Going Foreign': Causes OF Jamaican Migration
UnpublishedJanuary/February
1981
Volume:
15
Number:
1
Article
James C. Stephen
The popular and peasant organizations of El Salvador have always advocated land reform. Increasingly, over the past 20 years, the peasants have given their lives in the struggle for modest social and economic improvements in the country- side.
Could the American be his s visa?, implored a 19-year-old waiter to the visitor sitting at one of his tables in a Montego Bay hotel. If he didn't make it to the States, he would never earn enough to build a home in Jamaica for his family.
Steven Volk
Less than a week after the military government of General Luis Garcia Meza announced a round of sweeping price hikes on basic foodstuffs, Bolivian paramilitary and security forces assassinated nine leaders of the Bolivian Revolutionary Left Move- ment (MIR) as they met in a La Paz house. The murders, which have provoked widespread protests, decimated the top leadership of the MIR in Bolivia.
Robert Armstrong
In the face of a widespread of- fensive by the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), the U.S.
You, Guatemala, are a fist and a fistful of American dust with seeds a small fistful of hope. Defend it, defend us .
Jamaicans have been leaving home for a long time-for so long, in fact, and in such great numbers that today more than half of the world's 4.4 million Jamaicans live outside the island.
Nuclear Power & Arms in Latin America NACLA will soon initiate a research project on the issue of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in Latin America and their relation to U.S.
LATIN AMERICA John Child, Unequal Alliance: The Inter-American Military System, 1938-1978 (Westview Press, 1980). $22 cloth, 253 pgs.
Judy Butler
Two NACLA members, Judy Butler and Janet Shenk, had the privilege of leading the first group of political tourists from the United States to Nicaragua this past December. The 10-day tour, jointly sponsored by NACLA and Monthly Review Associates, attracted 37 of our readers ranging in age from 17 to 87, and coming from all parts of the United States and Canada.
Only a sprinkling of farm and other rural producers joined the quickening flow of Jamai- cans to their "mother country" in the early 1950s. But in the following years, the exit from agriculture swelled this flow into a mass exodus: in 1961, the peak year ofJamaican migration to Great Britain, two thirds of the migrants sam- pled had been born in and were residents ofJa- maica's countryside.