Editing Sikhs (section)

=== Migration ===
Sikh migration from [[British India]] began in earnest during the second half of the 19th century, when the British completed their annexation of the Punjab, which led to Sikh migration throughout India and the [[British Empire]]. During the Raj, semiskilled Sikh artisans were transported from the Punjab to [[British East Africa]] to help build railroads. Sikhs emigrated from India after World War II, most going to the [[Sikhism in United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] but many also to North America. Some Sikhs who had settled in eastern Africa were expelled by Ugandan dictator [[Idi Amin]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia
| title = Sikhism
| encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica
| year = 2007
| id = http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-253167/Sikhism }}</ref> Economics is a major factor in Sikh migration and significant communities exist in the United Kingdom, the United States, [[Malaysia]], [[East Africa]], [[Sikhism in Australia|Australia]], [[Singapore]] and [[Thailand]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

After the [[Partition of India]] in 1947, many Sikhs from what would become the [[Punjab of Pakistan]] migrated to India as well as to [[Afghanistan]] due to fear of persecution. Afghanistan was home to hundreds of thousands of Sikhs and Hindus as of the 1970s, but due to the wars in Afghanistan in the 2010s, the vast majority of Afghan Sikhs had migrated to India, Pakistan or the west.<ref>{{cite web|title=Afghan Sikhs are targeted by the Taliban and unable to even bury their dead |publisher=The Week|date=12 November 2019|url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2019/11/02/afghan-sikhs-are-targeted-by-the-taliban-and-unable-to-even-bury-their-dead.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nearly 99% Of Hindus, Sikhs Left Afghanistan in Last Three decades  |publisher=TOLOnews|date=20 June 2016|url=https://tolonews.com/afghanistan/nearly-99-hindus-sikhs-left-afghanistan-last-three-decades}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Little reason to migrate to India, say Afghan Sikhs|publisher=AA|date=17 December 2019|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/little-reason-to-migrate-to-india-say-afghan-sikhs/1675903}}</ref>

Although the rate of Sikh migration from the Punjab has remained high, traditional patterns of Sikh migration favouring English-speaking countries (particularly the United Kingdom) have changed during the past decade due to stricter immigration laws. Moliner (2006) wrote that as a consequence of Sikh migration to the UK becoming "virtually impossible since the late 1970s," migration patterns evolved to continental Europe.<ref name="Moliner">{{Cite book|last=Moliner|first=Christine|url=http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/lau/IMG/rtf/Abstracts.rtf|title=Migration Patterns – Workshop on Indian Migration|publisher=Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Urbaine/CNRS|year=2006|place=Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)|pages=abstract|no-pp=true|contribution=Sikhs in France|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117150414/http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/lau/IMG/rtf/Abstracts.rtf|archive-date=17 November 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> Italy is a rapidly growing destination for Sikh migration,<ref>{{cite journal
 |last    = Ciprani
 |first   = Ralph
 |title   = Sikh Storia e immigrazione – The Sikhs: History and Immigration
 |journal = International Sociology
 |volume  = 21
 |pages   = 474–476
 |date    = 14 May 2006
 |doi     = 10.1177/026858090602100331
 |issue   = 3
 |s2cid = 144768462
 |df      = dmy-all
}}</ref> with [[Reggio Emilia]] and [[Vicenza]] having significant Sikh population clusters.<ref name="Italy">{{cite news
| last = IANS
| title = Now, Sikhs Do a Canada in Italy
| publisher = NRIinternet
| date = 15 September 2004
| url = http://www.nriinternet.com/EUROPE/ITALY/2004/111604Gurdwara.htm
| access-date = 4 April 2008}}</ref> Italian Sikhs are generally involved in [[agriculture]], agricultural processing, the manufacture of machine tools and [[horticulture]].<ref>{{cite news
| last = Singh
| first = Kulwinder
| title = Italy may open VISA office in Chandigarh very soon
| publisher = NRIinternet
| date = 11 August 2007
| url = http://www.nriinternet.com/EUROPE/ITALY/2007/0701_Visa_office_in_Chandigarh.htm
| access-date = 4 April 2008
}}</ref>