Diaspora (from the Greek word for “scattering”) refers to dispersion of a people from their homeland.

In
the process of diaspora, people usually stay rooted in their culture sometimes they might get
intertwined with the new culture leading to mixed heritage.

The term diaspora comes to us from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, particularly Deut 28:25.

This translation was called the Septuagint and was the project of Greek-speaking Jews living in the
Egyptian diaspora.

Types of diaspora: Victim Diaspora: A class of people who have been banished from their place
of origin and sent to another land. Usually a result of a traumatic event, like conquest,
persecution, enslavement, genocide or exile.
EX: Africans in the North Atlantic Slave Trade

Trading Diaspora: A community, often members of an extended family, that goes abroad to
conduct trade in a host society. The 'family firm'. They receive permission from the host gov,
learn local language and customs, but do not assimilate.
EX: Jews, Armenians, Chinese, Arabs, Indians

Imperial Diaspora: Migrants who go to another land that has been conquered by their own nation
and enjoy higher status on account of their ethnic ties to the ruling power. Do not adapt to
customs, locals adapt to their customs.
EX: The Spanish and the Indians, Mexico's caste system

Labor Diaspora: Indentured servants and labor migrants

The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel

The dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-
86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time