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UNITED NATIONS â India has the world s largest diaspora with about 18 million people born there now living abroad, according to John Wilmoth, director of the UN s Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Presenting the International Migration Report 2020 Jan. 15, he said that the U.S. was the top host country for migrants with 51 million of them, or 18 percent of the world s total, living there.
The report said that between 2000 and 2020, the size of the migrant population abroad grew for nearly all countries and areas of the world with India experiencing the largest gain of nearly 10 million during that period, going from the third place in 2000 for the number of migrants to the first spot in 2020.
In saga of immigration, Indians travel from exclusion to Vice Presidency
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In saga of immigration, Indians travel from exclusion to Vice Presidency. Image Source: IANS News
New York, Jan 19 : The first Indian recorded to have reached the shores of the US is a man from Madras (now Chennai), the area from where the family of Shyamala Gopalan, mother of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, hails.
From the time of his long journey on a sailing ship in 1790 to now when Gopalan s daughter is going to be Vice President, it is also a long political journey for Indians in the US.