- Source: Iranian diaspora
The Iranian diaspora (collectively known as Iranian expats or expatriates) is the global population of Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran.
In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics which showed that 2 to 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.Though many of these people are of Iranian ancestry in UAE, Kuwait, Israel, Turkey and Bahrain, not necessarily recent migrants but people who moved out hundreds of years ago or at least prior to the revolution. These numbers also include half and people with only partial ancestry as well. Over one million of these people and their extended families live in the United States, with anywhere between 100k-500k living in countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Further populations exist in numerous other regions, including many European nations, China, India, and the United Arab Emirates, along with several other Middle Eastern and Levantine nations. Many of these individuals relocated to other countries following the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Iran has experienced waves of emigration since 1979. The creation of a ministry of immigration has been proposed, after reports indicated critical statistics, largely due to political instability.
Statistics by country
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.
Students abroad
According to the Iranian government, 55,686 Iranian students were studying abroad in 2013: 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. The Iranian Ministry of Education estimated that between 350,000 and 500,000 Iranians were studying outside Iran as of 2014.
Politics
Armenia Hrant Markarian, Chairman of Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Australia Sam Dastyari, Senator
United Kingdom Seema Kennedy, Member of the House of Commons
United Kingdom Haleh Afshar, Member of the House of Lords
United Kingdom David Alliance, Member of the House of Lords
Canada Quebec Amir Khadir, Member of the National Assembly of Quebec
Canada Ontario Reza Moridi, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Canada Majid Jowhari, Member of the Parliament of Canada
Canada Ali Ehsassi, Member of the Parliament of Canada
France Pouria Amirshahi, Former Member of the French National Assembly
France Mahmoud Khayami, founder of Iran Khodro
France Pierre Omidyar, investigative journalist for Honolulu Civil Beat and First Look Media, also founder of eBay
France Patrick Ali Pahlavi, member of the Pahlavi dynasty
Germany Yasmin Fahimi, general secretary of the Social Democratic Party
Germany Sahra Wagenknecht, Member of the Bundestag and deputy chairperson of the Left Party
Germany Omid Nouripour, Member of the Bundestag, (Alliance '90/The Greens)
Israel Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
Israel Dan Halutz, Chief of General Staff
Israel Shaul Mofaz, Minister of Defense
New Zealand Golriz Ghahraman, Member of New Zealand Parliament from the 52nd New Zealand Parliament part of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
NED Farah Karimi, Member of the House of Representatives
Norway Mazyar Keshvari, Member of the Storting
Sweden Ardalan Shekarabi, Minister for Public Administration
Sweden Maryam Yazdanfar, Member of the Riksdag
Sweden Reza Khelili Dylami, Member of the Riksdag
Sweden Alireza Akhondi, Member of the Riksdag
USA Goli Ameri, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
USA Cyrus Amir-Mokri, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions
USA Washington Cyrus Habib, Member of the Washington House of Representatives
USA Azita Raji, United States Ambassador to Sweden
USA Bob Yousefian, Mayor of Glendale
USA Jimmy Delshad, Mayor
Kuwait Ahmed Lari, Member of National Assembly of Kuwait
Kuwait Hassan Jawhar, Member of National Assembly of Kuwait
Kuwait Jenan Boushehri, Member of National Assembly of Kuwait
Economics
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. In Dubai, Iranian expatriates have invested an estimated $200 billion (2006). Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in 2006.
= High net-worth individuals
== Expatriate fund
=The fund's stated goal is to attract investment from Iranian expatriates and to use their experience in stimulating foreign investments.
Religious affiliation
The Iranian diaspora has been commonly defined as a largely people from upper-middle classes, secular and as not Muslims at all; the majority of them do not take fundamental Islamic rituals, such as daily prayers or fasting, and having largely embraced Western secularism. Most expatriate Iranians consider themselves to be irreligious, agnostic, or atheist.
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), New York (17,323), Texas (15,581), Virginia (10,889), and Maryland (9,733). The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area was estimated to be host to approximately 114,712 Iranian immigrants, 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.
See also
Demographics of Iran
Foreign relations of Iran
Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran
Human capital flight from Iran
Iranian nationality law
Tourism in Iran
Visa requirements for Iranian citizens
References
= Sources
=Sakurai, Keiko (July 2003), Nihon no Musurimu shakai 日本のムスリム社会 [Japan's Muslim Societies], Chikuma Shobō, ISBN 4-480-06120-7
External links
History of Iranian diaspora - Encyclopædia Iranica
Country Profile - Iran Migration Policy Institute (including modern history of Iranian migration)
Iranian Diaspora in pre-Islamic times
High Council of Iranians Abroad- "Strengthening the national identity of Iranians outside Iran and to defend their rights, helping the propagation of Persian calligraphy and language, and easing the participation in national security."
Iranians Abroad - resources and links parstimes.com
Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB) (non-profit, non-partisan, and non-religious)
Iranian diaspora - press article (2009)
Seminar for Iranians Abroad Held in Tehran in August 2010
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