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The process of migration, figures significantly in the survival repertoire of Carribean people. For example, in Montserrat, a British West Indian Island, there is a popularly quoted proverb:
“Crab no walk, e’no get fat.”
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Boone, L.R. (1985). Current Trends in West Indian and African Immigration and Their Impact on Assimilation. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry The State of the Art. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1853-9_90
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