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*During the 2011 revolution, 768,362 immigrants fled Libya as calculated by the IOM, around 13% of the population at the time, although many more stayed on in the country. | *During the 2011 revolution, 768,362 immigrants fled Libya as calculated by the IOM, around 13% of the population at the time, although many more stayed on in the country. | ||
*Moving to reduce Italian influence, in October 1970 all Italian-owned assets were expropriated and the '''12,000-strong Italian community was expelled from Libya alongside the smaller community of Libyan Jews.''' . | *Moving to reduce Italian influence, in October 1970 all Italian-owned assets were expropriated and the '''12,000-strong Italian community was expelled from Libya alongside the smaller community of Libyan Jews.''' . | ||
*'''Turkey''' recorded the evacuation of 25,000 workers during the 2011 uprising. | *'''Turkey''' recorded the evacuation of 25,000 workers during the 2011 uprising.<ref name="lib"/> | ||
*'''KNOMAD Statistics:''' Emigrants: 146,800. Top destination countries: '''Italy, the United Kingdom, Israel, Vietnam, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Algeria, Turkey, Côte d’Ivoire, Canada, Germany''' | |||
'''KNOMAD Statistics:''' | <ref>"Libya", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=13, accessed August 2021</ref> | ||
<ref>"Libya", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, ,accessed August 2021</ref> | |||
==Records of Libya Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Libya Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||