Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a theoretical and substantive analysis of intra-Caribbean migration, perception of regionalism, and the construction of identities among Caribbean nationals. Through a multi-methods study in the 15 member countries of the Caribbean community, Oral Robinson explores how intra-Caribbean migrants experience living within different member countries, and how these experiences and perceptions influence ideas about citizenship, belonging, and identity. Responding directly to the lack of scholarship on how Caribbean nationals feel about integration and/or free movement within their own countries and other Caribbean countries, this volume attempts to understand Caribbean societies historically, theoretically, and methodologically; proposes bases of social identities in the Caribbean; and examines how intra-Caribbean migrants negotiate their identities and narrate their lived experiences as intra-Caribbean migrants. The book offers policy solutions based upon its findings, reconciling practice, theory, and migration policies in the Caribbean.
Table of ContentsPart I: Understanding Caribbean Societies Historically, Theoretically and Methodologically
Chapter 1: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM): Integration, Intra-Regional Migration and Identities
Chapter 2: A Concise Migration History of the Caribbean Community
Chapter 3: Theorizing Migration and Identities
Chapter 4: Researching Migration within a Cross-Caribbean Context
Part II: Bases of Social Identities in the Caribbean
Chapter 5: Caribbean Identity -Myth or Facts
Chapter 6: Making Sense of Caribbean Citizenship and Migration
Chapter 7: Perceptions of Regionalism and Impacts on social identities
Part III: Migration, Citizenship & Identities
Chapter 8: Intra-Caribbean Movement and Social Identities
Chapter 9: Realities of Living within Other CARICOM Countries
Chapter 10: Conclusions: Reconciling Practice, Policy and Theory in Caribbean Migrations
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