

Why We Exist
The Last Generation: When Ancient Communities Begin to Disappear
Humanity is in the midst of a historic displacement. While only 281 million people, about 3.6% of the global population, live outside their country of birth, that small percentage includes many of the world’s most vulnerable cultures. For countless ethnic and religious minorities, the “homeland” is no longer a physical place on a map; it is a memory. In just the past 30 years, ancient communities that endured for centuries have seen their populations collapse by as much as 90%.
Project Diaspora Expeditions documents this tipping point as it unfolds. We bring curious travelers to experience this diaspora divide: those who stay to safeguard what remains of their heritage, and those who leave to rebuild it in unfamiliar lands, navigating globalization, assimilation, and the quiet erosion of identity.
We focus on diaspora communities in their final generation, before they are fully absorbed or fade from existence. This is not about monuments or distant history. We bring travelers to the frontlines to encounter the people still sustaining identity, tradition, and memory against the odds.

Former site of Kosovo Synagogue
Pristina, Kosovo

Jewish Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria

Unexpected antique menorahs
Tripoli, Libya

El Ghriba Synagogue (oldest in Africa)
Djerba, Tunisia