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    Muslim Migrants

    The main regional destinations for Muslims are different from their origins. About a third of Muslim migrants have gone to Europe, while less than 10% of Muslim migrants have come from Europe. At the same time, nearly half of Muslim migrants have come from the Asia-Pacific region, where only about one-in-five Muslim migrants have moved. […]

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    Overview of Migrants’ Origins and Destinations

    This report begins where all international migrants begin – in their home countries. More than 77 million migrants, or about 36% of the worldwide total, have come from the 10 leading origin countries. Overall, Mexico has been the largest single source of migrants (12.9 million), followed closely by India (11.8 million) and Russia (11.3 million). […]

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    Jewish Migrants

    While a majority of Jewish migrants have come from Europe, more than three-quarters of those alive today have moved to the Middle East-North Africa region, almost entirely to Israel. In terms of individual countries, Russia has been the largest source of living Jewish migrants (more than 700,000), followed by Ukraine (about 300,000). Many of the […]

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    Hindu Migrants

    The leading regional destination for Hindus is the same as their top region of origin: About six-in-ten Hindu migrants have moved to countries in the Asia-Pacific region, where more than nine-in-ten originate. There has been substantial movement between the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. But substantial numbers of Hindus […]

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    Migrants of Other Religions

    Adherents of other faiths (including Sikhs, Jains, followers of traditional Chinese religions and many smaller religious groups) have gone primarily to countries in the Asia-Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa, where most also originate. The origins of these migrants reflect the geographic distribution of the largest remaining religious groups. China (2 million) is the No. 1 […]

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    Appendix A: Destination Spotlights

    Spotlight on the United States The United States is often described as “a nation of immigrants,” a phrase coined by John F. Kennedy in an essay written in 1958 when he was the junior senator from Massachusetts.8 As the future president wrote, “This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh […]

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    Preface

    People are on the move, and so are their faiths. The total number of international migrants living around the world has grown substantially over the past 50 years, climbing from about 80 million people (or 2.6% of the world’s population) in 1960 to about 214 million (or roughly 3% of the world’s population) in 2010, […]

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    Appendix B: Methodology and the Construction of the Global Religion and Migration Database (GRMD)

    Conceptual Framework The religion of international migrants has been investigated in many parts of the world (for research reviews see Cadge and Ecklund 2007, Ebaugh 2003, and Koenig 2005).21 But most studies have focused on particular religious groups in specific destination countries, such as Catholic immigrants in the U.S. or Muslim immigrants in the United […]

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    Table: Estimated Percentage of Emigrants by Region

    .footnotes p{ color: #58585B;font-size: 1.2em !important; } td:nth-child(2){ border-right:1px solid #ccc; } td{ padding: 8px 5px !important; width:12%; } Display: Number | Percentage View By: Religious Affiliation | Region From / Origin country Total number of migrants To North America To Latin America, Caribbean To Asia-Pacific To Europe To Middle East-North Africa To Sub-Saharan Africa […]

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