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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 moment of migration in the 1980s and 1990s.
Jamaican people of Chinese origin and their descendants. Pages in category "Jamaican people of Chinese descent" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Imported as a low-wage 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 workers initially went to British Guiana; however when importation ended in 1879, the population declined steadily, mostly due to emigration ...
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Jamaicans are the citizens of Jamaica and their descendants in the Jamaican diaspora. The vast majority of Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African descent, with minorities of Europeans , Indians , Chinese , Middle Eastern , and others of mixed ancestry.
During the 1960s and 1970s, substantial migration of Jamaican Hakkas to the US and Canada occurred. [6] [7] Most Chinese Jamaicans are Hakka; they have a long history in Jamaica. Between 1854 and 1884, nearly 5000 Hakkas arrived in Jamaica in three major voyages, with some of them subsequently going to the United States.
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Diplomatic relations between China and Jamaica were established on 21 November 1972. [1] The Chinese government established an embassy in Kingston in 1973. [1] There was no formal representation from Jamaica to China until 1992, when the Jamaican ambassador to Tokyo, Japan was accredited as a non-resident ambassador to Beijing. [1]