Honduras: Information on racism and treatment of ethnic Chinese
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 June 1992 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | HND10765 |
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Information on a particular treatment faced by ethnic Chinese in Honduras could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
A lawyer of the Honduran Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CODEH) stated that the ethnic Chinese community in Honduras is rather small (4 June 1992). Many of the ethnic Chinese are immigrants who arrived from China after the Maoist revolution and their descendants, although at present the Honduran government is providing certain facilities for Chinese wishing to immigrate to Honduras (Ibid.). The Chinese community has established itself in Honduran society, mostly in the field of restaurants and small businesses (such as corner stores), although there are an increasing number of ethnic Chinese working in professional fields such as engineering (Ibid.). The source indicated that CODEH is not aware of any particular abuses or human rights violations suffered by the Chinese community as a whole, although the possibility of individuals suffering abuses cannot be dismissed, and the influence their particular ethnicity may have in such a case cannot be gauged in a general statement. The source added that many abuses or adversities suffered by particular ethnic groups in Honduras, such as land expropriation, are of more of a cultural and economic nature, rather than racial, however ethnically distinct the parties involved may be (Ibid.).
The attached documents provide information on the situation of the most significant ethnic groups of Honduras, including blacks, Indians and Arabs or Lebanese who are generally referred to as "Turks" (Barry & Norsworthy 1990, 95).
Additional and/or corroborating information could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
References
Barry, Tom and Ken Norsworthy. 1990. Honduras: A Country Guide. New Mexico: The Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center.
Honduran Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CODEH), Tegucigalpa. 4 June 1992. Telephone Interview with Lawyer.
Attachments
Barry, Tom and Ken Norsworthy. 1990. Honduras: A Country Guide. New Mexico: The Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center, pp. 94-98.
George Thomas Kurian. Encyclopedia of the Third World. 1987. Vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, Inc., p. 849.
Rudolph, James D., ed. 1983. Honduras: A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: The American University Foreign Area Studies, pp. 68-75, 88-99.
