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Greek Bahamians (Greek: Ελληνομπαχαμιανός) are Bahamian residents of either full or partial Greek descent. Most residents, if not the entire Greek community, are the descendants of Greek labourers who came to the Bahamas in 1887 to develop the sponging industry. ==Migration history== Early Greek migrants were expert spongers from the Aegean Islands, who had lived an impoverished life as fishermen in their home country; however, after their arrival in the Bahamas, they used hired African labour and their own international connections to move up the economic chain into the middleman role. Their economic success earned them resentment from the native fishermen, leading to the growth of opposition to immigration. Families from Kalymnos later followed as bakers, restaurateurs, and shoemakers. After the death of the sponge beds due to a fungal infection, most other Greeks moved into the restaurant and hospitality industry as well, while others branched out into retailing and furniture making (thus becoming the first to manufacture furniture in the islands). Some also migrated onwards, going to Tarpon Springs, Florida, to develop the sponging trade there. However, the anti-immigrant sentiment in the Bahamas continued to grow through the early 20th century, leading to restrictive immigration policies implemented in the late 1920s. The Bahamas also later became a destination for rich Greek Americans and native Greeks, about a dozen of whom maintained vacation homes in Nassau and its surroundings.
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