Arab diaspora

Arab Diaspora
العرب المغتربون
Total population
According to the International Organization for Migration, there are 13 million Arab migrants, of whom 5.8 million reside in Arab countries.
Regions with significant populations
 Brazil 10,000,000[1]
 Colombia 4,700,000[2][3]
 France 4,000,000
 United States 3,500,000
 Argentina 3,500,000
 Italy 1,500,000
 Venezuela 1,600,000[4]
 Mexico 1,100,000[5]
 Chile 800,000
 United Kingdom 500,000[6]
 Germany 500,000
 Canada 350,000[7]
 Honduras 150,000-200,000[8]
 Japan 265,000[9]
Languages

Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese

among others
Religion
Predominantly Christianity in the Americas, Islam in Europe , but also Druze and irreligion, among others
Related ethnic groups
Lebanese diaspora  · Iraqi diaspora  · Egyptian diaspora  · Yemeni diaspora  · Palestinian diaspora  · Syrian diaspora  · Moroccan diaspora

Arab diaspora refers to descendants of the Arab immigrants who, voluntarily or as refugees, emigrated from their native lands in non-Arab countries, primarily in East Africa, South America, Europe, North America, and parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and West Africa.

Overview

According to the International Organization for Migration, there are 13 million,[10] of which 5.8 million reside in Arab countries. Arab expatriates contribute to the circulation of financial and human capital in the region and thus significantly promote regional development. In 2009 Arab countries received a total of 35.1 billion USD in remittance in-flows and remittances sent to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon from other Arab countries are 40 to 190 per cent higher than trade revenues between these and other Arab countries.[11]

Large numbers of Arabs migrated to West Africa, particularly Côte d'Ivoire (home to over 100,000 Lebanese),[12] Senegal (roughly 30,000 Lebanese),[13] Sierra Leone (roughly 10,000 Lebanese today; about 30,000 prior to the outbreak of civil war in 1991), Liberia, and Nigeria.[14] Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Lebanese traders have become re-established in Sierra Leone.[15]

Arab traders have long operated in Southeast Asia, trading in spices, timber and textiles. But an important trading minority in the region that goes largely unrecognised comprises the local descendants of Arabs. Most of the prominent Indonesians, Malaysians, and Singaporeans of Arab descent have their origins in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, especially the coastal Hadhramaut region of Yemen and Oman. They are the Hadramis. As many as four million Indonesians are of Hadrami descent, and today there are almost 10,000 Hadramis in Singapore.[16][17]

According to Saudi Aramco World, the largest concentration of Arabs outside the Arab World is in Brazil, which has 9 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry.[18] Of these 9 million Arabs, seven million are of Lebanese ancestry,[19][20][21] making Brazil's population of Lebanese greater than that of Lebanon itself. Most other Brazilians of Arab descent are mainly Syrian. Other large Arab communities includes Argentina, Venezuela,[22] Colombia, Mexico (about 400,000 Mexicans of Lebanese descent) and Chile. Palestinians cluster in Chile and Central America, particularly El Salvador, and Honduras (between 150,000 and 200,000).[23] The 500,000 strong Palestinian community in Chile[24][25] is the fourth largest in the world after those in Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan. Arab Haitians (a large number of whom live in the capital) are more often than not, concentrated in financial areas where the majority of them establish businesses. In the United States, there are around 3.5 million people of Arab ancestry. Most Arabs of the Americas are of Lebanese, Syrian, or Palestinian ancestry. The Lebanese minority in America are mostly Christian, but with sizable Muslim group.[26]

The Lebanese diaspora, while historically trade-related, has been linked more recently to the Lebanese Civil War, and the 2006 Lebanon War. In October 2006, shortly after the 2006 Second Lebanon War had concluded, the Edinburgh Middle East Report ran an article covering the brain drain from Lebanon's universities.[27] Increasing numbers of Lebanese students are travelling abroad to further their education in safer environments.

As of June 21, 2007, the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees estimated that over 2.2 million Iraqis had been displaced to neighboring countries, with up to 100,000 Iraqis fleeing to Syria and Jordan each month.[28][29][30] As a result of growing international pressure, on June 1, 2007 the Bush administration said it was ready to admit 7,000 Iraqi refugees who had helped the coalition since the invasion. According to Washington-based Refugees International the U.S. has admitted fewer than 800 Iraqi refugees since the invasion, Sweden had accepted 18,000 and Australia had resettled almost 6,000.[31]

As of 2012, at least 127,860 Iraqis live in Sweden.[32] As of 2004, France is home to an estimated 5 to 6 million of people both Arabic and Berber speaking from North Africa.[33][34] There is also a medium-sized Arab community in Australia (home to roughly 400,000 Arabs, mostly Lebanese), where Arabic is the fourth most widely spoken second-language. The number of Muslim and Christian Arab Australians are roughly equal with a slight Christian majority. See Australian population: ethnic origins.[35]

Notable persons

Prominent members of the Arab diaspora include:

Business

Fashion, beauty

Film, television

Literature / theatre

Media and intellectuals

Music

Politics

Sciences

Sports

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Saudi Aramco World : The Arabs of Brazil". saudiaramcoworld.com.
  2. ↑ Mara Claudia Parias D.; Hernando Salazar Palacio (25 January 2004). "Arabes en Colombia" [Arabs in Colombia]. eltiempo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Randa Achmawi (21 July 2009). "Colombia awakens to the Arab world". anba.com.br. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Abdel el-Zabayar: From Parliament to the Frontlines". The Daily Beast.
  5. ↑ Ben Cahoon. "World Statesmen.org". World Statesmen.org. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  6. ↑ Anthony McRoy. "The British Arab". National Association of British Arabs. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Statistics Canada". Statistics Canada. 16 August 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  8. ↑ Larry Luxner (2001). "The Arabs of Honduras". Saudi Aramco World. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Statistics Japan". nippon islam centoru. 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  10. ↑ "Mundo Arabe". mundoarabe.org.
  11. ↑ "Intra-Regional Labour Mobility in the Arab World" (PDF). International Organization for Migration (IOM) Cairo.
  12. ↑ "Ivory Coast - The Levantine Community". Countrystudies.us. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  13. ↑ Lebanese Immigrants Boost West African Commerce, By Naomi Schwarz, voanews.com, July 10, 2007
  14. ↑ Lebanese man shot dead in Nigeria, BBC News
  15. ↑ Joshua Project. "Sayyid Ethnic People in all Countries". Joshua Project. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  16. ↑ "Hadramis in Singapore, by Ameen Ali Talib". Al-bab.com. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  17. ↑ The world's successful diasporas, World Business
  18. ↑ "The Arabs of Brazil". Saudi Aramco World. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  19. ↑ "Sleiman meets Brazilian counterpart, Lebanese community". The Daily Star. 23 April 2010.
  20. ↑ "O Líbano: Geografia" [Lebanon: Geography] (in Portuguese). Lebanese Embassy in Brazil. 1996. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010.
  21. ↑ "Estadão de Hoje". Estadao.com.br. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  22. ↑ Habeeb Salloum, "Arabs Making Their Mark in Latin America: Generations of Immigrants in Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico", Al Jadid, Vol. 6, no. 30 (Winter 2000).
  23. ↑ "The Arabs of Honduras". Saudiaramcoworld.com. 1936-06-27. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  24. ↑ "Chile: Palestinian refugees arrive to warm welcome". Adnkronos.com. 2003-04-07. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  25. ↑ "500,000 descendientes de primera y segunda generación de palestinos en Chile". Laventana.casa.cult.cu. Archived from the original on 2009-07-22. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  26. ↑ "The Arab American Institute". Aaiusa.org. Archived from the original on 2010-04-03. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  27. ↑ Lebanon's Brain Drain by Tim May. Edinburgh Middle East Report Online. Winter 2006.
  28. ↑ "Iraq refugees chased from home, struggle to cope". Cnn.com. 20 June 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  29. ↑ Morgan, David (8 October 2007). "U.S., West seen skirting Iraqi refugee crisis". Reuters.com. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  30. ↑ Alexander G. Higgins (3 November 2006). "U.N.: 100,000 Iraq refugees flee monthly". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 4 September 2007.
  31. ↑ US in Iraq for 'another 50 years', The Australian, June 2, 2007.
  32. ↑ "Befolkning efter födelseland och ursprungsland 31 december 2012" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  33. ↑ Ghazi Omar Tadmouri. "The Arab World" (PDF). Center for Arab Genomic Studies. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  34. ↑ Sabeg, Yazid; Méhaignerie, Laurence (January 2004). "Les oubliés de l'égalité des chances" (PDF). Institut Montaigne.
  35. ↑ Charles Price. "Australian Population: Ethnic Origins" (PDF). monash.edu.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 April 2005.

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