Ties That Bind: Families, Social Capital and Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration

My analysis is positioned and contextualised within broader theories of migration studies. The family narrative constructed around the 'myth of return' is integral to the young people's accounts of return migration.

Of particular interest in the analysis is how these narratives act as important social resources in sustaining the second generation's emotional attachment to the family homeland and in influencing the decision to return alongside other pragmatic and practical constraints. Drawing on fieldwork data, the analysis also examines issues of adjustment and settlement, particularly ways the 'insider/outsider' status and existing gender and social class relations inform experiences of return migration among the second generation.