New York-based Jamaicans Talk It Up Phone Study Says

When it comes to calling back home, New York-based Jamaicans are racking up those minutes. According to a new report by Saskia Sassen, titled New York City’s Two Global Geographies Of Talk, Kingston, Jamaica accounted for about ten percent of all calls out of Brooklyn, according to AT&T data analyzed.

And together, Kingston, Santo Domingo and Haiti accounted for seventeen percent of all calls out of Brooklyn. In the Bronx, Kingston and Santo Domingo accounted for thirty percent of calls made. New York City’s total foreign-born population stood at almost 2.9 million according to the 2000 U.S. Census. The largest single groups were 370,000 Dominicans, 262,000 Chinese and 179,000 Jamaicans.Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.

source: Caribbean World News Network