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With an estimated figure of 15 million citizens living abroad for an inside population of 4 million, Lebanon is one of the only countries to have more citizens living outside its boundaries. Migration has long been a tradition for the Lebanese, starting as early as the Phoenicians who sailed the seas.

Lebanese immigration to Brazil began officially in around 1880, four years after the visit of Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II to Lebanon. Most of the immigrants came escaping the lack of economic perspectives of the region, then dominated by the Turkish and Ottoman policy.
 

Brazil, at the time, was going through its first phase of urbanization and industrialisation, a fact that made new business possible. Different from the European immigrants, who were looking for land to farm in Brazil, the Lebanese found in the cities the right place to establish industries and locations for trade...

By definition diaspora is a dispersion of people from their original homeland, likewise expatriation , extradition, migration , separation or displacement . We in Lebanon added a new word to the above mentioned synonyms which is (extraction) sooner you will see how we were rightful in using such a meaningfull word.