Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Haitian Americans (French: Haïtiens-Américains; Haitian Creole: ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent. The largest colony of Haitian citizens in the United States live in Little Haiti to the South Florida area.
Immigration from Haiti to Quebec started in 1963. [22] Haitian settlement in Montreal increased about 40 percent between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, rising from 55.1 percent in 1968 to 92.9 percent in 1973. [22] The early Haitian immigrants, those who came between 1960 and 1970, were usually from the Haitian elite.
They arrived 50 years ago, fleeing dictatorship and death. Along the treacherous, three-week ocean journey, the seafaring Haitian asylum seekers traded their shoes for food and water in Cuba, and ...
Haitian immigrants concentrated in south Florida, who came fleeing economic and political instability, have risen to fill numerous seats in city and county commissions, the state legislature and ...
Little Haiti (French: La Petite Haïti, Haitian Creole: Ti Ayiti), [1] [2] is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. It is known historically as Lemon City, Little River and Edison. It is home to Haitian immigrant residents, as well as residents from the rest of the Caribbean.
The potential for a surge of Haitians arriving in South Florida after fleeing gang violence stirs memories of an earlier time when migrants fled political persecution in Haiti under the ...
Main Menu. News. News
Haitian boat people are refugees from Haiti who flee the country by boat, usually to South Florida [1] and sometimes the Bahamas. The first reports of refugees fleeing Haiti by boat to the United States began in 1972. [2] In the 1980 Mariel boatlift, many Haitian boat people joined the exodus from Cuba to take refuge in the United States. [3]