中国新疆维吾尔族群的跨国过程及其分布和动因

从新疆的情形来看，维吾尔族较大规模的迁徙从10世纪末继续到20世纪的60年代，大致可分为六个阶段。维吾尔族在国外的分布主要以中亚、西亚、南亚最为集中，约占所有国外维吾尔族人数的80％。国外维吾尔族人在中亚约有54万，西亚约21万，南亚约8万，西方发达国家约10万，总计已近100万。政治、经济和宗教原因是维吾尔族人跨国迁徙的主要动因。

On the Cross-national Habitation and Distribution of the Uygur Nationality

As for Xinjiang, the large-scale Uygur immigration from 10th century to the 1960s can be divided into six stages. Uygur nationality mainly live in central Asia, Western Asia and Southern Asia and takes up 80% of the Uygur population living in foreign countries. The Uygur Population amounts to 540,000 in Central Asia, 210,000 in West Asia, 80,000 in South Asia, 100,000 in Western countries, 1 million in total. Political, economic and religious motives are the major reason for their immigration.