The word “diaspora” is derived from the Greek words diaspeirō, meaning
“I disperse”, “I scatter,” and diaspore meaning “dispersion” (“diaspeirō,”
“diaspore”). Hence, diaspora refers to a scattered population and their
descendants sharing a history, language and culture, living dispersed and
outside of their original geographical locales, that is their ancestral lands.
Such displacement of mass numbers of people is at times of a voluntary and
at times of an involuntary nature, and encompasses a variety of reasons
which can be grouped as natural, colonial, slave trade, indentured labour,
political, religious and economic, although some of the headings can
obviously overlap
