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===Emigration from Jamaica=== | ===Emigration from Jamaica=== | ||
*It was estimated in 2004 that up to 2.5 million Jamaicans and Jamaican descendants live abroad. | |||
*After a slave rebellion in 1795–96, many '''Maroons''' from the Maroon town of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) were expelled to '''Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone'''. | *After a slave rebellion in 1795–96, many '''Maroons''' from the Maroon town of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) were expelled to '''Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone'''. | ||
* | *Many Jamaicans have emigrated to other countries, especially to the '''United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada'''. *In the case of the United States, about 20,000 Jamaicans per year are granted permanent residence. | ||
*There has also been emigration of Jamaicans to other Caribbeans countries such as '''Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guyana, and The Bahamas'''. | |||
*Jamaicans in the '''United Kingdom''' number an estimated 800,000 making them by far the country's largest African-Caribbean group. Large-scale migration from Jamaica to the UK occurred primarily in the 1950s and 1960s when the country was still under British rule. Jamaican communities exist in most large UK cities. | |||
*Concentrations of expatriate Jamaicans are quite considerable in numerous cities in the '''United States''', including '''New York City, Buffalo, the Miami metro area, Atlanta, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Hartford, Providence and Los Angeles'''. | |||
*In '''Canada''', the Jamaican population is '''centered in Toronto, with smaller communities in cities such as Hamilton, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa'''. Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population. | |||
*A notable though much smaller group of emigrants are Jamaicans in '''Ethiopia'''. These are mostly Rastafarians, in whose theological worldview Africa is the promised land, or "Zion", or more specifically Ethiopia. Most live in the small town of Shashamane about 150 miles (240 km) south of the capital Addis Ababa. | |||
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==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||