India has world’s largest diaspora: UN

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India has the world’s largest diaspora with about 18 million individuals born there now residing overseas, in response to John Wilmoth, the director of UN’s Population Division on the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Presenting the International Migration Report 2020 on Friday, he stated that the US was the highest host nation for migrants with 51 million of them or 18 per cent of the world’s whole residing there.
The report stated that between 2000 and 2020, the scale of the migrant inhabitants overseas grew for almost all international locations and areas of the world with India experiencing the most important achieve of almost 10 million throughout that interval, going from third place in 2000 for the variety of migrants to the primary spot in 2020.
The report takes a broad view of migrants, together with additionally college students and people going overseas for household reunions within the definition.
Explaining the phenomenon of the migration from India, UN’s Population Affairs Officer Clare Menozzi stated: “The Indian diaspora is one of the most vibrant dynamic world… It’s present in all continents, in all regions.”
The Indian diaspora is various, “comprised predominantly of persons who are workers but also students, and people who have moved for family reasons”, she stated.
The contingent of India-born migrants born within the Gulf international locations are taking part in a central function within the financial prosperity of these international locations, Menozzi stated.

“They’re also widely present in Northern America and Canada, the US and UK and Australia,” she stated.
“And if you look for example at the US, I know from the education statistics of some of the persons who are born in India, they have often a very high educational attainment some tertiary or even post-doc(toral), and so forth.”
She stated that there’s “a common misperception that migration is a reaction to lack of opportunity”.
While which may be true in some contexts, “it’s also the sign of dynamism, the fact of a person, an individual makes a choice to pursue opportunities”, in response to Menozzi.
There can be a change in how individuals go overseas.
“The notion that a person would migrate and then forever leave their countries is no longer the case. Most migrants actually now have an experience of moving abroad but then they return, they would go abroad to study, and then bring back some of the knowledge that they find abroad,” Menozzi added.

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