Cubans in the United Kingdom
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| Total population |
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| 1,083 Cuban-born (2001 Census)[1] Ancestral Numbers Unknown At least 0.01% of the UK's population |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Greater London |
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Spanish Briton · Britalian · Portuguese Briton · Hispanics · White Cuban · Afro-Cuban · Jewish Cuban · Chinese Cuban · Latin American Briton · Latino |
Cubans in the United Kingdom are ethnic Cubans who have been born in and/or raised in the United Kingdom. The term also includes people who were born in Cuba and have migrated to the UK. According to the 2001 Census, there were 1,083 Cuban-born people living in the UK.[1] In 2001, the UK held host to the sixth largest number of Cuban emmigrants on the planet (behind the USA, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Canada respectively).[1]
In January 2001, the corpses of two stowaway Cubans Alberto Vazquez, 17, and Maikel Fonseca, 16 were discovered (one at Gatwick Airport and one in a Surrey field) after hiding in the undercarriage of a London-bound British Airways jet from the Cuban capital Havana. This event shocked Cuba and even saw a personal investigation by Cuban President Fidel Castro.[2]
Cuban culture including forms of salsa dancing, latin music, cuban tapas and cuban cigars have become extremely popular in the United Kingdom. The Carnival de Cuba is an annual carnival that celebrates Cuban culture in the UK, it is the largest such carnival in Europe and attracts around 50,000 visitors.[3] The UK and Cuba maintain strong links with the British city, Glasgow being the only city outside of the Americas to be twinned with a Cuban city, in this case the capital Havana.[citation needed]
Notable individuals from the group include singer and former Another Level singer Dane Bowers, writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante an exile of the Castro regime, ballet dancer Yat-Sen Chang (who is of Chinese Cuban origin), actor Marcus Patrick, actress and former model Sienna Guillory, William Montagu a famous peer and Liberal politician and his mother María Consuelo Yznaga del Valle, as well as Lourdes Ciccone Leon (the daughter of Madonna and Carlos Leon) who lives in the UK.[citation needed]
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- Carnival de Cuba
- Afro Cuban Fiesta
- Cuban social forum
- Cuba solidarity campaign UK
- Cuban Embassy in the UK
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