is Mexican day celebrations in Germany.
Emigrants Leave Ireland depicting the emigration to America following the Great Famine in Ireland
The Chinese diaspora is the world's third largest; Paifang (torna) gateway at Sydney Chinatown in Australia.
Armenian American dancers in New York City
The Indian diaspora is the world's largest; Diwali lights in Little India, Singapore.
Bukharan Jews in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, c. 1910
Greek diaspora and homeland, 6th century BC
Christopher Columbus, who opened the way for the widespread European colonization of the Americas.
Pamphlet advertising for immigration to Western Canada, c. 1910
