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

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Description for Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks Paperback. An 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. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822339946
SKU
V9780822339946
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About Karen Fog Olwig
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.

Reviews for Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks
“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 ... Read more

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