Gender and the narratives of migration

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 86-108

  Chamberlain, Mary ^a  

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EID: 0037929172     PISSN: 13633554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/1997.43.87     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. B2/1/1, various pages. M. Chamberlain. Barbados Migration Project. All tapes deposited with the National Life Story Collection of the National Sound Archive of the British Library.
2. Elizabeth Thomas Hope Explanation in Caribbean Migration: Perception and the Image: Jamaica, Barbados, St. Vincent. London, Macmillan, 1992.
3. Michael Banton Race Relations London, Tavistock 1967;
4. Elspeth Huxley Back Streets, New Worlds, London Chatto & Windus 1964.
5. See, for instance, Constance Sutton and Elsa Chaney (eds) Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions New York, Center for Migration Studies, 1994;
6. Philip Kasinitz Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992.
7. Stuart Hall 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora' in Jonathan Rutherford (ed) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1990.
8. Paul Gilroy The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness London, Verso 1993.
9. A quota sample is a selected sample of a group which can be taken to be proportional to and representative of that group, as distinct from a random sample which will take, for instance, at random every tenth (or so) person.
10. Mary Chamberlain 'Family and Identity: Barbadian Migrants to Britain', in The International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Vol III Migration and Identity, Oxford University Press 1994;
11. Mary Chamberlain 'Family Narratives and Migration Dynamics' New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Leiden, Vol 69 (3&4) 1995. The model of family migration can be offered as an alternative to the more conventional and mechanistic 'push/pull' models of migration, and as a pointer to ways in which the transnational family contributes to a mobile individual identity, and as an indicator of the force of cultural models in informing behaviour.
12. Maurice Halbwachs The Collective Memory New York, Harper & Row, 1980.
13. Maurice Halbwachs The Collective Memory 1980. ibid.
14. B3 1/1/7.
15. B2 1/1/11.
16. B3 1/1/17.
17. B2 1/1/19.
18. Sam Sevlon The Lonely Londoners, London, Longman 1956.
19. BB13 1/1/13.
20. Ping-pong. Barbadian dialect for a small photograph, such as used for a passport.
21. BBS 1/1/27, 30.
22. B35 1/1/22.
23. B23 1/1/28.
24. B3 1/1/8.
25. BB2 1/A/12, 50.
26. B20 1/2/69.
27. B12/1/B/1/38.
28. BB2 1/1/3.
29. B18/1/1/7.
30. B22 1/1/6.
31. BB55 1/1/A/13
32. Trevor Marshall, Peggy McGeary & Grace Thompson (eds) Folk Songs of Barbados, Bridgetown 1981.
33. B65 1/2/43.
34. A character in African/Caribbean folk stories. Anansi/Nancy was a spider who assumed different shapes and forms to escape from the numerous scrapes in which he found himself.
35. Figs. quoted in G. W. Roberts 'Emigration from the Island of Barbados' Social and Economic Studies (Jamaica) 1955 4(3).
36. B22 1/2/29-30.
37. BB29/1/2/30, 32, 37.
38. BB22 1/2/33-4.
39. BB40 1/1/21
40. B65 1/2/38, 39, 49.
41. B39/1/1/24.
42. ibid. p 27.
43. ibid p 30.
44. B27 1/2/25/34.
45. B22 1/2/33.
46. M. Chamberlain. Barbados Plantation Tenantry Tapes. RF, 1/1/7, 1990.
47. B6 1/1/1.
48. B51/1/2.
49. B5 1/A/9.
50. B40 1/1/9.
51. B34/1/9.
52. B28 1/1/3.
53. B34 1/2/2/51.
54. BB22 2/1/49.
55. B65 1/2/1/54.
56. ibid p 59.
57. BB3 1/1/223.
58. BB3 1/1/223.
59. ibid.
60. BB3 1/1/224.
61. BB29 1/1/259.
62. B65 1/2/2/71.
63. ibid.
64. BB28/1/2/36.
65. B22/1/2/32.
66. BB39 1/1/27.
67. BB45/2/1/55.
68. ibid. p 21.
69. For a fuller exploration see Mary Chamberlain 'Gender and memory: oral history and women's history' in Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton and Barbara Bailey (eds) Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers/London, James Currey Publishers, 1994.
70. B20. 2/3/288.