Asian diaspora

[1] Asian diasporas have been noted for having an increasingly transnational relationship with their ancestral homelands,[2][3] especially culturally through the use of digital media.

[6] The Central Asian diaspora of the modern era is shaped to a significant extent by the expansion of and displacement caused by the Soviet Union.

In the mid-1800s, outbound migration from China increased as a result of the European colonial powers opening up treaty ports.

[17]: 137  The British colonization of Hong Kong further created the opportunity for Chinese labor to be exported to plantations and mines.

Widespread famine in Guangdong impelled many Cantonese to work in these countries to improve the living conditions of their relatives.

Some overseas Chinese were sold to South America during the Punti–Hakka Clan Wars (1855–1867) in the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong.

[17]: 127–128 Under the Republicans economic growth froze and many migrated outside the Republic of China, mostly through the coastal regions via the ports of Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan and Shanghai.

Many nationals of the Republic of China fled and settled down overseas mainly between the years 1911–1949 before the Nationalist government led by Kuomintang lost the mainland to Communist revolutionaries and relocated.

[23][24] Kuomintang members who settled in Malaysia and Singapore played a major role in the establishment of the Malaysian Chinese Association and their meeting hall at Sun Yat Sen Villa.

During this period, the People's Republic of China tended to view overseas Chinese with suspicion as possible capitalist infiltrators and tended to value relationships with Southeast Asian nations as more important than gaining support of overseas Chinese, and in the Bandung declaration explicitly stated[where?]

[dubious – discuss] From the mid-20th century onward, emigration has been directed primarily to Western countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, Brazil, The United Kingdom, New Zealand, Argentina and the nations of Western Europe; as well as to Peru, Panama, and to a lesser extent to Mexico.

Many of these emigrants who entered Western countries were themselves overseas Chinese, particularly from the 1950s to the 1980s, a period during which the PRC placed severe restrictions on the movement of its citizens.

Due to the political dynamics of the Cold War, there was relatively little migration from the People's Republic of China to southeast Asia from the 1950s until the mid-1970s.

[17]: 117 In 1984, Britain agreed to transfer the sovereignty of Hong Kong to the PRC; this triggered another wave of migration to the United Kingdom (mainly England), Australia, Canada, US, South America, Europe and other parts of the world.

[citation needed] In recent years, the People's Republic of China has built increasingly stronger ties with African nations.

Diaspora members played a significant role in opposing the British Raj as part of the Ghadar Movement.

Some South Asians, mainly from Punjab, migrated to the West Coast in the United States, and mixed with the local Mexican community.

[51] In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics which showed that 2 to 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.Though many of these people are of Iranian ancestry in UAE, Kuwait, Israel, Turkey and Bahrain, not necessarily recent migrants but people who moved out hundreds of years ago or at least prior to the 1979 revolution.

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Typical grocery store on 8th Avenue in one of the Brooklyn Chinatowns in New York City , New York. Multiple Chinatowns in Manhattan , Queens , and Brooklyn are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves , as large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia , comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. [ 16 ]
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