Kenyan migration to the United Kingdom
- Kenyan migration to the United Kingdom
"'Ethnic group
group=Kenyan Britons
flagicon|United Kingdomflagicon|Kenya
caption=
poptime=130,000 Kenyan Born (2001) [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/countries/html/kenya.stm BBC NEWS | UK | Born Abroad | Kenya ] ]
Ancestral Numbers Unknown
(Over 0.23% of the UK's population)
popplace= London, Leicester, South East England, East Midlands
langs=English, Swahili
rels=Christianity, Islam
related=Black British, Indian Britons
Kenyan migration to the United Kingdom has been occurring for many decades. As a result, many people in the UK were born in Kenya, or have Kenyan ancestry.
Background
Most Kenyans in the UK are ethnically South Asian Kenyans who, like those in Uganda, were forced out during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This community has a substantial cluster in Leicester and London. The most recent growth may now be coming from ethnically black African Kenyans, mirroring wider trends across the continent of economic migration to the richer industrialised nations. There are also a small number of Kenyan-born people who are the children of British civil servants based there before the end of the Empire.
Population distribution
Over 57,000 people from Kenya reside in London, 12,000 in South East London and 12,000 in the East Midlands. The Kenyan born population in the UK stood at 112,441 in 1991, and now is stands at 129,356. This increase of around 0.03% is minute compared to other immigrant groups such as Zimbabweans and Poles which have almost trebled in the last decade. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/countries/html/kenya.stm] .
Famous Britons born in Kenya
*Richard Dawkins, evolutionist and atheist
* Peter Hain, Political campaigner and former cabinet minister
* Curtis Osano - footballer for Reading F.C.
ee also
*Black British
*British Mixed
*British African-Caribbean community
References
External links
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
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