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Caribbean Journeys – An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

Autor Karen Fog Olwig
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iun 2007
Caribbean Journeys is an in-depth ethnographic analysis of the cultural meanings of migration and home in three families of West Indian origin whose members are 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 “West Indian” 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.The three families whose extended networks Olwig traces forward in time migrated more than sixty years ago. They left distinct West Indian islands and social, economic and cultural backgrounds. One family was part of the middle-class in a small British colonial town in Jamaica. Another had its roots in the French Creole rural communities in Dominica and the third family was from an African-Caribbean village of small farmers and fishermen on Nevis. Olwig interviewed approximately 150 family members living under highly varied social and economic circumstances in locations ranging from California to Leeds, Nova Scotia to Florida, and New Jersey to southern England. Through her conversations with several generations of these far-flung families, she gives insight into each family’s educational, occupational, and socio-economic 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 rather than on collectivities and intimate spheres rather than public ones.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822339946
ISBN-10: 0822339943
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 3 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments; IntroductionPart One: A Jamaican Family1. Learning to Mix in Society; 2. Seeking Improvement beyond JamaicaPart Two:A Dominican Family3. The Village Origins; 4. In Pursuit of a Proper LivelihoodPart Three: A Nevisian Family5. A Family Home; 6. To Better Our ConditionPart Four: The Family Legacies7. The First Generation: Migrating for Improvement of Self and the Family; 8. Generational Perspectives: Negotiating Identities and Origins; 9. Relating Regional, Family, and Individual Histories of MigrationNotes; References; Index

Recenzii

“Building on her previous work on historical consciousness, nationalism, and transnationalism, Karen Fog Olwig outlines a new direction for migration studies. By highlighting the ways that individuals’ personal understandings of their migratory experiences are connected to foundational family narratives, Olwig broadens understanding of belonging and diaspora.”— Deborah A. Thomas, author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica“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, co-author of Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home
"Building on her previous work on historical consciousness, nationalism, and transnationalism, Karen Fog Olwig outlines a new direction for migration studies. By highlighting the ways that individuals' personal understandings of their migratory experiences are connected to foundational family narratives, Olwig broadens understanding of belonging and diaspora."-- Deborah A. Thomas, author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica "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, co-author of Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home

Notă biografică

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."

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"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"

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An ethnographic study of migration based on the experiences of three dispersed Caribbean families as they maintain networks across their diverse locations