'Black skins-white masks': Postcolonial reflections on 'race', gender and second generation return migration to the Caribbean

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-325

  Phillips, Joan ^a,b   Potter, Robert B ^b  

^a POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Race'; Caribbean; Gender; Postcolonial; Return migration

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE; GENDER; POST-COLONIALISM; RACE; RETURN MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 33749237175     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00264.x     Document Type: Article

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