Abstract
First, we present a historical and contemporary profile of Chinese immigration into the Latin American and Caribbean region in general and the English-speaking Caribbean in particular, as a way of contextualizing a subsequent focus on the Eastern Caribbean island sub-group. We set up the historical and comparative context by providing a succinct introduction to the historical Chinese presence in the LAC region and briefly profiling their social class evolution in the case of Jamaica. Next, we provide a selective global framework for better understanding the post-1980s Chinese migration to, and presence in, the Caribbean. Then we turn to a focus on the Eastern Caribbean island-states, for which this post-19805 presence is particularly pertinent, and present some preliminary research findings on the new Chinese presence in venues marked by the absence of a pre-existing Chinese diaspora.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-31 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Journal | Social and Economic Studies |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
State | Published - Sep 1 2017 |
Keywords
- China
- Eastern Caribbean
- Entrepreneurial migration
- Huagong and huashang
- Indentured labor
- Latin American and Caribbean region
- Transnational middleman minority
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics
- General Social Sciences