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Afro-Guyanese face challenges to private sector involvement, such as access to financing. [13] In politics, Afro-Guyanese make up a large portion of A Partnership for National Unity party voters. [14] In 2017, a United Nations expert group determined that Afro-Guyanese face discrimination in law enforcement, employment, and education. [15]
Although citizens make up the majority of Guyanese, there is a substantial number of Guyanese expatriates, dual citizens and descendants living worldwide, chiefly elsewhere in the Anglosphere. Located on the northern coast of South America, Guyana is part of the main land Caribbean which is part of the historical British West Indies.
An average of 6,080 people a year emigrated from Guyana between 1969 and 1976, increasing to an average of 14,400 between 1976 and 1981. [3] [4] Many of the first Guyanese immigrants to the United States were of African descent. They were women who were recruited as domestic workers or nursing assistants. [5]
Within the West Indies context, the word is used only for one type of mixed race people: Afro-Indians. [2] The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. [3]
Groups can be based on ethnicity (such as Hispanics, Irish, Germans, etc.), race (White people, Black people, Asian Americans, etc.) or religion (Protestant and later Evangelical or Catholic, etc.) or on overlapping categories (e.g. Irish Catholics). In the Southern United States, race was the determining factor.
Guyana portal; Religion portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C. Guyanese Christians (5 C, 3 P) H. Guyanese Hindus ...
Guyanese people by religion (4 C)-People by city in Guyana (3 C) People from Guyana by region (9 C) * Lists of Guyanese people (1 C, 3 P) +
American people of Guyanese descent (3 C, 66 P) Pages in category "Guyanese diaspora in the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.