The Impact of Migration on Children in the Caribbean – UNICEF Takes a Transnational Network to Raise a Child: The Case of Migrant Parents and Left-Behind Jamaican Teens Understanding the Impact of Parental Migration onChildren: Implications for Counseling Families from the Caribbean

Jamaica’s ‘barrel children’ often come up empty with a parent abroad – Melissa Noel for nbcnews.com Repairing broken bonds: How families rebuild ties after migration – Melissa Noel for nbcnews.com Migration and Separation: Stories of ‘Barrel Children’ – Melissa Noel for Voices of NY Grandparents Cannot Cope – Frustrated Guardians Of ‘Barrel Children’ Want To […]

Malaika’s Winter Carnival (2017) – Nadia Hohn Malaika’s Costume (2016) – Nadia Hohn Breaking the Cycle – A Barrel Child Story (2014) – Pamela K Marshall Barrel Child (2011) – Pamela K Marshall Aunt Jen (2002) – Paulette Ramsay

How Black Mothers Say I Love You – Trey Anthony Demarara Gold – A One Woman Show by Ingrid Griffith

Barrel Children: The families Windrush left behind | Nadine White | UK | 19 mins De Lo Mio | Diana Peralta | USA | 2019 | 1hr 14 mins Sprinter | Storm Saulter | Jamaica | 2019 | 1hr 54 mins Scars of Our Mother’s Dreams | Meschida Philips | Grenada | 2017 | 11 […]

Over A Barrel: Windrush Children, Tragedy and Triumph (2023) – Nadine White | BCA | London Arrivants (2018) – Lisa Harewood | Barbados Museum | Barbados Send Love inna Barrel (2016-2017) – Kelley-Ann Lindo | Various Barrel Children (2000) – Terry Bellier

16/08/2016 – VOICES OF NEW YORK: Migration and Separation: Stories of ‘Barrel Children’ 15/06/2016 – PRIDE NEWS CANADA: Film Project Uncovers Hidden Impact Of Migration On Caribbean Families 10/06/2014 – BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA: http://blackpublicmedia.org/auntie-from-barbados-women-and-the-caribbean-international-family/ 15/07/2013 – USC WOMEN OF CINEMATIC ARTS BLOG: International P.O.V.: An insight into the Caribbean industry | Part 1 | Part 2 […]

Caribbean Women Telling Stories For Social Good, New York Guyana Cultural Association, New York Weeksville Heritage Centre, New York Virgin Islands Literary Festival, St Croix CaFA Caribbean Film Series, BAM Rose Cinemas, New York St John’s University, New York NYU Black Portraitures Conference, Italy Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival, Atlanta […]

The Barrel Stories Project is led by filmmaker Lisa Harewood who is based in the UK and the Caribbean.

Right now, we are focused only on the Caribbean and Caribbean people living elsewhere. We are interested in people of all ages and races and backgrounds. We want to speak with you if: you are a mother or father who migrated and made the choice to leave your child behind in the care someone who […]