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===Immigration to Pakistan=== | ===Immigration to Pakistan=== | ||
[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | [[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | ||
*As of 2009, '''only 2.1%''' of the population of Pakistan had foreign origins. However, the number of immigrants population in Pakistan recently grew sharply. | |||
*Immigrants from '''South Asia''' make up a growing proportion of immigrants in Pakistan. The largest immigrant group in Pakistan is '''Bangladeshis, followed by Afghans, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Indians, Sri Lankan, Burmese and Britons including a sizeable number of those of Pakistani origin'''. | |||
*Other expatriate communities in Pakistan are '''Armenians, Australians, Iranians, Turks, Iraqis, Chinese, Americans, previously Bosnian refugees, and many others'''. | |||
*Migrants from different countries of Arab world, especially '''Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, are in the thousands'''. | |||
*Nearly all illegal migrants in Pakistan are '''Muslim refugees''', and they are accepted by the local population. There is no political support or legislation to deport these refugees from Pakistan. | |||
*There were 200 settlements of '''Bengali-speaking people''' in Pakistan, of which 132 are in Karachi. They are found in various areas of Pakistan such as Thatta, Badin, Hyderabad, Tando Adam and Lahore. Experts say that the migration of both Bengalis and Burmese (Rohingya) to Pakistan started in the 1980s and continued until 1998. | |||
*Large scale '''Rohingya''' migration to Karachi made Karachi one of the largest population centres of Rohingyas in the world after Myanmar. | |||
*The '''Burmese community''' of Karachi is spread out over 60 slums in Karachi such as the Burmi Colony in Korangi, Arakanabad, Machchar colony, Bilal colony, Ziaul Haq Colony and Godhra Camp. | |||
*Thousands of '''Uyghur Muslims''' have also migrated to the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, fleeing religious and cultural persecution in Xinjiang, China.<ref>"Immigration to Pakistan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Pakistan, accessed 8 July 2021.</ref> | |||
===Emigration From Pakistan=== | ===Emigration From Pakistan=== | ||
*From 1842 to 1857, a small number of '''immigrants from Punjab, Sindh and Kashmir''' began arriving in the '''British Isles as employees of the British East India Company''', typically as lashkars and sailors in '''British port cities'''. | *From 1842 to 1857, a small number of '''immigrants from Punjab, Sindh and Kashmir''' began arriving in the '''British Isles as employees of the British East India Company''', typically as lashkars and sailors in '''British port cities'''. | ||