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Black immigrants of the Caribbean: an invisible and forgotten community.

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| September 22, 2001 | Guy, Talmadge C. | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The number of black Caribbean immigrants in America is growing with the most prevalent countries of origin being the Bahamas, Haiti, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago (Schmidley & United States Bureau of the Census, 2001). According to the Bureau of Census (2000), nearly 2.8 million foreign-born immigrants come from the Caribbean region, yet these groups remain largely invisible in America (Waters, 1999).

Until recently, there was very little attention given to understanding the experiences of black Caribbean immigrants. This is because, as immigrants, their status is overshadowed by immigration related to Mexico and other Latin American ...

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