Diaspora

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20. Diaspora :

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—literally "scattering" - this term refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from their place of origin, as in the Jewish Diaspora in which the Jewish homeland of Israel was taken from then and they were "scattered" - that is they fled to other nations.

Or consider the African Diaspora in which African peoples were sold into slavery throughout the West and therefore "scattered" from their homelands.

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