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The diaspora observatory, reading lists and live research.

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Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council

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The diaspora observatory, reading lists and live research.

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On the mapEvidence25Layers5Library8

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Academy126 courses, none open for enrolment yetCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet

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The library

8 sources · licence on eachopen licences

191019201930194019501960197019801990200020102020

1914

The Excavations at BabylonR. Koldewey, trans. A. S. Johns · Macmillan · Public domain

verifiedVula

2006

The Tower of Babel: Archaeology, History and Cuneiform TextsA. R. George

to verifyno link

2021

Babylon: The Great CityO. Pedersén · Zaphon

to verifyno link

1992

The Ishtar Gate (Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin)J. Marzahn

to verifyno link

2026

The Cyrus Cylinder, BM 90920 (1880,0617.1941), collection recordThe British Museum

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2013

The Cyrus Cylinder: The King of Persia's Proclamation from Ancient BabylonI. Finkel (ed.) · I.B. Tauris

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1978

PasargadaeD. Stronach · Clarendon Press

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2024

Natural Earth 1:50m and 1:110mNatural Earth · Public domain

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Each record links to its source. We copy nothing.

8 itemsOpen the library Citations (.bib)

Claims waiting for a source

10 claims waiting for a checked sourceto verify

10claims to verify

0corrections logged

18verified entries · evidence base

verified18

secondary1

to verify14

UN DESA global and country migrant stock figures (page read, tables not read)

World Bank and KNOMAD brief edition and the scope of the US$656 billion figure

OECD DIOC and International Migration Outlook edition years and figures

IOM World Migration Report 2026 global estimate

UNHCR Global Trends report text (the page refused reading; the API was read)

5 more in the queue.

A claim leaves the queue only with a checked source. Open method; anyone can propose one.

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Diaspora and resilience: the evidence

25 entries · 4 groups · read 2026-11-03

UN DESA Population Division · 2024International Migrant Stock 2024

International migrant stock by origin and destination, 1990 to 2024

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World Bank and KNOMAD · 2023Migration and Development Brief, remittances

Remittances back to home countries, as the page states it

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World Bank · 2025World Development Indicators API

Personal remittances received, current US$ (indicator BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT)

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OECD · to verifyDIOC and the International Migration Outlook

Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC): migrants by origin, education and occupation

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IOM · 2026World Migration Report 2026

World Migration Report, global estimates and analysis

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UNHCR · 2025Refugee Data Finder, population API

Refugees under UNHCR mandate, by country of origin

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Eurostat · to verifyEurostat migration and asylum statistics

Population by citizenship and by country of birth (tables migr_pop1ctz and migr_pop3ctb)

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National statistics offices of host countries · to verifyOfficial statistics by country

Citizenship, country of birth and, in a few states, ancestry

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United Nations General Assembly · 2018Global Compact for Migration

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, resolution 73/195; objective 19 is on migrants' and diasporas' contribution to development

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UNDRR and the UN General Assembly · 2015Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 to 2030

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 to 2030, resolution 69/283

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Global Forum on Migration and Development · to verifyGFMD

State-led, informal forum on migration and development

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IOM · to verifyIOM diaspora engagement

Diaspora engagement frameworks and handbooks

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African Union, European Union and national governments · to verifyAU, EU and national diaspora policies

Diaspora policies and engagement strategies

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Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies · 1991Safran, Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return

Definition of diaspora

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Ethnic and Racial Studies · 1999Vertovec, Conceiving and researching transnationalism

Transnationalism, concepts and research

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Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2005Brubaker, The 'diaspora' diaspora

Critique of the use of the term diaspora

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Cambridge University Press · 2003Sheffer, Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad

Diaspora politics, book

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Amsterdam University Press · 2010Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods (Bauböck and Faist, eds.)

Diaspora and transnationalism, concepts, theories and methods

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Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies · 2015Tricia Redeker Hepner, Generation Nationalism and Generation Asylum: Eritrean Migrants, the Global Diaspora, and the Transnational Nation-State

Eritrean diaspora and transnational politics

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2024Trần and Blake, Vietnamese migrants' engagement in disaster risk reduction: The relevance of social capital

Migrants' engagement in disaster risk reduction, social capital

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De Gruyter · 2021Peter Bernardi, Disaster, Donations, and Diaspora: The Response of the Japanese-Brazilian Community of São Paulo to the Triple Disaster of 2011 (chapter in Diaspora and Disaster)

Diaspora response to disaster, donations

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Applied Economics · 2013Ebeke and Combes, Do remittances dampen the effect of natural disasters on output growth volatility in developing countries?

Remittances and output growth volatility after natural disasters, developing countries

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2022Yvonne Su, Networks of recovery: Remittances, social capital and post-disaster recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines

Remittances, social capital and recovery, Tacloban City

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World Bank · 2011Mohapatra and Ratha, Preliminary Estimates of Diaspora Savings

Preliminary estimates of diaspora savings

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World Bank · 2011Diaspora for Development in Africa

Diaspora engagement for development, Africa

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What official statistics, policy texts and research say about diasporas, remittances and disaster risk. Each source shows its publisher, year, measure and label. Where a page could not be read, it says so.

25 items

Figures by country

1 figures · 1 measures · never added up

refugees under UNHCR mandate, by country of origin Iran · 2025 · UNHCR Refugee Data Finder

157,912

Measure: Iran · refugees under UNHCR mandate, by country of origin Iran
Unyaka: 2025
Umthombo: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder
Imeko: verified

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Kurds are not a country of origin in these series; the countries are proxies. Bars compare only rows of the same measure and year; a measure with one row is shown alone.

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Data on the map

5 map layers · public sources5 layers

Recent earthquakes

Earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the last 30 days, in a box around Iran.

points · usgs-earthquakes · Magnitude, as reported by USGS

Current disasters

Disasters recorded by ReliefWeb in the home countries: name, type, date and link.

list · reliefweb-disasters

Provinces

First-level provinces of the home countries, each with the licence of its source.

boundaries · geoboundaries

Urban centres

Urban centres from the GHSL database, as context for the city pages.

points · ghsl-ucdb

Population density

Gridded population density of the home countries, as context. Never a count of the community.

raster · worldpop · People per square kilometre (WorldPop)

Each map layer has one source and one measure. A source with an unclear licence is left out.

Open the map0 choropleth figures

Journals watched

2 journals

Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesISSN 1369-183X · 1469-9451

watched

Global NetworksISSN 1470-2266 · 1471-0374

watched

Hub pages

138 pages carry research terms for their subject

Zenodo community

iranians-global · proposed, not yet created

A source appears on a page only after it has been reviewed and approved.

Research hubs Verification

Iinkqubo

none yet

Programmes are listed once they are recorded.

Open data

the catalogue on data.iranians.global · read 2026-11-14open

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1. What are you adding? A sourceA book, paper or data set for the library.An eventA meeting, class, festival or remembrance, with its date and place.A jobA role from the employer's own posting.A scholarship or grantA scholarship, grant, fellowship or call from its provider.An association or serviceA school, association or service, with its official site.A news itemA headline from its publisher, with the date.A public bodyAn office that serves people here, from its official page.An accountYour own account of a place or an event.A correctionSomething on a page that is wrong, and what is right.

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Uhlobo

Who can apply

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Place of work

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Umpapashi

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City

The city only. Never a street or a home address.

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