Transnationalism personified: young returning Trinidadians 'in their own words'

In this paper we consider the nexus existing between returning transnational migrants to Trinidad and Tobago's adaptation experiences, matters pertaining to their transnational life-paths, family and community experiences and their views on transnationalism and return. The research is based on an analysis of the detailed narratives provided by forty informants by means of semi-structured interviews. The informants consisted of nine 'second-generation', seven 'one-and-a-half-generation' and twenty-four 'prolonged sojourner' returning transnational migrants to Trinidad and Tobago. The main conceptual themes that characterise Caribbean transnationalism are presented at the beginning of the paper. Addressing these in the context of Trinidad and Tobago, we present our narrative-based findings under the following headings derived from analysis of our informant's experiences and views: transnational family and life-course issues; transnational community relationships; keeping in touch; transnational mobility and 'home as fixed anchor'; transnational identity; transnational economic and commercial interests; and strategic flexibility.

A new frontier for Caribbean convergence: integration without borders

Today, forty years since its birth, the Caribbean integration has reached its limit.1 2 Consequently, there is urgent need to respond to the current realities and emerging global trends — which require greater engagement from the public, students, academics and policymakers — in moving the Caribbean Community towards a new trajectory of Caribbean convergence. The immediate concern is to devise ways of improving the convergence process among Latin American and Caribbean countries. This convergence process will have to be sensitive to both current and emerging global dynamics. This paper presents the roadmap of a new trajectory towards Caribbean convergence, sensitive to both current and emergent regional and global trends. It begins in Section I by identifying the emerging international political and economic trends that provide a backdrop against which the discussion on Caribbean convergence is squarely placed. Section II discusses the need for a new strategy of convergence, and provides the conceptual framework of Caribbean convergence. Section III spells out the pillars, strategies and delivery mechanisms of Caribbean convergence, and highlights the role of Trinidad and Tobago in this process. The paper concludes by pointing out the urgent need for a regional synergy of economic logic and political logic.

Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.

v.3 (1883-1884)

Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.

v.6 (1886-1887)

Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.

v.2 (1882-1883)

Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.

v.4 (1884-1885)

Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society.

v.5 (1885-1886)

Annual report of the New York State Agricultural Society, including report of New York Bureau of Farmers' Institutes, and transactions of Eastern and Western N.Y. Horticultural Societies for the year ..

Description based on: 38th (1878); title from cover.

Timehri: the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana.

Reports and proceedings of the society are included in each volume.

List of premiums, and rules and regulations of the ... annual fair of the Calhoun County Agricultural Society.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of agriculture: comprising the transactions and the correspondence of the United States Agricultural Society.

The Monthly bulletin, which forms a part of v.6, 1858, has its own numbering, v.1, no. 1-11.