Full Description
A novel and interdisciplinary volume on the dynamics of migration with comparative case studies of the Caribbean experience
Contents
Introduction: 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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