As of 2014, the New Orleans metropolitan area has the largest Honduran American community in the United States.
[Kaplan-Levenson, Laine.]
In The Big Easy, Food Vendors Create A Little Honduras
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. ''WWNO'' at ''National Public Radio''. October 20, 2014. Retrieved on September 6, 2015. As of that year, over 103,049 persons of Honduran origin reside in the New Orleans area.
[Reckdahl, Katy.]
N.O. a hub for Honduran children fleeing violence
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. ''The Advocate (Louisiana), The Advocate''. August 10, 2014. Retrieved on September 6, 2015.
History
The Honduran community originates from the operations of banana and fruit companies such as Standard Fruit Co. and United Fruit Co., which produced bananas in Honduras and had their corporate headquarters in New Orleans.
[ These operations began in the late 1800s. In time many wealthier Hondurans who desired education and healthcare would move to New Orleans.][Jordan, Miriam.]
Central American Immigrants Flock to New Orleans—and Wait
" ''The Wall Street Journal''. September 19, 2014. Retrieved on September 7, 2015. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were over 100,000 Hondurans, making up 10% of the total population, in the New Orleans area. Around the 1950s a settlement of Hondurans was in New Orleans. In the 1960s the first large wave of Hondurans, many of whom moved to the centrally-located Garden District, New Orleans, Garden District, came to New Orleans to escape late 1950s floods, fruit company strikes, and military coups which resulted in the instability of Honduras's economy and political system. The population shifted to the suburbs as it matured. By 2000 Hondurans made up 24% of the 64,340 people of Hispanic origin in the four parishes of the U.S. government-defined New Orleans area.
Within a year of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, over 10,000 Hondurans and Mexicans moved to New Orleans to do work rebuilding the city. At the time the George W. Bush administration suspended some labor laws on a temporary basis, and several federal contractors aired Spanish-language television advertisements promising work to the illegal immigrants without the possibility of deportation. By 2014 several of the immigrants were criticizing officials who were trying to deport them.
By 2014 many Honduran children fleeing crime and violence in their native country were resettled in New Orleans.[
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Institutions
The government of Honduras maintains a consulate general in New Orleans. It is planning to establish a Honduran association to protect the interests of Hondurans residing in the city.
Commerce
As of 2014 and since Katrina many Hondurans in New Orleans operate mobile food trucks and restaurants.[
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Education
In the 2014-2015 school year Jefferson Parish Public Schools had 48,126 students, 1,467 students (3%) higher than the enrollment of the previous school year. There were a total of 5,634 English as a second language, English Language Learners (ELL) students as part of the overall student enrollment for 2014-2015, and that had increased by about 1,200 (28%). Most of the additional students for 2014-2015 were Hispanic, and of them, most were Hondurans, Honduran. According to ELL director Karina Castillo the East Bank had more of the new students than the West Bank.[Calder, Chad.]
Honduran students swell Jefferson Parish public school enrollment
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. ''The New Orleans Advocate''. December 19, 2014. Retrieved on September 6, 2015.
References
* Euraque, Samantha.
“HONDURAN MEMORIES”: IDENTITY, RACE, PLACE AND MEMORY IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
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master's degree thesis). Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. May 2004.
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External links
A Latin Americanist's Guide to New Orleans
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. Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University.
*Edmonds, Velma McInnis, DNS, RN (University of Texas at El Paso).
The Nutritional Patterns of Recently Immigrated Honduran Women
" ''Journal of Transcultural Nursing''. July 2005 vol. 16 no. 3 226-235. doi
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