Asian Caribbean people

Asian Caribbeans

Total population
2,500,000+
Languages
Colonial Languages: English Spanish French Dutch Portuguese Asian Languages: Caribbean Hindustani Standard Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) Tamil Sindhi Gujarati Kutchi Punjabi Bengali Telugu Modern Standard Hindi other South Asian languages Chinese Hakka Javanese Japanese Tagalog Thai Hmong Korean Arabic
Religion
Predominantly: Hinduism Islam Buddhism Chinese folk religions (including Confucianism and Taoism) Christianity Other Minority: Shinto Sikhism Jainism Zoroastrianism Judaism Baháʼí
Related ethnic groups
Asian people Asian Americans Asian Canadians British Asians Asian Africans Asian Brazilians Asian Caymanians

Asian Caribbeans are people who live in the Caribbean, but were born in Asia or are descended from people who were born in Asia.

The Asian Caribbean populations were the result of indentured labourers that were brought here to work in mines, sugar plantations, etc. after the abolition of slavery.

Sub-Groups

• Chinese Caribbeans
• Indo-Caribbeans
• Japanese Caribbeans

External links

• South Asians in the Caribbean: a bibliography