Socio-Cultural Determinants of Attempted Suicide Among West Indians in Birmingham: Ethnic Origin and Immigrant Status

1976 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggrey W. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Older Persons ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
West Indians ◽  
Immigrant Status ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
Male Rate

SummaryThe author studied the significance of ethnic origin and immigrant status in attempted suicide. Epidemiological data (1969–72) indicated that self-poisoning among West Indian immigrants in Birmingham was less prevalent than among natives there but more prevalent than in the West Indies. The association of recent pregnancy with attempted suicide among young immigrant patients was noteworthy.Attempted suicide among immigrants was often relatively benign; few abused alcohol or drugs or made repeated attempts. The markedly lower male rate of attempted suicide, and its rarity in older persons, confirms previous findings.

The Social and Political Integration of West Indians in Costa Rica: 1930–50

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald N. Harpelle
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Social Development ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
West Indians ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
The Social

People of African descent in Costa Rica form a marginalised and geographically concentrated minority group. The limited interest that academics have shown towards people of African descent is a reflection of their position in Costa Rican society. National histories consistently ignore the contributions of West Indian immigrants to the economic and social development of modern Costa Rica. Moreover, the existing literature on people of African descent in Costa Rica fails to document properly West Indians' efforts to integrate into Hispanic society. As a result, several misconceptions continue to exist about the evolution of the West Indian community in Costa Rica.

The Chinese in West Indian Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
West Indians ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
Literary Landscapes ◽  
Marginal Status

Asians in the West Indies are primarily migrants and their descendants from either South Asia or China. The representation of the Chinese in West Indian fiction is integrally connected to the specific development of the region. Indeed, to consider the role that the Chinese play in West Indian fiction is to engage, more generally, in the act of imaginatively locating the West Indies. Despite the fact that numerically, they have always held a marginal status in the region, the Chinese are very much present in West Indian literary landscapes. The recurring representations of the Chinese and Chineseness in such fiction are intimately tied to locating the metaphorical and discursive contours of the West Indies and of West Indians. In this context, depictions of the Chinese in West Indian literary texts tend to follow three lines of representation: (1) defining the region as an exotic “other place”; (2) negotiating the boundaries of West Indian belonging; and (3) complicating settled narratives of West Indian identity.

Newcomers: The West Indians in London.

1961 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
R. K. Kelsall ◽  
Ruth Glass
Keyword(s):  
West Indians ◽  
The West

Newcomers. The West Indians in London

Population ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 802
Author(s):  
J. H. ◽  
Ruth Glass
Keyword(s):  
West Indians ◽  
The West

Immigration and Ethnic Origin: The Effect of Demographic Attributes on Earnings of Israeli Men and Women

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitchak Haberfeld
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Immigrant Status ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Determination Process ◽  
Earnings Determination ◽  
Demographic Attributes ◽  
A Minor

Waves of immigrants are often dominated by a single ethnic group, creating difficulty in separating the effects of ethnic origin and immigrant status on earnings. The present article examines the separate effects of ethnicity and immigration on earnings by studying a sample of Israeli workers. The results indicate that immigrant status constitutes a major handicap in the Israeli labor market. Ethnicity, on the other hand, plays a minor role in the earnings determination process. The consequences of these results for labor market policies are discussed.

scholarly journals Gateways to the West, Part I: Education in the Shaping of the West

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Beadie ◽  
Joy Williamson-Lott ◽  
Michael Bowman ◽  
Teresa Frizell ◽  
Gonzalo Guzman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
The West ◽  
West Part

In 1950, theDenver Catholic Registerpublished an article describing and challenging the varieties of “prejudice” that a military pilot moving from base to base in the United States might encounter. To “successfully transact business” in the vicinity of various “metropolitan landing fields,” the writer admonished, the veteran must:Remember to be not too sanguine about people of Oriental ethnic origin when talking with a merchant in Seattle, that he must speak about the Jew with a slight sneer in Eastern cities, that the Colored person must be “kept in his place” in Houston, that in reservation country the Indian must be treated as a man would treat a child and that in the San Antonio-Los Angeles-Denver triangle it is wiser to remember that the Mexican-American is a second-class citizen.

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