Macedonian diaspora

[1] The Macedonian diaspora is the consequence of either voluntary departure or forced migration over the past 100 years.

[10] The sense of belonging to a separate Macedonian nation gained credence after World War II, following the establishment of the People's Republic of Macedonia within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the codification of a distinct Macedonian language.

Many people fled to other parts of Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Russia, the United States and Canada.

The period from World War I to the Great Depression, when Macedonians fled Serbian rule and moved to Western Europe for industrial labor jobs, mainly in such countries as France, West Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, which was repeated in the early 1950s to late 1970s.

[13] Thousands of people fled from Greece after the failure of the DSE, the National Liberation Front and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to win the Greek Civil War, including a number of Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia.

[14][15] An estimated 55,000 people were evacuated to Romania, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc.

Internal Yugoslav migration (Serbia) was also very prevalent, by 1991 an estimated 80,000 Macedonians were living throughout Yugoslavia.

[citation needed] Many Macedonians chose to leave Serbia after the collapse of the Yugoslav Federation.

There is also an organization of Macedonian Gorani in Kosovo, led by Avnija Rahte and Ace Dimoski.

The group has met with leadership from North Macedonia including Stevo Pendarovski and Zoran Zaev.

[66] It has a global network and organizes initiatives in support of North Macedonia's constitutional name at independence, the ethnic Macedonian minorities throughout Southeast Europe, and NATO and EU integration, among other issues.