Name: Dennis A.V. Brown
Position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: Ph.D. (Social Sciences)
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Department: Behavioural Sciences
Room:
Tel. Contact: 868 662 2002 ext 3053
E-mail: Dennis.Brown@sta.uwi.edu; dennis.dbrown@gmail.com
Courses taught:
Soci 2012 Social Change and Development;
Soci 3006 Third World in Global Development;
Soci 3008 Industrial Sociology 1;
Soci 6016 Sociology of Development.
Research interests:
Intergenerational poverty in the Caribbean- epistemological basis of its
study; its origins in the region’s historical political economy; sociological
factors associated with its persistence; the use of life narratives in its study.
Caribbean migration; Caribbean historical demography.
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Publications:
Books
The Political Economy of Fertility in the British West Indies, 1891-1921:
University of the West Indies Press, 2000.
Chapters in Books
"Workforce Losses and Return Migration: A Case Study of Jamaican Nurses" in
Patricia Pessar (ed) Caribbean Circuits: New Approaches to Caribbean Migration:
Centre For Migration Studies: New York, 1997.
"Inbetweenity: marginalization, migration and poverty among Haitians in the
Turks and Caicos Islands". in Sandra Courtman (ed.) Beyond the Blood, the
Beach and the Banana: New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies: Ian Randle
Publications, Kingston, July, 2004
“Return Migration: Locating the concept in historical space” in Frances Henry and D.
Plaza (Eds) Returning to the Source: the final stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit:
University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, March 2006.
“Poverty in Trinidad and Tobago” [co-authored] in,Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Elias, C (Eds)
Policy Perspectives for Trinidad and Tobago: From Growth to Prosperity IADB, Washington
D.C. June, 2006
“Recidivism and factors associated with it: some recent data from Trinidad and
Tobago”, inR. Deosaran, Ramdhanie, I and Ditto, J (Eds) Conference
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Crime and Justice:New
Challenges in Crime and justice, From Research to Policy: Pub. University of
the West Indies, St. Augustine August, 2006
Monographs:
Vulnerabilidad sociodemográfica en el Caribe: examen de los factores sociales y demográficos
que impiden un desarrollo equitativo con participación ciudadana en los albores del siglo XXI:
CEPAL, Serie Poblacion y Desarrollo, Nro. 25: Sigla:LC/L 17, 2002.
Social Policy in the Caribbean: The evolution of social policy and its modern
influences in the Caribbean: ECLAC/CDCC, Port of Spain:WP/2003/9, Sept,
2003
[Co-authored] People and the Caribbean Coast: The Feasibility of Alternative Natural Resource
Based Livelihoods among the Poor in the Caribbean Coastal Zone(Belize, St. Lucia and
Grenada): SEDU, UWI/DFID, U.K., June 2004
[Co-authored] Policy Relevant Knowledge on Feasible Alternative Natural Resource Based
Strategies for Enhancing Livelihood (Belize, St. Lucia and Grenada): SEDU, UWI/DFID, U.K.,
2005
Journal Publications:
“Listening to the ‘Youth-man’: Structure, Meaning and Identity in the
Explanation of Male Juvenile Delinquency among Poor Youth in Trinidad and
Tobago” in Ideaz, UWI, Mona, May, 2004.
“Reported Health and Poverty in the Caribbean: How useful are the LSMS
Data?”Social and Economic Studies, Vol.55. No.4. 2006, SALISES, Mona,
[Co-authored], "The Culture of Violence: Interpersonal violence and Aggression
in three Caribbean countries - Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad,” in Pan
American Journal of Public Health 2008 24(6):409-21
Text book:
Industrial Sociology 1 text: Lectures and Course Material for Distance Education Students:
UWIDEC, St. Augustine, ISBN: 976-620-175-7, 2002.
Technical Reports:
The impact of free movement of persons and other forms of migration on member states of
Caricom in the first decade of the 21st century, June 2010
Country Poverty Assessment Reports, CARICOM territories and British Caribbean
Dependencies 1999-2010,
Publications in press
Books
(Co-authored) Strategies against poverty: designs from the North alternatives from the South:
CROP/CLACSO Publications
Chapters in Books
“Mating, fertility and chronic poverty in the English-speaking Caribbean” In Le comité
scientifique de la Chaire Quetelet, (Ed)Dynamiques de pauvretés et vulnérabilités. Mesures et
processus explicatifs en démographie et en sciences socials: Les Presses Universitaires de
Louvain.
Non-refereed
“Introduction” in Paloma Mohamed, Communication, Power and Change in the
Caribbean:Hansib Pub
Professional Involvement: Member, editorial review board of Journal of Aging
in Emerging Economies; Referee for journal Mobilities; Referee for International Nursing
Review
Acted as resource person for a number of regional and international agencies in the areas of
poverty and international migration. These include: UNECLAC, CDB, OAS, Lillian Carter
Center for International Nursing, Emory University School of Nursing, Global Forum for Health
Research, IADB, CARICOM Secretariat, CODESRIA, OSSREA, SEPHIS, CROP- CLACSO