List of Diasporas - T

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• Tamil diaspora - a demographic group of Tamil people of Indian or Sri Lankan origin who have settled in other parts of the world.
• Tibetan diaspora - a group of Tibetan people who left Tibet to be with the 14th Dalai Lama after he went into exile in 1959. Most live in India and Nepal, but some live in the United States and Europe. An estimated 20-40,000 Tibetans live in Switzerland alone, and Tibetans live throughout the world. Large Tibetan communities exist in California (USA) esp. in NewYork, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Tibetans in exile were influential in the Free Tibet movement which has many American activists, including celebrities and converts to Buddhism.
• Tuaregs, a group of Berbers in Western Sahara after the end of Spanish rule (1975) have fled out of the country along with many Saharauis, due to the Moroccan invasion and occupation of the disputed territory known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Indigenous to the Sahara and North Africa, there are some Tuareg in Egypt and in Nigeria, as well in traditional homeland of Algeria, Chad, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Tunisia.
• Turkish diaspora - refers to the Turkish people living outside of Turkey (most notably in Germany).