Wikipedia:Trinidadian and Tobagonian British
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| Jlloyd Samuel, Lennie James, Bobby Zamora, Wiley |
| Total population |
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| Trinidadian born 2001: 21,283 * |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Throughout the UK, in particular Greater London, West Midlands and Greater Manchester |
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British African-Caribbean community, Caribbean British, Black British, Black African, Multiracial, Indo-Trinidadians, Afro-Trinidadians, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Canadians, Indian British, Asian British, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Australian |
| Footnotes |
| * The figure of 21,283 is for Trinidad and Tobago born people in the UK in 2001, and does not include any individual of Trinidad and Tobago descent not born on the islands.[1] Please note that in 2001 only 40.4% of Afro-Caribbeans in the UK were actually born in the Caribbean, 59.6% were born elsewhere (of which 57.9% of the total ethnic groups population was born in the UK)[2] |
Trinidadian and Tobagonian British people are citizens or resident of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
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History and settlement
The largest wave of Trinidadian and Tobagonian people to the UK was in the mid 20th century, when Caribbeans and people from former British Colonies were encouraged to move to the UK for work, although there was Trinidadian migration to the UK before and continues after. The UK, USA, Canada and other Anglophone countries in the Western World prove most popular for Trinidadian emigrants, due to the close language links (English being the most common language in all countries, inc. Trinidad and Tobago). The UK and Trinidad and Tobago maintain close links, especially since Trinidad and Tobago was once part of the British Empire and remains in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Demographics
Population
21,283 Trinidad and Tobago-born people were living in the UK during the 2001 Census.[1] This makes the Trinidadian British community the third largest on earth, behind that of Trinidad and Tobago itself and the Trinidadian and Tobagonian community.
The exact figures in 2009 for the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British population (including British born people of Trinidadian and Tobagonian origin) are unknown, there are however estimated to be at least 25,000 Indo-Trinidadian people in the UK.[3]
Culture and community
Music
The Empire Windrush carried almost 500 passengers from Jamaica, including Lord Kitchener, a calypso singer from Trinidad. By chance, a local newsreel company filmed him singing "London Is The Place For Me" as he got off the ship. In 2002, "London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso, 1950-1956" was finally released in Britain. The 1951 Festival of Britain brought the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TAPSO) and Roaring Lion to public attention. The smart set in Oxford and Cambridge adopted both calypso and steelband for debutante parties. In 1959, Trinidadian Claudia Jones started the Notting Hill Carnival. They brought Mighty Sparrow and others directly from Trinidad. Edric Connor had arrived in England from Trinidad in 1944. He starred in a West End musical called "Calypso" in 1948. A white Danish duo, Nina and Frederick, recorded several calypsos from 1958 to 1962, scoring in the charts. Cy Grant (from Guyana) sang a song by Lord Kitchener in the TV drama "A Man From the Sun" in 1956. It told the story of Caribbean migrants. From 1957 to 1960, Cy Grant sang calypsos on the BBC TV news programme Tonight. In 1962 English comedian Bernard Cribbins had a hit with "Gossip Calypso".
See also
- Black British
- British Mixed
- British Indo-Caribbean community
- British African-Caribbean community
- Guyanese Canadians
- Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian Canadians
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