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Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry. The largest proportions of Jamaican Americans live in South Florida and New York City, both of which have been home to large Jamaican communities since the 1950s and the 1960s.
In the late 20th and early 21st century close to a million [8] Jamaicans have emigrated, especially to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.Though this emigration appears to have been tapering off somewhat in recent years, the great number of Jamaicans living abroad has become known as the "Jamaican diaspora".
Many Jamaicans now live overseas and outside Jamaica, while many have migrated to Anglophone countries, including over 400,000 Jamaicans in the United Kingdom, over 300,000 in Canada and 1,100,000 in the United States. [23]
Caribbean immigration to New York City has been prevalent since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. [1] This immigration wave has seen large numbers of people from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, among others, come to New York City in the 20th and 21st centuries.
There are 38,980 foreign-born Jamaican people in New York City according to the 2009-2011 ACS. Jamaicans currently make up 2.0% of New York City's population and 5.5% of New York's foreign-born population. [1] Foreign-born Jamaicans have are concentrated in central and eastern Brooklyn, southeast Queens, and northern Bronx. [2]
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Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominantly African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. [2]The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican people stemmed from the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century, when enslaved Africans were transported as slaves to Jamaica and other parts of the Americas. [3]
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