Mona, Jamaica: Department of History, University of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
125 p, Contents: The passing of a nation : the Carib Indians of the Lesser Antilles / Gérard Lafleur -- St. Domingan refugees in the Philadelphia community in the 1790's / Susan Branson -- An archaeological record of plantation life in the Bahamas / Grace Turner
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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310 p., Relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. Examines literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milans, Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris.
60 p., Explores the legal means by which victims of natural disasters could qualify as refugees and thus benefit from the power of migration as a tool for disaster recovery.