T Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 14483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9618-6318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 610 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Migrant Women Opposing Governmental Performative Politics and the Hostile Environment
The increasingly restrictive and punitive hostile environment policies reinforce the Conservative Government stance of being 'tough on immigration'. In public debates the government continues to champion lesser rights for racialised migrants through three key aspects of 'performative politics': the creation of social realities, social identities, and social relationships. We illustrate how the policy of No Recourse to Public Funding (NRPF) is an …
Let Our Legacy Continue: Beginning an archival journey a creative essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence…
How do archives start and who are they for? The Caribbean Social Forum, based in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, are currently considering these questions as they look to preserve the stories of over 600 Caribbean members who the media have framed as ‘the Windrush Generation’. The paper argues that co-created projects, where the lead is de-centered away from the university institution itself, might begin to decolonise knowledg…
Methodological Innovation in Research: Participatory Theater with Migrant Families on Conflicts and Transformations over the Politics of Belonging
This paper introduces notions of conviviality as both a research practice and a research outcome through an exploration of the racialised and gendered experiences of migrant mothers and young girls in the current hostile environment for migrants in the UK. We argue that innovative, participatory theater and walking methods constitute a convivial practice, particularly helpful for addressing the everyday lives of migrant families within the curren…
Studies of the Maternal: Black Mothering 10 Years On
In this article, I reflect that 10 years on the study of the maternal continues to offer a critical space in to centre black mothering in the UK. Not only does it provide an analytical lens in which to document and reflect on black women’s daily lived encounters, but it also provides a framework in which to assert the validity of black mothers’ knowledge. This is particularly necessary for countering cultural messages that seek to deny their know…
Proliferation of Hallyu Wave and Korean Popular Culture Across the World: A Systematic Literature Review From 2000-2019
The exponential growth in the popularity of Korean pop cultural products across the globe known as the Hallyu wave has grabbed the attention of people worldwide. At times when the geographic boundaries have become blurred due to the virtual connectivity and advancement in internet technology, South Korean popular culture is developing at an unprecedented rate across the globe. The popularity is such that it has entered the mainstream even competi…
Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’
This article critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue. It argues both epistemologically and methodologically for the benefits of undertaking participatory arts-based, ethno-mimetic, performative methods with women and communities to better understand women’s lives,…
Migrant mothers: Kin work and cultural work in making future citizens
This themed issue explores the caring, cultural and emotional labour of migrant mothers in raising their children, highlighting the ways in which their mothering and family practices contribute to creating future citizens in contemporary societies, increasingly characterised by ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity. A key objective of the themed issue is to probe into the practices, processes and structures shaping migrant moth…
Migrant mothers: Performing Kin Work and Belonging Across Private and Public Boundaries
This article explores how migrant mothering kin work challenges private and public boundaries, giving rise to new conceptions and practices of citizenship. We highlight the potential of participatory theatre methods – specifically, forum theatre and Playback – for understanding the relationship between mothering, ethnic belonging and citizenship. We also assess the significance of migrant women’s kin work within their families and communities for…
Mapping the role of 'transnational family habitus' in the lives of young people and children
In this article, we develop the concept of 'transnational family habitus' as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background are 'doing families' transnationally. Drawing on over a decade of cumulative research on Caribbean and Italian families in the UK, as well as on a new joint research project, we first investigate the opportunities and consequences of a transnational family habitus…
Introduction: Migrant Mothers Challenging Racialized Citizenship
This article introduces the Special Issue on Migrant Mothers' Creative Interventions into Racialized Citizenship. It reflects on the theoretical and policy areas to which research on migrant mothers' citizenship can contribute. The introduction argues that studies on citizenship, racialization, migration are important to theoretical as well as policy debates on contemporary nationhood, multiculturalism, generational and social cohesion as well as…
Migrant mothers' creative interventions into racialized citizenship
Racialized migrant mothers are often cast as marginal to theoretical and political debates of citizenship, yet by taking seriously the contributions to cultural and caring citizenship they make, we challenge the racialized boundaries of citizenship. Drawing on theories of enacting citizenship, i.e. challenging hegemonic narratives of who can legitimately claim to contribute to citizenship, we explore migrant women's mothering through participator…
Tropical limestone forest resilience and late Pleistocene foraging during MIS-2 in the Tràng An massif, Vietnam
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
Reflecting on the transformative potential of participatory theatre methods for social research, the article draws on a project with ethnically diverse migrant mothers in London. The research reframes the experiences and practices of socially and ethnically marginalized migrant mothers as active interventions into citizenship. We also challenge recurring public discourses casting migrant mothers as threats to social and cultural cohesion who do n…
Transnational and diasporic youth identities: Exploring conceptual themes and future research agendas
This special issue brings together multidisciplinary and international perspectives on the importance of diasporic and transnational networks for the formation of ethnic identity by migrant youths. Within the context of this issue migrant youths refer to young people (aged 16–35 years) who are themselves migrants or are children and grandchildren of migrants. Our attention to the transnational and diasporic identities of migrant youths is in dire…
Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain
Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across national borders. Research within the field of migration studies, has been pivotal in highlighting the maintenance of family networks across national borders and geographical distance. Yet, rather surprisingly, a detaile…
Research Note: Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers
Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helpi…
Them and Us’: ‘Black Neighbourhoods’ as a Social Capital Resource among Black Youths Living in Inner-city London
This paper will examine the views and experiences of Black youths living in socially deprived areas of London in order to examine the way in which they recognise the term ‘Black neighbourhood’ as a resource for ethnic identity formation and collective mobilisation. Despite the apparent problems that are typically associated with ‘Black neighbourhoods’ for many Black youths, these neighbourhoods also represent urban spaces through which a range of…
Birds of a feather stick together'? Negotiating community, family and intimate relationships between 'established' and 'newcomer' Caribbean migrants in Britain
This article explores the ‘invisible’ boundary separating and informing social relations among ‘established’ and ‘newcomer’ Caribbean migrant communities in Britain. To briefly note, ‘established’ migrants are characterised in the analysis as those Caribbean migrants who settled in Britain from the 1940s, their offspring and subsequent generations. In contrast, the ‘newcomer’ represents a new influx of Caribbean that arrived and settled in Britai…
Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration: Transnational Family Relationships with 'Left-Behind' Kin in Britain
There has been increasing research interest in second-generation return migration to the Caribbean. However, little is known or understood about these returnees’ relationships with ‘left-behind’ kin in Britain. Drawing on qualitative data, the paper examines this issue in order to provide new insights into existing research on second-generation return migration. Special attention is given to understanding the reasons why these backward links are …
Transnational Families: Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital
1.Theorising Transnational Families 2.Social Capital Joins the Trinity: Families, Ethnicities, Communities 3.Methodological Issues and Challenges 4.Migration, Transnational Families and Communities 5.Migrants, Offspring, and Settlement 6.Families, Needs and Caring Practices 7.Continuity and Invention Of Identities Within Families and Communities 8.Problems of Belonging and 'Return' 9.Alienation and Escape from the Family and Community 10.Crossing…
Transnational Families
Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and famil…
Jamaican hands across the Atlantic
Jamaican hands across the Atlantic, by Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson, Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 2006, £16.99 (paperback), ISBN 976-637-246-2 Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic investigates
Transnational family relationships, social networks and return migration among British-Caribbean young people
The study explores the issue of transnational family relationships and return migration among British-Caribbean second generation young people.Footnote1 It describes how transnational family ties and social networks are utilized as social capital resources to facilitate these young people's migration from Britain to the Caribbean, their parents' country of origin. A combination of internally formed and externally imposed understandings of ethnic …
Racism and education: Coincidence or conspiracy
Exploring the Absent/Present Dilemma: Black Fathers, Family Relationships, and Social Capital in Britain
Stereotypes show nonresident black fathers as absentee parents. In this article, the author presents a critique of the various ways the literature constructs nonresident black fathers as absent from parenting and family relationships. Drawing on the empirical data collected from two qualitative studies conducted in Britain, this article illustrates that contrary to popular belief, nonresident black fathers are active participants in their childre…
Motherhood, Paid Work and Partnering: Values and Theories
The male breadwinner model, which dominated both policy assumptions and social ideals in the post-war welfare state, is increasingly being supplanted by an adult worker family model. In this new model, both men and women are assumed to be primarily workers in the labour market, who as fathers and mothers pool their earned income in supporting children. In this article we assess this assumption. First, we examine the gendered moral rationalities o…
Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People
The theoretical fathers of social capital (Putnam, Coleman and Bourdieu) are criticised for seeing children as passive recipients of parental social capital rather than active producers, and recent literature and debate has attempted to correct this earlier imbalance. We contribute to this work by using social capital as a lens through which to explore transitions, networks and communities in the lives of children and young people. Drawing on thr…
Caribbean families, social capital and young people's diasporic identities
This article investigates the ways in which second- and third-generation young people of Caribbean descent in Britain engage in processes of constructing ethnic identity, and the ways in which they utilize family and kinship networks and relationships. The article begins by reviewing some of the key ideas of social capital and the inter-relationship between social capital and ethnicity. It then provides descriptive accounts of the young people's …
Transnational family relationships, social networks and return migration among British-Caribbean young people
The study explores the issue of transnational family relationships and return migration among British-Caribbean second generation young people.Footnote1 It describes how transnational family ties and social networks are utilized as social capital resources to facilitate these young people's migration from Britain to the Caribbean, their parents' country of origin. A combination of internally formed and externally imposed understandings of ethnic …
Migrant mothers' creative interventions into racialized citizenship
Racialized migrant mothers are often cast as marginal to theoretical and political debates of citizenship, yet by taking seriously the contributions to cultural and caring citizenship they make, we challenge the racialized boundaries of citizenship. Drawing on theories of enacting citizenship, i.e. challenging hegemonic narratives of who can legitimately claim to contribute to citizenship, we explore migrant women's mothering through participator…
Introduction: Migrant Mothers Challenging Racialized Citizenship
This article introduces the Special Issue on Migrant Mothers' Creative Interventions into Racialized Citizenship. It reflects on the theoretical and policy areas to which research on migrant mothers' citizenship can contribute. The introduction argues that studies on citizenship, racialization, migration are important to theoretical as well as policy debates on contemporary nationhood, multiculturalism, generational and social cohesion as well as…
Black mothering, paid work and identity
Recent figures suggest that in Britain today, 77.3% of black women are engaged in full-time paid work, a figure which has remained fairly consistent since the introduction of statistical data assessing the work activity of African-Caribbean women from post-war years (CRE 1997). The study addresses the extent to which black women's high work rate derives from a combination of historical cultural and structural economic factors. Historical and cult…
Friendship Networks, Social Capital and Ethnic Identity: Researching the Perspectives of Caribbean Young People in Britain
This article examines the perspectives of Caribbean young people in Britain in order to examine the issue of friendship networks. The research shows that the young people interviewed have a vast array of friendship networks across diverse ethnic groups. However, the majority of the Caribbean young people in the study acknowledged that their three closest friends or 'best friends' shared their own ethnic background. It was these friends that most …
Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’
This article critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue. It argues both epistemologically and methodologically for the benefits of undertaking participatory arts-based, ethno-mimetic, performative methods with women and communities to better understand women’s lives,…
Exploring the Absent/Present Dilemma: Black Fathers, Family Relationships, and Social Capital in Britain
Stereotypes show nonresident black fathers as absentee parents. In this article, the author presents a critique of the various ways the literature constructs nonresident black fathers as absent from parenting and family relationships. Drawing on the empirical data collected from two qualitative studies conducted in Britain, this article illustrates that contrary to popular belief, nonresident black fathers are active participants in their childre…
Re-thinking a black feminist standpoint
Black feminists in Britain and the USA have long argued that there exists a black feminist standpoint based on theoretical understanding of black women's everyday experiences. This article draws connections between black feminist standpoint theory and the widening availability of black women's writings within literature and popular culture to investigate the issue of what experiences get taken up and come to define the black female experience. Th…
Family and Community Networks in the (Re)making of Ethnic Identity of Caribbean Young People in Britain
This paper examines how Caribbean young people utilize community and family networks to re-affirm notions of cultural, ethnic and family belonging. At a community level, this occurs through Caribbean young people's participation in black-led institutions and agencies within their local communities and neighbourhoods. At a family level, the young people are involved in kinship activities and practices that develop and maintain social networks at l…
Them and Us’: ‘Black Neighbourhoods’ as a Social Capital Resource among Black Youths Living in Inner-city London
This paper will examine the views and experiences of Black youths living in socially deprived areas of London in order to examine the way in which they recognise the term ‘Black neighbourhood’ as a resource for ethnic identity formation and collective mobilisation. Despite the apparent problems that are typically associated with ‘Black neighbourhoods’ for many Black youths, these neighbourhoods also represent urban spaces through which a range of…
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
Reflecting on the transformative potential of participatory theatre methods for social research, the article draws on a project with ethnically diverse migrant mothers in London. The research reframes the experiences and practices of socially and ethnically marginalized migrant mothers as active interventions into citizenship. We also challenge recurring public discourses casting migrant mothers as threats to social and cultural cohesion who do n…
Migrant mothers: Performing Kin Work and Belonging Across Private and Public Boundaries
This article explores how migrant mothering kin work challenges private and public boundaries, giving rise to new conceptions and practices of citizenship. We highlight the potential of participatory theatre methods – specifically, forum theatre and Playback – for understanding the relationship between mothering, ethnic belonging and citizenship. We also assess the significance of migrant women’s kin work within their families and communities for…
Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration: Transnational Family Relationships with 'Left-Behind' Kin in Britain
There has been increasing research interest in second-generation return migration to the Caribbean. However, little is known or understood about these returnees’ relationships with ‘left-behind’ kin in Britain. Drawing on qualitative data, the paper examines this issue in order to provide new insights into existing research on second-generation return migration. Special attention is given to understanding the reasons why these backward links are …
Black to the community: An analysis of 'black' community parenting in Britain
Over the last 20 years there has been a steady increase in the number of black welfare-based community organisations. This is said to be an outcome of black people's increased collective mobilisation in response to feelings of disengagement, disillusionment and disaffection with 'mainstream' municipal bodies. It has also been suggested that (perceived) changes in the black family have encouraged individuals to turn away from extended family membe…
Mapping the role of 'transnational family habitus' in the lives of young people and children
In this article, we develop the concept of 'transnational family habitus' as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background are 'doing families' transnationally. Drawing on over a decade of cumulative research on Caribbean and Italian families in the UK, as well as on a new joint research project, we first investigate the opportunities and consequences of a transnational family habitus…
Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain
Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across national borders. Research within the field of migration studies, has been pivotal in highlighting the maintenance of family networks across national borders and geographical distance. Yet, rather surprisingly, a detaile…
Methodological Innovation in Research: Participatory Theater with Migrant Families on Conflicts and Transformations over the Politics of Belonging
This paper introduces notions of conviviality as both a research practice and a research outcome through an exploration of the racialised and gendered experiences of migrant mothers and young girls in the current hostile environment for migrants in the UK. We argue that innovative, participatory theater and walking methods constitute a convivial practice, particularly helpful for addressing the everyday lives of migrant families within the curren…
Ethnicity, Families and Social Capital: Caring Relationships across Italian and Caribbean Transnational Families
Social capital theorists acknowledge that caring networks operating within and above all across households lie at the heart of families and communities. They also see these networks and family bonds as generally declining in contemporary society due to individualisation. However, there seems to be little empirical evidence documenting these processes in detail, particularly with regards to minority ethnic and transnational families. This article …
Migrant mothers: Kin work and cultural work in making future citizens
This themed issue explores the caring, cultural and emotional labour of migrant mothers in raising their children, highlighting the ways in which their mothering and family practices contribute to creating future citizens in contemporary societies, increasingly characterised by ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity. A key objective of the themed issue is to probe into the practices, processes and structures shaping migrant moth…
Research Note: Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers
Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helpi…
Birds of a feather stick together'? Negotiating community, family and intimate relationships between 'established' and 'newcomer' Caribbean migrants in Britain
This article explores the ‘invisible’ boundary separating and informing social relations among ‘established’ and ‘newcomer’ Caribbean migrant communities in Britain. To briefly note, ‘established’ migrants are characterised in the analysis as those Caribbean migrants who settled in Britain from the 1940s, their offspring and subsequent generations. In contrast, the ‘newcomer’ represents a new influx of Caribbean that arrived and settled in Britai…
Social and family responsibility or self-interest: A case study of mothers’ work ethos in a hospital and an accountancy firm
Mothers’ increasing labour market participation is posed as a key aspect of a growing trend towards individualization — both for ill and for good. In ‘for ill’ versions, mothers’ employment is regarded as undermining commitment to family relationships and leading to a loss of community. In ‘for good’ versions, family and community relationships become contingent upon values of equality and respect. ‘Preference theory’ modifies the individualizati…
Papyrus and the Adhesive Properties of Its Cell Sap in Relation to Paper-Making
Black mothering, paid work and identity
Recent figures suggest that in Britain today, 77.3% of black women are engaged in full-time paid work, a figure which has remained fairly consistent since the introduction of statistical data assessing the work activity of African-Caribbean women from post-war years (CRE 1997). The study addresses the extent to which black women's high work rate derives from a combination of historical cultural and structural economic factors. Historical and cult…
Re-thinking a black feminist standpoint
Black feminists in Britain and the USA have long argued that there exists a black feminist standpoint based on theoretical understanding of black women's everyday experiences. This article draws connections between black feminist standpoint theory and the widening availability of black women's writings within literature and popular culture to investigate the issue of what experiences get taken up and come to define the black female experience. Th…
Motherhood, Paid Work and Partnering: Values and Theories
The male breadwinner model, which dominated both policy assumptions and social ideals in the post-war welfare state, is increasingly being supplanted by an adult worker family model. In this new model, both men and women are assumed to be primarily workers in the labour market, who as fathers and mothers pool their earned income in supporting children. In this article we assess this assumption. First, we examine the gendered moral rationalities o…
Black to the community: An analysis of 'black' community parenting in Britain
Over the last 20 years there has been a steady increase in the number of black welfare-based community organisations. This is said to be an outcome of black people's increased collective mobilisation in response to feelings of disengagement, disillusionment and disaffection with 'mainstream' municipal bodies. It has also been suggested that (perceived) changes in the black family have encouraged individuals to turn away from extended family membe…
Mothers and child care: Policies, values and theories
Government expansion of child care services is based on the assumption that both parents are employed (the adult worker model) and make cost‐benefit calculations in choosing child care (the rational economic choice model). This paper addresses this assumption, based on research examining mothers' assessments of appropriate child care. These assessments involve complex moral and emotional decisions around their own and their children's needs, and …
Social and family responsibility or self-interest: A case study of mothers’ work ethos in a hospital and an accountancy firm
Mothers’ increasing labour market participation is posed as a key aspect of a growing trend towards individualization — both for ill and for good. In ‘for ill’ versions, mothers’ employment is regarded as undermining commitment to family relationships and leading to a loss of community. In ‘for good’ versions, family and community relationships become contingent upon values of equality and respect. ‘Preference theory’ modifies the individualizati…
Family and Community Networks in the (Re)making of Ethnic Identity of Caribbean Young People in Britain
This paper examines how Caribbean young people utilize community and family networks to re-affirm notions of cultural, ethnic and family belonging. At a community level, this occurs through Caribbean young people's participation in black-led institutions and agencies within their local communities and neighbourhoods. At a family level, the young people are involved in kinship activities and practices that develop and maintain social networks at l…
Caribbean families, social capital and young people's diasporic identities
This article investigates the ways in which second- and third-generation young people of Caribbean descent in Britain engage in processes of constructing ethnic identity, and the ways in which they utilize family and kinship networks and relationships. The article begins by reviewing some of the key ideas of social capital and the inter-relationship between social capital and ethnicity. It then provides descriptive accounts of the young people's …
Friendship Networks, Social Capital and Ethnic Identity: Researching the Perspectives of Caribbean Young People in Britain
This article examines the perspectives of Caribbean young people in Britain in order to examine the issue of friendship networks. The research shows that the young people interviewed have a vast array of friendship networks across diverse ethnic groups. However, the majority of the Caribbean young people in the study acknowledged that their three closest friends or 'best friends' shared their own ethnic background. It was these friends that most …
Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People
The theoretical fathers of social capital (Putnam, Coleman and Bourdieu) are criticised for seeing children as passive recipients of parental social capital rather than active producers, and recent literature and debate has attempted to correct this earlier imbalance. We contribute to this work by using social capital as a lens through which to explore transitions, networks and communities in the lives of children and young people. Drawing on thr…
Ethnicity, Families and Social Capital: Caring Relationships across Italian and Caribbean Transnational Families
Social capital theorists acknowledge that caring networks operating within and above all across households lie at the heart of families and communities. They also see these networks and family bonds as generally declining in contemporary society due to individualisation. However, there seems to be little empirical evidence documenting these processes in detail, particularly with regards to minority ethnic and transnational families. This article …
Racism and education: Coincidence or conspiracy
Exploring the Absent/Present Dilemma: Black Fathers, Family Relationships, and Social Capital in Britain
Stereotypes show nonresident black fathers as absentee parents. In this article, the author presents a critique of the various ways the literature constructs nonresident black fathers as absent from parenting and family relationships. Drawing on the empirical data collected from two qualitative studies conducted in Britain, this article illustrates that contrary to popular belief, nonresident black fathers are active participants in their childre…
Transnational Families: Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital
1.Theorising Transnational Families 2.Social Capital Joins the Trinity: Families, Ethnicities, Communities 3.Methodological Issues and Challenges 4.Migration, Transnational Families and Communities 5.Migrants, Offspring, and Settlement 6.Families, Needs and Caring Practices 7.Continuity and Invention Of Identities Within Families and Communities 8.Problems of Belonging and 'Return' 9.Alienation and Escape from the Family and Community 10.Crossing…
Transnational Families
Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and famil…
Jamaican hands across the Atlantic
Jamaican hands across the Atlantic, by Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson, Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 2006, £16.99 (paperback), ISBN 976-637-246-2 Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic investigates
Transnational family relationships, social networks and return migration among British-Caribbean young people
The study explores the issue of transnational family relationships and return migration among British-Caribbean second generation young people.Footnote1 It describes how transnational family ties and social networks are utilized as social capital resources to facilitate these young people's migration from Britain to the Caribbean, their parents' country of origin. A combination of internally formed and externally imposed understandings of ethnic …
Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration: Transnational Family Relationships with 'Left-Behind' Kin in Britain
There has been increasing research interest in second-generation return migration to the Caribbean. However, little is known or understood about these returnees’ relationships with ‘left-behind’ kin in Britain. Drawing on qualitative data, the paper examines this issue in order to provide new insights into existing research on second-generation return migration. Special attention is given to understanding the reasons why these backward links are …
Birds of a feather stick together'? Negotiating community, family and intimate relationships between 'established' and 'newcomer' Caribbean migrants in Britain
This article explores the ‘invisible’ boundary separating and informing social relations among ‘established’ and ‘newcomer’ Caribbean migrant communities in Britain. To briefly note, ‘established’ migrants are characterised in the analysis as those Caribbean migrants who settled in Britain from the 1940s, their offspring and subsequent generations. In contrast, the ‘newcomer’ represents a new influx of Caribbean that arrived and settled in Britai…
Them and Us’: ‘Black Neighbourhoods’ as a Social Capital Resource among Black Youths Living in Inner-city London
This paper will examine the views and experiences of Black youths living in socially deprived areas of London in order to examine the way in which they recognise the term ‘Black neighbourhood’ as a resource for ethnic identity formation and collective mobilisation. Despite the apparent problems that are typically associated with ‘Black neighbourhoods’ for many Black youths, these neighbourhoods also represent urban spaces through which a range of…
Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain
Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across national borders. Research within the field of migration studies, has been pivotal in highlighting the maintenance of family networks across national borders and geographical distance. Yet, rather surprisingly, a detaile…
Research Note: Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers
Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helpi…
Transnational and diasporic youth identities: Exploring conceptual themes and future research agendas
This special issue brings together multidisciplinary and international perspectives on the importance of diasporic and transnational networks for the formation of ethnic identity by migrant youths. Within the context of this issue migrant youths refer to young people (aged 16–35 years) who are themselves migrants or are children and grandchildren of migrants. Our attention to the transnational and diasporic identities of migrant youths is in dire…
Tropical limestone forest resilience and late Pleistocene foraging during MIS-2 in the Tràng An massif, Vietnam
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