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Grenadian American are Americans whose ancestry came from the Caribbean island of Grenada, or a Grenadian having the American citizenship. Although, since 1984, nearly 850 Grenadians arrive legally in the United States each year, the number of Grenadian Americans is of 25,924 in 2000,〔 because they began migrating to the United States primarily from 1950. Between 2007 and 2011, there were approximately 30,320 Grenadian-born residents in the United States.〔 == History == The Grenadian migration in the United States began in the first half of the twentieth century. The Grenadian first settled in urban areas of the northeastern United States, primarily in New York and Boston. Between 1900 and 1940 the number of Grenadian who emigrated to the United States did not reach a thousand, perhaps only exceeded the 300 people. Grenadian immigration to the United States increased only from the 1950s, after World War II. This increase was due to female migration at the end of the decade. However, few Grenadians were allowed to enter the U.S. legally. Grenadian women often worked as nurses and / or in the domestic services. So when, in the mid-1950s, oil refineries were machined in Grenada and have reduced their operating income, United States allowed a group of oil workers in Grenada emigrated to the this country. These men and women managed migrate to the U.S. legally by various means. Some had made significant relationships at work while they work in the oil enclave or in the naval base (in Chaguaramas, Trinidad) and their bosses had given references to American employers. Others have sent their children to U.S. schools, and once these kids find jobs and sponsors to help them with immigration requirements, they apply for permanent residence for their parents. Others originally traveled to England or emigrated to the United States Virgin Islands, where they worked in oil refineries, to emigrate from there, most of them crossing Canada, to the United States. Canada sponsored cleanup programs in the Caribbean and also allowed a few hundred women from Grenada to enter the United States as immigrants. After serving the two years mandatory of the Canadian program, these women be settled in areas of Washington, DC, New York, and Boston. During the 1960 United States developed its own program sponsored domestic workers in the Caribbean. Hundreds of women from Grenada entered the United States to work in domestic service in the Northeast, particularly in New York. Following the adoption of the Hart-Celler Immigration Reform, 1965, the number of Grenadian who came to this country increased more. This law replaced the mass emigration from Europe, to the U.S, by the Caribbean. The government find to this foreign policy more advantageous due to a renewed interest in the Caribbean. Statistics from the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. in the period between 1960 and 1980, totaled in 10,391 the Grenadian who entered the U.S. legally. Although for those years also emigrated illegally many Grenadian. Thus, between 1971 and 1984 just over 12,000 immigrants entered New York from Grenada. In the 1970 and 1980 many Grenadian who emigrated from Grenada to the United States not only leave the island for economic reasons. They also do it for political reasons, rejected the change politician of Granada, because which was were outside the pro-democratic values to the ideas associated with communism.〔Charlie Jones (November 26, 2008). (A Countries and Their Cultures: Grenadian Americans ). Consulted in November 31, 2010.〕 In September 2009, an American of Grenadian descent, Jumaane Williams, became the first Grenadian-American in New York City's Council.〔(Grenadian American Wins New York Council Election in Landslide ). Retrieved on September 1, 2010 at 23:50 pm.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grenadian Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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