Talk:Jamaican diaspora

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Untitled 1[edit]

Those numbers seem very inaccurate. I live in Toronto and i KNOW there isn't 220,000 Jamaicans living there based on the stats. There has to be sources for this article. Blackjays1 11:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sourced. The 2006 Canadian census says there are around 160,000 people of Jamaican descent in the Toronto metro area. See article for cite. Dricherby (talk) 15:48, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled 2[edit]

I don't know why Nicaragua wasn't included in this article. 11% of Nicaraguans are West Indian/Black, of which Jamaicans constitute 9%, this is very important. I am going to add it. The CIA World Factbook and every book about Nicaragua documents that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.83.0.133 (talk) 02:19, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed. The 2008 CIA World Factbook entry for Nicaragua doesn't even mention the word "Jamaica" and says that blacks as a whole (many of whom presumably aren't Jamaican) constitute 9% of the population. Encarta's Nicaragua article mentions that there are Jamaicans in Nicaragua and, again, quotes 9% as the Africa-origin (including via the Caribbean) population as a whole. I've deleted the claim that 9% of Nicaraguans are of Jamaican origin and left the article as saying just that thre are Jamaicans in Nicaragua. If you can provide a cite, feel free to reinstate it. Dricherby (talk) 15:48, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Size of the diaspora[edit]

The numbers given are extremely dubious.

The article states that there are approximately 590,000 Jamaicans in the UK. This contradicts the Ethnic groups section of the UK article, which says that the entire black Caribbean population of the UK is only around 566,000 (sourced from the 2001 UK census, though as far as I can see the reference is only given in the UK ethnic groups article). This figure of 566,000 includes people from all Caribbean nations and the UK ethnic groups article says (without source) that around half of those (i.e., around 283,000) are of Jamaican origin.

The article stated that there are around 320,000 people of Jamaican origin in Canada. The 2006 Canadian Census says there are about 231,000 so I've updated the present article, citing that. I've also fixed the figures for Toronto and Brampton.

The article reported around 570,000 Jamaicans in the USA; the US Census Bureau reports around 737,000. Again, I've updated the article with cites. Dricherby (talk) 15:39, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed an assertion that the (unsourced) figure of approximately 150,000 Jamaican born UK residents suppsedly from the 2001 UK census is a preferable figure to the current one provided. It should be remembered that, unlike the US or Canadian data, the UK census asks only about foreign-born residents, not about those who identify ethnically as Jamaican (who would mostly come under a broader demographic division of Black Carribean in UK ethnological data). It thus doesn't provide any useful information about the size of the Jamaican diaspora in the UK, since it fails to take into account ANY of the British Citizens of Jamaican origin born in the UK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.108.110.95 (talk) 01:27, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why?[edit]

Why are they leaving? 84.13.96.80 (talk) 04:54, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. This articles opening sentence says they were "forced" but there is nothing to support this. Is diaspora even the correct word? If they were economic migrants then this may not be the best definition.--Sstreet81 (talk) 08:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

US Jamaican numbers[edit]

As far as I can make out the source linked to says there were 736,000 people identifying as of Jamaican origin in the US, but the figure in the article keeps being changed to over 900,000 - am I missing something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.108.58.227 (talk) 05:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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“Other Countries”[edit]

As is usual in discussions on the Jamaican diaspora, the focus is only on the North American and UK variety. Those who migrated earlier to countries like Costa Rica, Cuba and Nicaragua are totally ignored or briefly mentioned under “Other Countries” as if they are not worth any consideration or are regarded as a lesser type of diaspora. This is disgraceful. At least the article to integrate some of the information found in entries such as the one on Afro-Costa Ricans. Nigel Durrant (talk) 13:57, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]