Does anyone know groups of people who have moved from one location to another as a result of war or...........

Question

Does anyone know groups of people who have moved from one location to another as a result of war or revolutions, political or economic decision-making, or natural disasters

Answer 1

Sure, name a war and I'll show you a group of refugees.
Name a famine and I'll show you a group of refugees.

Over 1 million Irish left their homeland in the 1840s because of the Potato famine.

The Gulf Coast of America lost a major part of its population after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. New Orleans may never see its full population return to its city.

After the Mississippi river flooded in 1991, an entire city in Illinois physically moved itself out of the flood plain and up to high ground.

Israel was founded by Jewish refugees from the Holocaust of WWII.

The Sephardic Jews relocated to the eastern Mediterranean and the Holy Land after Queen Isabella imposed a new political order that said that her country would be 100% Catholic. The punishment was either expulsion or the Spanish Inquisition.

Most Russian Jews who settled in the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s left their homelands because of the attrocious pogroms.

Answer 2

Lots of Mennonites left the Ukraine after the Russian revolution. Some moved together as whole villages. One example is Alexanderwohl village which moved en masse from the Ukraine to central Kansas. Most refugee-producing events don't have whole groups relocating in that way. When the pilgrims came to America they were like minded, but not a single village.

Answer 3

Partner you can name any racial or ethnic group and you Will have your answer. The Phoenicians, Hebrew, Goths, Visi-goths, Arabs, Polynesians, Britons, Kelts, Franks, Angals, Saxons, Mongols, Tarters, Burgers, Gypsies, Carthaginians, Persians, Irish, Scots, Hellenes, Spanish, Portuguese, Aztecs, Maya, Toltecs, Serbs, Turks, Vikings, Norseman, Fins, Hottentots, Scythians, Assyrians, Slavs, Vandals, Every native tribe in North and South America, Africa, etc. which number so many who could count them all. You have to remember that if you go far enough back in time there were no permanent settlements and every tribe/group of people migrated from one place to another for all the reasons you stated above. You have asked a very broad open question.

Answer 4

Many Japanese people left Japan because of their home country's position in WWII. They ended up largely in South America (Brazil and Peru). Also, many Japanese were disclocated from their homes in western US states during the same war by the US government. They were moved from one location (IE: California) to another (IE: Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico) as a result of the war.

Answer 5

The Irish moved to the US because of the potato famine and land grabbing by wealthier people.

The Cherokee were forced to move to Oklahoma as a result of politics and land-grabbing by wealthier people.

The native people of Dhafor are being exterminated because of politics and land-grabbing by another racial group.

MOST shifts of native populations were accomplished through war or political land-grabbing.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

My Great-Grandparents fled the Austro-Hungarian Empire during WWI, and came to the US, along with several dozen other families from Abod. It was a heavy strong hold in both WWI, and later in WWII.

Answer 8

Yes, all my ancestors. Ireland had the great famine. My great-grandmother came over on the boat and cleaned houses for rich people in Massachusetts. She was only 16.

Answer 9

No one even touched upon Native Americans. They are probably the most harassed and herded group of peoples in the past thousand years. We killed them, their game and took their land.

Answer 10

"Refugees"


Examples:

Hurricane Katrina
Bosnia-Croatian War