Arab diaspora

Arab diaspora refers to descendants of the Arab immigrants who, voluntarily or as refugees, emigrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in Central America, South America, Europe, North America, and parts of Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and West Africa.

Arab Diaspora
العرب المغتربون
Total population
According to the International Organization for Migration, there are 13 million Arab migrants, of whom 5.8 million reside in Arab countries.
Regions with significant populations
 BrazilEstimated 15–20 million with at least partial ancestry[1][2]
 France3.3[3] to 5.5[4] million people of North African (Arab or Berber) descent[5]
 Turkey5,000,000[6][7][8][9][10]
 Argentina4,500,000[11]
 Indonesia
  • Estimated 4–5 million of at least partial Arab ancestry[12][13]
    (only 87,227 self-identified as ethnic Arabs in 2005 census)[14]
 United States3,700,000[15]
 Colombia3,200,000[16][17][18]
 Niger2,116,000[19]
 Venezuela1,600,000[20]
 Iran1,500,000[21]
 Mexico1,500,000[22][23]
 Chad1,536,000 (est.)[24]
 Spain1,350,000[25][26]
 Germany1,155,390[27][28]
 Mali950,000[29]
 Chile800,000[30][31][32][33]
 Belgium800,000 (600,000 from Morocco)
 Canada750,925[34]
 Italy680,000[35]
 Australia500,000[36]
 Netherlands480,000–613,800[37]
 Sweden377,616
 Burkina Faso350,000[38]
 Ivory Coast300,000[39]
 Honduras275,000 [40][41]
 Ecuador250,000 [42]
 United KingdomEngland: 230,556 (2011 census)[43]
Wales: 9,989 (2011 census)[43]
Scotland: 9,366 (2011 census)[44]
 Denmark121,000
 El SalvadorMore than 120,000[45][46][47][48][49]
 Japanless than 100,000[50]
Languages
Arabic (mother tongue), French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, German, Turkish, Persian and other languages among others
Religion
Predominantly Christianity in the Americas, Islam in Europe and Asia, but also Druze and irreligion, among others
Related ethnic groups

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.[51] Large numbers of Arabs migrated to West Africa, particularly Côte d'Ivoire,[52] Senegal,[53] Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.[54] 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.[55] Of these 9 million Arabs, 6 million are of Lebanese ancestry,[56][57][58] 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.[59] 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 righ for any purpose, nationally or internationally - not an Arab.[60][61] 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.[62]

Venezuela,[63] Colombia, Mexico and Chile. Palestinians cluster in Chile and Central America, particularly El Salvador, and Honduras.[64] The Palestinian community in Chile[65][66] 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.[67]

It has been estimated that there are as many as four million Indonesians with at least partial Arab ancestry.[68] They are generally well-integrated socially with Indonesian society, and identify as Indonesians.[69] In the 2005 census, approximately 87,000 people, amounting to 0.04% of the population, identified themselves as being of Arab ethnicity.[14]

Notable people

Prominent members of the Arab diaspora include:

Business

Fashion, beauty

Film, television

Literature / theatre

Media and intellectuals

Music
  • Adel Tawil (Egyptian / Tunisian origin), German singer, songwriter and producer
  • Ali B (Moroccan origin), Dutch rapper
  • Amir (Egyptian origin), Italian rapper
  • Bushido (Tunisian origin), German rapper
  • DJ Khaled (Palestinian origin), American DJ
  • Eric Saade (Palestinian Lebanese origin), Swedish singer
  • Fady Maalouf (Lebanese origin), German singer
  • Fredwreck (Palestinian origin), American record producer
  • Ghali (Tunisian origin), Italian rapper
  • Ibrahim Maalouf (Lebanese origin), French saxophonist
  • Indila (Algerian origin), French singer
  • Kareem Salama (Egyptian origin), American country singer
  • Karl Wolf (Lebanese origin), Canadian pop star
  • La Fouine (Moroccan origin), French rapper
  • L'Algérino (Algerian origin), French rapper
  • Lowkey (Iraqi origin), British rapper and political activist
  • Maher Zain (Lebanese origin), Swedish singer
  • Malika Ayane (Moroccan origin), Italian singer
  • Massari (Lebanese origin), Canadian singer
  • Nasri Tony Atweh (Palestinian origin), Canadian lead singer of Magic!
  • Natasja Saad (Sudanese origin), Danish rapper and reggae singer
  • Rami Yacoub (Palestinian origin), Swedish record producer
  • RedOne (Moroccan origin), Swedish record producer
  • Samy Deluxe (Sudanese origin), German rapper
  • Salem Al Fakir (Syrian origin), Swedish singer
  • Sarbel (Lebanese origin), Greek singer
  • Shakira (Lebanese origin), Colombian singer
  • Tarak Ben Ammar (Tunisian origin), international movie producer and distributor
  • Tunisiano (Tunisian origin), French rapper
  • Zaho (Algerian origin), Canadian singer

Politics

Sciences

Sports

Ulama

• Habib Rizieq (Hadrami descent), leader of FPI

• Habib Munzir (Hadrami descent), leader of Majelis Rasulullah SAW.

• Syekh Ali Jaber (Saudi arabian origin).

See also

References

Notes

    Citations

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