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Later, in the 20th century, the increased of the poverly in the Antilles (due to catastrophic decline in its sugar industry, its main production), the rejection to British government (case of the people of the British Antilles, because, at least, to hard exploitative system in places as Barbados, [[Saint Kitts]], [[Nevis]], [[Montserrat (island)|Montserrat]], and Antigua) and the economy expansion of the US and growth employment in this country, carried to a new Caribbean immigration to United States at the turn of this century, with a large migratory wave mainly of people of the [[British West Indies]]. So, between 1899 and 1932, 108,000 people entered the United States from the Caribe. In the first hald of 20th century, emigrated at 12,250 Caribbeans per year to United States, falling off during the [[Great Depression]]. This migratory wave was followed by other between 1930 and 1965. Most of these Caribbean emigrates were addresses to New York. So, the [[New York Amsterdam News]] indicated that, with the exception of [[Kingston, Jamaica]], [[Harlem]] had already the largest West Indian community in the world. These news immigrants were more educated and skilled than the European immigrants who were established in United States at the same time and, ever, that the American-born population.
Almost 50,000 Caribbeans (both black and white people) settled in the country between 1941 and 1950. In 1943, thousands of migrant workers emigrated to the rural areas. Although Florida's sugar plantations were their primary sttled place, they were shortly after imigrated to other states and sectors of the American economy. By war's end, over 40,000 workers from the [[Bahamas]], Jamaica, Barbados, [[Saint Vincent]], [[Saint Lucia]], and [[Dominica]] were working in the United States, over 16,000 them worked in industrial sectors.<ref name=inmotionaame>[http://www.inmotionaame.org/print.cfm;jsessionid=f8303218311387380948149?migration=10&bhcp=1 Caribbean Migration - AAME - In Motion: The African-American].</ref>
Today, is beveloping the fourt wave of Caribbean migration in United States.
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