Meaning of diaspora in English

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  • They regulated the social and religious affairs of all the Jews in the diaspora. 
(Definition of diaspora from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of diaspora from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of diaspora

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These interests include diaspora groups that claim the refugee for themselves, and international relief organisations and charitable agencies that speak on behalf of the refugee.
The complexities and ambivalence of the two ' ' hemispheres' ' are associated with defining diaspora identities among different cultural passages.
Moreover, with the issue of international violence becoming increasingly alarming, academic attention (not just political) should be given to the phenomenon of the military diaspora.
Rather, diaspora is both predicament and opportunity, forcing its differently identified 'members' continually to address their differences, whatever their common goals.
Several studies have shown just how acute was the connection between war and dispossession in diaspora politics.
However, democracy has not yet eradicated either gender discrimination, dependence on the diaspora or poverty.
In it he at once claims the maximal terrain for diaspora studies and restricts the scope of the volume sharply.
The diaspora label usually assumes cultural and linguistic difference between places that give form to a diasporic consciousness and identity and places of origin.
This transnational part of his outlook was easy to accept for those with a diaspora-wide perspective.
The indigenous voice in the black diaspora appears much later.
Such studies can be located within the burgeoning diaspora literatures.
As for identity, one could of course speak of 'social identity', as has been done by various historians working on multiple identities or diasporas.
Is diaspora the most appropriate term to describe the situation of internationally recognized refugees with a right of return?
Thus, we need to explore if diaspora embodies the potential to dislodge the politics of return.
In the diaspora, the dialect factor can be better controlled for by selecting speakers whose parents originate from a linguistically homogeneous region.
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Translations of diaspora

in Chinese (Traditional)
(一國人口向其他國家的)流散,大移居, 散居世界各地的猶太人, 猶太人散居的地區…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(一国人口向其他国家的)流散,大移居, 散居世界各地的犹太人, 犹太人散居的地区…
in Spanish
diáspora, la diáspora judía…
in Portuguese
diáspora, a Diáspora judaica…
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