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Black Immigrants of the Caribbean: An Invisible and Forgotten Community

Black Immigrants of the Caribbean: An Invisible and Forgotten Community Black Immigrants of the Caribbean: An Invisible and Forgotten Community require s examination for adul t education •• • he numbe r of blac k Caribbean program s serving black Caribbean I immigrants in America is growing immigrants . This article explores some of the I with the most prevalent countries of issues facin g Caribbean Americans an d how, origi n being the Bahamas, Haiti, Colombia, fro m a n adult educator' s perspective, these th e Dominica n Republic, an d Trinidad and issues impac t adult learning. Tobago (Schmidley & United States Burea u of th e Census, 2001). According to the Bureau of Census (2000), nearly 2.8 million foreign-born Economic Reality and Patterns immigrant s come fro m th e Caribbean region, of Immigration yet these groups remai n largely invisible in Th e emigration of blac k Caribbean persons Americ a (Waters, 1999). to the United States ca n be understoo d as part of a global pattern of labor migration from poore r countries to wealthie r ones (Butcher, 1994). This movemen t is propelle d by the Until recently, there was very little attention given to understanding expansio n of th e http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Black Immigrants of the Caribbean: An Invisible and Forgotten Community

Adult Learning , Volume 13 (1): 4 – Sep 1, 2001

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SAGE
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© 2001/2002 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
ISSN
1045-1595
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2162-4070
DOI
10.1177/104515950101200405
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Abstract

Black Immigrants of the Caribbean: An Invisible and Forgotten Community require s examination for adul t education •• • he numbe r of blac k Caribbean program s serving black Caribbean I immigrants in America is growing immigrants . This article explores some of the I with the most prevalent countries of issues facin g Caribbean Americans an d how, origi n being the Bahamas, Haiti, Colombia, fro m a n adult educator' s perspective, these th e Dominica n Republic, an d Trinidad and issues impac t adult learning. Tobago (Schmidley & United States Burea u of th e Census, 2001). According to the Bureau of Census (2000), nearly 2.8 million foreign-born Economic Reality and Patterns immigrant s come fro m th e Caribbean region, of Immigration yet these groups remai n largely invisible in Th e emigration of blac k Caribbean persons Americ a (Waters, 1999). to the United States ca n be understoo d as part of a global pattern of labor migration from poore r countries to wealthie r ones (Butcher, 1994). This movemen t is propelle d by the Until recently, there was very little attention given to understanding expansio n of th e

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Adult LearningSAGE

Published: Sep 1, 2001

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