Dr. Jessica Byron

Lecturer

Department of Government

Faculty of Social Sciences

UWI, Mona

Tel: 977-5935

Fax: 977-1809

jbyron@kasnet.com

The Return of the "Cocolos": Migration, National Identity and Regionalism in the Leeward Islands

The paper focuses on the role of intra-Caribbean migration in shaping perceptions of national identity and weaving threads of unity across the Caribbean basin. It presents a specific case study of migration between the Dominican Republic and the Leeward Islands of St. Kitts-Nevis & Antigua. It looks in particular at the influx of Dominicanos with Leeward Islands ancestry into these states since their independence in the early 1980s and it examines the socio-cultural impact that the new minority has had on the host societies.


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