The Chechen diaspora () is a term used to collectively describe the communities of Chechen people who live outside of Chechnya; this includes Chechens who live in other parts of Russia. There are also significant Chechen populations in other subdivisions of Russia (especially in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Moscow Oblast).
Outside Russia, Chechens are mainly descendants of people who had to leave Chechnya during the 19th century Caucasian War (which led to the annexation of Chechnya by the Russian Empire) and the 1944 Stalinist deportation to the Soviet Central Asia in the case of Kazakhstan. More recently, tens of thousands of Chechen refugees settled in the European Union and elsewhere as the result of the First and Second Chechen Wars, especially in the wave of emigration to the West after 2002.Chechnya's Exodus to Europe, North Caucasus Weekly Volume: 9 Issue: 3, The Jamestown Foundation, January 24, 2008
Geography
Statistics by country Country Official figures % Current est. Chechen population Further information (2021 census) — (1965 census, Chechen speakers)Heinz Kloss & Grant McConnel, Linguistic composition of the nations of the world, vol,5, Europe and USSR, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1984, Approx. Kristiina Markkanen: Chechen refugee came to Finland via Baku and Istanbul Chechens in Turkey approx. Yahoo! News | French police face worst nightmare: an attacker they never saw coming Chechens in France (2013 annual statistics)Қазақстан Республикасы Статистика агенттігі. ҚАЗАҚСТАННЫҢ ЭТНОДЕМОГРАФИЯЛЫҚ ЖЫЛНАМАЛЫҒЫ ЭТНОДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ЕЖЕГОДНИК КАЗАХСТАНА 2013 — — approx. 30.000 Tschetschenen leben in Österreich Chechens in Austria approx. — approx. Chechens in Jordan approx. 50,000 — approx. Chechens in the Middle East: Between Original and Host Cultures , Event Report, Caspian Studies Program — approx. Chechens in Syria (2001 census) — — (2009 census) — — (2002 census) — — (1989 census) — — approx. — approx. — (2017 annual statistics, Chechen speakers) — — (1989 census) — — (2011 census) — — (2023 statistics)Latvijas iedzīvotāju sadalījums pēc nacionālā sastāva un valstiskās piederības (Inhabitants of Latvia by ethnic composition and citizenship status (01.01.2023.) | Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs - PMLP — — (2004 census) — — (1989 census) — —
See also Chechen refugees Chechen Americans
References
External links Refugees and Diaspora (Chechnya Advocacy Network)