Places with a tradition of emigration range from the West Indian island of Montserrat, a sender of emigrants to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, to the southern Italian town of Torregreca, the source of hundreds of thousands of ‘guest workers’ in Germany. Through ‘migration chains,’ fellow villagers or townsmen join migrant pioneers who have established bridgeheads abroad (see Past II). In this way, strong financial, social, cultural and psychological networks build up between the home locality and the community established by its denizens abroad. A chain, for example, links Jinjiang (a qiaoxiang in Fujian) with the Philippines (see below). For the first generation, at least, the overseas settlement becomes an extension of the home community, one having minimal contact with the host population