Description
Book SynopsisA novel and interdisciplinary volume on the dynamics of migration with comparative case studies of the Caribbean experience
Trade Review"It is rare for an edited collection to cohere from cover to cover. Readers will find a great diversity of voices challenging canonical discourses on assimilation, immigrant incorporation, and identity formation, all in one volume. The research reported in Caribbean Migration would have required an in-depth, multi-sited, multi-lingual, mixed-method comparative study. Scholars of migration will be grateful the three editors decided instead to compile these essays into a well-organized, interdisciplinary volume."
—Contemporary Sociology
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Caribbean Migrations to Western Europe and the United States
1. Theorizing anout and beyond Transnational Processes
Part I: State Policies and Migrants' Strategies
2. Colonial Racism, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: The Lessons of the Migration Experiences of French-Speaking Caribbean Populations
3. From the Periphery to the Core: A case Study on the Migration and Incorporation of Recent Caribbean Immigrants in the Netherlands
4. Puerto Ricans in the United States and French West Indian Immigrants in France
Part II: Identities, Countercultures, and Ethnic Resilience
5. Puerto Rican Migration and Settlement in South Florida: Ethnic Identities and Transnational Spaces
6. Racialized Culture and Translocal Counter-Publics: Rumba and Social Disorder in New York and Havana
7. The Making of Suriland: The Binational Development of a Balck Community between Tropics and the Noth Sea
Part III: Incorporation, Entrepreneurship, and Household Strategies
8. Cubans and Dominicans: Is There a Latino Experience in the United States?
9. Dominican Women, Heads of Households in Spain
10. Identity and Kinship: Caribbean Transnational Narratives
About the Contributors
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