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Effects on Trinidad

  • "Brain Drain"- emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular place

  • Falling Oil Prices Have Adversely Affected Trinidad In The Past

  • New Nations of the Anglophone Caribbean permit full citizenship rights to their subjects abroad whether or not they have become US citizens

Contribution to the US

  • Positive or Negative Contribution ?
  • Brought over skilled professionals and laborers
  • Strengthen or Weaken Social Fabric?

US Government Policies

  • McCarren Walter Act (1952): established a quota system which limited each country to a small number of entrants

  • Immigration Act of 1965: eliminated the quota system, introduction of a labor certification requirement

  • Simpson-Rodino Bill (1986): stop illegal immigration

Final Destinations

  • Los Angeles- Tropical Climate
  • New York City- East Coast

-presence of family/friends

Primary Migrants: recruitment by kin

Secondary Migrants: most lived on East Coast before and did not like cold weather (NY)

Some believe LA is a healthier environment to raise children

  • LA is one step above New York

Sources

Ho, Christine. Salt-water Trinnies: Afro-Trinidadian Immigrant Networks and Non-Assimilation in Los Angeles. New York: AMS, 1991. Print.

"Central Intelligence Agency." CIA. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2012. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/>.

Bryce-Laporte, Roy S., and Delores M. Mortimer. Caribbean Immigration to the United States. Washington, D.C.: Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution, 1983. Print.

Kasinitz, Philip. Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992. Print.

http://eucir.webs.com/apps/blog/show/9385744

"Trinidadians are not going to miss out on anything America has to offer, not even herpes."- Participant in Salt-Water Trinnies Experiment

Chain Migration

  • "That movement in which prospective migrants learn of opportunities, provided with transportation, and have initial accommodations and employment arranged by means of primary social relationships with previous migrants"- Christine Ho
  • Based on idea that as one moves, others follow
  • Technique is not unique to Afro-Trinidadians
  • Migration re-establishes social ties between individuals in a new community and those from the homeland

Motives for Migrating

  • Push and Pull Factors
  • Kinship
  • Social Mobility
  • Seeking Adventure
  • Desire to Further Their Education and Training
  • Higher Income Abroad
  • Possibilities for Occupational Advancement Limited in Trinidad

Important Facts

  • Oil was discovered in Trinidad in 1910
  • Trinidad became independent from Britain in 1962
  • Trinidad is one of the most financially stable countries in the Caribbean, due to petroleum and natural gas processing
  • Trinidad is one of the leading countries for immigration to the US
  • Population of 1.3 million as of 2007
  • Parliamentary Democracy
  • 2012 World's Best Tourist Destination

Trinidad

Migration to the US

Taylor Moore

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