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Partition of India: population transfers and refugee crises (1947–1950)

1947 - 1950

Partition of India and Pakistan migrations and refugee movements (1947–1951)

1947 - 1951

Palestinian Nakba and Palestinian refugee dispersal (1947–1949)

1947 - 1949

North African labor migration to France after Algerian independence (1954–1975)

1945 - 1975

Nicaraguan refugee movements during the Sandinista-Contra era (1978–1990)

1978 - 1990

New Great Migration: Black Return to the South (1970s–present)

1965 - 2021

Migrant labor in the United Arab Emirates' construction boom (1971–1990)

1971 - 1990

Mechanization of Southern Agriculture and Rural Displacement (1930–1960)

1930 - 1960

Maroon communities and escape networks in the Caribbean and Brazil (16th–19th centuries)

1550 - 1850

Los Angeles — African American Migration to the West Coast (1940–1970)

1940 - 1970

Latter-day Saint emigration from Britain to Utah (1840s–1890s)

1846 - 1894

Labor migration to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf during the oil boom (1960s–1980s)

1960 - 1989

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