Caribbean MigrationThe book contributes to international migration at a theoretical level, destroying the myth of migration being purely the result of poverty and over-population and rejecting explanations based on "push-pull" models and the unilateral flow inherent in such models. Instead it presents a conceptualization of Caribbean migration that is fundamentally circular and self-perpetuating, and which has become part of the institutional framework of Caribbean societies.
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Contents
Series Preface | 1 |
Theoretical perspectives on Caribbean | 15 |
Jamaica Barbados | 37 |
The microenvironments of migration | 63 |
Migration and the propensity | 84 |
Evaluations of work education | 108 |
Accessibility and information | 126 |
Integration and mental images | 144 |
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abroad accessibility actual migration agricultural aspects associated Barbadians Barbados and St Barrouallie bauxite Belair Bridgetown Britain capital Caribbean countries Caribbean migration CARICOM cent centres characteristics Christchurch communities cultural Discovery Bay district economic effect emigration rates employment environment evaluation Ewarton factors framework global Grant's Pen groups Harbour View historical-structural household image of migration impact important indices individual industry influence international migration Jamaica Kingston labour migration behaviour migration process migration rates mobility Montego Bay movement occupations occurred Oistins opportunities overseas parish pattern perceived perception places plantation Port Morant position potential propensity for migration reference reflected relation relatively rural areas sample population sector significant social society spatial Speightstown St Catherine St James St John St Lucy St Mary St Michael St Thomas St Vincent structure sugar three islands tion tourism town urban variation Vincentians wage labourers Westmoreland Windward and Leeward