Mexicans in the United Kingdom

Mexican Britons
Británico Mexicanos

File:Ernesto.Cantu.wikJPG.JPGFile:DhaniHarrisonwithOlivia.jpg Ernesto Cantu, Dhani Harrison
Regions with significant populations
London, Midlands, South East England, North West England
Languages
English (British English, American English) Spanish (Mexican Spanish), Spanglish
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Mexican people • Latin American Briton • Spanish Briton • Hispanic • Latino • Mexican diaspora

A Mexican Briton (Spanish: Mexicano Británico) is a person of Mexican ancestry living in the United Kingdom (born and/or raised in the UK), they can be either British citizens or non-citizen immigrants. The Mexican British community is a fairly small compared to other British ethnic groups but a rapidly growing one, like many other Latin American communities. Mexicans only began to emmerge in the UK in the late 20th Century, and the vast majority of them reside in London, although there many other communities across the UK.

Population

According to the 2001 UK Census, a meer 5,000 Mexican born people were living in the UK, representing just over 8% of the UK's Latin American born community, considering most recent estimates of 700,000 to 1 million ethnically Latin American people in the UK, there are likely to be between 55,000 and 80,000 Mexican Britons. Also worth of notes is that some 20,000 Mexican Americans also live in the UK. These numbers could be seen as overestimates or underestimates, but it is hard to tell how many Mexican people actually live in the UK, due to the fact that stating Mexican ancestry was not an option in the 2001 Census, and due to the fact that in around a decade, the Latin American British population has soared to around one million.

Mexican British Relations

• The Embassy of Mexico in London[1]
• The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Mexico City[2], the Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Mexico is Giles Paxman

• Currently no Mexican settlements are twinned with British settlements.

• Direct Flights between Mexico and the United Kingdom include:

Airport	LHR	LGW	STN	MAN	BHX	EMA	GLA	BRS	BFS	NCL
MEX	BA
ACA				BY	BY				BY
CUN		BY, ZB, DP, MT		BY, DP, MT	BY	DP	DP, MT	DP	MT	BY, ZB
CZM		DP		DP
HUX
PVR		DP		DP

• 
  The Mexican Embassy in London
• 
  The British Embassy in Mexico City

Notable Mexican Britons

• Paloma Baeza, Actress
• Ernesto Cantu, Actor & voice artist
• Nery Castillo, Footballer
• Liliana Domínguez, Model
• Iliana Fox, Actress
• Vivian Gray, Actress
• Dhani Harrison, Musician
• Hilda Paredes, Composer
• Rebaque, Formula One entrant and constructor
• Azela Robinson, Actress
• Giovani dos Santos, Footballer
• Juan Solari, Actor
• Rhiannon Thomas, Singer & actress

See Also

• Mexican people
• Mestizos
• Amerindians
• Spanish people
• Spanish Briton
• Latin American Briton
• Mexican American
• Hispanics
• Hispanic British
• Hispanic American British
• Latinos
• Chicanos
• Americans in Britain

External Links

• UK Mexican Society
• Manchester Mexican Society
• Mexican food in London
• Mexicans in London community forum
• Life of Mexicans in London