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class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Mauritius.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/250px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/375px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/500px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Mauritius" title="Flag of Mauritius">Flag of Mauritius</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> <b>1.6 million</b><br /><small>(Mauritian ancestry and citizenship worldwide)</small></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span data-sort-value="Mauritius"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Mauritius.svg/45px-Flag_of_Mauritius.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">1.3 million<sup id="cite_ref-pop_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pop-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span data-sort-value="United Kingdom"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">43,000 (2020 estimate)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UN_UK_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN_UK-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-Migration_Observatory_UK_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Migration_Observatory_UK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span data-sort-value="Australia"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/60px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">16,229<sup id="cite_ref-Présentation_de_Maurice_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Présentation_de_Maurice-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-amasydney.net_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amasydney.net-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mauritian_Australians_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mauritian_Australians-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Presentation_of_Mauritius_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Presentation_of_Mauritius-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Présentation_de_Maurice_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Présentation_de_Maurice-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span data-sort-value="Canada"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">15,900<sup id="cite_ref-pop5_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pop5-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span data-sort-value="South Africa"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/40px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/60px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">14,043<sup id="cite_ref-pop6_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pop6-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span data-sort-value="Belgium"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/40px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/60px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">6,097<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · 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dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mauritian_creole" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian creole">Mauritian creole</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">Indian languages</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_China" title="Languages of China">Chinese languages</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Predominantly: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Om.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Om.svg/18px-Om.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Om.svg/27px-Om.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Om.svg/36px-Om.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> 47.9%<br />Minority: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Latin_Cross.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Latin_Cross.svg/20px-Latin_Cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Latin_Cross.svg/40px-Latin_Cross.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="400" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> 32.3%<br />Minority: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Star_and_Crescent.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Star_and_Crescent.svg/20px-Star_and_Crescent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Star_and_Crescent.svg/40px-Star_and_Crescent.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="249" data-file-height="216" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> 18.2%<br />Minority: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritius" title="Religion in Mauritius">Others</a> / <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">none</a> 1.6%</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mauritians</b> (singular <b>Mauritian</b>; <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Mauricien</i>; <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_Creole" title="Mauritian Creole">Creole</a>: <i>Morisien</i>) are <a href="/wiki/Nationality" title="Nationality">nationals</a> or natives of the <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Republic of Mauritius</a> and their descendants. Mauritius is a melting pot of <a href="/wiki/Multiracial" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiracial">multi-ethnic</a>, multi-cultural and multi-religious peoples. Mauritian is made up of blended groups of people who come mainly from <a href="/wiki/South_Asian" class="mw-redirect" title="South Asian">South Asian</a> (notably <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a>), <a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">African</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mauritian_of_African_origin" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian of African origin">Mozambique, Madagascar and Zanzibar</a>), <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> (White/European Mauritians), and <a href="/wiki/Mauritians_of_Chinese_origin" title="Mauritians of Chinese origin">Chinese</a> descent, as well as those of a <a href="/wiki/Multiracial_people" title="Multiracial people">mixed background</a> from any combination of the aforementioned ethnic groups. Creol-Mauritian is the blending of the different cultures; this is why it is complex to define Creol-Mauritian. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mauritians&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mauritian <a href="/wiki/Creole_peoples" title="Creole peoples">Creoles</a> trace their origins to the plantation owners and slaves who were brought to work the sugar fields. When <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius. <a href="/wiki/Indenture" title="Indenture">Indentured</a> labour began with Indian, Chinese, Malay, African and Malagasy labourers, but ultimately, it was India which supplied the much needed labourers to Mauritius, mainly sugar cane workers. This period of intensive use of Indian labour took place during <a href="/wiki/British_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="British rule">British rule</a>, with many brutal episodes and a long struggle by the indentured for respect. The term applied to the indentured during this period, and which has since become a derogatory term for Mauritians of Asian descent, was <a href="/wiki/Coolie" title="Coolie">coolie</a>. The island soon became the key-point in the trade of indentured labourers, as thousands of Indians set forth from <a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a> or <a href="/wiki/Karikal" class="mw-redirect" title="Karikal">Karikal</a>; not only did they modify the social, political and economic physiognomies of the island, but some also went farther, to the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Indo-Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Mauritian">Indo-Mauritians</a> are descended from Indian immigrants who arrived in the 19th century via the <a href="/wiki/Aapravasi_Ghat" title="Aapravasi Ghat">Aapravasi Ghat</a> in order to work as indentured labourers after slavery was abolished in 1835. Included in the Indo-Mauritian community are <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindus</a> (48.5% of the Mauritian population) and <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> (17.2%) from the Indian subcontinent. The <a href="/wiki/Franco-Mauritians" title="Franco-Mauritians">Franco-Mauritian</a> elite controlled nearly all of the large sugar estates and was active in business and banking. As the Indian population became numerically dominant after independence from British rule and the voting franchise was extended, political and economic power shifted from the Franco-Mauritians and their Creole allies to the Indo-Mauritians. </p><p>The meeting of a mosaic of people from Europe, India, Africa and China began a process of hybridisation and <a href="/wiki/Intercultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Intercultural">intercultural</a> frictions and dialogues, which poet <a href="/wiki/Khal_Torabully" title="Khal Torabully">Khal Torabully</a> has termed "coolitude".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This social reality is a major reference for <a href="/wiki/Cultural_identity" title="Cultural identity">identity</a> opened to <a href="/wiki/Alterity" title="Alterity">otherness</a> and is widely used in <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a> where it represents a <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanism</a> of <a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">diversity</a>. </p><p>Subsequent to a Constitutional amendment in 1982, there is no need for Mauritians to reveal their ethnic identities for the purpose of population census. Official statistics on ethnicity are not available. The 1972 census was the last one to measure ethnicity.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Mauritius" title="Statistics Mauritius">Statistics Mauritius</a> compiles data on religious affiliation every ten years during census. <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics_of_Mauritius">Demographics of Mauritius</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mauritians&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Demographics of Mauritius"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Mauritius" title="Demographics of Mauritius">Demographics of Mauritius</a></div> <div class="barbox tleft" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Ethnic groups of Mauritius</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"><b>Ethnic group</b><sup id="cite_ref-CIA_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"><b>Percent of population</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Indo-Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Mauritian">Indo-Mauritian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:67%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">67%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Mauritian_Creole_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian Creole people">Creoles</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:28%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">28%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Sino-Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Sino-Mauritian">Sino-Mauritian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">3%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Franco-Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Mauritian">Franco-Mauritian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Ethnic groups of Mauritius<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Ethnic group </th> <th>% of population </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mauritians_of_Indian_origin" title="Mauritians of Indian origin">Indo-Mauritians</a> </td> <td>67% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mauritian_of_African_origin" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian of African origin">Afro-Mauritians</a> </td> <td>28% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sino-Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Sino-Mauritian">Sino-Mauritians</a> </td> <td>3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Franco-Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Mauritian">Franco-Mauritians</a> </td> <td>2% </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mauritian_diaspora">Mauritian diaspora</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mauritians&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mauritian diaspora"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_diaspora_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Mauritian diaspora in the United Kingdom">Mauritian diaspora in the United Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_diaspora_in_France" title="Mauritian diaspora in France">Mauritian diaspora in France</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_diaspora_in_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian diaspora in Australia">Mauritian diaspora in Australia</a></div> <p>The Mauritian diaspora consists of Mauritian <a href="/wiki/Emigration" title="Emigration">emigrants</a> and their descendants in various countries around the world, mainly Great Britain (<a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>), <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, New Zealand, Canada, France, Ireland and Belgium. </p><p>Given the island's importance for international shipping routes and limited opportunities locally, Mauritian Creole people settled internationally before some of these countries were founded as nations. 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