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    Caribbean Migrations
    The Legacies of Colonialism

    Anke Birkenmaier (Author), Anke Birkenmaier (Contributions by), Carlos Vargas-Ramos (Contributions by), Edward Chamberlain (Contributions by), Jorge Duany (Contributions by), Jossianna Arroyo (Contributions by), Vivian Halloran (Contributions by), Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (Contributions by), Daylet Domínguez (Contributions by), Devyn Spence Benson (Contributions by), Iraida H. López (Contributions by), Rafael Rojas (Contributions by), Jane Bryce (Contributions by), Rebecca Dirksen (Contributions by), Kendy Vérilus (Contributions by), Kiran C. Jayaram (Contributions by), April J. Mayes (Contributions by), Emily A. Maguire (Contributions by), Alejandro Portes (Contributions by)

    9781978814493

    Paperback / softback, published 18 December 2020

    312 pages, 34 b-w figures, 6 tables
    23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg

    "Profoundly interdisciplinary and nearly Pan-Caribbean in scope, Caribbean Migrations transforms our understanding of how migration has shaped the Caribbean and how Caribbean migration has shaped the United States. The analysis of Caribbean people on the move, asserting political power across digital platforms and through art, explodes the long-held notion that Caribbean migration is the story of flight from poverty to a better life in the United States and breaks down the boundary between Caribbean and American Studies."
    - Leah Rosenberg (co-editor of Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar West Indian Literature)
    "The starting point of Caribbean Migrations is a series of reflections that help illuminate the fascinating legal fiction that is Puerto Rico's 'unincorporated' status, using the unique experiences of Puerto Rican subjects as a poignant counterpoint and a compelling framework to understand Caribbean migration more generally. Together, the essays in this collection offer a rich blueprint to understand pervasive as well as new forms of colonialism, virtual and real citizenship, affect, and structural violence in a post-disaster world."
    - Guillermina De Ferrari (author of Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba)
    "All in all the book represents a rich contribution to an international literature constantly transforming the way we view and try to understand the links between colonialism, migration and identity, and particularly in the case of the Caribbean and Caribbean diasporas."
    (Ethnic and Racial Studies)
    "The essays emphasize the geo-strategic ambitions of the US in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, especially Puerto Rico. However, the theoretical breadth of the volume sheds new light on migration throughout the Caribbean region, as well as the formation of transnational identities in other parts of the world. This study is a must read for Caribbean studies specialists and postcolonial scholars. Highly recommended." 
    (Choice)

    2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

    With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as the United States, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. More so than other world regions, the Caribbean has been characterized as an always already colonial region. It has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres in the new world, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation over the last five centuries. In Caribbean Migrations, an interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars study migration from a long-term perspective, analyzing the Caribbean's "unincorporated subjects" from a legal, historical, and cultural standpoint, and exploring how despite often fractured public spheres, Caribbean intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.
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