Acknowledgements. Foreword by Gill Gorell-Barnes. Introduction. 1. Historical Background of African Caribbean Life. 2. African Caribbean Families' Immigration to Britain. 3. Attachment Theory, Separation and Loss. 4. Narratives of African Caribbean Mothers Separated and Reunited with theirChildren. 5. Mothers and Children Reflecting on Relationships with Fathers. 6. African Caribbean Women Reflecting on Separation in Early Years and Reunion with Mothers. 7. Implication for Work with African Caribbean Families and Others who Experience Separation and Loss. References. Index.
Elaine Arnold is Director of The Separation and Reunion Forum, UK, an organization dedicated to highlighting the traumatic effects of broken attachments, separation and loss. Elaine has previously worked as a teacher, lecturer, child care worker, counsellor and psychiatric social worker. Her interest in attachment issues and separation was first sparked in the late 1940s when teaching in a school in a children's home in Trinidad and Tobago, which housed children for a number of reasons including the emigration of parents.