Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands

From: The International Migration Review | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Recharting the Caribbean: Land Law and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands. By Bill Maurer. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 1997. Pp. 299.

One of the aims of this book is to challenge the scholarship of the Caribbean and to present a different analysis of the "Caribbean experience." Maurer notes that earlier research concentrated on social structure, household, family and kinship whereas much of the present scholarship sees the Caribbean as a microcosm of a changing world order which emphasizes hybridity, globalization and the movement of people and commodities across ...

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