Hazara diaspora

Hazara diaspora
Total population
~2.6 million[citation needed]
Regions with significant populations
 Pakistan900,000 (2011)[1]
 Iran500,000 (2014)[2]
Europe130,000[3]
 Turkey26,000[4]
 Austria22,000 (2015)[5]
 Australia41,766 (2021)[6]
 Sweden50,000 (2021)[7]
 Syria14,000 (2015)[citation needed]
 United Kingdom12,000 (2015)[8]
 United States10,000[citation needed]
 Netherlands9,000[citation needed]
 Canada4,300 (2006)[9]
 Indonesia3,800[10]
Languages
Dari and Hazaragi
(eastern varieties of Persian)
Religion
Predominantly Islam
(Shia majority, significant Sunni minority)[11][12]

The Hazara people are an ethnic group who are mostly from Afghanistan, primarily from the central regions of Afghanistan, known as Hazarajat, they established a large diaspora that consists of many communities in different countries around the world as part of the later Afghan diaspora. There are currently a million Hazara who live in the Balochistan province of Pakistan mostly in Quetta,[13][14] many of whom have been settled in the country for generations and are now Pakistani citizens.

  1. ^ Yusuf, Imran. "Who are the Hazara?". Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  2. ^ Smyth, Phillip (3 June 2014). "Iran's Afghan Shiite Fighters in Syria". The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. ^ Talib, Husayn (19 August 2017). "Austria holds refugee talks as young Hazaras flee persecution to make 'dangerous' journey to Europe". ABC News. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Afghan Hazara Refugees Seek Justice in Turkey". 3 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Austria holds refugee talks as young Hazaras flee persecution to make 'dangerous' journey to Europe".
  6. ^ "Cultural diversity: census". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 28 June 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Nytt folkmord hotar hazarer i Afghanistan".
  8. ^ The population of people with descent from Afghanistan in UK is 76,000. Hazara make up an estimated 20% of the population of Afghanistan depending to the source. The Hazara population in UK is estimated from these two figures. archived on 25 April 2007
  9. ^ The population of people with descent from Afghanistan in Canada is 48,090. Hazara make up an estimated 20% of the population of Afghanistan depending to the source. The Hazara population in Canada is estimated from these two figures. Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Afghan Hazaras' new life in Indonesia: Asylum-seeker community in West Java is large enough to easily man an eight-team Afghan football league, Al Jazeera, 21 March 2014, retrieved 5 August 2016
  11. ^ The Afghans, Their History and Culture, Religion Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "شناسنامه الکترونیکی،آخرین فرصت تثبیت هویت هزاره‌های سنی و اسماعیلی | سایت طرح نو، باشگاه اندیشه و گفت‌وگو". Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  13. ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.
  14. ^ Census of Afghans in Pakistan, UNHCR Statistical Summary Report (retrieved 22 October 2011)