This article needs additional citations for verification. (May 2019) |
புலம்பெயர் தமிழர் | |
---|---|
Total population | |
8 million | |
![]() | ~1,897,000 (2018.est)[1] |
![]() | ~600,000 (2013)[2] |
![]() | ~400,000[3][4] |
![]() | ~350,000[4][3] |
![]() | ~302,000[5] |
![]() | ~238,699[6] |
![]() | 237,599 (2021)[7][b] |
![]() | 198,449 (2020)[c][8] |
![]() | ~120,000 (2007)[9] |
![]() | ~75,000 (2008)[10] |
![]() | ~72,089 (2011)[11] |
![]() | ~60,000 (2008)[12] |
![]() | ~50,000 (2011)[13] |
![]() | ~35,000 (2008)[14] |
![]() | ~25,000 (2005)[15] |
![]() | ~10,000 (2000)[16] |
![]() | ~9,000 (2003)[17] |
Languages | |
| |
Religion | |
|
Part of a series on |
Tamils |
---|
![]() |
![]() |
The Tamil diaspora refers to descendants of the Tamil speaking immigrants who emigrated from their native lands in the southern Indian subcontinent (Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Sri Lanka) to other parts of the world. They are found primarily in Malaysia, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, South Africa, North America, Western Europe, and Singapore.[18] It can be divided into two main diasporic clusters, due to geographical, historical and cultural reasons, as Indian Tamil diaspora and Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.
Four groups make up the bulk of the Tamil diaspora: colonial-era descendants of migrants to Southeast Asia, South Africa, East Africa, the Caribbean, and Fiji; recent, educated Tamil immigrants primarily to the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.; Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who resettled primarily in Canada, Western and Northern Europe, and Oceania between the 1980s and 2010s; and recent Tamil migration to the Gulf states of the Middle East as labor.
Tamil Ethnologue.
IANS2016
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).uscensus
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).According to HRW, there are about 120,000 Sri Lankan Tamils in the UK.
Since the escalation of the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka during the 1980s, about 60,000 came as asylum seekers.
An estimated 35,000 Tamils now live in Switzerland.
It is estimated that there are about 10,000 Sri Lankan Tamils in Norway -- 6,000 of them Norwegian citizens, many of whom migrated to Norway in the 1960s and the 1970s to work on its fishing fleet; and 4,000 post-1983 political refugees.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the help page).