Migration, Material Culture and Tragedy: Four Moments in Caribbean MigrationFootnote1

1. I would like to thank all my informants in successive research projects in Trinidad, Jamaica and South London. I would also like to thank Heather Horst and Fiona Parrott who jointly conducted the research in Jamaica and South London respectively. I would also like to thank Paul Basu and Simon Coleman for their editorial comments on this paper, as well as comments from the audience when it was originally presented at Sussex University

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