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The Canada-Caribbean remittance corridor : fostering formal remittances to Haiti and Jamaica through effective regulation
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ISBN: 0821379194 9786613196507 1283196506 0821379232 9780821379196 9780821379233 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Several economies in the Caribbean region, especially from the lower income group, are highly dependent on remittances. Between 1991 and 2006, the combined flows of total remittances reaching the Caribbean have seen almost a 17% average annual growth rate, surpassing USD 6 billion in 2005 and overtaking ODA and FDI into the region. In addition, remittances represent more than 20% of the domestic gross domestic product (GDP) in some Caribbean countries and have played a significant role in lessening both balance of payment deficits and the impact of natural disasters to which the region is parti


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Empire's guest workers : Haitian migrants in Cuba during the age of US occupation
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ISBN: 1108206611 1108214711 1108216064 1108217419 1108218768 1108224164 1108222811 1316412423 1107127696 1107566959 9781316412428 9781108224161 9781108222815 9781107127692 9781107566958 9781107566958 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Haitian seasonal migration to Cuba is central to narratives about race, national development, and US imperialism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean. Filling a major gap in the literature, this innovative study reconstructs Haitian guestworkers' lived experiences as they moved among the rural and urban areas of Haiti, and the sugar plantations, coffee farms, and cities of eastern Cuba. It offers an unprecedented glimpse into the daily workings of empire, labor, and political economy in Haiti and Cuba. Migrants' efforts to improve their living and working conditions and practice their religions shaped migration policies, economic realities, ideas of race, and Caribbean spirituality in Haiti and Cuba as each experienced US imperialism.

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