Migration, Social Identities and Regionalism within the Caribbean Community
This book offers theoretical and empirical analyses of intra-Caribbean migration, regionalism and the construction of identities from the perspective of CARICOM nationals. It offers explanations as to why current attempts to promote intra-regional people
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Migration, Social Identities and Regionalism within the Caribbean Community
Oral I. Robinson
Migration, Social Identities and Regionalism within the Caribbean Community Voices of Caribbean People
Oral I. Robinson Department of Sociology University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada
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Preface
What Is Now Proved Was Once Only Imagined —William Blake On January 1, 2006, the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) came into effect and with it the promise of greater degrees of movement for goods, services, capital and people within this region. I was an early beneficiary of this promise as during that same year, I (Oral) was among a group of 12 candidates from seven different CARICOM countries vying for a job with a regional organization headquartered in Barbados. We spent an entire day competing for a place in this organization. In spite of the competition, we completed group tasks with sibling-like cooperation and with an unspoken sense of familiarity and ease. We enjoyed the cultural exchange and sense of familyhood and, in many cases, created lifelong friendships. Our similarities were easily traceable to our common socialization mechanisms such as education systems and media. Perhaps, there was even a primordial cord unifying us. But not every intra-CARICOM migrant was privileged with that experience. The disconnectedness of that experience from the realities of many other intra-CARICOM mig
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