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Jamaica: Rock and a Hard Place

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Ethnicity & Race, Ideas, Migration & Immigration

Francis Wade examines the conundrum that many Jamaicans living abroad face [1]: “They love their country, and miss it terribly. They are angry that they cannot return (for many good reasons.) They are unwilling to assimilate into the mainstream U.S. (which for most means becoming African Americans.) They are stuck.”