Iranian_diaspora

Iranian diaspora

Iranian diaspora

People of Iranian ancestry outside Iran

The Iranian diaspora refers to Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran.[3]

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This includes the varying ethnicities of the Iranian people including the following groups: Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Lors, Baluchs, Arabs, Turkomens, Assyrians, and Armenians.

In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics, which showed that 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.[1][2] Many of them live in North America, Europe, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Australia and the broader Middle East.[4][5] Other studies have estimated about 1.5 million or fewer Iranians living abroad.[6] Many of them migrated to other countries after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[7][8]

By 2020s the country witnessed mass waves of immigration out of the country [fa]. With 100% rise just in 2023.A ministry of immigration has been proposed after reports indicated critical statistics mainly because of political instability.[9][10][11]

Statistics by country

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Popularity change of countries among Iranian Immigrants (2016–2021).[12]
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Socioeconomic status

Nearly 60 percent of Iranians abroad have earned at least an undergraduate degree, and have one of the highest rates of self-employment among immigrant groups. Many have founded their own companies, including Isaac Larian, the founder of MGA Entertainment, and Pierre Omidyar, who founded eBay in 1995 in San Jose, California. Iranian households in the United States earn on average $87,288 annually in 2018, and are ranked ninth by income.[21]

Students abroad

See also: Higher education in Iran and Iran's brain drain

According to the Iranian government, 55,686 Iranian students were studying abroad in 2013:[22] 8,883 studied in Malaysia, 7,341 in the United States, 5,638 in Canada, 3,504 in Germany, 3,364 in Turkey, 3,228 in Britain, and the rest in other countries.[23][24] The Iranian Ministry of Education estimated that between 350,000 and 500,000 Iranians were studying outside Iran as of 2014.[25]

Politics

Economics

See also: Foreign direct investment in Iran

In 2000, the Iran Press Service reported that Iranian expatriates had invested between $200 and $400 billion in the United States, Europe, and China, but almost nothing in Iran.[5] In Dubai, Iranian expatriates have invested an estimated $200 billion (2006).[26] Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in 2006.[27]

High net-worth individuals

See also: Social class in Iran and List of Iranians by net worth
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Expatriate fund

See also: Privatization in Iran § Iranian expatriates role, and Tehran Stock Exchange § Foreign portfolio investment

The fund's stated goal is to attract investment from Iranian expatriates and to use their experience in stimulating foreign investments.[41]

Religious affiliation

See also: Religion in Iran and Irreligion in Iran

The Iranian diaspora has been commonly defined as a largely people from upper-middle classes,secular and as cultural or nominal Muslims; the majority of them do not take fundamental Islamic rituals, such as daily prayers or fasting, and having largely embraced Western secularism.[42] Some expatriate Iranians consider themselves irreligious, agnostic, or atheist.[43][44][45]

Notes

In the period between 1961 and 2005, the United States became the main destination of Iranian emigrants. An estimated 378,995 Iranians have immigrated to the United States in that period, where Iranian immigrants have primarily immigrated to California (158,613 Iran-born in 2000),[46] New York (17,323),[46] Texas (15,581),[46] Virginia (10,889),[46] and Maryland (9,733).[46] The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area was estimated to be host to approximately 114,712 Iranian immigrants,[46] earning the Westwood area of Los Angeles the nickname Tehrangeles.

The US Census Bureau's decennial census form does not offer a designation for individuals of Iranian descent, and therefore it is estimated that only a fraction of the total number of Iranians are writing in their ancestry. The 2000 Census Bureau estimates that the Iranian American community (including the US-born children of the Iranian foreign born) numbers around 330,000. Studies using alternative statistical methods have estimated the actual number of Iranian Americans in the range of 691,000 to 1.2 million.[5][47]

See also

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