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Asian Latin Americans

January 01, 1970

For the Latino population of Asian descent living in or native to the United States, see Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans. For the population in Asia of Latin American descent, see Latin American Asian.

Asian Latin Americans (sometimes Asian-Latinos) are Latin Americans of Asian descent. Asian immigrants to Latin America have largely been from East Asia or West Asia.[10] Historically, Asians in Latin America have a centuries-long history in the region, starting with Filipinos in the 16th century. The peak of Asian immigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are currently more than four million Asian Latin Americans, nearly 1% of Latin America's population. Chinese, Japanese, and Lebanese are the largest Asian ancestries; other major ethnic groups include Filipinos, Syrians, Indians, and Koreans. Brazil is home to the largest population of East Asian descent, estimated at 2.08 million.[1][11] The country is also home to a large percentage of West Asian descendants.[12] With as much as 5% of their population having some degree of Chinese ancestry, Peru and Mexico have the highest ratio of any country for East Asian descent.[3] Though the most recent official census, which relied on self-identification, gave a much lower percentage.[4][13]

Asian Latin Americans
Asiáticolatinoamericanos
Total population
c. 6,607,730 approximately
Regions with significant populations
 Brazil2,084,288 (self-identified East Asian ancestry)[1][2]
 Peru1,461,638 estimated[3][4][5] 36,841 self-reported[4]
 Mexico1,000,000
 Venezuela500,000
 Argentina344,130
 Colombia213,910
 Panama140,000
 Cuba114,240[6]
 Dominican Republic52,000
 Paraguay51,000
 Guatemala27,000
 Chile25,000
 Ecuador17,080
 Bolivia15,000
 Nicaragua14,000[7]
 Costa Rica9,170[8]
 Puerto Rico6,390
 Uruguay4,000
 El Salvador3,271 (self-reported; 20,000 estimated)
 Honduras2,609[9]
Languages
European Languages:
Spanish · Portuguese · English
Asian Languages:
Chinese · Japanese · Korean · Filipino · Vietnamese · Thai · Malay · Arabic · Hindustani (Hindi) · Tamil · Telugu · Punjabi · Bengali
Religion
Christianity · Buddhism · Taoism · Shintoism · Islam · Zoroastrianism · Hinduism · Sikhism · Jainism
Related ethnic groups
Latino, Hispanic, Asian, Filipinos, Spaniards, Portuguese, European Latin Americans, Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latin American Asian, Asian Caribbean, Chinese Caribbeans

There has been notable emigration from these communities in recent decades, so that there are now hundreds of thousands of people of Asian Latin American origin in both Japan and the United States.

History edit

 
Chinese immigrants working in the cotton crop (1890) in Peru.

The first Asian Latin Americans were Filipinos who made their way to Latin America (primarily to Cuba and Mexico and secondarily to Colombia, Panama and Peru) in the 16th century, as slaves, crew members, and prisoners during the Spanish colonial rule of the Philippines through the Viceroyalty of New Spain, with its capital in Mexico City. For two and a half centuries (between 1565 and 1815) many Filipinos and Chinese sailed on the Manila-Acapulco Galleons, assisting in the Spanish Empire's monopoly in trade. Some of these sailors never returned to the Philippines and many of their descendants can be found in small communities around Baja California, Sonora, Mexico City, Peru and others, thus making Filipinos the oldest Asian ethnic group in Latin America.

While South Asians had been present in various forms in Latin America for centuries by the 1800s, it was in this century that the flow into the region spiked dramatically. This rapid influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly male South Asians was due to the need for indentured servants. This is largely tied to the abolition of black slavery in the Caribbean colonies in 1834. Without the promise of free labor and a hostile working class on their hands, the Dutch colonial authorities had to find a solution – cheap Asian labor.[14]

 
Japanese immigrant family in Brazil

Many of these immigrant populations became such fixtures in their adopted countries that they acquired names of their own. For example, the Chinese men who labored in agricultural work became known as "coolies". While these imported Asian laborers were initially just replacement for agricultural slave labor, they gradually began to enter other sectors as the economy evolved. Before long, they had entered more urban work and the service sector. In certain areas, these populations assimilated into the minority populations, adding yet another definition to go on a casta.

In some areas, these new populations caused conflict. In Northern Mexico, tensions became inevitable when the United States began to shut off Chinese immigration in the early 1880s. Many who were originally bound for the United States were re-routed to Mexico. The rapid increase in population and rise to middle/upper class standing generated strong resentment among existing residents. These tensions lead to riots. In the state of Sonora, the entire Chinese population was expelled in 1929.

Today, the overwhelming majority of Asian Latin Americans are either of East Asian (namely Chinese, Japanese or Korean), or West Asian descent (mostly the Lebanese or Syrians).[10] Many of whom arrived during the second half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.[15] Japanese migration mostly came to a halt after World War II (with the exception of Japanese settlement in the Dominican Republic), while Korean migration mostly came to an end by the 1980s and Chinese migration remains ongoing in a number of countries.

Settlement of war refugees has been extremely minor: a few dozen ex-North Korean soldiers went to Argentina after the Korean War[16][17] and some Hmong went to French Guiana after the Vietnam War.[18]

Roles in labor edit

Asian Latin Americans served various roles during their time as low wage workers in Latin America. In the second half of the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of a million Chinese migrants in Cuba worked primarily on sugar plantations. The Chinese "coolies" who migrated to Peru took up work on the Andean Railroad or the Guano Fields. Over time the Chinese progressed to acquiring work in urban centers as tradesmen, restaurateurs and in the service industry. By the second decade of the nineteenth century, approximately 25,000 Chinese migrants in Mexico found relative success with small businesses, government bureaucracy, and intellectual circles. In the 1830s, the British and Dutch colonial governments also imported South Asians to work as indentured servants to places such as Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Curaçao and British Guiana (later renamed Guayana). At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Japanese immigrants reached Brazil and Peru. Much like the Chinese, the Japanese often worked as indentured servants and low wage workers for planters. Japanese work contracts were notably more short term than those of the Chinese and the process was closely monitored by the Japanese government to dissuade abuse and foul play. In both cases, the influx of Asian migrant workers was to fill the void left in the Latin American work forces after the abolition of slavery. Employers of all kinds were desperate for a low cost replacement for their slaves so those who did not participate in any illegal slave operations turned to the Asian migrants.[19]

Geographic distribution edit

 
Chinatown, Lima-Peru.

Four and a half million Latin Americans (almost 1% of the total population of Latin America) are of Asian descent. The number may be millions higher, even more so if all who have partial ancestry are included. For example, Asian Peruvians are estimated at 5%[3] of the population there, but one source places the number of all Peruvians with at least some Chinese ancestry at 5 million, which equates to 20% of the country's total population.[20]

 
The Liberdade neighborhood is a Little Tokyo of São Paulo.

The Chinese are the most populous Asian Latin Americans. Significant populations of Chinese ancestry are found in Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Costa Rica (where they make up about 1% of the total population; or about 9,000 residents). Nicaragua is home to 14,000 ethnic Chinese; the majority reside in Managua and on the Caribbean coast. Smaller communities of Chinese, numbering just in the hundreds or thousands, are also found in Ecuador and various other Latin American countries. Many Latin American countries are home to barrios chinos (Chinatowns).

Most who are of Japanese descent reside in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia and Paraguay. Japanese Peruvians have a considerable economic position in Peru.[21] Many past and present Peruvian Cabinet members are ethnic Asians, but most particularly Japanese Peruvians have made up large portions of Peru's cabinet members and former president Alberto Fujimori is of Japanese ancestry who is currently the only Asian Latin American to have ever served as the head of any Latin American nation (or the second, if taking into account Arthur Chung). Brazil is home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan, numbering about 1.7 million with ancestry alone. Brazil is also home to 10,000 Indians, 5,000 Vietnamese, 4,500 Afghans, 2,900 Indonesians and 1,000 Filipinos.

Korean people are the third largest group of Asian Latin Americans. The largest community of this group is in Brazil (specially in Southeast region) with a population of 51,550. The second largest is in Argentina, with a population of 23,603 and with active Koreatowns in Buenos Aires. More 10,000 in Guatemala,[22] and Mexico, This last with active communities in Monterrey, Guadalajara, Coatzacoalcos, Yucatan and Mexico City. More than 1,000 in Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, Honduras and Peru where Jung Heung-won, a Korean Peruvian, was elected mayor in City of Chanchamayo.[23] He is the first Mayor of Korean origin in Peru and all of Latin America. There are small and important communities (less 1,000 peoples) in Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Puerto Rico and Haiti.

Emigrant communities edit

 
Monument dedicated to Japanese Immigration in Santo Domingo (Paseo Bellini).

Japan edit

Main article: Dekasegi

Japanese Brazilian immigrants to Japan numbered 250,000 in 2004, constituting Japan's second-largest immigrant population.[24] Their experiences bear similarities to those of Japanese Peruvian immigrants, who are often relegated to low income jobs typically occupied by foreigners.[21]

United States edit

Main article: Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans

In the 2000 US Census, 119,829 Hispanic or Latino Americans identified as being of Asian race alone.[25] In 2006 the Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated them at 154,694,[26] while its Population Estimates, which are official, put them at 277,704.[27]

Composition edit

Asian Latin American population (incomplete data)
Country   Chinese   Japanese   Korean   Filipino Others References
  Argentina No data 65,000 23,063 15,000 2,000
  Bolivia No data 14,178 654 39 No data
  Brazil 350,000 2,000,000 50,281 1,000 No data [3][28][29]
  Chile No data 4,000 2,700 800 No data
  Colombia No data 3,000[30] 900 17,000 [31][32]
  Costa Rica 9,170 No data No data No data No data [8][33]
  Cuba No data 1200 900 No data No data No data
  Dominican Republic No data 847 675 No data No data
  Ecuador 95,000 434 714 No data No data
  El Salvador 2,140 176 151 No data 103
  Guatemala 13,700 288 12,918 No data No data [34][35]
  Honduras 1,415 422 No data No data No data [9]
  Mexico 90,000 75,000 30,000 [36] 100,000 1,300
  Nicaragua 14,000[7] 145 745 No data No data
  Panama 258,886[37] 456 421 No data No data Tatyana Ali
  Paraguay No data 9,484 5,039 No data No data
  Peru 1,300,000[3] 160,000[38][39][40] 1,493 160 No data [3][41]
  Puerto Rico >2,200 10,486 109 9,832 No data
  Uruguay No data 3,456 216 No data No data
  Venezuela No data 2,000 1,000 No data 10,000

Notable Asian Latino persons edit

Argentina

  • Juliana Awada, former First Lady of Argentina, Lebanese Argentine.
  • Carlos Balá, actor of Lebanese descent.
  • Yamila Diaz-Rahi, model of Lebanese descent.
  • Dumbfoundead, rapper Argentine-born Korean American Rapper.
  • Liu Song, table tennis player; Chinese Argentine.
  • Ignacio Huang, actor; Taiwanese Argentine.
  • Hoshitango Imachi, ex-sumo wrestler, Japanese Argentine.
  • Mario Alberto Ishii, political and mayor of the region José C. Paz, Japanese Argentine.
  • Natalia Kim [es], actress and model, Korean Argentine.
  • Chang Sung Kim, actor, Korean Argentine.
  • María Kodama, writer of Japanese descent.
  • Katsutoshi Kurata [es], martial artist, Japanese Argentine.
  • Margarita Lee [es] "Señorita Lee"; model, actress and television host; Korean Argentine.
  • Yoshihiro Matsumura [es], martial artist, Japanese Argentine.
  • Carlos Menem, lawyer and politician, former president of Argentina, Syrian Argentine.
  • Eduardo Menem, politician and brother of Carlos Menem, Syrian Argentine.
  • Jessica Michibata, fashion model; Japanese Argentine.
  • Sergio Nakasone [es] producer and TV director, Japanese Argentine.
  • Leonardo Nam, actor; Korean Argentine.
  • Jae Park, Korean American singer-songwriter born in Argentina.
  • Kazuya Sakai [es], painter, Japanese Argentine.
  • María Eugenia Suárez, actress and singer; Japanese Argentine.
  • Alicia Terada, politician, Japanese Argentine.
  • Marco, actor; Korean Argentine.
  • Chanty, actress, model and singer; Filipina Argentine

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

  • Shakira, of partial Lebanese descent
  • Farina, Colombian rapper and reggaeton singer of Peruvian and Lebanese descent.
  • Yokoi Kenji,[42] speaker; Japanese Colombian.
  • José Kaor Dokú, ex-soccer player and ex-military; Japanese Colombian.
  • Maru Yamayusa [es], Colombian actress, partial Japanese descent.
  • Yu Takeuchi, mathematician; Japanese Colombian.
  • Yuriko Yoshimura [es], actress and model; Japanese Colombian.
  • Paublo Ng Choi,[43][44] Chef, Chinese Colombian.
  • Laura González, Miss Colombia 2017; Lebanese descent.
  • Jordy Monroy, footballer, born in Colombia; Armenian origin
  • Sayaka Osorio,[45][46] Karateka, Korean Colombian.
  • Nydia Quintero Turbay, former First Lady of Colombia, Lebanese descent.
  • Manuel Teodoro, American journalist of Colombian and Filipino descent.
  • Lisa, Japanese singer-songwriter; Colombian mother

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

  • Rodrigo Wong Arevalo [es], journalist and TV host; Chinese Honduran
  • Hajime waki, Musician; Japanese Honduran
  • Fernando Chin: Salesman, first mayor of La Lima.

Mexico

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Asian Mexicans.

Nicaragua

Paraguay

Panama

Peru

Puerto Rico

Uruguay

  • Alberto Abdala, Former Vice-president of Uruguay; Lebanese Uruguayan
  • Barbara Mori, Uruguyan-born Mexican actress; Japanese and Lebanese descent

Venezuela

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Further reading edit

  • Affigne, Tony, and Pei-te Lien. "Peoples of Asian descent in the Americas: Theoretical implications of race and politics." Amerasia Journal 28.2 (2002): 1-27.
  • Avila-Tàpies, Rosalia, and Josefina Domínguez-Mujica. "Postcolonial migrations and diasporic linkages between Latin America and Japan and Spain." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 24.4 (2015): 487–511.
  • Chee Beng Tan, and Walton Look Lai, eds. The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010) excerpt
  • Fu, Puo-An Wu. "Transpacific Subjectivities:" Chinese"--Latin American Literature after Empire." in Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2018): 13-20.
  • Hu-Dehart, Evelyn. "The Chinese of Peru, Cuba, and Mexico." in The Cambridge survey of world migration (1995): 220–222.
  • Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. "Coolies, Shopkeepers, Pioneers: The Chinese of Mexico and Peru (1849–1930)." Amerasia Journal 15.2 (1989): 91–116.
  • Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, and James A. Hirabayashi, eds. New worlds, new lives: Globalization and people of Japanese descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan. Stanford University Press, 2002.
  • Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. "Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective Evelyn Hu-DeHart." Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions (2007): 29+.
  • Jingsheng, Dong. "Chinese emigration to Mexico and the Sino-Mexico relations before 1910." Estudios Internacionales (2006): 75–88.
  • Kikuchi, Hirokazu. "The Representation of East Asia in Latin American Legislatures." Issues & Studies 53.01 (2017): 1740005. doi: 10.1142/S1013251117400057
  • Kim, Hahkyung. "Korean Immigrants' Place in the Discourse of Mestizaje: A History of Race-Class Dynamics and Asian Immigration in Yucatán, Mexico." Revista Iberoamericana (2012).
  • Lee, Rachel. "Asian American cultural production in Asian-Pacific perspective." boundary 2 26.2 (1999): 231–254. online
  • Lim, Rachel. "Racial Transmittances: Hemispheric Viralities of Anti-Asian Racism and Resistance in Mexico." Journal of Asian American Studies 23.3 (2020): 441–457.
  • Masterson, Daniel M. The Japanese in Latin America. University of Illinois Press, 2004. 0252071441, 9780252071447.
  • Min, Man-Shik. "Far East Asian immigration into Latin America." Korea & world affairs 11.2 (1987): 331+
  • Pan, Lynn, ed. The encyclopedia of the Chinese overseas (Harvard UP, 1998). pp 248–2630.
  • Rivas, Zelideth María. "Literary and Cultural Representations of Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean." in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (2019).
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  • Seijas, Tatiana. "Asian migrations to Latin America in the Pacific World, 16th–19th centuries." History Compass 14.12 (2016): 573–581. online[dead link]
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External links edit

  • Asian-Latino Intermarriage in The Americas
  • The Importance of Being Japanese in Bolivia 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

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170 8 Puerto Rico6 390 Uruguay4 000 El Salvador3 271 self reported 20 000 estimated Honduras2 609 9 LanguagesEuropean Languages Spanish Portuguese English Asian Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Filipino Vietnamese Thai Malay Arabic Hindustani Hindi Tamil Telugu Punjabi BengaliReligionChristianity Buddhism Taoism Shintoism Islam Zoroastrianism Hinduism Sikhism JainismRelated ethnic groupsLatino Hispanic Asian Filipinos Spaniards Portuguese European Latin Americans Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Latin American Asian Asian Caribbean Chinese Caribbeans There has been notable emigration from these communities in recent decades so that there are now hundreds of thousands of people of Asian Latin American origin in both Japan and the United States Contents 1 History 2 Roles in labor 3 Geographic distribution 4 Emigrant communities 4 1 Japan 4 2 United States 5 Composition 6 Notable Asian Latino persons 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksHistory edit nbsp Chinese immigrants working in the cotton crop 1890 in Peru The first Asian Latin Americans were Filipinos who made their way to Latin America primarily to Cuba and Mexico and secondarily to Colombia Panama and Peru in the 16th century as slaves crew members and prisoners during the Spanish colonial rule of the Philippines through the Viceroyalty of New Spain with its capital in Mexico City For two and a half centuries between 1565 and 1815 many Filipinos and Chinese sailed on the Manila Acapulco Galleons assisting in the Spanish Empire s monopoly in trade Some of these sailors never returned to the Philippines and many of their descendants can be found in small communities around Baja California Sonora Mexico City Peru and others thus making Filipinos the oldest Asian ethnic group in Latin America While South Asians had been present in various forms in Latin America for centuries by the 1800s it was in this century that the flow into the region spiked dramatically This rapid influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly male South Asians was due to the need for indentured servants This is largely tied to the abolition of black slavery in the Caribbean colonies in 1834 Without the promise of free labor and a hostile working class on their hands the Dutch colonial authorities had to find a solution cheap Asian labor 14 nbsp Japanese immigrant family in Brazil Many of these immigrant populations became such fixtures in their adopted countries that they acquired names of their own For example the Chinese men who labored in agricultural work became known as coolies While these imported Asian laborers were initially just replacement for agricultural slave labor they gradually began to enter other sectors as the economy evolved Before long they had entered more urban work and the service sector In certain areas these populations assimilated into the minority populations adding yet another definition to go on a casta In some areas these new populations caused conflict In Northern Mexico tensions became inevitable when the United States began to shut off Chinese immigration in the early 1880s Many who were originally bound for the United States were re routed to Mexico The rapid increase in population and rise to middle upper class standing generated strong resentment among existing residents These tensions lead to riots In the state of Sonora the entire Chinese population was expelled in 1929 Today the overwhelming majority of Asian Latin Americans are either of East Asian namely Chinese Japanese or Korean or West Asian descent mostly the Lebanese or Syrians 10 Many of whom arrived during the second half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s 15 Japanese migration mostly came to a halt after World War II with the exception of Japanese settlement in the Dominican Republic while Korean migration mostly came to an end by the 1980s and Chinese migration remains ongoing in a number of countries Settlement of war refugees has been extremely minor a few dozen ex North Korean soldiers went to Argentina after the Korean War 16 17 and some Hmong went to French Guiana after the Vietnam War 18 Roles in labor editAsian Latin Americans served various roles during their time as low wage workers in Latin America In the second half of the nineteenth century nearly a quarter of a million Chinese migrants in Cuba worked primarily on sugar plantations The Chinese coolies who migrated to Peru took up work on the Andean Railroad or the Guano Fields Over time the Chinese progressed to acquiring work in urban centers as tradesmen restaurateurs and in the service industry By the second decade of the nineteenth century approximately 25 000 Chinese migrants in Mexico found relative success with small businesses government bureaucracy and intellectual circles In the 1830s the British and Dutch colonial governments also imported South Asians to work as indentured servants to places such as Trinidad and Tobago Suriname Curacao and British Guiana later renamed Guayana At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Japanese immigrants reached Brazil and Peru Much like the Chinese the Japanese often worked as indentured servants and low wage workers for planters Japanese work contracts were notably more short term than those of the Chinese and the process was closely monitored by the Japanese government to dissuade abuse and foul play In both cases the influx of Asian migrant workers was to fill the void left in the Latin American work forces after the abolition of slavery Employers of all kinds were desperate for a low cost replacement for their slaves so those who did not participate in any illegal slave operations turned to the Asian migrants 19 Geographic distribution edit nbsp Chinatown Lima Peru Four and a half million Latin Americans almost 1 of the total population of Latin America are of Asian descent The number may be millions higher even more so if all who have partial ancestry are included For example Asian Peruvians are estimated at 5 3 of the population there but one source places the number of all Peruvians with at least some Chinese ancestry at 5 million which equates to 20 of the country s total population 20 nbsp The Liberdade neighborhood is a Little Tokyo of Sao Paulo The Chinese are the most populous Asian Latin Americans Significant populations of Chinese ancestry are found in Peru Venezuela Brazil Colombia Argentina Cuba Dominican Republic Panama Nicaragua Puerto Rico Mexico and Costa Rica where they make up about 1 of the total population or about 9 000 residents Nicaragua is home to 14 000 ethnic Chinese the majority reside in Managua and on the Caribbean coast Smaller communities of Chinese numbering just in the hundreds or thousands are also found in Ecuador and various other Latin American countries Many Latin American countries are home to barrios chinos Chinatowns Most who are of Japanese descent reside in Brazil Peru Argentina Mexico Bolivia Colombia and Paraguay Japanese Peruvians have a considerable economic position in Peru 21 Many past and present Peruvian Cabinet members are ethnic Asians but most particularly Japanese Peruvians have made up large portions of Peru s cabinet members and former president Alberto Fujimori is of Japanese ancestry who is currently the only Asian Latin American to have ever served as the head of any Latin American nation or the second if taking into account Arthur Chung Brazil is home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan numbering about 1 7 million with ancestry alone Brazil is also home to 10 000 Indians 5 000 Vietnamese 4 500 Afghans 2 900 Indonesians and 1 000 Filipinos Korean people are the third largest group of Asian Latin Americans The largest community of this group is in Brazil specially in Southeast region with a population of 51 550 The second largest is in Argentina with a population of 23 603 and with active Koreatowns in Buenos Aires More 10 000 in Guatemala 22 and Mexico This last with active communities in Monterrey Guadalajara Coatzacoalcos Yucatan and Mexico City More than 1 000 in Chile Paraguay Venezuela Honduras and Peru where Jung Heung won a Korean Peruvian was elected mayor in City of Chanchamayo 23 He is the first Mayor of Korean origin in Peru and all of Latin America There are small and important communities less 1 000 peoples in Colombia Cuba Ecuador Bolivia Costa Rica Panama Dominican Republic Uruguay Puerto Rico and Haiti Emigrant communities edit nbsp Monument dedicated to Japanese Immigration in Santo Domingo Paseo Bellini Japan edit Main article Dekasegi Japanese Brazilian immigrants to Japan numbered 250 000 in 2004 constituting Japan s second largest immigrant population 24 Their experiences bear similarities to those of Japanese Peruvian immigrants who are often relegated to low income jobs typically occupied by foreigners 21 United States edit Main article Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans In the 2000 US Census 119 829 Hispanic or Latino Americans identified as being of Asian race alone 25 In 2006 the Census Bureau s American Community Survey estimated them at 154 694 26 while its Population Estimates which are official put them at 277 704 27 Composition editAsian Latin American population incomplete data Country nbsp Chinese nbsp Japanese nbsp Korean nbsp Filipino Others References nbsp Argentina No data 65 000 23 063 15 000 2 000 nbsp Bolivia No data 14 178 654 39 No data nbsp Brazil 350 000 2 000 000 50 281 1 000 No data 3 28 29 nbsp Chile No data 4 000 2 700 800 No data nbsp Colombia No data 3 000 30 900 17 000 31 32 nbsp Costa Rica 9 170 No data No data No data No data 8 33 nbsp Cuba No data 1200 900 No data No data No data nbsp Dominican Republic No data 847 675 No data No data nbsp Ecuador 95 000 434 714 No data No data nbsp El Salvador 2 140 176 151 No data 103 nbsp Guatemala 13 700 288 12 918 No data No data 34 35 nbsp Honduras 1 415 422 No data No data No data 9 nbsp Mexico 90 000 75 000 30 000 36 100 000 1 300 nbsp Nicaragua 14 000 7 145 745 No data No data nbsp Panama 258 886 37 456 421 No data No data Tatyana Ali nbsp Paraguay No data 9 484 5 039 No data No data nbsp Peru 1 300 000 3 160 000 38 39 40 1 493 160 No data 3 41 nbsp Puerto Rico gt 2 200 10 486 109 9 832 No data nbsp Uruguay No data 3 456 216 No data No data nbsp Venezuela No data 2 000 1 000 No data 10 000Notable Asian Latino persons editArgentina Juliana Awada former First Lady of Argentina Lebanese Argentine Carlos Bala actor of Lebanese descent Yamila Diaz Rahi model of Lebanese descent Dumbfoundead rapper Argentine born Korean American Rapper Liu Song table tennis player Chinese Argentine Ignacio Huang actor Taiwanese Argentine Hoshitango Imachi ex sumo wrestler Japanese Argentine Mario Alberto Ishii political and mayor of the region Jose C Paz Japanese Argentine Natalia Kim es actress and model Korean Argentine Chang Sung Kim actor Korean Argentine Maria Kodama writer of Japanese descent Katsutoshi Kurata es martial artist Japanese Argentine Margarita Lee es Senorita Lee model actress and television host Korean Argentine Yoshihiro Matsumura es martial artist Japanese Argentine Carlos Menem lawyer and politician former president of Argentina Syrian Argentine Eduardo Menem politician and brother of Carlos Menem Syrian Argentine Jessica Michibata fashion model Japanese Argentine Sergio Nakasone es producer and TV director Japanese Argentine Leonardo Nam actor Korean Argentine Jae Park Korean American singer songwriter born in Argentina Kazuya Sakai es painter Japanese Argentine Maria Eugenia Suarez actress and singer Japanese Argentine Alicia Terada politician Japanese Argentine Marco actor Korean Argentine Chanty actress model and singer Filipina Argentine Bolivia Chi Hyun Chung politician Korean Bolivian Juan Pereda politician Palestinian Bolivian Pedro Shimose poet Japanese Bolivian Brazil Erica Awano manga artist Japanese Brazilian Suresh Biswas adventurer Indo Brazilian Ken Chang singer Chinese Brazilian Sergio Echigo former footballer Japanese Brazilian Boris Fausto historian political scientist and writer Turkish Brazilian Alexandr Fier chess grandmaster Japanese Brazilian Ashok Gandotra cricketer Indo Brazilian Kaio Felipe Goncalves striker Japanese Brazilian Luiz Gushiken union leader and politician Japanese Brazilian Sandro Hiroshi footballer Japanese Brazilian Hugo Hoyama tennis player Japanese Brazilian Fabiane Hukuda judoka Japanese Brazilian Kaisei Ichirō sumo wrestler Japanese Brazilian Thereza Imanishi Kari professor Japanese Brazilian Ryoki Inoue writer Japanese Brazilian Vania Ishii judoka Japanese Brazilian Claudio Kano table tennis player Japanese Brazilian Nathalia Kaur model and actress Indian descent Reishin Kawai aikido practitioner and acupuncturist Japanese Brazilian Pedro Ken footballer Japanese Brazilian Allam Khodair race car driver Japanese Lebanese Brazilian Felipe Kitadai judoka Japanese Brazilian Paulinho Kobayashi footballer Japanese Brazilian Luca Kumahara table tennis player Japanese Brazilian Yanna Lavigne actress and model Japanese Brazilian Iara Lee producer director and activist Korean Brazilian Gui Lin table tennis player Chinese Brazilian Lovefoxxx singer Japanese Brazilian Manabu Mabe painter Japanese Brazilian Lyoto Machida mixed martial artist Japanese Brazilian Mitsuyo Maeda judo master and developer of Brazilian jiu jitsu Japanese Brazilian Daniel Matsunaga model host actor and footballer Japanese Brazilian Jo Matumoto former pro baseball player Japanese Brazilian Froilano de Mello microbiologist Indo Brazilian Paulo Miyashiro triathlete Japanese Brazilian Carlos Morimoto author Japanese Brazilian Andrews Nakahara MMA fighter Japanese Brazilian Mariana Ohata triathlete Japanese Brazilian Ruy Ohtake architect Japanese Brazilian Tomie Ohtake artist Japanese Brazilian Oscar Oiwa painter visual artist and architect Japanese Brazilian Leandro Okabe model Japanese Brazilian Tetsuo Okamoto swimmer Japanese Brazilian Poliana Okimoto long distance swimmer and gold medalist Japanese Brazilian Pedro Okuda baseball shortstop Japanese Brazilian Luis Onmura judoka Japanese Brazilian Hiroo Onoda former Japanese Army officer Japanese Brazilian Angela Park golfer Korean Brazilian Andy Pi martial artist Chinese Brazilian Rogerio Romero swimmer Japanese Brazilian Lucas Salatta backstroke swimmer Japanese Brazilian Silvio Santos television host and entrepreneur Turkish Brazilian Daniella Sarahyba model Lebanese descent Akihiro Sato model Japanese Brazilian Sabrina Sato model Japanese and Lebanese descent Luis Shinohara former judoka Japanese Brazilian Ligia Silva table tennis player Japanese Brazilian Marcos Sugiyama volleyball player Japanese Brazilian Mahau Suguimati track hurdler Japanese Brazilian Jung Mo Sung lay theologian Korean Brazilian Manabu Suzuki racer Japanese Brazilian Rafael Suzuki racer Japanese Brazilian Rodrigo Tabata footballer Japanese Brazilian Marlon Teixeira model Japanese Brazilian Alex Yuwan Tjong badminton player Indonesian Brazilian Geovanna Tominaga television host and actress Japanese Brazilian Gustavo Tsuboi table tennis player Japanese Brazilian Felipe Wu sport shooter Chinese Brazilian Jenifer Widjaja tennis player Indonesian Brazilian Stenio Yamamoto sports shooter Japanese Brazilian Mario Yamasaki MMA fighter Japanese Brazilian Carlos Yoshimura baseball pitcher Japanese Brazilian Marcus Tulio Tanaka football player Japanese Brazilian Chile Edgardo Abdala footballer Palestinian Chilean Carlos Abumohor businessman and investor Palestinian Chilean Roberto Bishara Adawi footballer Palestinian Chilean Diamela Eltit writer Palestinian Chilean Fernando Chomali Garib Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santiago Palestinian Chilean Daud Gazale footballer Palestinian Chilean Ricardo Marzuca professor at Universidad de Chile Palestinian Chilean Daniel Jadue politician Palestinian Chilean Sergio Jadue football executive Palestinian Chilean Alfonso Leng composer Chinese Chilean Miguel Littin movie director and screenwriter Palestinian Chilean Luis Musrri footballer Palestinian Chilean Miguel Nasur Allel businessman and football club owner Palestinian Chilean Carlos Ominami economist and politician Japanese Chilean Jose Said businessman Palestinian Chilean Alvaro Saieh businessman Palestinian Chilean Arturo Salah former football player Palestinian Chilean Fernando Solabarrieta Chelech journalist TV presenter Palestinian Chilean Rafael Tarud politician Palestinian Chilean Jose Zalaquett Daher lawyer Palestinian Chilean Marko Zaror martial artist actor Palestinian Chilean Colombia Shakira of partial Lebanese descent Farina Colombian rapper and reggaeton singer of Peruvian and Lebanese descent Yokoi Kenji 42 speaker Japanese Colombian Jose Kaor Doku ex soccer player and ex military Japanese Colombian Maru Yamayusa es Colombian actress partial Japanese descent Yu Takeuchi mathematician Japanese Colombian Yuriko Yoshimura es actress and model Japanese Colombian Paublo Ng Choi 43 44 Chef Chinese Colombian Laura Gonzalez Miss Colombia 2017 Lebanese descent Jordy Monroy footballer born in Colombia Armenian origin Sayaka Osorio 45 46 Karateka Korean Colombian Nydia Quintero Turbay former First Lady of Colombia Lebanese descent Manuel Teodoro American journalist of Colombian and Filipino descent Lisa Japanese singer songwriter Colombian mother Costa Rica Franklin Chang Diaz former NASA astronaut Chinese Spanish Costa Rican Cheng Siu Chung retired football player coach Chinese Costa Rican Eduardo Li president of the Costa Rican football federation Chinese Costa Rican Harry Shum Jr actor Chinese Costa Rican Cuba Fulgencio Batista former President of Cuba of partial Chinese heritage Yamil Chade boxing manager Lebanese Cuban Yat Sen Chang ballet dancer Chinese Cuban Emilio Estefan musician Lebanese Cuban Wifredo Lam artist Afro Chinese Cuban Alfredo Abon Lee army officer Chinese Cuban Jeronimo Lim Kim Korean Cuban known for being a part of the Cuban Revolution Dominican Republic Elias Wessin y Wessin politician Lebanese Dominican Wu Xue table tennis player Chinese Dominican Akari Endo Japanese Dominican actress Lian Jenifer Qian Chinese Dominican table tennis player Jhene Aiko American singer Japanese Dominican mother Mila J American singer and rapper Japanese Dominican mother Ecuador Li Jian midfielder Chinese Ecuadorian Jinsop singer Korean Ecuadorian Alberto Dahik politician Lebanese Ecuadorian Carlos Moncayo co founder and CEO of Asiam Chinese Ecuadorian Jaime Nebot lawyer and former mayor Guayaquil Lebanese Ecuadorian Julio Teodoro Salem politician Lebanese Ecuadorian El Salvador Nayib Bukele president of El Salvador since 2019 Palestinian descent Xavier Zablah Bukele cousin of Nayib and politician Palestinian descent Takeshi Fujiwara sprinter and athlete Japanese Salvadorean Guatemala Myrna Mack anthropologist Chinese and Maya descent Helen Mack Chang businesswoman and human rights activist Chinese Guatemalan Honduras Rodrigo Wong Arevalo es journalist and TV host Chinese Honduran Hajime waki Musician Japanese Honduran Fernando Chin Salesman first mayor of La Lima Mexico For a more comprehensive list see List of Asian Mexicans Alberto Arai architect theorist and writer Japanese Mexican Eduardo Auyon artist and cultural promoter Chinese Mexican Jesus Chong boxer Chinese Mexican Miguel Angel Osorio Chong secretary of the interior of Mexico Chinese Mexican Axel Didriksson writer and professor Japanese Mexican Jocelyn Enriquez singer and songwriter Filipino Mexican Ana Gabriel Mexican singer and composer Chinese on her mother s side Zhenli Ye Gon businessman and alleged drug trafficker Chinese Mexican Xochitl Hamada pro wrestler Japanese Mexican Hiromi Hayakawa singer Japanese Mexican Salma Hayek actress and producer Lebanese descent Gilberto Hirata state deputy Japanese Mexican Tomoki Kameda undefeated Boxer Japanese Mexican Su Muy Key actress and dancer Chinese Mexican Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje revolutionary scholar agricultural scientist and historian Indo Mexican Pablo Larios goalkeeper Japanese Mexican Juan Manuel Ley founder and chairman of Casa Ley Chinese Mexican Alejandro Gomez Maganda politician and former governor of the state of Guerrero Filipino Mexican Eizi Matuda botanist Japanese Mexican Lyn May actress exotic dancer and acrobat Chinese Mexican Patricia Castaneda Miyamoto swimmer Japanese Mexican Daiwon Moon martial artist Korean Mexican Kenya Mori actress Japanese Mexican Noe Murayama actor Japanese Mexican Ursula Murayama actress Japanese Mexican Fumiko Nakashima artist Japanese Mexican Carlos Nakatani artist Japanese Mexican Isidoro Montes de Oca revolutionary general Filipino Mexican Ramon Fabie revolutionary soldier Filipino Mexican Luis Pinzon es revolutionary soldier Filipino Mexican Francisco Mongoy revolutionary soldier Filipino Mexican Kiyoto Ota sculptor Japanese Mexican Sanjaya Rajaram agronomist Indo Mexican M N Roy nationalist revolutionary radical activist and political theorist Indo Mexican Catarina de San Juan the China Poblana Indo Mexican Sugi Sito pro wrestler Chinese Mexican Romeo Villalva Tabuena painter and printmaker Filipino Mexican Nancy Taira actress Japanese Mexican Huang Yiguang politician and aviator Chinese Mexican Nicaragua Arlen Siu martyr of the 1979 Sandinista revolution Chinese Nicaraguan Zach King American internet personality filmmaker and illusionist Chinese Nicaraguan Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez President of Paraguay Lebanese descent Mitsuhide Tsuchida footballer Japanese Paraguayan Panama Jorge Cham web comic creator of Piled Higher and Deeper Chinese Panamanian 47 Bruce Chen pitcher for the Cleveland Indians Chinese Panamanian 48 Roberto Chen Panamanian footballer of Chinese descent Federico Fong musician Panamanian born father of Chinese descent Marelissa Him model part Chinese on her father s side Shey Ling Him Gordon Panama s delegate to the Miss World 2007 competition Chinese Panamanian 49 Sigrid Nunez American 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