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

Hardcover • 2007

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

By Karen Fog

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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...Show more

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9780822339946

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2007

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

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