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Caribbean Journeys - An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Caribbean Journeys - An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural
meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian
background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North
America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond its
current focus on sending and receiving societies, Karen Fog Olwig
makes migratory family networks the locus of her analysis. For the
people whose lives she traces, being "Caribbean" is not necessarily
rooted in ongoing visits to their countries of origin, or in ethnic
communities in the receiving countries, but rather in family
narratives and the maintenance of family networks across vast
geographical expanses.The migratory journeys of the families in
this study began more than sixty years ago, when individuals in the
three families left home in a British colonial town in Jamaica, a
French Creole rural community in Dominica, and an African-Caribbean
village of small farmers on Nevis. Olwig follows the three family
networks forward in time, interviewing family members living under
highly varied social and economic circumstances in locations
ranging from California to Barbados, Nova Scotia to Florida, and
New Jersey to England. Through her conversations with several
generations of these far-flung families, she gives insight into
each family's educational, occupational, and socioeconomic
trajectories. Olwig contends that terms such as "Caribbean
diaspora" wrongly assume a culturally homogeneous homeland. As she
demonstrates in Caribbean Journeys, anthropologists who want a
nuanced understanding of how migrants and their descendants
perceive their origins and identities must focus on interpersonal
relations and intimate spheres as well as on collectivities and
public expressions of belonging.
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