Focuses on the retrospective accounts of Caribbean-born adults who as children were serial migrants, joining their parents in the UK following a period of separation. Considers aspects of their relationships with their siblings and with their mothers and fathers.
Discusses the contribution of fostering and surrogate mothering on the presence, settlement, and communities of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the U.S. from 1910 to 1950. Offers an overview of the Boston West Indian community in the U.S. and the successful formation of an immigrant neighborhood through childcare arrangements.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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313 p, Updated to reflect changes in the composition of New York City's immigrant population, this volume brings together contributions from leaders in their respective fields to show how new immigrants are transforming the city - and how New York, in turn, has affected the newcomers' lives. The contributors consider the four largest groups - Dominicans, former Soviets, Chinese and Jamaicans - as well as Mexicans, Koreans, and West Africans.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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318p, Contents: Introduction : new immigrants and changing patterns in New York City / Nancy Foner -- U.S. immigration policy and the immigrant populations of New York / Ellen Percy Kraly -- New immigrants in New York's economy / Adriana Marshall -- The Dominicans : women in the household and the garment industry / Patricia R. Pessar -- The Haitians : the cultural meaning of race and ethnicity / Susan Buchanan Stafford -- The Vincentians and Grenadians : the role of voluntary associations in immigrant adaptation to New York City / Linda Basch -- The Jamaicans : race and ethnicity among migrants in New York City / Nancy Foner -- The Koreans : small business in an urban frontier / Illsoo Kim -- The Chinese : new immigrants in New York's Chinatown / Bernard Wong -- The Soviet Jews : life in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn / Annelise Orleck.
Discusses the social conditions and family relations of African-Caribbean women migrants in Canada from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Explores the complexities of relationship between, migrant labor, motherhood, and transnationalism.
Discusses the 1978 case of seven Jamaican women who were to be deported from Canada and the questions the case raised about the value of women's labor and discriminatory immigration policies. Elucidates why the women, in their roles as mothers, decided to challenge the orders to leave Canada and illuminates the ways in which racialized women find the means to negotiate in-between spaces that allow them to survive.
