Chinese Jamaicans

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Chinese Jamaicans
China Jamaica
Total population
5,228 (2011 census)[1]
75,000[2] (estimate)
Regions with significant populations
Jamaica: Kingston
Overseas: Toronto (Canada), New York City, South Florida (United States), England (United Kingdom)
Languages
Jamaican English, Jamaican Patois, Hakka; recent immigrants and businesspeople also speak Mandarin
Religion
Christianity (primarily Catholicism and Anglicanism) with some elements of Chinese folk religion,[3] Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Hakka people, Ethnic Chinese in Panama, Jamaican Americans, Jamaican Canadians

Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was another wave of migration in the 1980s and 1990s

References[change | change source]

  1. "2011 Census of Population & Housing, Population by sex and Ethnic Origin by Parish (P. 72)". issuu.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. Joshua Project. "Han Chinese, Haalli in Jamaica". Joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. Shibata 2006