In search of a better life perspectives on migration from the Caribbean
Title:
In search of a better life perspectives on migration from the Caribbean
Author:
Palmer, Ransford W.
ISBN:
9780313020131
Publication Information:
New York : Praeger, 1990.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 185 p.)
Contents:
Tables; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Origins and Destinations; 1. Caribbean Development and the Migration Imperative; 2. Nineteenth-Century West Indian Migration to Britain; 3. Forty-and-One Years On: An Overview of Afro-Caribbean Migration to the United Kingdom; Part II: Settlement and Adaptation; 4. Education and Qualifications of Caribbean Immigrants and Their Children in Britain and Canada; 5. Dominican International Migration: The Role of Households and Social Networks; 6. Dependents or Independent Workers?: The Status of Caribbean Immigrant Women in the United States.
Abstract:
This volume examines the phenomenon of mass population migration from the Caribbean to North America and the United Kingdom and the social, cultural, and economic adaptation of the immigrants to their new environments. A central theme of this volume is that twentieth century Caribbean migration is more than the migration of labor in search of jobs; it is also a movement of households and thus affects not only the well-being of family members but also their social relationships. The contributors provide new analytical perspectives on the factors that motivate this movement, and the social, cult.
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