A dividing line, the border is usually perceived in terms of separation and rupture. It is a site of tension par excellence, at the origin of contestations, negotiations, and other conflicting patterns of inclusion/exclusion. This book takes us through an exploration of the border in the Caribbean region, both geographically fragmented and strongly tied through its history, culture and people. This collection of scholarly articles interrogates the border within the specificities of the Caribbean context, its socio-political dynamics and its literary and artistic representations. The transgression of borders and the consequent reconfiguring phenomena are thus applied to the Caribbean and its diasporas, through a transdisciplinary approach. The book combines a multiplicity of research fields, including Social Sciences, Cultural Geography, Geopolitics, Cultural and Literary Studies, hence it offers a global perspective on the topic and transcends disciplinary categories. The contents of the book also stretch beyond geographic and linguistic borders as the contributors come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, affiliations, linguistic areas, and research expertise.
Author(s): Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 274
City: Cham
Foreword: On Fragmentations—Borders, Walls, Nations
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
1 Introduction: The Border Is Not at the Border
Transhipment of Identities
The Ambivalence of the “Frontierization”
Borderless Bodies and Tongues
Works Cited
Part I Liberal Globalization and Border Identities
2 “Borderisation” Versus “Creolisation”: A Caribbean Game of Identities and Borders
Introduction
A Culture, “Porous to All the Breath of the World”
Transnationalisation of Creole Identities
Practical Implications of Cultural Relocation
Creole Discourse: From Nation States to Meta-Nations?
Transnationalisation: Identity Tensions and Politics
Meta-Nations: A Response to Borderisation in the Caribbean?
Conclusion
References
3 Labouring on the Border of Inclusion/Exclusion: Undocumented CARICOM Migrants in the Barbadian Economy
Introduction
Methodology
Theorizing the Border, Undocumentedness, in/Exclusion and Agency
Setting the Context
Undocumentedness and the Legal Bases for Exclusion
Embedded Migrants and Their Informal Inclusion in the Labour Market
Conditions of Exclusion in an Environment of Inclusion
The Post-amnesty Context
Conclusion
References
4 Caribbean Migration Spaces and Transnational Networks: The Case of the Haitian Diaspora
Introduction
The Diasporisation of the Haitian Society: The Spatial Manifestation of An Internationalised “Marooning”?
Declining Living Standards, US Interventionism and Mass Migration
Present-Day Political and Economic Insecurity and the Diversification of Migration Flows
An International Migration Space Characterised by Dispersion
Migration Routes as Baselines for Diasporic Networks
Migration Routes as Bypass Mobility Strategies
Genesis and Reconfiguration of Haitian Migration Routes in the Caribbean
French Caribbean Networks: Economic Rationales and Cultural Affinities
Shifting Migration Routes Within Host Countries: The Case of the United States
Brazil and Chile, The New “Frontiers” of Haitian Migration?
Haitian Migration: A Polycentric and Network-Based Space
A Global Space Structured by Transnational Community Ties
Circular Migration, Network-Based Rationales and Enduring Ties with Haiti
Diasporisation and Societal change in Haiti
Haitian Identities: The Diasporic Shift
Pillars of Haitian Identity Awareness in Diaspora
A Cultural Heritage Revisited in the Diaspora
Collective Memory Outlets
Conclusion
References
Part II Migration Across Borders and Staggering Citizenships: The Specific Case of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
5 Borders and the Question of Citizenship: The Case of the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Introduction
Borders and Citizenship
Haitian-Dominican Republic Border Crossings and Happenings
The Dominican Republic Legal Borders
Human Rights Response to the Legal Borders
Haiti-Dominican Republic Border Cooperation
Conclusion
References
6 The Seeds of Anger: Contemporary Issues in Forced Migration Across the Dominican-Haitian Border
Effects of the Genocide of 1937
Mass Expulsions in 1991 Under President Balaguer and Their Sequel
After Hatillo Palma, 2005
Business as Usual After the National Regularization Plan Registration Ends, 2015
Whither the Deportation Regime Affecting the Island
References
7 ‘When Dialogue Is No Longer Possible, What Still Exists Is the Mystery of Hope’: Migration and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic in Film, Literature and Performance
References
Part III Blurring the Borders: Envisioning Alternative Spaces, Bodies, and Tongues
8 To Be or Not to Be… Giddy: Walking the Language (Border) Line
References
9 Blurring the Borders of the Human: Hybridized Bodies in Literature and Folklore
References
10 Borderless Spaces and Alternative Subjectivities in Narratives by Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson and Olive Senior
Fluidity, Mythology and Multidimensionality
Traumatic Spatialities, Borderless Bodies
Shifting Subjectivities, Experiencing “in-Betweenity”
References
11 Reimagining the Nation: Gender and Bodily Transgressions in Breath, Eyes, Memory
References
Index
