Migration and identity

WEEK 19 The Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America

1.3.2005

What are the dynamics of Anglophone Caribbean migration? What is the fate and fortune of Caribbean people in Europe and the USA? Do they constitute a ‘diaspora of a diaspora’?
Anderson, A. (1993) Caribbean immigrants: a socio-demographic profile, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press

Barrett, L. (1988) The Rastafarians: sounds of cultural dissonance, Boston: Beacon Press

Bonnett, A. W. (1990) ‘The new female West Indian immigrant: dilemmas of coping in the host society’, in R. Palmer (ed.) In search of a better life: Perspectives on migration from the Caribbean, New York: Praeger

Brock, C. (ed.) (1986) The Caribbean in Europe: aspects of the West Indian experience in Britain, France and the Netherlands, London: Frank Cass

Byron, M. (1994) The unfinished cycle: post-war migration from the Caribbean to Britain, Avebury: Aldershot

Byron, M. (1998) ‘Migration work and gender: the case of post war migration from the Caribbean to Britain’ in Mary Chamberlain (ed.) Globalised identities, London: Routledge

Byron, M. and Condon, S. (1996) ‘A comparative study of Caribbean migration to Britain and France towards a context-dependent explanation’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 21(1), 91-104

Cashmore, E. (1984) The Rastafarians, Minority Rights Group Report No.4, London: Minority Rights Group

Chamberlain, M. (1994) ‘Family and identity: Barbadian migrants to Britain’ in R. Benmayor and A. Skotes (eds.) Migration and identity, Oxford University Press

Chamberlain, Mary (1997) Narratives of Exile and Return Basingstoke: Macmillan*

Chamberlain, Mary (1998) Caribbean Migration: Globalised Identities London: Routledge*

Cohen, R. (1992) ‘The diaspora of a diaspora: the case of the Caribbean’, Social Science Information, 31 (1), 159-169;

Conway, D. et al (1994) ‘The complexity of Caribbean migration’, Caribbean Affairs, 7(4), 96-119

Cross, M. (1986) ‘Migration and exclusion’, in C. Brock The Caribbean in Europe: aspects of the West Indian experience in Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, London: Frank Cass

Cross, M. (1988) Lost illusions: Caribbean minorities in Britain and the Netherlands, London: Routledge

De Wind, J., T. Seidl and J. Shenk ‘Contract Labour in US Agriculture: The West Indian Cane Cutters in Florida’, in Cohen, Gutkind and Brazier Peasants and Proletarians 1979

Duani, J. (1990) ‘ The Carribean diaspora - the view from Miami and New York’, Carribean Studies, 23 (3-4), 160

Enloe, C. (1982) ‘Guyanese political response to migration’, in Revisita Interamericana, (4), 492-500

Fitzherbert, K. (1967) West Indian children in London, London: G. Bell & Sons

Fitzpatrick, J. P. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning of Migration to the Mainland (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1971) E 184.P85

Fleras, A. et al. (1992) Multiculturalism in Canada: the challenge of diversity, Toronto: Nelson Canada

Foner, N. (1979) Jamaica farewell: Jamaican migrants in London, Routledge

Foner, N. (1987) ‘The Jamaicans: race and ethnicity among migrants in New York City’ in Nancy Foner (ed) New immigrants in New York, Columbia University Press

Foner, N. (1987) ‘West Indians in New York City and London: a comparative analysis’ in C. R Sutton and E. M. Chaney (eds) Caribbean life in New York City: sociocultural dimensions, New York: Centre for Migration Studies, 117-130

Foner, N. (ed.) (1989) New immigrants in New York, Columbia University Press

Foner, N. ‘Race and Colour: Jamaican Migrants in London and New York’, International Migration Review, 19 (4), 1985, 708–27

Foner, N. ‘West Indians in New York and London: A Comparative Analysis’, International Migration Review, 13 (2), 1979, 284–97*

Gilroy, P. (1987) There ain’t no black in the union jack, London: Hutchinson

Giraud, M. and C. V. Marie (1987) ‘Insertion et gestion socio-politique de l’identité culturelle: le cas des Antillais en France’, Revue Européenne des migrations Internationales, 3 (3), 31–48

Glazier, Stephen D. (ed.) (1985) Caribbean ethnicity revisited, New York: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers. (Special issue of Ethnic Groups)

Gmelch, G. (1992) Double passage: the lives of Caribbean migrants abroad and back home, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press*

Gordon, M. (1991) ‘Dependent or independent workers: the status of Caribbean immigrant women in the United States’, in R. Palmer (ed) In search of a better life: perspectives on migration from the Caribbean, New York: Praeger

Gosine, Mahin (1994) ‘Group relations and societal adjustment of Caribbean East Indians in America: Trinidadians and Guyanese in perspective’ in Mahin Gosine (ed.) The East Indian Odyssey: dilemmas of a migrant people, New York: Windsor, 205-119

Grosfoguel, R. (1997) ‘Colonial Caribbean migration to France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 20 (3), 594-612

Hall, S. (1991) ‘Old and new identities; old and new ethnicites’ in Anthony D. King, (ed.), Culture, globilization and the world system, Binghamton: State University

Hall, S. (1995) ‘Negoiating Caribbean identities’, New Left Review, (209), 3-14

Hall, Stuart (1988) ‘Migration from the English-speaking Caribbean to the United Kingdom, 1950-80’ in Reginald Appleyard (ed.) International migration today, Vol. 1, Paris: UNESCO, 264-310

Harney, S. (1996) Nationalism and identity: culture and the imagination in a Caribbean diaspora London: Zed Press*

Harris, Clive and James Winston (eds) (1993) Inside Babylon: the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, London:Verso*

Hendricks, Glenn L (1975) Dominican diaspora: from the Dominican Republic to New York city, New York: Columbia University Press

Hennessy, A. (1988) ‘Workers of the night: West Indians in Britain’, in M. Cross et al. (eds), Lost illusions: Caribbean minoritiesin Britain and the Netherlands, London: Routledge

Henry, F. (1994) The Caribbean disapora in Toronto: learning to live with racism, University of Toronto Press

Ho, C. (1991) Saltwater trinnies: Afro-Trinidadian immigrant network and non-assimilation in Los Angeles, New York: AMS

James, Winston and Clive Harris (eds.) (1993) Inside Babylon: The Caribbean diaspora in Britain, London: Verso

Levine, Barry B. (ed.) (1987) The Caribbean exodus, New York: Praeger* {a good discussion of causes of emigration, but does not deal with consequences}

Light, I. Ethnic Enterprise in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972)* HN 1161.L4

Lowenthal, D. (1978) ‘West Indian emigrants overseas’, in Colin G. Clarke (ed.) Caribbean social relations, Centre for Latin-American Studies, University of Liverpool, Monograph Series, 8, 82–95

Mortimer, D. et al. (eds) (1981) Female immigrants to the United States: Caribbean, Latin American and African experiences, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies

Nanton, P.W. (1997) ‘The Caribbean diaspora in the promised land’, in Anne J. Kershan (ed.) London: the promised land? The migrant experience in a capital city, Aldershot:Avebury

Palmer, R. (ed.) (1990) In search of a better life: perspectives on migration from the Caribbean, New York: Praeger*

Palmer, W. B. ‘A Decade of West Indian Migration to the United States, 1962–1972’, Social and Economic Studies Vol. 23, 1974, 571–88

Peach, C. (1968) West Indian migration to Britain: a social geography, London: Oxford University Press

Peach, C. (1984) ‘The force of the West Indian island identity in Britain’, in Colin Clarke et al. (eds), Geography and ethnic pluralism, London: Allen & Unwin, 214-230

Philpott, S. (1977) ‘The Montserratians: migration, dependency and the maintenance of island ties’, in J. Watson (ed.), Between two cultures, Oxford: Blackwell

Philpott, S.B. (1973) West Indian migration: the Montserrat case, London: Athlone Press

Portes, A. et al. (1994) Caribbean diasporas: migration and ethnic communities, Annals of the American Academy of Political Science and Social Science, 533, 48-69*

Pryce, K. (1979) Endless pressure: a study of West Indian life-styles in Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books

Raphael, L. ‘West Indians and Afro-Americans’, Freedomways Vol.4, 1964, 438–45

Rich, P. (1987) ‘ The black diaspora in Britain - Afro-Caribbean students and the struggle for a political identity’, Immigrants and Minorities, 6 (2), 151-174

Thomas-Hope, E. (1975) ‘The adaptation of migrants from the English-speaking Caribbean in select urban centres of Britain and North America’, Migration symposium, 34 Annual Meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology, 3-11

Vertovec, Steven (1993) ‘Indo-Caribbean experience in Britain: overlooked, miscategorized, misunderstood’ in Winston James and Clive Harris (eds) Inside Baylon. The Caribbean diaspora in Britain, London: Verso, 165-178

Vertovec, Steven (1994) ‘Caught in an ethnic quandary. Indo-Caribbean Hindus in London’ in Roger Ballard (ed.) Desh Pardesh, London: Hurst, 272-290

Ward, R. H. and R. Jenkins (eds) Ethnic Communities in Business (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) especially Reeves and Ward HN 1111.E8

Waters, M.C. (1991) ‘Ethnic and racial identities of second-generation Black immigrants in New York City’, International Migration Review, 28, (4), 795-830

Watson, F. (ed.) Between Two Cultures (Oxford: Blackwell, 1977) articles by Philpott and Foner HC 2311.W2

Watson, H.A. (1988), ‘Structural determinants in the reproduction of the Caribbean diaspora - surplus labour, unequal exchange and merchant capital’, Caribbean Studies, 21 (3-4), 1-17

Western, J. (1992) A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home, London: UCL Press


Self-check: You should understand the full variety of Caribbean migration, be able to explain the differential treatment meted out to the different groups and comprehend something of their fates and fortunes in the USA

WEEK 20 Diasporas, Entrpreneurship and Globalisation

8.3.2005
Five aspects of globalisation will be considered here (a) A world economy with quicker and denser transactions between its sub-sectors due to better communications, cheaper transport and the effects of liberal trade and capital-flow policies; (b) Forms of international migration that emphasise contractual relationships, intermittent stays abroad and sojourning (c) A new notion of space with an accelerated ‘space-time compression’ speeding up the linkages between global cities and spaces and, by contrast, relatively slowing down links to the hinterlands of the world economy (d) A deterritorialization of social identity challenging the hegemonizing nation-states’ claim to make an exclusive citizenship and (e) The growth of forms of immigrant entrepreneurship that ‘take advantage of’ globalisation.
Armstrong, John A. (1976) ‘Mobilized and proletarian diasporas’, American Political Science Review, 20 (2), 393–408

Bonacich, Edna (1973) ‘A theory of middlemen minorities’ American Sociological Review, 38, 583–94

Bonacich, Edna (1988) ‘The costs of immigrant entrepreneurship’ in Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich Immigrant entrepreneurs, Berkeley: University of California Press, 425–36

Bonacich, Edna (1993) ‘The other side of ethnic entrepreneurship: A dialogue with Waldinger, Aldrich, Ward and associates’, International Migration Review, 27 (3), 685–92

Chan, Kwok Bun and Ong Jin Hui (1995) ‘The many faces of immigration entrpreneurship’ in Robin Cohen (ed.) The Cambridge survey of world migration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 523–31

Featherstone, Mike (ed.) (1994) Global culture: Nationalism, globalization and modernity, London: Sage

Fitzgerald, C. P. (1972) China and the overseas Chinese: A Study of Peking’s changing policy, 1949–1970, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Friedman, John (1986) ‘The world city hypothesis’, Development and Change 17 (1), 69–83

Harvey, David (1989) The condition of post-modernity, Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Hourani, Albert and Nadim Shehadi (eds) (1992) The Lebanese in the world: a century of emigration, London: I. B. Tauris for the Centre for Lebanese Studies

Knight, Richard V. and Gary Gappert (eds) (1989) Cities in a global society, Newbury Park: Sage

Kotkin, Joel (1992) Tribes: How race, religion and identity determine success in the global economy, New York: Random House***

Kwong, Peter (1987) The New Chinatown, New York: Hill and Wang

McGrew, Anthoy (1992) ‘A global society’ in Stuart Hall et al. Modernity and its futures, Cambridge: Polity Press in association with the Open University, 61-102

Naff, Alixa (1992) ‘Lebanese immigration into the United States: 1880 to the present’ in Albert Hourani and Nadim Shehadi (eds) The Lebanese in the world: a century of emigration, London: I. B. Tauris for the Centre for Lebanese Studies, 141–65

Pan, Lynn (1991) Sons of the yellow emperor: the story of the overseas Chinese, London: Mandarin

Perlmutter, H.V. (1991) ‘On the rocky road to the first global civilisation’, Human Relations 44 (9), 897-1010

Robertson, Roland (1994) Globalization: Social theory and global culture, London: Sage

Sassen-Koob, Saskia (1990) The global city, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Wang, Gungwu (1991) China and the Chinese overseas, Singapore: Times Academic Press

Wang, Gungwu (1992) Community and nation: China, southeast Asia and Australia, St Leonards, Australia: Allen and Unwin for the Asian Studies Association of Australia

Wang, Gungwu (1992a) ‘Sojourning: The Chinese experience in southeast Asia’, Jennifer Cushman Memorial Lecture, Mimeo

Self-check: You should be familiar with the major theories of globalisation as they impact on international migration and ethnic entrepreneurship