Cape Verdeans in the U.S

For well over a century, the U.S. has hosted the largest proportion of the world-wide Cape Verdean diaspora residing in any one nation, a population that includes immigrants and their descendants, and it continues to do so to this very day (Halter 1993; Carling 2002). Always plagued by scanty and er...

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1. Verfasser:	Marilyn Halter
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	For well over a century, the U.S. has hosted the largest proportion of the world-wide Cape Verdean diaspora residing in any one nation, a population that includes immigrants and their descendants, and it continues to do so to this very day (Halter 1993; Carling 2002). Always plagued by scanty and erratic rainfall, the effects of the dry climate in the Cape Verde Islands was exacerbated by colonial mismanagement of the land, so that by the end of the 18thcentury, the people of the islands were experiencing severe and recurrent droughts with related famines and high mortality rates. Unable to