Abstract. Using the 1996 Public Use Microfiche files of the Canadian Census and life story data from 30 cases collected from a 1998 CERIS-funded research project, this article disaggregates the migration and settlement story for Indo-and African-Caribbean migrants living in Canada. Findings from this research suggest that a significant difference exists in the immigration pattern, living arrangements, family structures, and material values for Indo- and African-Caribbeans resident in Canada. Much of the previous research has neglected this significant heterogeneity within the Caribbean immigrant community in Canada. As a result, Caribbean migration to Canada since the late 1960s tends to only be known from an African-Caribbean perspective.;
A variety of approaches are discussed in this work, dealing with the economic problems, geopolítics, social conditions, and controversial themes affecting the region
The only two electoral victories of multi-racial parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana are analyzed comparatively to determine the conditions of their success in the sharply racially competitive environments of both countries. The argument of the article is that new class formation in the context of "political openings" precipitated the rise of new class-political agendas that were able to promise developmental benefits to a wide section of the population. The new political classes were compositionally "the working population" in Guyana and the "professional middle class" in Trinidad and Tobago, which explains their extremely different developmental proposals.;
