- the diaspora
the movement of the Jewish people away from their own country to live and work in other countries; Jewish people living and working in other countries （犹太人的）大流散 the movement of people from any nation or group away from their own country; people who have moved away from their own country （任何民族或群体的）大移居 the Russian diaspora in London 散居在伦敦的俄罗斯人
Word OriginGreek, from diaspeirein ‘disperse’, from dia ‘across’+ speirein ‘scatter’. The term originated in the Septuagint, the Bible (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth’.