The forced dispersion of jews from their ethnic homeland, which took place across many centuries, is a prominent example of

The answer is "diaspora".

A diaspora is a scattered populace whose starting point lies in a different geographic area. specifically, Diaspora has come to allude to automatic mass scatterings of a populace from its indigenous domains, most strikingly the removal of Jews from Judea and the escaping of Greeks after the fall of Constantinople.