Caribbean Migration: Globalized Identities

by Chamberlain,Mary

• ISBN13: 9780415165808
• ISBN10: 0415165806
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Caribbean Migrationplaces emphasis on the nature and meaning of the migration experience as a continuing historical process that creates a vibrant culture and incorporates new insights on gender, citizenship, imperialism, and the globalization of both capitalism and socialism to the contemporary problems of the Caribbean.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii	(2)
Contributors	ix	(3)
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(20)
Mary Chamberlain
Part I Rethinking diaspora	21	(42)
1 Cultural diaspora: the Caribbean case	21	(15)
Robin Cohen
2 Modes of incorporation: colonial Caribbean migrants in Western Europe and the United States	36	(11)
Ramón Grosfoguel
3 Towards a comparative perspective on Caribbean migration	47	(16)
Nancy Foner
Part II Migration narratives	63	(32)
4 Constructing lives: migration narratives and life stories among Nevisians	63	(18)
Karen Fog Olwig
5 Genres of migration	81	(14)
Selma Leydesdorff
Part III Ethnicity and identity	95	(32)
6 The legacy of migration: immigrant mothers and daughters and the process of intergenerational transmission	95	(14)
Helma Lutz
7 Constructions of ethnicity in the diaspora: the case of three generations of Surinamese-Javanese women in the Netherlands	109	(18)
Yvette Kopijn
Part IV Family and identity	127	(38)
8 The delusive continuities of the Dutch Caribbean diaspora	127	(21)
Gert Oostindie
9 Family and identity: Barbadian migrants to Britain	148	(17)
Mary Chamberlain
Part V Caribbean migration cultures	165	(38)
10 Indians, Jamaica and the emergence of a modern migration culture	165	(12)
Verene A. Shepherd
11 Barbadian migrants in the Putumayo district of the Amazon, 1904-1911	177	(11)
Howard Johnson
12 Globalization and the development of a Caribbean migration culture	188	(15)
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Part VI Gender, socialisation and survival in Caribbean communities	203	(64)
13 Trends in levels of Caribbean segregation, Great Britain, 1961-91	203	(14)
Ceri Peach
14 Migration, work and gender: the case of post-war labour migration from the Caribbean to Britain	217	(15)
Margaret Byron
15 Compromise and coping strategies: gender issues and Caribbean migration to France	232	(16)
Stephanie Condon
16 Strategies and strategizing: the struggle for upward mobility among university educated black Caribbean-born men in Canada	248	(19)
Dwaine Plaza
Index	267