From the Journal of the Royal Anthrolpological Institute

Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic
Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson

This book brings up some of the key issues regarding Caribbean migrants and dispels or at least modifies a number of problematic assumptions that seem to have accrued over time. The focus is on transnational families and the evidence that these should not be regarded simply as separated families, but rather as a new kind of family that manages to retain many of the forms and functions of co-residential family life....Quite apart from the many different facets of migration that receive illumniation or are effectively updated by this book, the particular quality of the volume as a whole comes from its style and form, which are clearly influenced by Thompson's lifelong association with oral history and Bauer's empathy with her Jamaican origins.

Adapted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13, 743-783

© Royal Anthropological Institute 2007