Total population | |
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Chilean-born residents 5,131 (2001 census) 7,139 (2011 census) | |
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London, Midlands, South East England, North West England | |
Languages | |
English (
British English) Spanish ( Chilean Spanish) | |
Religion | |
Predominantly
Christianity ( Roman Catholic, Protestantism, Evangelical) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Chilean people • Latin Americans in the United Kingdom • Spaniards in the United Kingdom • Hispanic • Latino • British Chilean |
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Chileans in the United Kingdom (Spanish: Chilenos en Reino Unido) are people of Chilean origin living in the United Kingdom.
When approximately 2,500 Chilean exiles (including businessmen, professors, and students) arrived in Great Britain escaping the right-wing military coup d'etat of September 11, 1973, they were met by a small community of Latin Americans who were already there. In the 1970s right-wingers fled the Allende government, and later persecuted Allende's sympathizers escaped the Pinochet regime. The Chilean community has settled well in the country, and the majority are of European ancestry. [1] [2] [3] [4] The size of the Chilean British population is hard to estimate as many have gone back to Chile, or move fluidly between several places. [5]
At the time of the 2001 UK Census, 5,131 Chilean-born people were living in the UK. [6] The 2011 census recorded 6,456 Chilean-born residents in England, 120 in Wales, [7] 495 in Scotland [8] and 68 in Northern Ireland. [9]