Asian diasporas in France

Asian diasporas in France include both foreign residents and French citizens of Asian origin. French citizens of Asian descent primarily have ancestry from the former colony French Indochina (present-day Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia), as well as from China and Turkey. Other Asian ethnic groups found in France include other West Asians (such as the Lebanese), South Asians, Japanese, and Koreans.

Asian diasporas by country

Armenians

Azerbaijanis

Cambodians

The population of ethnic Khmers in France is estimated to be about 80,000 as of 2020, making the community one of the largest in the Cambodian diaspora. The Cambodian population in France has had a presence in the country dating to well before the Vietnam War and subsequent Indochina refugee crisis, unlike counterpart communities in North America and Australia.

Early Cambodian immigration to France began in the latter half of the 19th century, when Cambodia became a French protectorate. The first migrants largely consisted of students and workers belonging to the country's elite class. While most Cambodians arrived as refugees as a result of Indochina's heavy turmoil during the latter half of the 20th century, their large-scale arrival was later than other Indochinese immigrants. Although a few Cambodians were able to flee from the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975 with French assistance, a much larger influx arrived in the 1980s following the regime collapse and end of the Cambodian genocide.

Chinese

Chinese form the second largest Asian group in France after the Turks, with a population of roughly 600,000 as of 2017.