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Haitian family patterns of migration to south Florida
Human organization • 44 (4) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 301-312
By: Fjellman, Stephen M., Gladwin, Hugh.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper the authors '…place Haitian families migrating to South Florida in a perspective ranging from the macrosystem affecting all Caribbean migrants to the microsystems comprising family strategies and resource/assistance networks provided by family members living in the same community as well as those family members living in other locations' (p. 301). The manner in which Haitian families are organized has made it possible for them to survive and in some cases prosper under diverse circumstances. To Haitians the term 'family' includes a range of kinship and fictive kinship relations which can be called on for support, even though the family members may live in different communities and distant cities. Thus, the Haitian family functions not as a bounded household, but as an extended network system. Seven family histories are presented in the text to show how these network systems work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Household
- Extended families
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haitian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1958-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south Florida, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stephen M. Fjellman and Hugh Gladwin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-312)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47033317
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haitian Americans