One outcome of immigrant adjustment is the development of a sense of community among immigrants with similarities in such nominal areas as race or region or subregion of origin. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the study of communication and this sense of community: the sense of community is engendered as the immigrants develop connections to each other; they develop these connections under the influence of contextual conditions; communication may cor‐relate with the sense of community or connections or contextual conditions, may mediate the ability of the connections to influence the sense of community or the ability of the contextual conditions to influence the connections, or may directly influence the sense of community or the connections or the contextual conditions; this communication could be analyzed on the basis of its cultural orientation, the arena in which it takes place, the exposure of the immigrants to it and its content The paper applies the theoretical framework to Caribbean immigrants to the United States and presents research issues and questions developed from the theoretical framework. © 1989 Howard School of Communications.

Sense of community Caribbean immigrants Caribbean immigrant community Adjustment of immigrants Exposure to communication

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