Lost Illusions, first published in 1988, analyses the differing experiences of Caribbean migration to Britain and the Netherlands, both from the perspectives of the countries and from the migrants themselves. The in-depth articles from experts provide an essential examination of Caribbean migration to Europe.
Lost Illusions, first published in 1988, analyses the differing experiences of Caribbean migration to Britain and the Netherlands, both from the perspectives of the countries and from the migrants themselves. The editors have compiled a volume of in-depth articles from experts from Britain and the Netherlands to provide an essential examination of Caribbean migration to two different European countries in the 1970s and 1980s.
1. Caribbean Minorities in Britain and the Netherlands: Comparative
Questions Malcolm Cross and Hans Entzinger Part
1. Patterns of Incorporation
2. Workers of the Night: West Indians in Britain Alistair Hennessy
3.
Caribbean Migration to the Netherlands: A Journey to Disappointment? Gert J.
Oostindie
4. Mobility Denied: Afro-Caribbean Labour and the British Economy
Malcolm Cross and Mark Johnson
5. On the Way Up? Surinamese and Antilleans
in the Dutch Labour Market Theo Reubsaet
6. Race, Class and Residence:
Afro-Caribbean Households in Britain Peter Ratcliffe
7. Surinamese Settlement
in Amsterdam 197383 Leo de Klerk and Hans van Amersfoort Part
2. Avenues of
Social Mobility
8. British Schooling and the Reproduction of Racial
Inequality Barry Troyna
9. Education: the Way Up for Surinamese in the
Netherlands? Willem Koot and Petrien Uniken Venema
10. Caribbean Business
Enterprise in Britain Robin Ward
11. Culture, Structure and Ethnic
Enterprise: the Surinamese of Amsterdam Jeremy Boissevain and Hanneke
Grotenbreg
12. Afro-Caribbean Involvement in British Politics Marian
FitzGerald
13. Mobilization of Ethnicity in Dutch Politics Jan Rath
Malcolm Cross and Hans Entzinger