West Indian Migration

Author : Ransford W. Palmer
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034307713

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Pilgrims from the Sun by Ransford W. Palmer Pdf

In Pilgrims from the Sun, Ransford Palmer chronicles the migration of people from the English-speaking Caribbean to the United States, detailing the largely economic reasons for their departure and the cultural reasons for their successful settlement. Close to 700,000 West Indian immigrants and their children live in America today with the greatest concentrations in the New York City and Miami areas. The high value they place on hard work, education, home ownership, private savings, and family loyalty writes Palmer, has helped to rank West Indians among the most socioeconomically successful immigrant groups in the United States. Palmer looks not only at West Indians permanently residing in the United States - many of whom are employed in services, the fastest-growing sector of the economy - but also at temporary residents, in particular farm workers in Florida's sugar industry and students, and at the problem of illegal immigration. He assesses the interrelationship of migration, employment, and trade in the island and U.S. economies, and he argues that only accelerated economic growth in the islands will stem the tide of migration. Despite recent attempts by many Caribbean countries to free up their economies and to create development programs in cooperation with the European community as well as the United States, the promise of higher living standards in America remains too powerful for many West Indians to resist.

Author : Nancy Foner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520935808

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Islands in the City by Nancy Foner Pdf

This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.

Author : Ceri Peach,Institute of Race Relations
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford U.P.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173028053788

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West Indian Migration to Britain by Ceri Peach,Institute of Race Relations Pdf

Study of aspects of recent large-scale entry of West Indian immigrants into the UK - covers economic implications, sociological aspects, employment opportunities, resultant urban area population dynamics, etc., and comments on relevant legislation (the Commonwealth immigrants act). Maps showing distribution of such immigrants in the country, references, and statistical tables on coloured immigrants (incl. Of Pakistani and Indian immigrants).

Author : Ceri Peach,Institute of Race Relations
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford U.P.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015008256359

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West Indian Migration to Britain by Ceri Peach,Institute of Race Relations Pdf

Study of aspects of recent large-scale entry of West Indian immigrants into the UK - covers economic implications, sociological aspects, employment opportunities, resultant urban area population dynamics, etc., and comments on relevant legislation (the Commonwealth immigrants act). Maps showing distribution of such immigrants in the country, references, and statistical tables on coloured immigrants (incl. Of Pakistani and Indian immigrants).

Author : Lomarsh Roopnarine
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496814418

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The Indian Caribbean by Lomarsh Roopnarine Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the people and the ways in which they define themselves and the world around them. Through oral history and ethnography, Lomarsh Roopnarine explores previously marginalized Indians in the Caribbean and their distinct social dynamics and histories, including the French Caribbean and other islands with smaller South Asian populations. He pursues a comparative approach with inclusive themes that cut across the Caribbean. In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean. Today India bears little relevance to most of these Caribbean Indians. Yet, Caribbean Indians have developed an in-between status, shaped by South Asian customs such as religion, music, folklore, migration, new identities, and Bollywood films. They do not seem akin to Indians in India, nor are they like Caribbean Creoles, or mixed-race Caribbeans. Instead, they have merged India and the Caribbean to produce a distinct, dynamic local entity. The book does not neglect the arrival of nonindentured Indians in the Caribbean since the early 1900s. These people came to the Caribbean without an indentured contract or after indentured emancipation but have formed significant communities in Barbados, the US Virgin Islands, and Jamaica. Drawing upon over twenty-five years of research in the Caribbean and North America, Roopnarine contributes a thorough analysis of the Indo-Caribbean, among the first to look at the entire Indian diaspora across the Caribbean.

Author : Stuart B. Philpott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000323566

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West Indian Migration by Stuart B. Philpott Pdf

West Indian migration has attracted considerable attention in recent years. There is a growing body of sociological literature dealing with various aspects of the adjustment of West Indian, as well as other, immigrants in Britain. This book looks at the continuing relationships these migrants maintain with the societies they have left.

Author : Robert Barry Davison
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015020752153

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West Indian Migrants by Robert Barry Davison Pdf

Author : Suzanne Model
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610444002

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West Indian Immigrants by Suzanne Model Pdf

West Indian immigrants to the United States fare better than native-born African Americans on a wide array of economic measures, including labor force participation, earnings, and occupational prestige. Some researchers argue that the root of this difference lies in differing cultural attitudes toward work, while others maintain that white Americans favor West Indian blacks over African Americans, giving them an edge in the workforce. Still others hold that West Indians who emigrate to this country are more ambitious and talented than those they left behind. In West Indian Immigrants, sociologist Suzanne Model subjects these theories to close historical and empirical scrutiny to unravel the mystery of West Indian success. West Indian Immigrants draws on four decades of national census data, surveys of Caribbean emigrants around the world, and historical records dating back to the emergence of the slave trade. Model debunks the notion that growing up in an all-black society is an advantage by showing that immigrants from racially homogeneous and racially heterogeneous areas have identical economic outcomes. Weighing the evidence for white American favoritism, Model compares West Indian immigrants in New York, Toronto, London, and Amsterdam, and finds that, despite variation in the labor markets and ethnic composition of these cities, Caribbean immigrants in these four cities attain similar levels of economic success. Model also looks at "movers" and "stayers" from Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana, and finds that emigrants leaving all four countries have more education and hold higher status jobs than those who remain. In this sense, West Indians immigrants are not so different from successful native-born African Americans who have moved within the U.S. to further their careers. Both West Indian immigrants and native-born African-American movers are the "best and the brightest"—they are more literate and hold better jobs than those who stay put. While political debates about the nature of black disadvantage in America have long fixated on West Indians' relatively favorable economic position, this crucial finding reveals a fundamental flaw in the argument that West Indian success is proof of native-born blacks' behavioral shortcomings. Proponents of this viewpoint have overlooked the critical role of immigrant self-selection. West Indian Immigrants is a sweeping historical narrative and definitive empirical analysis that promises to change the way we think about what it means to be a black American. Ultimately, Model shows that West Indians aren't a black success story at all—rather, they are an immigrant success story.

Author : Ruth Glass
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3884220

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London's Newcomers by Ruth Glass Pdf

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Author : Nancy Foner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520228504

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Islands in the City by Nancy Foner Pdf

"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural but racially divided social fabric... They explore how gender, transnational networks, class, economic restructuring, and above all racial stereotyping have affected these black immigrants as they struggle for a better life and how their struggles have in turn influenced the contours of the larger society. The result is a model of multi-disciplinary analysis."—John Mollenkopf, co-author of Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century "Islands in the City is a comprehensive collection of the recent findings of the foremost scholars in this field. The premier researchers on West Indians in New York City discuss migration from historical, statistical, theoretical, and experiential points of view. This volume will be used as a model for understanding migration in other areas and it will have importance beyond its field."—Wallace Zane, author of Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion "Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United States. Islands in the City is a welcome book because of its informative essays on gender, occupation, and culture, to name but a few."—David Reimers, co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City "West Indians sit right at the center of the crucial divides of race, class, nationality, nativity, gender, generation, and identity. The insights of this book teach us much of what we need to know about our changing nation."—Jennifer Hochschild, author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation

Author : Bill Schwarz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719064759

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West Indian Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz Pdf

Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things--new music, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is the first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to live in twentieth-century Britain. Chapters discuss the influence of, amongst others, C.L.R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V.S. Naipaul.

Author : Velma Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114321180

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The Silver Men by Velma Newton Pdf

"Highlights the role of West Indies in building the Panama Railroad and Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Shows that the migration to Panama had more far-reaching demographic and economic consequences on the British West Indies than is generally contributed to the still popular conception of extra-regional migration as one of the best avenues to economic nd social betterment. Also examines the social position of th Panamanians of West Indian descent and concludes that their assimilation was still not complete even up to the end of the 20th century."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Holger Henke Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313095924

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The West Indian Americans by Holger Henke Ph.D. Pdf

The West Indian Americans introduces students and other interested readers to the diversity and cultural individuality of a growing segment of the American immigrant community. After an introductory chapter that describes the history and people of Jamaica and the other English-speaking Caribbean nations, their migration to the United States and patterns of adjustment and adaptation are discussed. Next, the West Indian cultural traditions, transferred to this country especially the churches, literature, music, and festivals, are evoked. Another chapter covers family networks, return migration, and remittances to those members left behind in the West Indies. Final chapters examine the new challenges for the West Indian Americans, such as identity issues, education and job prospects, and gang and drug problems, and the contributions of West Indian immigrants.

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134707676

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Caribbean Migration by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences to North America, Europe, and within the Caribbean. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the book discusses: * the causes of migration * the experiences of migrants * the historical, cultural and political processes * issues of gender and imperialism * the methodology of migration studies, including oral history.

Author : Glenn A. Chambers
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0807137480

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Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940 by Glenn A. Chambers Pdf

Glenn A. Chambers examines the West Indian immigrant community in Honduras through the development of the country's fruit industry, revealing that West Indians fought to maintain their identities as workers, Protestants, blacks, and English speakers in the midst of popular Latin American nationalistic notions of mestizaje, or mixed-race identity.