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ERIC Number: ED283891
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1982
Pages: 379
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Return Migration and Remittances: Developing a Caribbean Perspective. RIIES Occasional Papers No. 3.
Stinner, William F., Ed.; And Others
The 13 papers in this volume discuss issues relating to Caribbeans who have migrated to the United States and then returned to their home countries. The last three papers focus on remittances, migrants' ongoing remitting of cash and other economic resources to the home society. Paper titles (and authors) are the following: (1) "Introductory Essay: The Dynamics of Caribbean Return Migration" (William F. Stinner and Klaus de Albuquerque); (2) "Return Migration to the English-Speaking Caribbean: Review and Commentary" (Hymie Rubenstein); (3) "The Origins and Continuity of Return Migration in the Leeward Caribbean" (Bonham Richardson); (4) "'In Sick Longing for the Further Shore': Return Migration by Caribbean East Indians During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (Brinsley Samaroo); (5) "International Return Migration: Socio-Demographic Determinant of Return Migration to the Dominican Republic" (Antonio Ugalde and Thomas C. Langham); (6) "Return Migration from the United States to Costa Rica and El Salvador" (Guy Potiras); (7) "The Newyorican Comes Home to Puerto Rico: Description and Consequences" (Roberta Ann Johnson); (8) "The Puerto Rican Circuit and the Success of Return Migrants" (Barry B. Levine); (9) "Why Returnees Generally Do Not Turn Out to Be 'Agents of Change': The Case of Surinam" (Frank Bovenkerk); (10) "The Impact of Remittances in the Rural English-Speaking Caribbean: Notes on the Literature" (Hymie Rubenstein); (11) "The Magnitude and Impact of Remittances in the Eastern Caribbean: A Research Note" (Rosemary Brana-Shute and Gary Brana-Shute); (12) "Migration Remittances and Development: Preliminary Results of a Study of Caribbean Cane Cutters in Florida" (Charles H. Wood). Also included are bibliographies on return migration and remittances, and notes on contributors and editors. (KH)
Public Information Office, Department of Anthropology, NHB 363, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 (free, limit of one copy).
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Books; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Research Inst. on Immigration and Ethnic Studies.
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