Serbian diaspora

There are currently 4.5 to 5.5 million Serbs in diaspora throughout the world (those that are not constitutional peoples; like in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in this case). Serbians and Montenegrins are closely related and historic allies against the Ottoman Empire and invasions by the Turks from Turkey, but are two different regional or national groups (In 2006, Montenegro seceded from Serbia, closed the chapter of the former Yugoslavia). The Serb diaspora (commonly known as the Serbian diaspora) was the consequence of either voluntary departure, coercion and/or forced migrations or expulsions that occurred in six big waves: To the west and north, caused mostly by the Ottoman Turks.To the east (Czechoslovakia, Russia, Ukraine and across the former USSR from World War I and World War II, to until the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe by the early-1990s).To the USA for economic reasons, but Serbians also migrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South America (esp. Chile and Argentina, also see Montenegrins in Argentina).During wartime, particularly World War II and post-war political migration, predominantly into overseas countries (large waves of Serbian and other Yugoslavians into the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).Going abroad for temporary work as "guest workers" and "resident aliens" who stayed in their new homelands during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s (to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), however some Serbians returned to Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Escaping from the uncertain situation (1991-1995) caused by the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the renewal of vicious ethnic conflicts and civil war, as well as by the disastrous economic crises, which largely affected the educated or skilled labor forces (i.e. "brain drain"), increasingly migrated to Western Europe, North America and Australia/New Zealand.
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