This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences within the Caribbean, to North America and to Europe.

Acknowledgements. Introduction, Mary Chamberlain Part 1: Re-thinking Diaspora Cultural Diaspora: the Caribbean Case, Robin Cohen Modes of Incorporation: Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Western Europe and the United States, Ramon Grosfoguel Towards a Comparative Perspective on Caribbean Migration, ancy Foner Part 2: Migration Narratives Constructing Lives: Migration Narratives and Life Stories among Nevisians, Karen Fog Olwig Genres of Migration, Selma Leydesdorff Part 3: Ethnicity and Identity The Legacy of Migration: Immigrant Mothers and Daughters and the Process of Intergenerational Transmission, Helma Lutz Constructions of Ethnicity in the Diaspora: the Case of Three Generations of Surinamese-Javanese women in the Netherlands, Yvette Kopijn Part 4: Family and Identity The Delusive Continuities of the Dutch Caribbean Diaspora, Gert Oostindie Family and Identity: Barbadian Migrants to Britain, Mary Chamberlain Part 5: Caribbean Migration Cultures Indians, Jamaicans and the Emergence of a Modern Migration Culture, Verene A. Shepherd Barbadian Migrants in the Putumayo District of the Amazon, 1904-1911, Howard Johnson Globalization and the Development of a Caribbean Migration Culture, Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Part 6: Gender, Socialisation and Survival in Caribbean Communities Trends in Levels of Caribbean Segregation, Great Britain, 1961-1991, Ceri Peach Migration, Work and Gender: The Case of Post-war Labour Migration from the Caribbean to Britain, Margaret Byron Compromise and Coping Strategies: Gender Issues and Caribbean Migration to France, Stephanie Condon Strategies and Strategizing: The Struggle for Upward Mobility Among University Education Black Caribbean-born Men in Canada, Dwaine Plaza