Serbian diaspora

There are currently 1.5 to 2.5 Serbs in diaspora throughout the world (those that are not constitutional peoples; like in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in this case) The Serbian diaspora was the consequence of either voluntary departure, coercion and/or forced migrations or expulsions that occurred in six big waves:

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Serbia and Montenegro - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Serbian - Migrations - Expulsions

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• To the west and north, caused mostly by the Ottoman Turks
• To the east
• To the USA for economic reasons
• During wartime, particularly World War II and post-war political migration, predominantly into overseas countries
• Going abroad for temporary work as guest workers who stayed in their new homelands during the turbulent 1960s.
• Escaping from the uncertain situation (1991-1995) caused by the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the renewal of vicious ethnic conflicts and civil war, as well as by the disastrous economic crises, which largely affected the educated or skilled labor forces.

The existence of Serbian diasporae in countries such as Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Russia, is the result of historical circumstances ? the migrations to the North and the East, due to the Turkish conquests of the Balkans and as a result of politics, especially when the Communist Party came into power, but even more when the communist state of Yugoslavia ceased to exist as of 1995 (i.e. the Serbian forces' defeat to Croatian nationalist troops).

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Hungary - Romania - Poland - Slovakia - Russia - Turkish - Yugoslavia

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Some members of the Serbian diaspora do not speak the language of their adopted homelands, mostly in the US, Canada and the UK (although obviously their children do or will do so), but are still considered Serbs by ethnic origin or descent, as do many others (such as the German and Irish governments, which have extremely generous nationality and passport requirements for those in the German and Irish diasporae).

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US - Canada - UK - Serbs

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