ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the causes of the flow of Caribbean people to United Kingdom, Canada and the USA and the return flow to Jamaica. It also examines adjustment issues in the receiving country and the re-adaptation process when the migrants return to the home country. The chapter assesses the impact of remittances on the Jamaican economy and society and attempt to consider how migration policies constitute an essential part of the dynamics of migration and emigration and the role of returnees in these processes. The phenomenon of return migration to the Caribbean can best be understood through an examination of the interlocking nature of outward migration and return to the home country, together with an analysis of the variables arising from the dynamics of the process. The Caribbean population used a number of adaptive mechanisms to cope with the difficulties that they encountered in Britain. International labour migration may even be realistically necessary for system maintenance of the global economy.
