European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas can be traced to the people who left the European
The voyages of Christopher Columbus, starting in 1492, coincided with the first wave of European colonization and began sustained contact between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Ouro Preto, an 18th-century colonial city of large Portuguese settlement
Mayflower bringing one of the first groups of English settlers to North America
Scottish Highland family migrating to New Zealand by William Allsworth
A diaspora is a population dispersed across multiple regions outside its geographic place of origin, typically comprising people who continue to identify—culturally, politically, religiously, or emoti
European emigration
…European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent. From 1500 to the mid-20th…
India has the world's largest annual emigration. Pictured at Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2015
The Mexican diaspora is the world's second-largest; pictured is Mexican day celebrations in Germany.
Emigrants Leave Ireland depicting the emigration from Ireland following the Great Famine
Kurdish refugees from Kobanî in a refugee camp, on the Turkish side of the Syria–Turkey border.