page_title: Belarusian diaspora
section_title: North America
hierarchical_section_title: Belarusian diaspora / North America
caption_attribution_description: Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎: Помнік «Змагарам за вольную Беларусь» у Саўт-Рывэры (штат Нью-Джэрзі, ЗША), пастаўлены ў 1974 року English: Monument for "Those who fought for Freedom and Independence of Byelorussia" in South River, NJ, USA, built in 1974
context_page_description: Belarusian diaspora refers to emigrants from the territory of Belarus as well for people of Belarusian descent.
  According to different researches, there are between 2.5 and 3.5 million people of Belarusian descent living outside the territory of the Republic of Belarus. This number includes descendants of economic emigrants from Belarus of late 19th century and early 20th century, of emigrants of times of the Second World War and emigrants of the wave that started in the 1990s. Another group of Belarusian diaspora are people who migrated within the USSR before 1991 and who after its dissolution became inhabitants of other post-Soviet countries. A separate group usually associated with the Belarusian diaspora are ethnic minorities in the borderlands of Belarus with Poland, Lithuania and Russia.
  A separate group of emigrants from Belarus were Belarusian Jews who have established significant communities in the United States and Israel. The historic name for Belarusian Jews were Litvaks, a corrupted term of Litvin or "Lithuanian" in Belarusian.
  There is a tendency to a decline in the number of people identifying themselves as Belarusians according to official censuses.
caption: Monument in South River, New Jersey for "Those who fought for Freedom and Independence of Belarus"
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