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  1. For a typological outline of the historiosociological characteristics of Caribbean economies, see L. A. Best, “A Model of Pure Plantation Economy,”Social and Economic Studies, 17, 3 (September 1968), pp. 283–326.

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  2. See George L. Beckford,Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economics of the Third World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972).

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  3. For an indepth analysis of push-pull factors in the context of Caribbean migration to the United Kingdom, see S. B. Jones-Hendrickson, (1) “The Dynamics of the Labour Market for Nurses from the Commonwealth Caribbean” (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Exeter, England, 1976), exp. chp. 2; (2) “Spatial Diffusion of Nursing Services from the Commonwealth Caribbean to Britain,” Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies (RIIES), Occasional Paper No. 2 (forthcoming). Paper read at a RIIES-sponsored conference on “The New Immigration: Implications for the United States and the International Community,” RIIES, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 1976.

  4. For an indepth analysis of these issues discussed by Bryce-Laporte, see E. Aracelis Francis, “Foreign Labor in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” RIIES Occasional Paper No. 2 (forthcoming). Paper read at a RIIES-sponsored Conference on “The New Immigration: Implications for the United States and the International Community” RIIES, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, November 1976.

  5. For a discussion of an alternative economic system, see S. B. Jones-Hendrickson and Compton Bourne, “Subsidies Tax Reliefs and Public Policy: The Development Aspects;” paper read at the XXXIII Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Varna, Bulgaria, September 1977.

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Jones-Hendrickson, S.B. Caribbean immigration to the United States. Rev Black Polit Econ 10, 223–235 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02873452

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