Reasons For Emigration
Reasons for emigration from Jamaica during the major periods of Jamaican diaspora were job opportunities aimed at Jamaicans in the UK in post-war reconstruction in the 1940s, rising crime following the country's independence in 1962, slow economic growth and racial tension between the increasingly vulnerable white Jamaican minority and the newly empowered black Jamaican majority. Ample immigration opportunities in Canada, the USA and the UK also helped, providing Jamaicans with a thriving community of their kinsmen to join.
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