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Saudi Arabia Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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*In November 2013, Saudi Arabia '''expelled thousands of illegal Ethiopian''' residents from the Kingdom. | *In November 2013, Saudi Arabia '''expelled thousands of illegal Ethiopian''' residents from the Kingdom. | ||
*Over 500,000 undocumented migrant workers — mostly from '''Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen''' — have been detained and deported since 2013.<ref name="for"/> | *Over 500,000 undocumented migrant workers — mostly from '''Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen''' — have been detained and deported since 2013.<ref name="for"/> | ||
===Saudi Americans=== | |||
*According to the census of 2000, 7,419 people of Saudi origin were living in the United States. In 2015, according to the American Community Survey, 96,783 Saudi-born people were living in United States. | |||
*The first Saudis who settled in the United States were '''personal ambassadors of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, D.C.''', in the mid-1940s. | |||
*After World War II, many '''Saudi students''' began to emigrate to the United States to study in its universities. However, in the 60's, when the universities of Saudi Arabia began to work, the number of Saudi students abroad started to drop. | |||
*In the 1990 census, Saudi Arabians reported living in 44 of the 50 of United States. The greatest number, 517, resided in '''California'''. There were five additional states that reported over 200 Saudi Arabians: '''Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia'''. | |||
*There are a variety of reasons why so few Saudi Arabians chose to permanently live to the United States. Among these were the '''wealth of Saudi Arabia, the religious faith and pride of Saudis''' who found it difficult to maintain an Islamic lifestyle in the United States, and a '''lack of factors motivating citizens to leave Saudi Arabia.''' | |||
*'''Political dissent and dissatisfaction with the restrictions of living in an orthodox Muslim society''' were among the factors that encouraged migration.<ref>"Saudi Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Americans, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref> | |||
===Saudi Australians=== | |||
*There are thousands of Saudis living in Australia; they can be found in all major urban centres including '''Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane;;; and make up a substantial representation in the Arab Australian community. | |||
*A significant number of Saudis are '''international students'''; each year, hundreds of Saudi students choose to study in Australian universities under the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. In 2010, their number was estimated at 10,000. | |||
*Some Saudi Australians came from Saudi Arabia as '''refugees'''; their families or the authorities wanted to persecute or murder them. The exact number of refugees emerging from Saudi Arabia are unknown. What is known is that the '''majority of those fleeing Saudi Arabia are women'''. | |||
*The number of Saudi Arabians who currently reside in Australia is estimated at 14,214: 10,519 by birth and 3,696 by ancestry. Despite Australia’s immigration law changes that took place in the 1970s, Saudi Arabian immigration to Australia did not see a spike until the early 21st Century. According data from the Australian census, 70% of Saudi Arabian immigration to Australia took place between 2006 and 2015. Of these migrants, a majority of them stay for a temporary period of time, usually for '''study or work purposes''', and return to Saudi Arabia with a '''qualification or work experience'''. <ref>"Saudi Australians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Australians, accessed 9 july 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||