Ties That Bind: Families, Social Capital and Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration
Ties That Bind: Families, Social Capital and Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration
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具有约束力的纽带：家庭、社会资本和加勒比海第二代回返移民
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2008
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L. South
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T. Reynolds;L. South
2摘要本文探讨了第二代返回移民到加勒比地区，这是如何促进通过跨国家庭关系产生的社会资本。我的分析是在更广泛的移民研究理论的定位和背景。围绕“回归神话”构建的家庭叙事是年轻人关于回归移民的叙述的组成部分。分析中特别感兴趣的是，这些叙述如何作为重要的社会资源，维持第二代对家庭家园的情感依恋，并影响返回的决定以及其他务实和实际的限制。根据实地工作数据，分析还审查了调整和定居问题，特别是“内部人/外部人”地位以及现有的性别和社会阶层关系如何影响第二代人的回返移徙经历。介绍返回移民在英国的特定民族社区已收到相当大的学术关注（Gmelch 1980年，国王1986年，拜伦2000年）。研究兴趣日益转向第二代回移，以强调散居地和社交网络对回移过程的重要性。本文探讨了第二代返回加勒比海的移民
2 Abstract This paper explores second-generation return migration to the Caribbean and how this is facilitated by social capital generated through transnational family relationships. My analysis is positioned and contextualised within broader theories of migration studies. The family narrative constructed around the ‘myth of return’ is integral to the young people’s accounts of return migration. Of particular interest in the analysis is how these narratives act as important social resources in sustaining the second generation’s emotional attachment to the family homeland and in influencing the decision to return alongside other pragmatic and practical constraints. Drawing on fieldwork data, the analysis also examines issues of adjustment and settlement, particularly ways the ‘insider/outsider’ status and existing gender and social class relations inform experiences of return migration among the second generation. Introduction Return migration by particular ethnic communities in the UK has received considerable academic attention (Gmelch 1980; King 1986; Byron 2000). Increasingly, research interest is turning towards second-generation return migration to highlight the significance of diaspora and social networks informing the return migration process. This paper explores second-generation return migration to the Caribbean