page_title: Syrian diaspora
hierarchical_section_title: Syrian diaspora
caption_attribution_description: English: Syrian pastry cook (possibly in Little Syria, Manhattan)
context_page_description: Syrian diaspora refers to Syrian emigrants and their descendants who chose or were forced to emigrate from Syria and now reside in other countries as immigrants or as refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
  The number of Syrians outside Syria is estimated to be from 8 to 13 million, nearly half of the country's population. The UNHCR reports that 4.9 million global refugees in 2015 were Syrian nationals. The Syrian nationality law does not grant diaspora Syrians an automatic right of return to Syria, and under the controversial 2018 Absentees Law, the Assad government confiscated property of millions of Syrians.
context_section_description: Syrian diaspora refers to Syrian emigrants and their descendants who chose or were forced to emigrate from Syria and now reside in other countries as immigrants or as refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
  The number of Syrians outside Syria is estimated to be from 8 to 13 million, nearly half of the country's population. The UNHCR reports that 4.9 million global refugees in 2015 were Syrian nationals. The Syrian nationality law does not grant diaspora Syrians an automatic right of return to Syria, and under the controversial 2018 Absentees Law, the Assad government confiscated property of millions of Syrians.
caption: Syrian baklava maker in Little Syria in 1916.
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