Lexington Books
Pages: 260
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-1167-3 • Hardback • May 2006 • $124.00 • (£95.00)
978-0-7391-1397-4 • Paperback • April 2006 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
Ruben Gowricharn is professor of social cohesion and transnational issues, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Chapter 1 Caribbean Transnationalism and Shifting Identities
Chapter 2 The Guyanas Revisited: Rethinking a Region
Chapter 3 The Modern to the Late-Modern Period in the Caribbean Diaspora
Chapter 4 Resistance Among those Displaced to the Caribbean
Chapter 5 Regionalisation of Identity in Curacao: Migration and Diaspora
Chapter 6 Brazilian Migrant Workers in French Guyana
Chapter 7 Transnationalism in Surinam: Brazilian Migrants in Paramaribo
Chapter 8 The Mahatma in the Caribbean, With Special Reference to Guyana and Trinidad
Chapter 9 July 1: Between Diaspora, (Trans)nationalism and American globalization; A History of Afro-Surinamese Emancipation Day
Chapter 10 Maroon Migration and Brazilian Garimpeiros
Chapter 11 Transnational Contributions to Identity Construction
Chapter 12 Ethnicity and Political Stability in Plural Societies
The is one of the most important books on Caribbean transnational migration to appear in years. It covers a diversity of Caribbean migration experiences with a solid conceptual framework. It is a crucial reading for those interested in the fields of Caribbean Studies and international migration.
— Professor Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley
...it offers scholars in the social sciences and the humanities rigorous ethnographies and historical reconstructions that highlight those exceptional phenomena that escape the routinizing models of Caribbean studies.
— Jason Frydman, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
In Caribbean Transnationalism, Ruben Gowricharn brings together a diverse group of scholars and their concerns about crucial aspects and areas of the Caribbean at home and abroad. The collection is a valuable contribution to a growing body of literature on the diverse beginnings of a people and their subsequent dispersal across northern and western Europe and North America, while also making the often neglected links there are to the South American continent. This volume is a must for all who are concerned about the continuing construction of the Caribbean region and the Caribbean's presence in the wider North Atlantic world.
— Harry Goulbourne, Author of Caribbean Transnational Experience