Black people in Europe

Black people in Europe
Afro-Europeans

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Black people in Europe (sometimes referred to as Afro-Europeans,^[1] although this term is also used to describe people of mixed European and African descent, especially in the former European colonies^[2][3]) are Black people who are residents or citizens of European countries. They include immigrants as well as European-born people of African descent.

A Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly report on immigration from sub-Saharan Africa gives the number of sub-Saharan African migrants in Europe as between 3.5 and 8 million, concentrated mainly in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.^[4] The report also notes that these figures are likely to underestimate the African migrant population due to factors such as illegal migration.^[4]

Contents 1 Notable individuals 2 Distribution 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Notable individuals

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Black people make up to 20% of footballers in various European leagues.^{[citation needed]} Up until recently, however, there were very few to no black people in coaching, administrative or corporate positions with regard to football.^{[citation needed]} Frank Rijkaard became the first black person to Coach a European country when he was manager of the Netherlands in 2000, and has since had a successful spell coaching in Spain.^{[citation needed]} Recently Senegalese born Pape Diouf became chairman of Olympique de Marseille.^{[citation needed]} Paul Ince became the first black British manager of a Premier League football team after being named manager of Blackburn Rovers, having been the first black player to captain England.^{[citation needed]}

Harry Roselmack became the first black prime-time news anchor on a mainstream TV channel in France in July 2006.^[5][6] Despite this, the first black prime-time newsreader in the UK was Trevor McDonald who was employed 37 years prior by the BBC in 1969.^[7]

Distribution

The largest populations of people of African ancestry living in Europe are:

Country	Black Population	Article	Afro-Caribbean Hubs	Description
France	No official data collected Estimates include: 1.5 million[8] 1.865 million[9] 3–5 million[10]	Black people in France	Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Lille	Sub Saharan mainly (Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast) and Black Caribbeans (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique) or French Guyana
United Kingdom	1,148,738 (2001 census)[11] (Not including people of mixed Black and another ethnicity)	Black British (Black Caribbean, Black African, Other Black)	London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Liverpool	Black Africans now outnumber Afro-Caribbeans in the UK. Largest subgroups of the Black British community are Nigerians, Jamaicans, Ghanaians and Zimbabweans. Although the 2001 census showed only 1.1 million Black British people, there are an estimated 1.4 million Black people in England alone in 2007, some community estimates suggest the figure to be much higher (with the possibility of up to 3 million Nigerians and 1.5 million Ghanaians in the UK).
Netherlands	200,000		Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Almere, Eindhoven	Sub Saharan Africans only Mainly Surinamese, but also people from the Netherlands Antilles, Cape Verde and other parts of Africa
Germany	ca. 500,000[12]	Afro-Germans	Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne	Ethnicity statistics are prohibited in Germany but the ISD (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland / Initiative Black People in Germany) estimates a number of 500.000 Black Germans. It remains unclear if this number includes only black people with a German passport or if it includes every black person residing in Germany.
Italy	200,000	Italians of African descent	Brescia, Milan, Rome, Turin	Sub Saharan Africans only Mainly from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire.[13]
Spain	150,000[citation needed]		Andalusia, Canary Islands, Madrid, Barcelona	Sub Saharan Africans only Mainly from Senegal, Nigeria, Gambia or the former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea[14]
Portugal	116,071[15]	Portuguese of Black African ancestry	Lisbon, Porto, Faro	Mostly from former Portuguese colonies in Africa, particularly Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Brazilians that may be Black (see Afro-Brazilian).
Ireland	45,700[16]	Black people in Ireland	Dublin

See also

• African American
• Afro-Latin American
• Black Canadian
• Black people

References

External links

• Mendoza, Cristobal (September 2003). "African Employment in Iberian Labour Markets: The Supply Side". Labour Immigration in Southern Europe: African Employment in Iberian Labour Markets. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 211. ISBN 0754618986. OCLC 224818002. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxHXvGCtekIC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=%22africans+in+spain%22&source=web&ots=JjjEzMPVns&sig=n9LH0AgT9TNv04d-1gfg5AySlVg. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 

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