title: Afro-Caribbean migrants in France:  employment, state policy and the migration process.
abstract: "Afro-Caribbean labour in France plays a distinctive role relative to the French population as a whole and the foreign immigrant population. Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources, this paper demonstrates that the role of the state in the process of migration from the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe from the early 1960s onwards was crucial.... Aggregate sources are used to describe detailed occupational distributions while records of individual migrants illustrate the process of migration and the influences on employment.  At a time usually characterized by lack of direct involvement in migration by the French state, for Afro-Caribbeans state intervention in recruitment, training and settlement is shown to be very substantial."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D017691:Caribbean Region; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005060:Europe; D005602:France; D019430:Guadeloupe; D006280:Health Workforce; D008395:Martinique; D009656:North America; D009790:Occupations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Americas; Caribbean; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Employment; Europe; France; Guadeloupe; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Martinique; Mediterranean Countries; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; North America; Occupations; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Social Policy; Western Europe