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Caribbean Journeys
An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks
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Artikel-Nr:
9780822339946
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2007
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Karen Fog Olwig
Gewicht:
458 g
Format:
228x154x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Karen Fog Olwig is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis and Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life and a coeditor of Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity.
"In this nuanced, sensitive tracing of kinship across borders, Karen Fog Olwig reminds us that most often family ties are at the heart of why migration processes are transnational. An outstanding contribution to kinship, migration, and transnational studies, " Caribbean Journeys" is an excellent counterpoint to glib references to transnational or diasporic communities."--Nina Glick Schiller, coauthor of "Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home"
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part One: A Jamaican Family1. Learning to Mix in Society 392. Seeking Improvement beyond Jamaica 62Part Two:A Dominican Family3. The Village Origins 974. In Pursuit of a Proper Livelihood 118Part Three: A Nevisian Family5. A Family Home 1556. To Better Our Condition 176Part Four: The Family Legacies7. The First Generation: Migrating for Improvement of Self and the Family 2158. Generational Perspectives: Negotiating Identities and Origins 2449. Relating Regional, Family, and Individual Histories of Migration 270Notes 287References 297Index 311