1st Edition

Caribbean Migration Globalized Identities

Edited By Mary Chamberlain Copyright 1998
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences to North America, Europe, and within the Caribbean. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the book discusses:
    * the causes of migration
    * the experiences of migrants
    * the historical, cultural and political processes
    * issues of gender and imperialism
    * the methodology of migration studies, including oral history.

    Acknowledgements.
    Introduction, Mary Chamberlain
    Part 1: Re-thinking Diaspora
    Cultural Diaspora: the Caribbean Case, Robin Cohen
    Modes of Incorporation: Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Western Europe and the United States, Ramon Grosfoguel
    Towards a Comparative Perspective on Caribbean Migration,
    ancy Foner
    Part 2: Migration Narratives
    Constructing Lives: Migration Narratives and Life Stories among Nevisians, Karen Fog Olwig
    Genres of Migration, Selma Leydesdorff
    Part 3: Ethnicity and Identity
    The Legacy of Migration: Immigrant Mothers and Daughters and the Process of Intergenerational Transmission, Helma Lutz
    Constructions of Ethnicity in the Diaspora: the Case of Three Generations of Surinamese-Javanese women in the Netherlands, Yvette Kopijn
    Part 4: Family and Identity
    The Delusive Continuities of the Dutch Caribbean Diaspora, Gert Oostindie
    Family and Identity: Barbadian Migrants to Britain, Mary Chamberlain

    Part 5: Caribbean Migration Cultures
    Indians, Jamaicans and the Emergence of a Modern Migration Culture, Verene A. Shepherd
    Barbadian Migrants in the Putumayo District of the Amazon, 1904-1911, Howard Johnson

    Globalization and the Development of a Caribbean Migration Culture, Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
    Part 6: Gender, Socialisation and Survival in Caribbean Communities
    Trends in Levels of Caribbean Segregation, Great Britain, 1961-1991, Ceri Peach
    Migration, Work and Gender: The Case of Post-war Labour Migration from the Caribbean to Britain, Margaret Byron
    Compromise and Coping Strategies: Gender Issues and Caribbean Migration to France, Stephanie Condon
    Strategies and Strategizing: The Struggle for Upward Mobility Among University Education Black Caribbean-born Men in Canada, Dwaine Plaza

    Biography

    Mary Chamberlain