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This is a qualitative data collection. This project reviewed relevant British and Caribbean literature, established a quantitative profile of the size, structure and social and geographic mobility of families and households, and conducted trans-generational life-story interviews of a quota sample of 60 families (originating in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad/Tobago) in Britain and the Caribbean. The findings of this research are intended to make a major contribution to contemporary understanding of Caribbean living arrangements (family, kinship, social networks) in Britain, to the post-imperial multi-cultural society, and to the two way dynamic of family/household relations between Britain and the Caribbean. This has policy implications for Britain, with regard to social security support for single parents, education policy, care for the elderly, and employment strategies. In the Caribbean, problems of, and opportunities for, return migrants are of relevance to Caribbean policy makers.

Volunteer sample

Face-to-face interview