Chinese Caribbean

Chinese Caribbean

Notable people of Chinese-Caribbean descent: Fulgencio Batista • Anya Ayoung-Chee • Alfredo Abon Lee Vincent "Randy" Chin • Wifredo Lam • Sean Paul Kirk Acevedo • Clive Chin • Bunny Lee
Regions with significant populations
Cuba 114,240  Suriname 70,000  Jamaica 70,000  Dominican Republic 15,000  Trinidad and Tobago 3,800  Guyana 2,722
Languages
Colonial Languages: English (Guyanese · Jamaican · Trinidadian) · Spanish · French · Dutch Chinese Languages: Mandarin · Cantonese · Hokkien
Religion
Christianity · Buddhism · Taoism · Atheism · Agnosticism
Related ethnic groups
Overseas Chinese

Chinese Caribbeans are people of Chinese ethnic origin living in the Caribbean. There are small but significant populations of Chinese and their descendants in all countries of the Greater Antilles. They are all part of the large Chinese diaspora known as Overseas Chinese.

Sub-Groups

Caribbean Islands:

• Chinese Cuban
• Ethnic Chinese in the Dominican Republic
• Chinese Haitian
• Chinese Jamaican
• Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico
• Chinese Trinidadian and Tobagonian

Mainland Caribbean:

• Chinese Guyanese
• Chinese Surinamese

Migration History

Between 1853 and 1879, 14,000 Chinese laborers were imported to the British Caribbean as part of a larger system of contract labor bound for the sugar plantations. Imported as a contract labor force from China, Chinese settled in three main locations: Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana (now Guyana), initially working on the sugar plantations. Most of the Chinese laborers initially went to British Guiana; however when importation ended in 1879, and the population declined steadily, mostly due to emigration to Trinidad and Suriname.^[1]

Chinese immigration to Cuba started in 1847 when Cantonese contract workers were brought to work in the sugar fields, bringing the religion of Buddhism with them. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers were brought in from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan during the following decades to replace and / or work alongside African slaves. After completing 8-year contracts or otherwise obtaining their freedom, some Chinese immigrants settled permanently in Cuba, although most longed for repatriation to their homeland. When the United States enacted the Chinese Exclusion Act on May 6, 1882, many Chinese in the United States fled to Puerto Rico, Cuba and other Latin American nations. They established small niches and worked in restaurants and laundries.^[2]

See also

• Caribbean Chinese cuisine
• Afro-Caribbean
• Indo-Caribbean

References

1. ^ : Chinese in the English-Speaking Caribbean
2. ^ : The Chinese Community and Santo Domingo’s Barrio Chino

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