Caribbean migrations : the legacies of colonialism / edited by Anke Birkenmaier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: An Otherwise Modern Archive on Migration / Anke Birkenmaier -- 1. A Permanent Periphery: Caribbean Migration Flows and the World Economy / Alejandro Portes -- Part I. Unincorporated Subjects (Puerto Rico, Guam) -- 2. The Role of State Actors in Puerto Rico's Long Century of Migration, 1899-2015 / Carlos Vargas-Ramos -- 3. "May God Take Me to Orlando": The Puerto Rican Exodus to Florida before and after Hurricane Maria / Jorge Duany -- 4. Caribbean Mediascapes: Ruins and Debt in Puerto Rico / Jossianna Arroyo

5. Circumscribed Citizenship: Caribbean American Visibility / Vivian Halloran -- 6. From Father to Humanitarian: Charting Intimacies and Discontinuities in Ricky Martin's Social Media Presence and Writing / Edward Chamberlain -- 7. Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Thinking in Culebra, Puerto Rico, and Guam / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- Part II. Technologies of Representation (Cuba, Jamaica) -- 8. The Caribbean in the U.S. Imagination: Travel Writing, Annexation, and Slavery / Daylet Domínguez -- 9. Contemporary Afrocubana Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Havana / Devyn Spence Benson

10. Going Back to Cuba: How Enclaves of Memory Stimulate Returns and Repatriations / Iraida H. López -- 11. The Floating Generation: Cuban Art in the Post-Soviet Period, 1991-2017 / Rafael Rojas -- 12. "It Would Make a Rat Puke": Diasporic Thinking in Contemporary Jamaican Art Practices / Jane Bryce -- Part III. Languages of the Diaspora (Hispaniola, United States) -- 13. Kreyòl Sung, Kreyòl Understood: Haitian Songwriter BIC (Roosevelt Saillant) Reflects on Language and Poetics / Rebecca Dirksen and Kendy Vérilus

14. Migration and Its Discontents: The Dominican Films of Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas / Anke Birkenmaier -- 15. Transnational Hispaniola: The First Decade in Support of a New Paradigm for Haitian and Dominican Studies / Kiran C. Jayaram and April J. Mayes -- 16. New Points of the Rhizome: Rethinking Caribbean Relation in U.S. Latinx Poetry / Emily A. Maguire -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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