Arab diaspora

Arab diaspora is a term that refers to descendants of the Arab emigrants who, voluntarily or as forcibly, migrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.
Immigrants from Arab countries, such as Sudan, Syria and Palestine, also form significant diasporas in other Arab states.
Overview
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 US$35.1 billion 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. Large numbers of Arabs migrated to West Africa, particularly Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Lebanese traders have become re-established in Sierra Leone.
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. Of these 9 million Arabs, 6 million are of Lebanese ancestry, making Brazil's population of Lebanese equivalent to that of Lebanon itself. However, these figures are contradicted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical information in Brazil. According to the 2010 Brazilian census conducted by IBGE, there were only 12,336 Lebanese nationals living in Brazil and other Arab nationalities were so small that they were not even listed. The Brazilian census does not ask about ancestry or family origin. There is a question about nationality and, according to the Brazilian law, any person born in Brazil is a Brazilian national by birth and right for any purpose, nationally or internationally - not an Arab. The last Brazilian census to ask about family origin was conducted in 1940. At that time, 107,074 Brazilians said they had a Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi or Arab father. Native Arabs were 46,105 and naturalized Brazilians were 5,447. In 1940, Brazil had 41,169,321 inhabitants, hence Arabs and their children were 0.38% of Brazil's population in 1940.
Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and Chile. Palestinians cluster in Chile and Central America, particularly El Salvador, and Honduras. The Palestinian community in Chile 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.
It has been estimated that there are as many as four million Indonesians with at least partial Arab ancestry. They are generally well-integrated socially with Indonesian society, and identify as Indonesians. In the 2010 census, 118,886 people, amounting to 0.05% of the population, identified themselves as being of Arab ethnicity.
See also
Algerian British
Arab Americans
Arab Argentines
Arab Australians
Arab Brazilians
Arab Canadians
Arab Chileans
Arab Colombians
Arab Haitians
Arab Indonesians
Arab Mexicans
Arab New Zealanders
Arab Singaporeans
Arab Venezuelans
Arabs in Austria
Arabs in Bulgaria
Arabs in Europe
Arabs in Finland
Arabs in France
Arabs in Germany
Arabs in Greece
Arabs in India
Arabs in Italy
Arabs in Japan
Arabs in the Netherlands
Arabs in Pakistan
Arabs in Romania
Arabs in Russia
Arabs in Serbia
Arabs in Spain
Arabs in Sweden
Arabs in Switzerland
Arabs in Turkey
Arma people (Saharan Arab and Spanish)
British Arabs
British Iraqis
Chaush (Yemenis in South India)
Egyptians in the United Kingdom
Emirati diaspora
Hadhrami diaspora
History of Arabs in Afghanistan
Iraqi Biradari (Iraqis residing in India and Pakistan)
Iraqi diaspora
Lebanese Americans
Lebanese Colombians
Lebanese Argentines
Lebanese Australians
Lebanese Brazilians
Lebanese Canadians
Lebanese diaspora
Lebanese people in Ecuador
List of Arab Americans
Magyarab people (Egyptian Arab and Hungarian)
Palestinian diaspora
Refugees of Iraq
Sri Lankan Moors
Syrian Americans
Yemeni Americans
Yemenis in the United Kingdom
Central Asian Arabic
References
Notes
Citations
Further reading
Niger's Arabs to fight expulsion
Out of the Hadhramaut
Arab Immigrants in Latin American Politics
Descendants of Arabs thriving in S. America
The Arrival Of The Lebanese to Jamaica
"Arab roots grow deep in Brazil's rich melting pot", The Washington Times.
External links
International Organization for Migration - Regional Office for the Middle East
The Lebanese of South Africa
The Arabs of Honduras
The Arabs of Brazil
Lebanese Social and Cultural Community in Ireland
Diaspora
North African diaspora
Middle Eastern diaspora