MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2006
6:00 pm
at the
UNDERCROFT OF THE SENATE BUILDING, UWI MONA CAMPUS
OPENING CEREMONY
Opening Remarks:
Professor Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Chair, Conference Organising Committee
Welcome on behalf of the UWI:
Vice Chancellor’s Representative
Opening of the Conference
by
The Most. Hon. P. J. Patterson, O.N., P.C., Q.C.
Cultural Item: Lilieth Nelson
LECTURE
Introduction of Guest Lecturer:
Mr. John Small
Guest Lecturer:
Professor Harry Goulbourne
London South Bank University
Forced and Free Caribbean Migration:
An Understanding of Modern Diasporas
BOOK LAUNCH
Introduction of the book:
Mr. Joseph Pereira
Deputy Principal, Mona Campus
Annette Insanally, Mark Clifford & Sean Sheriff, Regional Footprints: The Travels and
Travails of Early Caribbean Migrants. (UWI, LACC; UWI, SALISES & UNESCO) 2006
Dwaine Plaza & Frances Henry, Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the
Migration Circuit. (UWI Press) 2006
TUESDAY JUNE 13, 2006
THE INTER-FACULTY LECTURE THEATRE
A.M.
9.00 - 10.30
1.
INVOLUNTARY & COERCED MIGRATION (1)
SLAVERY & INDENTURE
Chair: Professor Verene Shepherd
Leslie Gail Atkinson
The Journey from Amazonia:Taino Migration & impact of Colonization
Dave Gosse
Revisiting the Debate on Enslaved Resistance: Lessons from Early Nineteenth
Century Jamaica
Kyneata Joseph
Forgotten Children of the Diaspora: The Experience of Indian Children in St. Lucia,
1859-1903
Roderick Ebanks
Systems of Continuity: Changed Elements: The Archaeology of Indigenization
In the African Jamaica Diaspora
Room opposite the Inter-Faculty Lecture Theatre
9:00 – 10:30
2.
Clifford Griffin &
Sheena Alleyne
INVOLUNTARY & COERCED MIGRATION (2)
DEPORTEES & TRAFFICKED PERSONS
Chair: Professor Locksley Edmondson
Deportation De-Integration & Interdependence in the USA,
Latin America and the Caribbean
Suzette Martin-Johnson Policy, Civil Society and Deportees to Jamaica and the
Dominican Republic
Bernard Headley
Giving Critical Content to the Deportee Phenomenon
Gladys Young
Trafficking in Persons: An Analysis of the Situation in Jamaica
10.30-11.00
11.00 - 1.00
B R E A K
3.
MIGRATION & TRANSNATIONLALISM
Chair: Mr. John Small
Marcia Burrowes
Migration and Nationhood: Britain and Barbados in the 1930s
Frances Henry &
Dwaine Plaza
Caribbean Return Migration and the Dynamics of Transnationalism in the new
Millenium
Godfrey St.Bernard
Episodes of Return Migration in Tobago – A Phenomenological Study
Mikaila Brown
The Return of Middle Class Jamaicans Educated Abroad
Kim Robinson-Walcott Small Islands and the Space In-Between: Exploring the Liminal World of
Andrea Levy
1.00-2.00
P.M.
2.00- 3.30
BREAK
4.
MIGRATION, HEALTH & WELFARE
Chair: Dr. Hilary Robertson-Hickling
Rita Pemberton
Immigration and Health in the second half of the 19th Century
Fred Hickling &
The African-Caribbean Population in Britain: Resilience and Risk
Hilary Robertson-Hickling
3:30 – 4:45
Peta-Ann Baker
Aging in the Caribbean Diaspora: A Neglected Reality
Pottinger,
Gordon-Stair &
Williams-Brown
Migration of Parents from the Caribbean: Implications of Counselling
Children and Parents in the ‘Receiving’ and ‘Sending’ Countries
5.
.
Peter Jordens
MIGRATION AND POLICY
Chair: Senator Anthony Johnson
Caribbean Migration in the Era of Neo Liberal Globalization Some
Policy Considerations
Sophia Whyte Givans Free Movement of Persons in the CSME: Preventing Unsavoury Activities
within the Framework of National & Regional Security Policy
M. RodriguezMartinez
Migration and US Relations with Cuba, Latin America and the
Caribbean
5:00 – 6:00
Films
The Colony (Philip Donnellan, 1964)
45 min
Black Soul (Martin Chartrand, 2001)
10 min
Commentator: Susan Mains
WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 2006
THE INTER-FACULTY LECTURE THEATRE
A.M.
8.45 - 10.30
6
MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE (1)
REMITTANCES
Chair: Mr. Claremont Kirton
Mark Figueroa
Migration & Remittances –Typologies and Motivations
Ransford Palmer
Remittance Profile of Jamaican Immigrants in the United States
Carlo Dade
Results of the Remittance Market in Jamaica, 2005: Policy
Implications
Dillon Alleyne
Impact of International Remittances on Household Income
Distribution.
10.30 – 11.00
11.00. - 12.30
BREAK
7.
MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE (2)
HUMAN RESOURCES
Chair: Hon. Burchell Whiteman O.J.
Pauline Knight,
Easton Williams &
Steven Kerr
Measuring The Brain Drain from Jamaica
Caroline Schmid
Impact of Brain Drain on Caribbean Small Island Developing
States
Natacha Mortley
The Impact of Nurse Migration on the Caribbean Health System
Jason Jackson
In search of the Diaspora Effect: Lessons from Chinese and Indian
‘Brain Gain’ for Caribbean ‘Brain Drain’
12:30 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:30
BREAK
8.
MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE. (3)
SUSTAINABILITY
Chair: Dr. Dillon Alleyne
Amani Ishemo
Migration & Sustainability of Small Farming in the Rio Grande
Valley in Jamaica
Bengt Henoch,
Transnational Entrepreneurial Sustainable Agriculture
Hannah Simcoe-Read Trading Circles in Jamaica
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
2:45 – 4:00
9.
CARIBBEAN DIASPORA OR DIASPORAS (1)
Chair: Dr. Velma Pollard
Ana Isabel Marquez Perez An Approximation to Caribbean Mobility through young
Migrants from Old Providence Island (Colombia)
2:45 – 4:00
Kathleen Valtonen
In Pursuit of Citizenship: Immigrants’ and Refugees’
Relations with Civil Society
Bruce Jno-Baptiste
Living at Home, Living Abroad: Analysis of Dominicans’
Feelings of Identity
Carol Archer
Caribbean People in the Political Process in New York City
10.
CARIBBEAN DIASPORA OR DIASPORAS (2)
Chair: Professor Monica Gordon
Jerome Teelucksingh
Indo-Caribbean Immigrants in Britain 1960 - 2005
Carlene Jospeh Duval
Migration and Gender: The Insertion of Female Migrants into
Haiti
Bethel Bennett
Binding Ties: Race & Migration in the Bahamas
Rose Mary Allen
Migrants vs. The Yu Di Korsou: Race, Nation and Sexuality in
Postmodern Curacaoan Society
Michele Reis
The Chavez Effect: Contemporary Venezuelan Emigration to
Trinidad
Room opposite the Inter-Faculty Lecture Theatre
BREAK
4:00 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:30
CLOSING CEREMONY
Chair: Mrs. Annette Insanally
Greetings:
UNDP Representative
Mrs. Ann-Marie Ali
Deputy Resident Representative, Jamaica
Review:
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Closing Remarks:
Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Pro-Vice Chancellor & Principal
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Vote of Thanks:
Dr. Hilary Robertson-Hickling
7.00
End of Conference Party
Post- Conference Trip
Arrangements can be made for persons interested in spending some days at the beach
after the conference with field trips to locations of interest.
Hotel: The suggested venue is the Crystal Ripple Beach Lodge, Ocho Rios;
http://www.crystalripplebeachlodge.com
Email: info@crystalripple.com
Tel: (876) 974-6132