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Caribbean circuits : new directions in the study of Caribbean migration / Patricia R. Pessar, editor.

Title
Caribbean circuits : new directions in the study of Caribbean migration / Patricia R. Pessar, editor.
Publication
New York : Center for Migration Studies, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Pessar, Patricia R.
Description
231 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
Comprises six papers which discuss Caribbean return migration.
Subject
  • Return migration > Dominican Republic
  • Return migration > Jamaica
  • Return migration > West Indies
  • West Indies > Emigration and immigration
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : New approaches to Caribbean emigration and return / Patricia R. Pessar -- "Going home" : class, gender and household transformation among Domincan return migrants / Luis Eduardo Guarnizo -- Dominican women's experiences of return migration : the life stories of five women / Lourdes Bueno -- Reimagining the nation and defining the district : Dominican migration and transnational politics / Pamela M. Graham -- Haitian identities at the juncture between diaspora and homeland / Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick Schiller -- Return migration and small business development in Jamaica / Barry Chevannes and Heather Ricketts -- Workforce losses and return migration to the Caribbean : a case study of Jamaica nurses / Dennis A. Brown.
ISBN
0934733945 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^96036181^
OCLC
  • 35243584
  • SCSB-11322146
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library