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Famous Mass Migrations

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Trail of Tears, Atlantic slave trade, Great Migration, Partition exodus - which mass movement reshaped the world most?

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Migration↕	Period↕	From↕	To↕	People Moved↕	Cause↕
Atlantic Slave Trade	1500-1866	West/Central Africa	Americas	12.5 million forced	Chattel slavery for plantation economies
Partition of India Exodus	1947-1948	Punjab and Bengal	Across new India-Pakistan border	15-20 million	Religious partition of British India
Great Migration (US Black)	1916-1970	Rural US South	Northern and Western US cities	6 million	Escape from Jim Crow, industrial jobs
Trail of Tears	1830-1850	Southeastern US	Indian Territory (Oklahoma)	60,000+ Native Americans	Indian Removal Act, forced relocation
Bracero Program	1942-1964	Mexico	United States	4.6 million contracts	US wartime farm labor shortage
European Migration to Americas	1820-1930	Europe	United States, Argentina, Brazil	55-60 million	Famine, pogroms, economic opportunity
German Expulsions Post-WWII	1944-1950	Eastern Europe	Germany, Austria	12-14 million ethnic Germans	Potsdam Agreement, retribution for Nazi occupation
Chinese Coolie Trade	1840s-1920s	Southern China	Southeast Asia, Americas, Caribbean	Millions of indentured laborers	Abolition of slavery, labor demand
Irish Famine Emigration	1845-1855	Ireland	US, Canada, Britain, Australia	2 million	Great Famine (An Gorta Mor)
Syrian Civil War Exodus	2011-present	Syria	Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, EU	13 million displaced	Civil war, ISIS, Assad regime
Dust Bowl Migration	1930-1940	US Great Plains	California and West	2.5 million Okies	Drought, soil erosion, Depression
Vietnamese Boat People	1975-1995	Vietnam	Southeast Asia, US, Australia, Europe	2 million	Fall of Saigon, reeducation camps
Huguenot Diaspora	1685-1700	France	Netherlands, Britain, Prussia, Americas	200,000-400,000	Revocation of Edict of Nantes
Soviet Jewish Aliyah	1989-2006	USSR/post-Soviet states	Israel, US, Germany	1.6 million to Israel	Fall of USSR, freedom to emigrate
Rohingya Exodus	2017	Myanmar (Rakhine)	Bangladesh	742,000+	Military persecution, ethnic cleansing
Afghan Refugee Waves	1979-present	Afghanistan	Pakistan, Iran, Europe	6 million+ cumulative	Soviet invasion, civil war, Taliban

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