“Young, gifted and back”: Second-generation transnational return migrants to the Caribbean

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-236

  Potter, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barbados; Caribbean; national identities; racial identities; second generation returning nationals; transnational migrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748285487     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1464993405ps114oa     Document Type: Article

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