Family and transmission: collective memory in identification practices of Madeirans on Jersey

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Over the past sixty years, many Madeirans have migrated to Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. The vast majority have been seasonal economic migrants who went there to work either in agriculture or in the service sector. However, and in particular since the entry of Portugal into the EU, many Madeirans have relocated their existing families to the island and appear to have settled on a long-term basis. Others have started families on the island. This essay presents my on-going research into the familial transmission of memory. My investigations centre on the children of such migrants and focuses on the extent to which their families, their family lives, their upbringing and their community have, through collective memory, affected, shaped, created or recreated their ethnic, social, cultural and linguistic identification practices.

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