Networking sites) are significant in the maintenance of this transnationalism (Miller and While personal communicative methods (including mobile phones, emails and social Driven by desire and necessity, West IndiansĪbroad use various forms of communication to maintain connections to their homelands. Immigrant group in the city (Foner, 2001). WhenĬonsidered together, immigrants from the Anglophone Caribbean constitute the largest More than half a million, this is about five times the size of the population of Grenada,Īnd twice the size of that of Barbados (Foner, 2001 US Census Bureau, 2012). Of the largest populations of West Indian immigrants in the United States. New York City’s five boroughs, particularly Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, host one United States, and has led to the creation of significant West Indian communities there.

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With barriers against Commonwealth immigration erected by Britain in the 1960s – hasĮncouraged the migration of English-speaking Caribbean peoples (West Indians) to the The recruitment of English-speaking, skilled workers by the United States since 1965 – coupled Perspective, but as an institutionalized strategy for economic betterment. The departure of citizens, outward migration is not seen as a problem from the Caribbean In spite of the issue of brain-drain and other concerns associated with This region from others in the western hemisphere where emigration is relatively recent Migration is a perennial feature of the Caribbean existence, and one that distinguishes Sphere through its website and press releases.ĭiaspora, ethnic media, neoliberalism, West Indians The analysis of the network specifically entails assessment of its structural features, the natureĪnd origins of its programming, as well as the manner in which it presents itself in the public I identify the specific messages that the network proffers to its audiences,Īnd the subsequent image of the Caribbean being constructed through its rhetoric and content. It performs for West Indian audiences within the cultural, socio-political and economic contexts This article explores the Caribbean International Network (CIN), analyzing the ideological work International Journal of Cultural Studies

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