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Ties That Bind: Families, Social Capital and Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE RETURN MIGRATION SECOND GENERATION MIGRANTS This paper explores second-generation return migration to the Caribbean and how this is facilitated by social capital generated through transnational family relationships. My analysis is positioned and contextualised within broader theories of migration studies. The family narrative constructed around the 'myth of return' is integral to the young people's accounts of return migration. Of particular interest in the analysis is how these narratives act as important social resources in sustaining the second generation's emotional attachment to the family homeland and in influencing the decision to return alongside other pragmatic and practical constraints. Drawing on fieldwork data, the analysis also examines issues of adjustment and settlement, particularly ways the 'insider/outsider' status and existing gender and social class relations inform experiences of return migration among the second generation. 2026-09-30T11:44:33Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33352893.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Ties_That_Bind_Families_Social_Capital_and_Caribbean_Second-Generation_Return_Migration/33352893 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0