page_title: List of diasporas
section_title: F
hierarchical_section_title: List of diasporas / F
caption_attribution_description: English: "Speak French, Be Clean", written on the wall of the Aiguatébia-Talau school. These phrases, as well as the one of "it is forbidden to spit or to speak Catalan" are typical of French nationalism Català: "Parleu en francès, no us embruteu", a una escola de Aiguatèbia i Talau. Aquesta mena de consignes, com també la "prohibit escopir i parlar català", són típiques del nacionalisme francès, que es basa, entre d'altres coses, en l'assimilació de la nació francesa a una sola llengua, la parlada a París al segle XVIII. Així, el francès ha passat a ser parlat del 10% de la població, abans del genocido lingüístic de totes les demés, al 100%.
context_page_description: History provides many examples of notable diasporas. The Eurominority.eu map Peoples of the World includes some diasporas and underrepresented/stateless ethnic groups.
  Note: the list below is not definitive and includes groups that have not been given significant historical attention. Whether the migration of some of the groups listed fulfils the conditions required to be considered a diaspora may be open for debate.
context_section_description: Fiji Indian diaspora - people of Indian origin left Fiji following the racially inspired coups of 1987 and 2000 to settle primarily in Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada. Smaller numbers have settled in England and other Pacific islands.
  Filipino diaspora - one of the largest diasporas that came from Asia (amounting approximately 20 million) made up of a variety of ethnic, linguistic and regional groups that are originally from the Philippines and live around the world, often for Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, North America, and Europe. Majority of them are migrant workers. Overseas Filipino Workers have their own political party in the Philippine Congress.
  French diaspora - Over 100 million French-speaking and ethnic French people in the world, about 55 million in Metropolitan France in Europe, 3 million in Belgium known as the Walloons, 3 million in western cantons of Switzerland and 2 million others in adjacent areas of Luxembourg, the kingdoms of Andorra and Monaco, and parts of western Italy, southwest Germany and northern Spain. This includes the remnants of Pied-Noirs in formerly French territories of North Africa - the now independent nations of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia; and in Southeast Asia (formerly French Indochina) - the now independent nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam; and millions of those of French ancestry in North America (i.e. a major contributor of settlement in the U.S. and 8 million French-Canadians in Canada), South America and the Caribbean, and Oceania (i.e. New Caledonia and French Polynesia).
  French Canadian diaspora - includes hundreds of thousands of people who left Quebec for the United States (most went to New England states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont), as well as Ontario and Western Canada, between about 1840 and 1930. In addition, since the 1970s Florida and other portions of the Southeastern United States have had sizable French-Canadian communities, consisting chiefly of retired senior citizens.
  The Acadian diaspora - the Great Expulsion (Grand Dérangement) occurred when the British expelled about 10,000 Acadians (over three-fourths of the Acadian population of Nova Scotia) between 1755 and 1764. The British split the Acadians between different colonies to impose assimilation. Most of the French-speaking Acadians resettled in the then Spanish colony of Louisiana, now a state of the US where the "Cajuns" influenced the ethnological background of Louisiana. The Cajuns settled along bayous and rivers in Louisiana and have their own Cajun cooking. In New Orleans, French people from France, along with high admixture with Anglo-American, African, Spanish and other ethnicities introducing Jazz music and Creole cooking.
  Walloons, in the southern half of Belgium. Several languages part of the langue d'oil family of languages, where spoken in Wallonia. ( fr:Atlas linguistique de la Wallonie ) In Belgium, due to French annexation in 1795 of what was to become Belgium, and French being at that time a lingua franca of European Elites ( including that of Bourgeois and Aristocrats living in regions and cities currently part of Wallonia and Flanders ), the French language has been imposed as official language. At a later state, the Dutch language and, after their annexation as war reparations, the German in the easternmost parts are given co-official status. Many Walloon miners, factory workers and farmers migrated to France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK; and other French and Dutch/Belgian colonial lands (i.e. Belgian Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo formerly Zaire).
  Occitans are persons from Southern France, some are known to speak the Occitan language or Langue D'Oc for thousands of years, but in general decline from pressures by the French Republican government since the early 19th century. Occitans were often felt denied the right of their cultural heritage and some relocated out of France in quiet protest to other countries, esp. French-speaking Canada and other parts of La Francophonie (French Empire and Fre
caption: "Speak French, Be Clean" written across the wall of a Southern French school, a byproduct of the French Government policy to eradicate Occitan and all regional languages in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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