title: Questions of emigration, circulation and return: mobility between the French Caribbean and France.
abstract: "The last four decades have seen the establishment of close migratory links between the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe and the metropole.... The present paper focuses on the...complex migratory links--including continuing emigration from the islands for work and education, return migration and circulation--which have come to characterise the 1980s.... The paper aims also to contribute to the broader conceptualisation of migration and mobility. The principal conclusions reveal that the more straightforward labour migration of the years from 1963 to 1981 has been replaced by some considerable return migration (amongst young adults particularly) and circulation.... The paper also demonstrates that the role of migration in reducing population growth and fertility in the islands has been much altered during the course of the 1980s."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D017691:Caribbean Region; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005298:Fertility; D005602:France; D019430:Guadeloupe; D008395:Martinique; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Americas; Caribbean; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Europe; Fertility; France; Guadeloupe; International Migration; Labor Migration; Martinique; Mediterranean Countries; Migration; North America; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Return Migration; Western Europe