Caribbean Migration

Bibliographic Data

ID19948923
AuthorsElizabeth Thomas‐hope (corresponding author), Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Year2002
Pages186
Publication date2002-11-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCaribbean Migration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe University of the West Indies Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.37234/rajrzxhj
OpenAlexW4387469008
Open LibraryOL9190560M
ISBN9789766401269
LanguageEN
Citations received21

The book contributes to international migration at a theoretical level, destroying the myth of migration being purely the result of poverty and over-population and rejecting explanations based on “push-pull” models and the unilateral flow inherent in such models. Instead it presents a conceptualization of Caribbean migration that is fundamentally circular and self-perpetuating, and which has become part of the institutional framework of Caribbean societies. Migration behavior is a response to Caribbean circumstances and is an intrinsic part of the formation of the image of self and life chances of the individual. This image, conditioned by the particular location of the individual in relation to the national and international system, is the key element in explaining the complex interplay of global, societal and personal factors resulting in the propensity to move and in the actual move itself

Conceptualization · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · Demography · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Anthropology · Anthropology, cultural · Archaeology · Caribbean area · Caribbean islands · Emigration & Immigration · emigration and immigration · Immigration & emigration · Migration · Migration (Social Aspects) · Residential mobility · Social & cultural anthropology · Social Science · Artificial Intelligence

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