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This book highlights the discrimination of groups in the Caribbean, including women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, deportees, and flood victims. The three authors in this book are experts in separate disciplines: policy making, social work, as well as gender and development.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section One- The Governance Problematic
Chapter One - A Structural Exploration of the Invisibility and Exclusion of Marginalized Populations- Cheryl Ann Sarita Boodram
Chapter Two - Caribbean Political Leadership and Policy Development- Daniele Bobb
Chapter Three - The Rhetoric of Governance: Institutional Racism and "Bullying' in Guyana- Ann Marie Bissessar
Section Two- Invisibility
Chapter Four - Emerging from the Margins: The First Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago- Ann Marie Bissessar
Chapter Five - Criminal Deportees: The Dilemma of Reintegrating this group in a Small Island State- Ann Marie Bissessar
Chapter Six - Living in the Shadows: Deported Men in Trinidad and Tobago- Cheryl Ann Sarita Boodram
Chapter Seven - Repeated Flooding: The experiences of families in vulnerable communities in Trinidad and Tobago -Cheryl Ann Sarita Boodram
Section Three - Women and Children
Chapter Eight - Movement of Caribbean People: Voices of CARICOM Mothers-Daniele Bobb
Chapter Nine - Caribbean Women and the State: Legal, Regulatory and Policy Considerations- Daniele Bobb
Chapter Ten - The Child as the 'Ideal Neo-Liberal Citizen': Perspectives from Caribbean Mothers- Daniele Bobb
Chapter Eleven - Exploring the experiences of female Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad and Tobago -Cheryl Ann Sarita Boodram
Conclusion
About the author
Ann Marie Bissessar is a full, tenured Professor attached to the Department of Behavioural Sciences, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus Trinidad. She has to date written/co-edited/edited sixteen books and approximately seventy articles in peer reviewed journals. Her interests include issues of governance, anti-corruption, human trafficking and political issues.Cheryl-Ann Sarita Boodram is lecturer and practicum coordinator at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus.Daniele Bobb is lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus.
Summary
This book highlights the discrimination of groups in the Caribbean, including women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, deportees, and flood victims. The three authors in this book are experts in separate disciplines: policy making, social work, as well as gender and development.
