Barbadian Brazilians

Barbadian Brazilians

Total population
5,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Porto Velho · Manaus · Belém
Languages
Portuguese · Bajan Creole
Religion
Major Roman Catholics Animists · Protestants
Related ethnic groups
Barbadian British · Barbadian Canadians

Barbadian Brazilians (Portuguese: Barbadiano-brasileiro) or Bajans, refers to Brazilian people of full, partial or predominantly Barbadian ancestry, or Barbadian-born people residing in Brazil.

At the beginning of the 20th century, many Barbadians worked in the Amazonas region, Pará and Rondônia.[2][3] There had been a mass exodus from the Caribbean in order to take part in the rubber boom, and the poor socio-economic conditions in Barbados at the time made Brazil an enticing place to search for a better life. In 1911 Roger Casement who was a British consular official at the time undertook a special investigation of the condition of Barbadian workers in the Putomayo Valley then part of Peru traveling to that region by going up the Amazon. [4] The Barbadian presence is still evidenced through some surnames of British origin found in Brazil, such as Alleyne, Mottley, Maloney, Depeiza, Blackman and Layne.[3]

See also

• Caribbean Brazilian
• Barbados–Brazil relations

References

1. "The Barbados Advocate - Brazilian, Barbadian link uncovered". July 7, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07.
2. Greenfield, Sidney M. (1983). "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem". Luso-Brazilian Review. 20 (1). University of Wisconsin Press: 44–64. ISSN 1548-9957. JSTOR 3513217.
3. "Brazilian, Barbadian link uncovered". The Barbados Advocate. 1 March 2011. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011.
4. Jordan Goodman (16 February 2010). The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South ... Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9781429936392. Retrieved 4 January 2016.