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317 p., Includes descriptive ethnographies of Haitians in 19th century Jamaica, eastern Cuba, Detroit, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Paris, and Boston, and innovative scholarly work on non-geographic sites of Haitian community building.
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143 p, Uses U.S. and Haitian interview data, coupled with a broader analysis of Haitian rural conditions and the effects of foreign and domestic policy on their movement, to underscore the need for a comprehensive rural strategy for economic development in Haiti.
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247 p., Explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations. The essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsides to critique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneously interrogating national discourses in their home countries.
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248 p., Case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants' new homelands. Includes chapter on Black British perspectives. From black Britain to the Caribbean : the return of the (im)migrant in Caryl Phillips's A state of independence.
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229 p, Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States.
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221 p, Contents:
1. Toward a theoretical framework for analysing Caribbean migration -- 2. The historical context: Caribbean migration from Emancipation to the Second World War -- 3. The organisation of un-recruited migration from the Caribbean to Britain -- 4. Britain as post-war migrant destination: the national scale and the Leicester locality -- 5. The occupation experience: change and continuity for Nevisian migrants in Leicester -- 6. The housing question: Caribbean migrants and the British housing market -- 7. Return to Nevis: myth and reality -- 8. Conclusion.
Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California
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153 p, Analyzes "the social and economic characteristics of ... persons who have returned to Puerto Rico ---the return migrants" (p. 8). Thus, it approaches
the study of migration from a perspective not usually taken in migration
studies. The author uses three sources of data: (1) a survey of arrivals and
departures at the San Juan International Airport, (2) special census tabula-
tions, and (3) a "motive" study of 307 return migrants. --John W. Prehn, Social Forces (1968) 47 (1), p. 97.
Hill,Robert A. (Author) and Garvey,Marcus (Author)
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Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
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845 p., "Though not an exhaustive compilation of documents from the period, the historical commentaries, chronologies, and primary documents in this volume serve as a thorough introduction to this important period in history and successfully integrates the history of Garvey and his impact on the global African diaspora into world history." -- Glenn A. Chambers, Journal of World History
Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
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531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."
