Diaspora

The term diaspora is used to refer to the movement of people who have left their ancestral [পৈতৃক] homelands and settled in other parts of the world, either because they were forced to do so or because they wanted to leave on their own. The word is increasingly used for such people as a collective group and/or a community. Its origin [উত্পত্তি] is traced [উদ্দিষ্ট] in thousands years back. In the history of human civilization, we find a number of events of it. The world has seen many Diasporas but scholars have been studying the phenomenon [ব্যাপার] with great interest only in recent decades. They have distinguished [স্বতন্ত্র] between different kinds of exoduses [প্রস্থান] based on its causes such as imperialism [সম্রাজ্যবাদ], trade or labour migrations or by the kind of social incoherence [অসংলগ্ন]. Among the great Diasporas of history is that of the Jewish people, who were forced to leave their lands in ancient times. In twentieth century history, the Palestinian diaspora has attracted [আকর্ষণ] a lot of attention and been a cause of concern [উদ্বেগ] for world leaders because of the plight [দুর্দশা] of Palestinians. The movement of Aryans from Central Europe to the Indian sub-continent thousands of years ago is also a noteworthy [উল্লেখযোগ্য] diaspora, although the causes of this diaspora are unclear. There have been massive [ব্যাপক] Diasporas in Africa, too, over the centuries, either because of war or because of the ravages [বিনাশ] of nature. But the chief reason why the phenomenon of diaspora is attracting so much attention now is globalization.